If you are ill and unable to meet a course deadline, you must contact the instructor, and follow the guidelines and steps outlined in the Math Accommodations page. The instructor will assess your situation and make a decision on how to proceed.
For illness related to COVID, we have more exhaustive guidelines. Please see COVID Policies.
Students are expected to act professionally, and engage one another in a respectful manner at all times. This expectation extends to working together in project teams. Harassment or other forms of personal attack will not be tolerated. Course staff will not referee interpersonal disputes on a project team; incidents will be dealt with according to Policy 33.
In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. Contact the Office of Academic Integrity for more information. You are expected to follow the policies outlined above for quiz and project submissions.
To ensure academic integrity, MOSS (Measure of Software Similarities) is used in this course as a means of comparing student projects. We will report suspicious activity, and penalties for plagiarism/cheating are severe. Please read the available information about academic integrity very carefully.
Students are expected to either work on their own (in the case of quizzes), or work within a project team (for the remaining deliverables in the course). All work submitted should either be their own or created by the team for use in their project. However, we realize that it is common practice to use third-party libraries and sources found online to solve programming problems. For this reason, the team is allowed to use third-party source or libraries for their project provided that (a) they document the source of this contribution in source code, typically as a comment, and in their README file, and (b) no single source constitutes more than 10% of their project. Failure to acknowledge a source will result in a significant penalty (10% or more) of your final project grade, depending on the severity of the infraction. Note that MOSS will be used to compare student assignments, and that this rule also applies to copying from other student projects.
A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about ‘rules’ for group work/collaboration should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the undergraduate Associate Dean. For information on categories of offences and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71, Student Discipline. For typical penalties check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
Students should be aware that this course contains the intellectual property of their instructor, TA, and/or the University of Waterloo. Intellectual property includes items such as:
Course materials and the intellectual property contained therein, are used to enhance a student’s educational experience. However, sharing this intellectual property without the intellectual property owner’s permission is a violation of intellectual property rights. For this reason, it is necessary to ask the instructor, TA and/or the University of Waterloo for permission before uploading and sharing the intellectual property of others online (e.g., to an online repository). Permission from an instructor, TA or the University is also necessary before sharing the intellectual property of others from completed courses with students taking the same/similar courses in subsequent terms/years. In many cases, instructors might be happy to allow distribution of certain materials. However, doing so without expressed permission is considered a violation of intellectual property rights.
This section details how we will deal with disruptions related to COVID.
This course is designed around in-person activities, and the expectation is that we will have in-person classes this term. In-person classroom activities typically involve recap and discussion of the topics, and working on project activities with your team. If there are classroom disruptions due to COVID, these are the activities that would be most impacted.
Students who need to self-isolate due to COVID should use the following guidelines:
If the University closes in-person activities for any reason, the following guidelines will be used.
AccessAbility Services collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with temporary or permanent disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations, please register with the AccessAbility Services at the beginning of each academic term. They will in-turn contact your instructors and arrange accomodations if necessary.
If you or anyone you know experiences any academic stress, difficult life events, or feelings like anxiety or depression, we strongly encourage you to seek support.
It is our intent that students from all diverse backgrounds and perspectives be well served by this course, and that students’ learning needs be addressed both in and out of class. We recognize the immense value of the diversity in identities, perspectives, and contributions that students bring, and the benefit it has on our educational environment. Your suggestions are encouraged and appreciated. Please let us know ways to improve the effectiveness of the course for you personally or for other students or student groups. In particular: