The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.

Policies and support#

Late work and extensions#

Work submitted after the deadline loses 5% of the available mark per day, capped at five days, after which it is marked as not submitted. If something outside your control is going to make you late — illness, a genuine emergency, equipment failure you can document — email the convenor before the deadline, not after it. An extension asked for in advance is a formality; one asked for afterwards is a much harder conversation.

Academic integrity and AI assistance#

You may use AI tools to help you draft, structure, or check your work. You may not submit AI output as your own analysis without having done the analysis yourself first — a marker can generally tell the difference between “a redesign argued from having actually looked at the dashboard” and “a redesign argued from having asked a model what dashboards are usually wrong with,” and only one of those meets the brief. Declare significant AI assistance briefly at the top of your submission: which tool, for what part of the work. Undeclared assistance that materially shaped your analysis is treated as a breach of academic integrity, not as a shortcut.

Accessibility#

If you have a disability, ongoing condition, or other circumstance that affects how you can participate in studios or complete assessments, contact the convenor early in the semester — adjustments arranged in week 2 are far easier to make well than the same adjustments arranged in week 11. This applies to the format of submitted work as much as to attendance; if a brief’s default format doesn’t work for you, ask what else would.

Getting help#

Studio time is for questions about the week’s material and work in progress; email is for anything that needs a considered written answer or touches your mark. See the people page for who to ask and when.