Comp 527: Grading Policies

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There will be a number of short written homework assignments, most likely four of them. Written homeworks will be announced in class and on the newsgroups and will be available from the Web. Submissions will generally be handed in at the beginning of class on the day due, although electronic submissions beforehand are encouraged. You are expected to do written assignments on your own, although you may certainly make use of outside sources like Web pages or books. You should disclose this fact and cite the sources, as you would in any scholarly work.

Please send all electronic submissions via e-mail to dwallach+comp527@cs.rice.edu. Any properly-formatted MIME message in text/plain, text/html, application/postscript, or application/pdf is acceptable. Microsoft Word is not acceptable.

Late Policy

Sometimes, you're taking another class which (inconveniently) has the same deadline as Comp 527 or you get temporarily swamped. Sometimes you're just having a really bad-hair day. Generally speaking, assignments are due on the due date and late work is not accepted. Period. Of course, disasters occur and can be worked around. I'm willing to make custom arrangements if you talk to me in advance of a deadline. If you see a looming time conflict, you must notify me in advance.

Final Project Grading

The final project is pretty big. It includes a proposal at the beginning, a mid-term status report, a final oral presentation, a final paper, and (oh by the way) you also have to do the work. Rather than give you a precise grading breakdown, let me say I will show more sympathy if you've been working diligently all along.
Dan Wallach, CS Department, Rice University
Last modified: Tue Jan 25 14:26:12 CST 2000