5.3 Late Policies
The course moves so quickly that falling behind can mean serious trouble.
Unless I agree to another arrangement in advance, assignments
earn an automatic 10% penalty if they are late. If your work is 24 or
more hours late, the maximum you can earn is half credit. If you miss
a Friday deadline, I'll accept it for half credit if you get it in
before Monday morning. (I do plan to be in the office
on the Martin Luther King Holiday, though I'm not assigning any work
due that day.)
J-Web: Workbooks
The J-Web online assignments (sets of study questions and short essays that I call "workbooks") are intended to be completed before the scheduled class discussion - far enough in advance that I have time to evaluate them and adjust the day's teaching accordingly. This means that the J-Web homework will be "closed" after the 9AM due date. (Obviously in the event of a SHU computer failure, I will be flexible about such things.)
If you miss a workbook deadline, but want to complete the assignment anyway, let me know - I will unlock that unit after I have recorded all the grades. But once the deadline for a J-Web workshop has passed, the opportunity to earn credit for it is gone.
Turnitin.com: Exercises and Project Components
I also want you to submit, via Turnitin.com, the assignments designed as Exercises and Projects. Unlike the workbooks, you can still submit exercises and project components after the due date. This is very important for multi-part assignments, since you'll often need to get feedback from me before you can proceed.
I put late work at the bottom of my "to do" list. I'll do my best to be helpful, but I might not comment on it in as much detail; or, if the assignment is part of a multi-step assignment, you might not get the late work back before the next part is due. (If you let me know in advance, I can try to plan ahead for this sort of thing.)
Getting Credit for Late Work
J-Web assignments close automatically. I won't be so rigid about the exercises and project components that you upload to Turnitin.com, or the online discussion that you carry on through your blogs. But if your assignment has not appeared in its proper place by the time I finish marking all the work that was submitted on time, I will record a zero for a late assignment.
In order to remove that zero, and get credit for late work,
- Send me an e-mail with a subject line like "Yourlastname EL250 Ex 2 Late." This will let me know to go back and look for your late exercise or project component. If you have posted your work where it should be, you don't need to send me another copy.
- If the late work is excused, you can instead write "Smith EL250 Ex 2 Excused" or you can just remind me in the body of the e-mail.
If you miss a J-Web workbook, you forfeit the points.
