Academic Integrity Declaration for 

CS 240 E Winter 2024 Second Half  

DUE: Sign as indicated below before you start working on ANY Assignments and 
submit to MarkUs after signing. At the latest, submit by Assignment 3 Due Date. 
It must be submitted as a text file. 
If not "signed" (Quest username - maximum 8 characters) on the line indicated 
below and submitted to MarkUs, your grade for ALL Assignments shall be ZERO.
This AID covers Assignments 3 through 5 and Programming Question 2. You will

INSTRUCTIONS: Carefully read the following and then fill in your Quest 
username in the place provided below to indicate that you have read and agree 
to the declaration. We will take the submission to MarkUs of this document, 
with your Quest username filled in, to be equivalent of signing this document. 
Keep a copy for your own records.

I declare the following statements to be true, effective from the writing of the
Midterm until the end of the Final Exam (and all assignments in between including A3): 

* The work I submit here is entirely my own. 
* I will not use/have not used any unauthorized aids to complete this assessment. 
Unauthorized aids include but are not limited to
     - the Internet
     - someone else's solutions or partial solutions
NOTE:  if you are unsure if something is unauthorized, check with course staff 
before using it. 
* Because this is an assignment, I may discuss it with others but will not write, 
type, take pictures, or by any other means capture what occurred during the meeting 
and will/did wait at least 30 minutes before recording anything from that meeting. 
* I have not and will not share in whole or in part email/files/documents related 
to the solutions of the assessment except possibly with course staff. 
* I am aware that misconduct related to assessments can result in significant 
penalties, including, zero on the assessment, overall grade deduction and, depending 
on the significance of the assessment, failing the course and suspension (this is 
covered in Policy 71: 
https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guidelines/policy-71). 

* The use of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) trained using large
language models (LLM) or other methods to produce text, images, music, or code,
like Chat GPT, DALL-E, or GitHub CoPilot, is not permitted in this class.
Unauthorized use in this course, such as running course materials through GenAI or
using GenAI to complete a course assessment is considered a violation of Policy 71
(plagiarism or unauthorized aids or assistance). Work produced with the assistance of AI
tools does not represent the author's original work and is therefore in violation of the
fundamental values of academic integrity including honesty, trust, respect, fairness,
responsibility and courage (ICAI, n.d.). 

You should be prepared to show your work. To demonstrate your learning, you should keep your
rough notes, including research notes, brainstorming, and drafting notes. You may be asked to
submit these notes along with earlier drafts of their work, either through saved drafts or
saved versions of a document. If the use of GenAI is suspected where not permitted, you may be
asked to meet with your instructor or ISAs to provide explanations to support the submitted
material as being your original work. Through this process, if you have not sufficiently
supported your work, academic misconduct allegations may be brought to the Associate Dean. 

In addition, you should be aware that the legal/copyright status of generative AI inputs
and outputs is unclear. More information is available from the Copyright Advisory Committee:
https://uwaterloo.ca/copyright-at-waterloo/teaching/generative-artificial-intelligence 

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