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Chem 142/152/162

Winter 2014

Policies for Exams, Labs, and Discussion Sections

Exam Absences.
If you are absent from a midterm examination through sickness or other valid, unavoidable cause, your performance on the final exam will be used to construct a score for the missed exam. Examples of unavoidable causes include: illness; death or serious illness in the immediate family; and with prior notification observance of regularly scheduled religious obligations, attendance at academic conferences or field trips, or participation in university-sponsored activities. Absence due to participation in university-sponsored activities require PRIOR approval (please provide the necessary documentation during the first or second week of the quarter). If you have an unanticipated absence from an exam, please do the following: 1. Report your absence from an examination within 72 hours to Dr. Paul Miller, Director of Undergraduate Services (paulmil@uw.edu), and 2. Provide proof of your unavoidable cause (a doctor's note, an accident report, a memorial folder, or similar documentation). Bring the documentation to Dr. Millers office in BAG 303. The documentation must include a contact name and telephone number. 3. Dr. Miller will review the documentation and notify the course instructor of the status of your absence. If your absence does not meet the above criteria, you will be given a zero for the exam. If you are absent from the Final examination, and you are ineligible for an incomplete according to UW regulations, a course grade of 0.0 will be given. If an incomplete is given, you must make up the final exam no later than the end of the next regular academic quarter in order to remove the incomplete. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Laboratory Absences.

If you have more than one unexcused absence for a lab in Chem 142/152/162, you will receive a grade of 0.0 for the course. The description of unavoidable causes for missing an exam also applies to labs. If you miss a laboratory through sickness or other unavoidable cause please do the following: 1. Contact the Undergraduate Stockroom (Bagley 271) as soon as possible and we will try to schedule you into an alternate lab session. 2. Provide proof of your unavoidable cause (a doctor's note, an accident report, a memorial folder, or similar documentation) to the Undergraduate Stockroom in BAG 271. The documentation must include a contact name and telephone number. 2. If the absence is excused, you will receive a grade for the missed lab equal to the average of your scores for the other five labs. If your absence does not meet the above criteria, you will be given a zero for the lab. 3. If you miss more than one lab due to an unavoidable cause, we will work with you to schedule a make-up lab at the end of the quarter or in the next academic quarter. Important note: if you arrive more than 10 minutes late for a lab session, you will not be allowed into the lab and the absence will be unexcused (you will receive a grade of zero for that experiment.) If you have an anticipated conflict with one of your lab sessions, you will be allowed to reschedule into another lab session, if one is available. However, rescheduling must be done in advance of the day of your

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Chem 142/152/162

Winter 2014

regularly scheduled lab session, and if the reason is not a qualifying excused absence, a 15-point penalty will be assessed to your lab score at the end of the quarter. If you cannot reschedule an anticipated absence in advance or you have a last-minute unexcused absence (e.g., you are more than 10 minutes late to lab, forget to go to lab, or sleep through the lab session), you will receive a grade of 0 for that experiment.

Discussion Section Absences.

You can miss one discussion section without penalty, and you do not need to provide documentation for your absence. Since you are allowed to miss one section, there are no opportunities to make-up any credit associated with work missed in that discussion section.

Exam and Lab Report Re-Grading.

The purpose of re-grades is to address mistakes made when exams/reports are graded. These are not opportunities for you to correct your work, add additional information to answers originally provided, or make any other changes to your graded exam/report submission. If a simple addition error has been made, show the exam or report to your TA for correction. Re-grade requests for hand-graded work must be for 5 pts! To have an exam or lab report regraded, it must be given to your TA within 48 hours of its return to you along with a note specifically explaining what you want re-graded. Staple this note to the front of the exam/report. We reserve the right to re-grade the entire exam or report, so you may lose rather than gain points. Do not write additional notes on a graded exam or report being submitted for a re-grade request. We will be making copies of a subset of the exams and reports and will compare any re-grade requests to the copy of the original work. Any discrepancies will be treated as academic misconduct. For questions about machine-graded exams, contact your TA within 48 hours of receiving your scantron report.

Late Work Policy.

It is YOUR responsibility to monitor assignment deadlines posted in ALEKS and on the course and lab websites. No extensions can be provided for online ALEKS objectives or prelabs.

Online Prelab Submissions

The prelab assignments are administered as quizzes in Canvas. See the Laboratory Resources section of your course website for details. Note that each student only gets two submissions per assignment and that we cannot grant extensions or reopen the assignment for individual students, so be sure to carefully complete the assignment and click submit quiz prior to the deadline. You alone are responsible for completing the assignment before the deadline. A score > 0 out of 5 on each prelab is required in order to be considered ready for lab each week a 15-point penalty will be assessed at the end of the quarter for each missed prelab and any prelabs with a score of 0.

Lab Report Submissions

The Laboratory Resources section of the course website provides access to the lab report templates and specific details about when each lab report is due. While the deadlines vary depending on which experiment you are performing, reports are typically due either in lab before the end of the lab session or by 5 p.m. the day of your next regularly scheduled lab session. Reports not submitted directly to your TA during the lab period should be submitted in the locked mailbox for your TA in the hallway outside of the Chemistry Study Center (BAG 330). Reports submitted after the deadline will be penalized 20% for each 24-hour period they are late, excluding holiday or weekend days when Bagley Hall is closed.