Late Policies
The timing of lectures, assignments and exams are designed in a
coordinated way. A student will be best served by completing all
parts of the course in a timely fashion.
All exams must be taken promptly at the required time. Requests for
rescheduling an exam will only be considered if the request is made
prior to the start of the exam, or else in an ``emergency'' situation
with appropriate documentation.
For assignments, we wish to allow students to continue to work
comfortably beyond the official deadline when a little more time will
result in more progress, while at the same time discourage students
from falling several days behind pace and jeopardizing their success
on future assignments.
Our solution is the following exponentially decaying late formula
(some have suggested that we should offer extra credit to anyone who
fully understands this formula).
We will consider an assignment submission ``complete'' whenever any
part of the assignment is last submitted or modified. Any assignment
which is not complete promptly by its due date and time will be
assessed a penalty based on the formula
S = R * e-t/6,
where S is the grade given, R
is the grade the work would have gotten if turned in on time and
t is the amount of time (in days or fractions thereof) the
work was late.
Examples:
The above policies will be waived only in an ``emergency'' situation
with appropriate documentation.