STUDENTS’ RESPONSIBILITIES

Students are expected to complete the course in compliance with the instructor’s standards.  No student shall engage in any activity that involves attempting to receive a grade by means other than honest effort, for example:

1. No student shall knowingly procure, provide, or accept any materials that contain questions or answers to any examination or assignment to be given at a subsequent time.

2. No student shall complete, in part or in total, any examination or assignment for another person.

3. No student shall knowingly allow any examination or assignment to be completed, in part or in total, for himself or herself by another person.

4. No student shall plagiarize or copy the work of another person and submit it as his or her own work.

5. No student shall employ aids excluded by the instructor in undertaking course work.

6. No student shall alter graded class assignments or examinations and then resubmit them for regrading.

7. No student shall submit substantially the same material in more than one course without prior authorization.

A student acting in the capacity of an instructional assistant (IA), including but not limited to teaching assistants, readers, and tutors, has a special responsibility to safeguard the integrity of scholarship.  In these roles the student functions as an apprentice instructor, under the tutelage of the responsible instructor.  An IA shall equitably grade student work in the manner agreed upon with the course instructor.  An IA shall not make any unauthorized material related to tests, exams, homework assignments, etc. available to any student.

The following are additional examples not listed in the General Catalog specific to programming classes:

8. No student shall provide their assignments, in part or in total, to any other student in current or future classes of this course.  No student shall procure or accept assignments from any other student from current or prior classes of this course.  

9. All programming code and documentation submitted for evaluation or existing inside the student’s computer accounts must be the student’s original work or material specifically authorized by the instructor.  The course accounts are authorized for course work only.

10. Collaborating with other students to develop, complete or correct course work is limited to activities explicitly authorized by the instructor.  Use of your own previous course work or other student’s course work, in part or in total, to develop, complete or correct course work, including documentation, is unauthorized.  Use of texting or messaging services or Internet sites like Pastebin or GitHub or similar systems to share or publish course files in part or in total is unauthorized.  Unless otherwise explicitly authorized, each student is completely responsible to keep their code, homeworks, design files and other course work off of Internet sites.

11. For all group assignments, each member of the group is responsible for the academic integrity of the entire submitted work.

12. Students are expected to stop working on the exam/quiz once the instructor has announced that the exam period has ended. The penalty of this violation is 0 for the exam/quiz.

Each student is responsible for knowing and abiding by UCSD’s policies on Academic Dishonesty and on Student Conduct.  Any student violating UCSD’s Academic Dishonesty or UCSD’s Student Conduct policies will earn an ‘F’ in the course and will be reported to their college Dean for administrative processing.  Committing acts that violate Student Conduct policies that result in course disruption are cause for suspension or dismissal from UCSD.

Authorized course assistance is available in person and electronically from the course instructor, Teaching Assistants, lab tutors, and OASIS.