POLICIES
Information will be disseminated
to you through these means: e-mail and course website.
It is your responsibility to check out your mailbox
and the course website regularly (at least once a
day) for news and information. Failure to do so is
no excuse.
Your lecturer may use e-mails for highly urgent matters,
or group related matters. We only recognize your official(email
address that you have provided) e-mail address. If
you set forward service to your mailbox in your ISP
account or other external mail server, you must ensure
that the mail server in use is reliable, otherwise
e-mails from us will not reach you on time, or even
reach you at all.
If you send me any e-mail for other than provided
address, I will only reply if you include your provided
e-mail address, your name and registration number
in your message. This is necessary as we need to ascertain
your identity.
We reserve the right to publish our answers to your
queries to the class if we feel that they are of interest
and benefit to the class. However, you may request
for anonymity and we will shield your identify.
Most of the time, we will try to refrain from sending
e-mails to you unnecessarily, and rely more on the
course website.
Last but not least, the course website is the depository
of course information. Visit the website regularly
to check on the latest news and updates. The website
is at http://uet.homeip.net/uet/computer/YasarAmin
Notes and Handouts
To eliminate wastage of papers, lecture notes are
all available at the website for downloading.
Additional handouts may be given out during tutorial
or lab. Handouts will be cleared from the Teacher’s
backup two weeks after deposit.
Attendance
Attendance will be marked in class, and some weightage
is given to attendance. If you are absent from class
and do not wish to be penalised, you are to forward
your reason to your respective lecturer, through writing
or through e-mail, preferably before the lesson if
possible, or within 3 days after the lesson. For medical
reason, you are to submit a copy of your medical certificate
to your lecturer.
MC/EX Mark and Transfer of Weight to Examination
If you are absent from quizzes, or fail to submit
assignments on time without a valid reason, you will
not receive any marks. If your reason is accepted,
you will receive an MC (medical certificate) or EX
(exempted) mark, and you will not be penalised.
The transfer of weight is based on the lecturer policy
and not on students' requests.
Preparation for Class
You are to be prepared before you attend your tutorial
or lab lesson. For tutorials, you are to get the answers
ready before the lesson.
Late Submission of Assignments
Deadlines of submission of assignments must be strictly
adhered to and late submissions without valid reason
will not be entertained.
Plagiarism
The university does not condone plagiarism. If detected,
both the party who copied and the party who had permitted
the copying will be penalised by receiving a zero
mark. Repeat offenders will be referred to higher
authority.
We permit and encourage healthy discussion among students.
However, students must draw the line between discussion
and copying.
About Examination
All email queries about examination should be raised
and forwarded to yasar@uettaxila.edu.pk
one week before your examination. After that, I will
not answer any queries pertaining to the examination.
However, you may still post your queries during the
office hours of the lecturer.
In order to be fair to the class, we will post our
answers to these queries in Q&A section of the
website, or if really necessary, we will mass mail
to all students. Your identity will not be revealed
to the class so you don't have to worry.
The exam is closed-book. For the exam format, please
go to "Exams" under "CA Activities".
You are allowed to use pencil for diagrams (circuits,
tables, etc.) in the exam. But remember to fill in
important information such as your Registration number
in ink.
Be Serious in Your Study
All these seemingly 'harsh' policies and rules are
to be taken in the right light. In a small class,
we do not need to spell these out explicitly as we
can easily monitor the situation. But as this is a
very large class, we need these policies to maintain
uniformity and fairness as much as we can, and to
ensure smooth running of the course. If everybody
cooperates, your Lecturer will be relieved of many
unnecessary tasks and hence will be able to devote
more quality time on you.
But this is not a one-way traffic. I welcome your
comments and suggestions, if you spot any possibility
for improvements. Just drop me an e-mail at yasar@uettaxila.edu.pk
Yasar Amin
September 2004
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