A variety of situations might cause you to miss an examlet or other work. When the problem is minor (e.g. brief), you should be able to cover it using the methods described below, especially the drops provided for most types of work.

Major problems

If you are experiencing major problems, contact the instructors promptly to work out a suitable plan. Examples of larger problems would be:

• Extended illness
• Serious injury
• Serious family problems
• Extended excused absences

Depending on the circumstances, we may ask you to provide documentation (e.g. a doctor's note) and details (e.g. dates involved). 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 can provide confirmation of problems where you might not wish to tell instructors all the details.

Joining the course late

If you arrived on campus late or changed your schedule during the first week of classes, you need to get caught up as soon as possible so that you can take the first examlet on time. Here's the schedule of the work you need to complete:

• See the Lecture and Tutorial page for readings and lecture material.
• If you miss turning in either the first written written problem or homework, you are expected to use your drops.
• The first examlet is on Monday during the second week of class.

Missed Written Problem or Post-Unit Homework

You have one drop for homework and one drops for the written problem. These are intended to cover most normal things that can go wrong, whether they involve official excuses or mistakes on your part. See above for guidance if you have a major problem.

Notice that you have many days to work on each homework. 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).

Missed examlets

If you miss an examlet, please make email both instructors. We will follow up (this may take us a while but nothing bad will happen if it does, so please do not ask us for the status of your request unless it has been more than say 3 days). Makeups without a compelling reason are not assured.

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.