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

Policies and support#

Late work#

Work submitted after the deadline loses 5% of the available marks per day, for up to five days; after five days it receives zero. This applies per assessment, calculated from the exact due time on that assessment’s page.

Extensions must be requested in writing at least 48 hours before the deadline. Medical or compassionate grounds are the exception: apply as soon as you reasonably can, with documentation, even after the deadline has passed.

Academic integrity#

Submitted work must be yours. Discussing an approach with another student is fine; submitting their solution, or a solution an AI tool produced for you without disclosed and substantive editing, is not. Declare any assistance — a person, a tool, an AI system — in your submission’s process notes.

The same rule the course applies to its own content applies to yours: a specific factual claim (a cost figure, a cited standard, a measured result) must be traceable to a real source, or clearly labelled as an illustrative example. An invented number presented as if it were measured is a fabrication, in your work or in the course’s.

Participation#

Labs are where marked feedback actually happens — a mark you get in a Lab is faster and more specific than the same mark explained over email a week later. Where a Lab asks you to bring something (a package, a set of measurements), have it ready; the exercise doesn’t work retroactively.

Getting help#

Ask in the Lab first — see People for who teaches which session and how to reach them. Course-level questions (weighting, extensions, the syllabus) go to the convenor by email; a mark you disagree with goes back to whoever gave it, before it goes anywhere else.