Formatting All electronic documents must be published online and maintained for at least one month following the end of the course – and the Final Project must be submitted both online and on a CD-ROM. Any written homework, unless otherwise specified, must be typed and printed.
Attendance Attendance at all classes is expected. Students missing more than three classes fail the course – without exception. Regular latenesses will count as half-absences (retroactively).
Late work Homework is due at the start of class unless otherwise noted. Printed work must be printed before the start of class. Late graded assignments are graded down. Other late work deducts value from the homework and participation portions of your grade. Note: students falling behind by more than two of the webpage assignments will fail the course.
Submitting written work by email (do not!) Unless specifically requested, written work will not be accepted by email or via the class forum. Fortunately, it will be requested of most of the work for the course that it be submitted via the class forum.
Class participation Class participation entails attendance and active involvement in discussions, individual and group exercises, and other class activities. If you miss three classes you'll fail this part of the course and be unlikely to get higher than a "B" grade overall.
Online work Most of the work for web authoring will be web pages. You will store this work in your Eden space (see Week One). This work needs to remain viewable and up to date in that space (in Eden, in the correct folder). It should not be taken down. Work that is viewable only on your laptop or flash drive, for instance, doesn’t count.
Sample work I will sometimes want to share examples of students’ work in class. Names will be deleted where possible (not for web pages). If you object to my using your work, let me know (verbally or by email).
Email The instructor’s email is for asking questions about the course work. Please do not use his email to share your reasons for missing class or work or to ask for his permission to do so. If you need to discuss attendance or the lateness or absence of written work, do so in class or during office hours.
Online Schedule Students are responsible for regularly checking the online schedule for important changes. The schedule is mostly updated on a weekly basis.
Plagiarism Students must review and abide by the University's code on plagiarism as well as the special code replication and copyright concerns related to publishing work online. We will discuss this in class. If you miss the class the week we discuss copyright and plagiarism, you’ll need to meet with me to go over these points. Otherwise there is a good chance that you might fail on just these grounds.
Research Wikipedia, About.com, and similar reference sites are not acceptable sources for research. You may use these sites to find other online material but should not quote from or otherwise draw on them in presenting and supporting your work. Your doing so will result in a grade reduction of one letter grade.