The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
Policies and support#
Late work and extensions#
Weekly Assignments already drop your lowest two scores, which is the mechanism for absorbing a single bad week — a short illness, a clash with another deadline — without a form. Anything larger than that (ongoing illness, bereavement, a documented emergency) needs an extension request to the convenor before the deadline, not after it. Undocumented late submissions to a Weekly Assignment lose 10% of that assignment’s mark per day late, capped at five days, after which it is marked as not submitted. The midterm and final exam are sat at their scheduled time; a missed exam needs the same before-the-fact documentation, and is otherwise a zero for that component.
Academic integrity#
Every assessment in this course asks for a computed number and the working that produced it, so the thing being checked for is the same thing across all three: is the method shown actually what generated the answer.
- Discussing a method with a classmate is fine; submitting their working, or working generated by a solver or language model and presented as your own derivation, is not — the whole point of showing your work is that it is checkable, and copied work fails that check even when the final number happens to be right.
- You may use a calculator for arithmetic. You may not submit a number quoted from an equity calculator, a solver, or any other tool in place of the derivation this course teaches.
- Suspected breaches are handled under the university’s standard academic integrity procedure, not invented here.
Getting help#
Problem Sessions (weekly, see the Problem Sessions page) are where a claim from lecture gets recomputed from scratch — bring a method you can’t get to balance, not just a request for the final number. Outside of that, office hours and email details are listed on each teacher’s People page; email is for anything that can’t wait until the next session, and course-level questions (extensions, the syllabus, a policy on this page) go to the convenor rather than a tutor.