Grading Policies

Homework Policies

Please submit all homework through CMS

Cornell University has a Code of Academic Integrity, with which you should be familiar. Violations of this code are treated very seriously by Cornell and can have long-term repercussions. In this course, you are encouraged to discuss the content of the course with other students, and you may also discuss homework problems with other students. However, you must do your own work, write up assignments yourself, and if you discuss a problem with another student, you are expected to document this fact in your write-up. It is a violation of the code to copy work, including programs, from other students; it is also a violation to use solutions to homework problems from previous iterations of the same course. Note that Cornell holds responsible for the code violation both the recipient and the donor of improper information.

Plagiarism - important, please read

Students are being approached by commercial vendors and encouraged to sell course materials, including exams, notes, and papers, which are then posted for resale on internet sites. Students have removed materials, even exams, from course Blackboard sites and sold them to commercial vendors. Some commercial vendors falsely convey that the instructor has approved the sale of course materials. Cornell’s Blackboard site contains a new notice: “Course materials posted on Blackboard are intellectual property belonging to the author. Students are not permitted to buy or sell any course materials without the express permission of the instructor. Such unauthorized behavior constitutes academic misconduct.”

Any such behavior of buying or selling course materials constitutes academic misconduct. Any suspected materials will be tested for plagiarism and due action will follow.