Course Policies
Cheating and plagiarism
Each piece of work you present for examination must be entirely your own. You are not allowed to give or receive aid on an assignment unless such collaboration is explicitly permitted. The use of prohibited aids is cheating.
The following, in particular, is not allowed:
- copying code from other lab groups, or letting other lab groups copy your code
- making lab solutions available via public channels, such as Github
When using external sources (such as text or code) in work that you present for examination, you must appropriately acknowledge these sources. This rule also applies to materials obtained from the internet. Failure to acknowledge your sources is plagiarism.
Use of generative AI
For using generative AI tools (including, but not limited to, AI assistants such as GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT), the following rules apply:
- You take responsibility for each piece of work you present for examination. You are responsible for ensuring that your work does not contain plagiarised code or text, and acknowledges any sources appropriately and correctly.
- For the lab assignments (LAB1), you may not use generative AI tools for any of the free-text answers or individual reflections.
- For the project work (PRA1), you may not use generative AI tools to produce entirely new text for your project report. Any other use of generative AI is allowed as long as you declare how you used it when handing in your project report.
If you are unsure about whether a certain use of generative AI is allowed or not, you are always welcome to contact the examiner.
We must report suspected cheating and plagiarism cases to the University Disciplinary Board. No exceptions exist to this rule, no matter how slight the potential offence.
Feedback and communication
What you can expect from us
We try our best to give you prompt, constructive, and meaningful feedback. If you have any questions or problems, you are welcome to contact us via email or Teams chat. Please give us at least 1–2 days to respond, and do not expect an answer outside of standard working hours, i.e. Monday–Friday 9–17. (Yes, sometimes we may work & send emails outside these hours, but please do not expect this!) You can also talk to the examiner in class or book an appointment; see the course website for a link for appointment bookings.
What we expect from you
We expect you to familiarise yourself with the information on the course website and the documents linked there (like this one!), and keep yourself up-to-date with what we publish on the website. We also send out important information via email, and expect you to check for and read these emails while the course is ongoing.
Special needs
If there is any part of the course – materials, assignments, scheduled activities, etc. – that is not accessible to you, e.g. due to a documented disability, please let the examiner know as early as possible so that we can make appropriate accommodations.
Attendance
We currently do not have any sessions with mandatory attendance in this course.
That said, this course has still been designed as an on-campus course, and we do not recommend taking this course fully remotely. In particular:
The lab assignments are intended to be worked on and submitted in pairs. We do not have the capacity for the extra workload that comes from students working alone. If you insist on working alone, e.g. because you do not plan on attending the lab sessions, we cannot promise you timely feedback on your submissions, which means fewer opportunities to fix problems and resubmit.
The scheduled lab sessions are intended to be the main place to ask questions and get help for the labs, and we test that the labs run on the lab computers. It can take longer to get help via e-mail, and we cannot offer any tech support for problems that arise from students using other computers than the lab environment.
(NB: If you have a documented need for accommodations, e.g. due to a disability, this does not apply to you – please contact the examiner, and we will find the best solution for your individual case!)