Assignment	Description	Points	Total Points
Lecture Quiz (4)	Lecture Topics, 10 questions each	40
Lecture Midterm	66 questions	100
Lecture Final	comprehensive 100 questions	100
			240
Lab Test 1	spreadsheet 75 minutes	50
Lab Test 2	html, css, ftp 75 minutes	50
Lab Test 3	database/word-processing 75 minutes	50
			150
Lab 1	html+css	25
Lab 2	Excel	25
Lab 3	Excel	25
Lab 4	Database	25
Lab 5	Database	25
Lab 6	Word	25
Lab 7	Word	25
Lab Skills	varies	232
			482
			797

By totaling the number of points you earned during the semester, your final letter grade will be determined using the following table:

Total Percentage Earned	Letter Grade
98%	A+
93%	A
90%	A-
87%	B+
83%	B
80%	B-
77%	C+
73%	C
70%	C-
67%	D+
63%	D
60%	D-
<60%	F

Attendance Policy

Attendance in lab and lecture is the student's responsibility. You cannot expect to receive the results promised in this Syllabus if you do not attend all lectures and labs.

Talking Policy

Class contributions are welcomed and encouraged. Carrying on conversations in class that do not belong in class is discouraged. You will be invited to leave if this happens.

Electronic Devices in Class Policy

Cell phones, music players, and similar devices should be put away while in lecture and laboratory facilities. Please power off all devices when entering the classroom. Laptop computers may be used in lecture for the purpose of taking notes. If you are not using your laptop for notes, please leave it closed.

Disabilities Policy

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), all qualified students enrolled in this course are entitled to reasonable accommodations. Please notify the Lecturer and Associate Instructor during the first week of class of any accommodations needed for the course. 

Disability Services for Students

Students with documented disabilities through Disability Services for Students need to contact Professor Pope, A110 Course Coordinator, about testing accommodations within the first two weeks of the semester. A meeting will be arranged to discuss your accommodations. Students must bring supporting documentation to the meeting. Further information may be located at http://www.indiana.edu/~iubdss/

Lab makeup exams are not allowed unless pre-arranged with the Associate Instructor and only when documentation of hospitalization, family death, or emergency is provided. No exceptions.  Documentation of the event must be provided to your Associate Instructor within 48 hours of the missed exam or test. Oversleeping is not an acceptable excuse for missing an exam or test. Students will be required to make arrangements with their Associate Instructor to make up the missed exam.  ALL exams must be made up one Friday plus one week of the original exam date or a zero (0) will be given.*

Indiana University respects the right of all students to observe their religious holidays and will make reasonable accommodation, upon request, for such observances. For a complete policy on religious holidays and accommodations for such, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/holidays.html.

If you plan on requesting reasonable accommodations to observe a religious holiday, you must submit your request to Professor Pope by the end of the second week of the course. You may locate the form at http://www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/download/holidayreq.pdf.

Performance

Academic Honesty Policy

The standard penalty for any form of academic dishonesty in a course is failure of the course. Providing or receiving help during lecture or lab exams, or submitting the work of someone else as your own work are all examples of academic dishonesty and are prohibited. Generally speaking, what is encouraged:

• Turning in work that is done alone or with the help of the course staff.
• Turning in one assignment for a group of students, when group work is permitted.
• Discussion of coursework with other students, unless explicitly disallowed, and then separately writing up or implementing the details of solutions with acknowledgment of the other students involved in the discussion.

Every individual should put forth their own scholastic effort. Appropriate credit is to be given to all the participants in collaborative work. In these cases of previously reported research, the original work is to be cited. However, when such collaboration occurs, all of the participants are to be acknowledged (i.e. their names written on the resulting work). Similarly, in a paper that uses ideas developed by another person, the original author is to be cited. When ideas that were invented by another individual are used in a program, the original inventor is to be cited (i.e. in the program documentation).

