Policies

Late Submission Policy

• Students are allowed to use up to 24 late hours for mini-projects. Late hours must be used in units of whole hours. Specify the number of hours used when turning in the assignment. TA support may be unavailable over the weekends.

Collaboration Policy (Summary)

Full Policy details found in table below.

Homeworks

Homeworks are only graded for completion, not correctness. However, it is very important that you learn the material as it will help you in the quizzes.

Quizzes

In-class quizzes are closed-book (one for each homework). No collaboration of any kind is allowed.

Mini-projects

Students can collaborate fully within their miniproject teams, but no collaboration is allowed between teams.

Final Exam

In-person exam. No collaboration of any kind is allowed. 

Policy on the use of large language models (LLMs)

Homework assignments

Students are expected to complete homework assignments based on their understanding of the course material.  Student can use LLMs as a resource (e.g., helping with debugging, or grammar checking), but the assignments (including reports and code) should be principally authored by the student. 

Projects

Students are allowed and encouraged to explore tools like LLMs as a way to supplement learning, not as a shortcut. If students use LLMs in their projects, they must explain in the report how LLMs contribute to the project, providing details like the text and code generated by LLMs. 

Final exam

No use of large language models is allowed. 

Collaboration Policy (Full)