Policies

The course policies state what we expect from you and what you can expect from us.

Communication policy

What we expect from you. This website is the primary source of information about the course, and we expect you to keep yourself up-to-date with what we publish here. We also send out information via the University’s email list for the course, and we expect you to read your email regularly while the course is ongoing.

What you can expect from us. You can contact us in person, via email, or via chat in Teams. When you contact us via email or chat, you can expect an answer within 24 hours. We respond during standard working hours (8–17); we do not respond in the evening or on the weekend. If you want to talk to the examiner, you can catch him in class or book an appointment.

Feedback policy

What you can expect from us. We try our best to give you prompt, constructive, and meaningful feedback on how well you meet the knowledge requirements set out for the course. We focus on formative feedback, which you can use to improve your learning (and we can use to improve our teaching!) while the course is ongoing.

What we expect from you. We expect you to familiarise yourself with the knowledge requirements set out for the course and to actively seek our feedback on how well you meet these requirements. We also expect you to reflect on our feedback and grasp opportunities to put it to good use.

Late work policy

What we expect from you. We expect you to submit assignments via Lisam and before the specified deadline. However, most submission opportunities are open for late submissions until the next working day after the deadline (08:00). If you fail to submit within this grace period, we offer a final submission opportunity at the end of the course.

What you can expect from us. If you submit your work after the grace period, you can expect to receive your assessment within 15 working days after the end of the course (2024-03-23). We will not assess late work before the end of the course.

Academic integrity policy

We expect you to take your responsibility to learn and abide by standard principles of academic integrity.¹

Cheating. Every assignment in this course comes with a requirement that you do some work and that this work be your own. This means that you are not allowed to copy solutions to assignments from other students or other sources, including AI assistants such as ChatGPT. Conversely, you are not allowed to share your solutions with others – for example, by distributing them through GitHub. These rules also apply to partial solutions and even if you paraphrase or obfuscate them. Any violation of these rules is cheating.

Plagiarism. If you use the words, code or ideas of someone else as part of your own work, you must properly cite them. Any violation of these rules is plagiarism. The citation must identify the source and indicate what part of the assignment you worked on when you consulted it. If you consult AI assistants such as ChatGPT, your citation must specify how you prompted the assistant.

Collaboration. While most assignments in this course are individual and do not allow collaboration, some are designated as group work. For these assignments, we expect all group members to take joint responsibility for the work to be done and to live up to the standards of academic integrity set out in this policy. If you need clarification about whether certain forms of collaboration are acceptable or have concerns about your group, you are responsible for consulting the examiner.

Duty to report. The examiner is duty-bound to report suspected cases of cheating to the University Disciplinary Board. No exceptions exist to this rule, no matter how slight the potential offence. More information on Cheating, Deception and Plagiarism

Special needs policy

We will make every effort to help you learn the course material. If any part of the course is not accessible to you due to challenges with technology or the course format, please let us know so we can make appropriate accommodations. If you have documented special needs, contact the examiner in the first week of the course regarding accommodations. Book an appointment with the examiner

Footnotes

1. This policy is based on the CSE Guide to the Honor Code from the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.