If there could be any way where we cannot be certain about the file origin or the work contained therein then the work will be considered academic dishonesty. Copying any portion of an assignment from a friend, or copying from a web page does constitute academic misconduct. Please do not do this. The following Academic Misconduct Policy will be rigorously adhered to.

1. Examples of academic dishonesty, but not limited to:

   A. Cheating:

   • Giving another student access to your computer account, or negligently permitting another student to access your computer account or files constitutes cheating on your part if that other student copies any files that become implicated in a cheating case.
   • Turning in someone else's work as your own, even with the permission of the original author.
   • Facilitating someone else to turn in your work as his or her own.
   • Using course files that were not downloaded by you, under your own login credentials.

   B. Collaborating:

   • Turning in work without proper acknowledgment of the sources of the content contained within the work.
   • Helping each other in a homework session, and then turning in the same file for each student, regardless of whether or not the file name is changed. Each student must turn in his or her own file, which has his or her own individual work.

   C. Citing Sources:

   • Submit work with false or forged information/data
   • Damaging other’s work
   • Obtaining data from unsanctioned sources
   • The work of others that is submitted and appropriately acknowledged is never, of itself, cheating; but it may not earn you any credit for the assignment.

   D. Plagiarism:

   • Sharing files with someone else (enabling, facilitating)
   • Borrowing files from someone else (even just to “look at” the file)
   • Submitting files without crediting

   E. Other:

   • Forging signature on document
   • Offering bribes to gain academic advantage
   • Stealing the exam paper or other course material
   • Altering or interfering with grading
   • Deceiving an instructor or university official, for example, by claiming illness or family emergency
   • Use of deception for the purpose of obtaining credit

2. Individual Work:

   A. Allowed:

   • Discussion in lab class how a project is to be done (this is similar to peer tutoring)

   B. Not Allowed:

   • Doing someone’s work for them
   • Sharing files, especially by email, flash drive, or remote storage
   • “Borrowing” files from others, even temporarily or just to “look at”

3. What are the consequences of academic dishonesty?

   The ordinary departmental level penalty for cheating is failure in the course and notification of the department chair, with copies to the student, dean of the School of Informatics and Computing, dean of the student's school, and Dean of Students. University may enforce additional sanctions, especially for repeated offenses. In all cases, the penalty will be more severe than not turning in the assignment. The student may receive a lower grade or an F for the course. There might be other sanctions as well. Students are encouraged to educate themselves about academic dishonesty and to avoid any instances of it. For most students this is never a problem.

   How you can tell if you are a student who is particularly at risk?

   • The due date is rapidly approaching
   • You are “lost” in the homework (ie, don’t know where to begin)
   • You have not sought authorized help from course staff, etc.
   • You have not read the syllabus

   To mitigate this risk: turn in the homework assignment for partial credit. In most cases, you can re-do the homework assignment to make up for what you missed on the first pass.

Grade Appeals Policy

To appeal a lecture exam grade, send an e-mail to your Lecturer's e-mail address within 72 hours of the grade having been received to set up an appointment to discuss the issue face-to-face.

To appeal a lab exam grade, send an e-mail to your Associate Instructor's email address within 72 hours of the grade having been received to set up an appointment to discuss the issue face-to-face. Overdue appeals will not be considered. You may further appeal unsatisfactory lab scores to your Professor Pope within 72 hours of your face-to-face meeting with your lab instructor. Make this appeal by email and substantiate the basis for your appeal with factual information and sound reasoning; you should academically and intellectually justify your appeal. Upon receiving your appeal, your lab instructor will have an opportunity to reply to your argument, and you will have a final opportunity to respond to their reply. Once all of the materials have been received, the appeal will be reviewed and either granted or denied within 72 hours.

Final Grade Disputes

Final grades will not be discussed via email with lab or lecture instructors during official University breaks. You must contact the A110 Course Coordinator at the beginning of the next semester to set up a meeting to discuss any grade discrepancy.  You should make this contact by sending an email to cepope@indiana.edu.

 

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