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

Policies and support#

The evidence window#

Every assignment closes at the stated deadline plus a 15-minute grace period — after that, the case is closed and a late submission scores zero. If something is going to stop you filing on time, say so before the deadline: a short extension is granted routinely on request, and a longer one is available through the usual extenuating-circumstances process. Asking after the window closes is asking for a re-opened case, which is a much higher bar than asking for more time in the first place.

Chain of custody for your own work#

This course spends twelve weeks teaching you to demand a traceable record from everyone else’s claims, so it holds your own work to the same standard. Declare any tool that materially shaped a submission — including a generative AI tool used for drafting, summarising or code — in a short note at the end of the file. Undeclared assistance is treated the same way this course treats an unlabelled synthetic image: not as a technical violation first, but as a broken record that a reader can no longer trust without independently re-verifying everything in it.

A note on real cases#

Several weeks use real, publicly reported incidents as case studies. Casework built on a real person’s content — a workplace document, a social media post, a public figure’s likeness — is for practising method, not for publishing an accusation. Keep case write-ups inside the course; a genuine concern about real, ongoing harm goes to a convenor, not onto a public platform.

Getting help#

Questions about a specific week go to that week’s tutor, in a session or by email. Anything about the course as a whole — pacing, extensions, a concern about how a case discussion went — goes to a convenor. Nobody in this course expects you to already know the answer; they expect you to be able to say what you checked.