The course-wide rules for late work, attendance, academic integrity and what a note is not allowed to be.
Policies and support#
Attendance#
The crit is the course. There’s no lecture recording that substitutes for being in the room when your work is up, and none that substitutes for having given a note to someone else’s. Miss more than two crits without arranging it first with Marisol and your final portfolio mark is capped at a pass, regardless of what’s in it — a portfolio of notes you gave in a room you weren’t in isn’t credible.
Late work#
Assignment 1 and the Peer Review Exchange are due at noon on their listed date. A day late costs 10% of that assessment’s mark; after five days it isn’t accepted, because a note delivered a week after the work it’s about is a different, less useful thing than a note delivered on time. The Final Project follows the university’s standard late-submission rule instead, since by week 12 “a week late” no longer changes what the feedback is for.
Extensions granted before the deadline are not penalties; ask early.
Academic integrity#
Write your own notes. You may discuss a piece of work with a classmate before you write about it — crits are collaborative by design — but the note your name is on has to be the judgement you’d defend out loud. If you use a tool to help you draft, say so in the note itself: a note that hides where it came from fails this course’s own test for a note, because nobody can falsify a claim about work they don’t know was made by a person.
What a note is not allowed to be#
This is a course about how to be honest without being cruel, and the two get confused often enough that it’s worth a rule. A note about the person rather than the work — their effort, their intelligence, their taste as a character trait rather than a choice they made on this piece — isn’t marked as a strong note. It’s marked as a failed one, on the same criteria as a vague one: it isn’t about anything you could point to, so it can’t be falsified, so it isn’t a note.
Getting help#
Ask in the crit first. Email Marisol for anything about the course as a whole; email Idris for anything technical the room didn’t have time for. See People for both.