Policies
Goals and Outcomes: Students are required to complete their assignments
consistent with the guidelines for each assignment and are encouraged
to develop World Wide Web products useful for business or professional
organizations or for their own portfolios. Students are required to
create their own web products and to produce their own writing and
design work and must not include any copyrighted material, except with
written permission from the copyright owner. Students are presumed to
hold the copyright to their own work. Any materials drawn from sources
either print or electronic must include a full citation of the source.
Written text of more than three words must be placed in quotation marks
and must include a full citation of the source, following a standard
format such as
American Psychological Association
style,
The Chicago Manual of Style
(see the
Quick Guide),
or (for online sources only) the
Modern Language Association
style.
Individual and Group Work: Students are required to work both
individually and in groups. Individuals are responsible for their own
web work. Group members are expected to contribute equitably to the web
work of their group and if they fail to do so may be dropped from their
group upon agreement by the other group members or at the discretion of
the instructor. Any student who is dropped from a group will be
obligated to find another group that is willing to accept him or her or
to produce a web product independently.
Assignments and Late Penalties: Each assignment must be submitted,
either in hard copy, typed, or via the World Wide Web with a link to each
student's Writing to the WWW web page (no attachments), no later than
the beginning of the class hour on the due date listed in the Schedule
of Classes and Assignments.
Each assignment may be rewritten any number of times until but not
after the due date and time for the assignment.
The late penalty for each assignment submitted after the due date and
time for the assignment will be 1/10 of the value of the assignment
plus an additional 1/10 of the value of the assignment for each
successive class period (or equivalent time period) after the due date
and time (that is, 1/2 point for a 5-point assignment, 1 point for a
10-point assignment, etc.). The late penalty for the final assignment
(technical information web) will be 2 1/2 points for each day or part
of a day late. Late penalties will be assessed in points (of 100 total
for the course).
Class Attendance: Class attendance and participation are required.
Students must attend the first week's classes. Any student who fails to
attend the first week's classes will be dropped from the course.
Students who fail to attend class must nevertheless submit assignments
on time or accept the late penalty.
Students who miss class for extended periods of time without permission
or explanation will be reported to the Dean of Students Office or the
Department of Public Safety for support and assistance, as needed.
Requests for accommodations, exceptions, extensions, or incomplete
grades due to illnesses or personal emergencies must be supported by
written documentation from the Dean of Students Office.
Course Materials: Course materials will be posted on the WWWW course
web page. Course materials not available electronically will be
distributed by the instructor. Payment for the course materials
distributed by the instructor is a department requirement. Students who
fail to pay for the course materials will be assigned a grade of
Incomplete for the course.
Copyright, Fair Use, and Electronic Citizenship: Rensselaer's policies
on copyright, fair use, and electronic citizenship are explained at
CIO Policies. Violations of
these policies will be reported to the Dean of Students and the Dean of
the student's college or school.
Students' Rights and Responsibilities: Students' rights and
responsibilities are explained in The Rensselaer Handbook of Student
Rights and Responsibilities 2006-2008 and govern the conduct of both
faculty and students. Academic dishonesty is explained on pages 14-16 and
is strictly prohibited. Plagiarism as explained on page 15 includes any
use of others' material without proper acknowledgment or reference. By
this definition, plagiarism includes, for example, copying and pasting
material from the WWW without use of quotation marks and identification
of the source of the material. Incidents of academic dishonesty on any
assignment will be graded 0 points for the assignment and will be reported
to the Dean of Students and the Dean of the student's college or school,
with a request that the incident be entered into the student's permanent
record at Rensselaer.
Student-teacher relationships are built on trust. For example, students
must trust that teachers have made appropriate decisions about the
structure and content of the courses they teach, and teachers must
trust that the assignments which students turn in are their own. Acts
that violate this trust undermine the educational process.
The Rensselaer Handbook of Student Rights and Responsibilities
defines various forms of Academic Dishonesty and procedures for
responding to them. All forms are violations of the trust between
students and teachers.
Office of the Provost
Appeals Process: Decisions by the instructor may be appealed through
the LL&C Department Chair and the H&SS Dean and/or through the
Dean of Students Office.
Latest Update: 2007-12-20
