How to read a lecture's two registers, and the course-wide rules for late work, extensions, and declaring AI use.
Policies and support#
How to read a lecture#
Every lecture on this site is written in two registers, on purpose, every week, with no exceptions.
The pitch and migration path are written the way the AI-consultancy pitch they describe was actually sold: confident, persuasive, and light on what it costs. The breaking-changes section is never written that way. It’s the plain half of the page — checked by the teaching team, not generated alongside the pitch, and it’s where you’ll find the economic and functional cost the pitch left out. The rollback plan says, as honestly as the industry allows, what reversing the migration would actually take.
If a lecture page reads as overconfident, that’s the point up to the seam where “Breaking changes” starts. Past that seam, it’s meant to read as plain fact-checking, not satire. Telling the two apart — on the page, and eventually in your own writing — is the skill this course is teaching.
Late work and extensions#
Work handed in late loses 5% of the available mark per day, to a maximum of five days, after which it is marked as submitted but capped at a pass. If something outside your control is going to make a deadline genuinely unreachable, ask for an extension before the deadline, not after it — a short email naming the assessment and the new date you’re asking for is enough to start that conversation.
Declaring AI use#
This course is about auditing AI-generated pitches, so it would be a strange place to pretend AI tools don’t exist. Using one is fine. What matters is that you can defend, in your own words, every claim in the work you submit — if a tool wrote a sentence you can’t explain or wouldn’t stand behind under questioning, that sentence shouldn’t be in your submission. A short note on what you used and for what, attached to the assessment, is all the declaration this course asks for.
Getting help#
Session tutors are the fastest route for a question about that week’s notice or that week’s marking. For anything about the course as a whole — its shape, its assessment weights, a clash with another commitment — go to the convenor. Both are reachable through the people page.