A variety of situations might cause you to miss an examlet or other work. When the problem is minor (e.g. short virus), it's usually straightforward to make up.

Major problems

The rules on this page apply to minor problems, such as a brief illness. If you are experiencing major problems, contact your instructor promptly to work out a suitable plan.

Examples of larger problems would be:

• Extended illness
• Serious injury
• Serious family problems

Depending on the circumstances, we may ask you to provide documentation (e.g. a doctor's note). You should typically be working with DRES, your advisor, and/or the Dean of Students office. In particular, the Dean of Students office can help you inform instructors when you can't reasonably do so yourself (e.g. you're in the hospital), and provide confirmation of problems where you might not wish to tell us all the details.

Missed homework

Homework can be turned in late on PrairieLearn for a grade penalty: up to 2 days late you are capped at 80% credit, and after that you are capped at 50%. In special circumstances you may contact the instructors to request the penalty be removed, but in most situations we will not grant this: you have many days to work on the homework, so if you start it on the last day you are gambling that nothing bad will happen on that last day (e.g. "my computer broke at 10pm before it was due" is not a valid excuse).

Note that we will drop one autograded homework grade, one study problem grade, and one tutorial.

Missed tutorial

Notice that we don't take attendance at the Week 1 or Week 2 tutorials. So you do not need to make those up, though it would be wise to work through the problems.

If you must miss your assigned tutorial, e.g. due to illness or a conflicting obligation, you may attend a different tutorial the same day. Let a TA/CA/instructor know you are there to make up a tutorial.

If you cannot go to any tutorial on a given day, you can make up the attendance credit by writing out the answers and submitting this google form. This must be done within one week of the missed tutorial. You can make up the tutorial section this way up to 3 times with no justification required. Beyond that, you will not be able to get credit this way unless there is a major issue (eg. extended illness, serious injury, serious family problems) - in which case you should reach out to the instructor.

Note that we also drop one tutorial when computing final grades.

Make sure to check that your attendance gets recorded correctly on PrairieLearn. These unusual situations are the main source of recording errors.

Missed examlets

Do not miss a CBTF reservation without cancelling it through PrairieTest first! As long as you cancel in advance and there are other timeslots open, you can simply pick a new time online. If no new times are available online, check back a few times to see if anyone else has cancelled at the last minute, and if the 3-day window ends before you find a slot then see next paragraph. If you forget to cancel, then you will need to show up to the CBTF in person to reschedule.

If you miss an examlet entirely (i.e. the whole 3 day period allocated to that examlet on CBTF), fill out this google form to request a makeup. Makeups without a compelling reason and documentation (e.g. illness with a doctor's note) will come with a grade penalty: the first time will be a 15% reduction on that examlet's grade (so the max grade for the corresponding examlet will be 85 out of 100), the second time there will be a 50% reduction, and starting the third time there will be a 90% reduction. We will always email you if we need more information or if we are assigning the grade penalty, so if you just find yourself able to sign up for a new timeslot without receiving an email, that means your form was approved with no penalty. Penalties will not show up on PrairieLearn, but they will get factored in to your grade reports.

Acts of God

We occasionally have outages in campus networks, power, or CS departmental servers. Weather sometimes disrupts operations and occasionally even shuts campus. Zoom can go down. And so forth. We will extend deadlines or make other arrangements as appropriate when there are long or awkwardly timed outages. However, we expect that you will download critical documents (e.g. exam study materials) in a timely manner and that you realize that support is very limited at night.