The course-wide rules for missed Crossings, academic integrity and getting help — one place every assessment brief points back to instead of restating.

Policies and support

Missing a Crossing

The report and reflection at a Crossing are always live, in the room — that part has no substitute. But the hallway work itself doesn’t have to happen at the exact moment everyone else’s does: if you can’t be there for it that week, do your own version of it solo, in your own time, before the Crossing, and record evidence (a photo, a voice note, a screenshot of the exchange — whatever actually fits what you did). Bring that to the Crossing and report on it the same as anyone else would. The recording isn’t a substitute for showing up — it’s what stands in for the group having seen it happen.

That evidence is a different thing from the clip. The clip is owed for every fieldwork Crossing whether or not you were in step with everyone else; this evidence is only needed when you weren’t. If you film the work you did solo, one recording can do both jobs — but a photo or a voice note covers the evidence and still leaves you a clip to shoot.

That solo fallback is for Crossings you do alone, and two Crossings don’t fit it the same way.

Set Up Shop runs on a team, assigned for the Crossing, so if you can’t make a stall session, that’s a conversation with your team, not a solo workaround: sort out between yourselves what still gets covered and how, and stick to it. The stall still has to run on site, staffed by whoever’s actually there, not move online because that’s easier for one person’s schedule.

Building With Others has no team to fall back on — the partner is found fresh in the hallway each week, so if you can’t make the live session, that’s a conversation with us beforehand, not a solo workaround, since there’s no one lined up in advance to cover for you. Whatever we agree still has to happen on site, between two people actually there together.

Neither fallback covers everything — if something genuinely unavoidable comes up that these don’t fit, contact us before the Crossing and we’ll work out a substitution that fits the situation.

Late work and extensions

There’s no such thing as a late submission on this site — every mark comes from being in the room, on the day, presenting or participating live. Miss the Crossing itself (or, for the Midsemester Checkpoint and Legacy, the Showcase or Finale slot) and that mark is missed — there’s no submitting after the fact to recover it. The one exception is the genuinely-unavoidable case described above under Missing a Crossing: contact us before the Crossing, not after, and we’ll work out a substitution — that’s the only route back to a missed mark, and it isn’t available once the Crossing has already happened.

Every fieldwork Crossing asks you to come away with a short clip, and the five of them play as one video at the Finale — see Legacy for what the set has to do.

That clip is your own record of your own Crossing. It is not a recording of the person you crossed with, and nothing on this course asks you to point a camera at anybody. Film the object, the trade, the stall, the thing you built, the place it happened, or yourself describing it straight afterwards. People who are merely in shot — passers-by, the queue behind you, whoever happens to be in a room — need nothing from you.

Featuring someone is different. Featured means they are part of what the clip is about: identifiable, filmed deliberately, and there for more than a passing moment. Three steps, in this order:

  1. Ask first. Before you record anything of them, not partway through.
  2. If they agree, record the consent too — their answer, kept on the record alongside the footage it covers.
  3. Record something else as well — a clip of that Crossing that stands on its own without them in it.

Step three is the one people skip, and it is the one that protects you. Consent can be withdrawn at any point up to the Finale, and when it is, that footage comes out of your video. So anything featuring another person is supplementary: it can make a clip better, and it can never be the only clip you hold for that Crossing. Shoot nothing but the featured version, have it withdrawn in week 11, and you have nothing left to play.

A no at step one costs you nothing either, for the same reason — step three is your clip regardless.

Academic integrity

Your reflections have to be yours: written or spoken by you, about something that actually happened to you, with no AI tool drafting, rewriting, or generating any part of them. The whole premise of this course is that the work is your own account of your own week — an AI-assisted reflection isn’t a shortcut around the mark, it’s a different, ungradable thing, because there’s no real experience behind it to check. The same goes for reporting an interaction that didn’t happen, or wasn’t yours. If you’re ever unsure whether something counts, ask before the Crossing, not during it.

What actually gets checked

Every Crossing and every assessment on this site names, in its own spec, exactly what’s being looked at when it’s marked — nothing here is judged against a rubric that isn’t written down somewhere on its own page. If you want to know precisely what a marker is checking before you stand up, read that page’s spec list, not this one.

Getting help

Questions about a specific Crossing or assessment go to whoever’s teaching that week — see People for who that is. Questions about these policies themselves go to the convenor.