CS173: Missed Work
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.
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:
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.
If you add the course late, you are expected to quickly self-register on moodle so that you don't get further behind. Contact the instructor promptly to get any necessary extensions. Notice that we don't take attendance at the first tutorial. So you do not need to make that up, though it would be wise to work through the problems.
We will drop one autograded homework grade, one study problem grade, and one tutorial.
If you must miss your assigned tutorial, e.g. due to illness or a conflicting obligation you can a different tutorial. Ask the instructor to put you into a suitable breakout room. You will not get credit for this but it will give you an option to practice the work.
Missed examlets can be made up the same week on one of the alternative exam times. By request, we may allow you to take the exam on the following Monday.
In-person students using the CBTF will have to contact them directly to schedule a make-up. Online students can either schedule one of the make-up times (when they become available) or contact the instructors directly.
For a single missed examlet, you do not need to tell us that you missed the examlet or provide an excuse as long as you can attend one of the alternate exam times. However, the following situations are not ok and you must contact an instructor to tell us what is wrong and arrange a suitable plan for getting caught up.
When appropriate, we may allow you to take an examlet two weeks after its original date. However, delays beyond that will be allowed only in cases of major problems
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 when there are long or awkwardly timed outages. The details depend on the exact circumstances. 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.
If a weather or other emergency makes travel hazardous, do not travel.
If you are outside Champaign-Urbana, please keep us informed about issues that may be affecting your area but not ours. This is obvious if you are far away (e.g. in another country). However, even within Champaign county, weather often affects the rural roads more than the ones inside the city.
Piazza is a great way to stay informed and also to keep the course staff informed about issues we might not have noticed.