119 Physics Waves & Optics Lab: Make-up work
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Missed Pre-Labs
Online pre-lab make-ups will not be allowed for any reason. If there is a valid reason for missing a pre-lab,
the score for it may be excused from the final grade calculation at the discretion of the TA or instructor.
Missed In-Class Sessions
A student who misses an in-class session (or who expects to miss a session due to travel or other conflicting
activity) may make-up the session by (1) attending another lab section during the same week, or (2) attending
a session during make-up week. Different procedures and rules apply to the different ways of making-up the
missed lab.
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Make-up during the week
A student who misses a session may request permission to attend another lab section during the same week.
The following special rules apply:
Permission must be obtained from the regular section TA as well as the TA for the section the student
attends; it is not necessary to obtain permission from the faculty member in charge of the lab course.
The TA may, at his or her discretion, forbid a student who is not registered for his or her section from
participating in a make-up session.
Lab worksheets (the pages in the manual) completed by a student in other than his or her regular
section must be initialed by both the TA for the section attended (to verify that the student did the
work) and by the student's regular TA (so that the grade will be recorded). It is the student's
responsibility to ensure that the worksheets get initialed by both TA's. Students should not assume
that the TA will "take care of it."
Make-up during make-up week
If a student cannot make up a missed session during the week, he or she may, without special permission,
make-up one missed lab session during the final "make-up week" of the term. A student may not make up
more than one lab without special permission from the faculty in charge of the course, and the absolute limit
on make-up sessions a student may attend during make-up week is TWO. If the student has missed more
than 2 lab sessions by the end of the term, he or she will either need to accept a zero for the missed sessions,
appeal for a hardship withdrawal from the course or petition the instructor for an incomplete in the course.
The experiment performed during make-up week will usually be the one that the student missed. However,
the instructor may require that the make-up be a single "universal" lab, taken by all students who attend a
make-up week session. (This is common in Summer term.)
Sign-ups for make-up week sessions will be done online or by a paper sign-up sheet posted in the lab rooms.
Students will be notified about how to sign up for a make-up session by email, a notice on their course
webpage, a posting on the door of the lab, or some combination of these. This information concerning
sign-ups for make-up week will be made available to all students near the end of the term.
Rules concerning Post-Labs and make-ups for missed In-Class Sessions
If a student misses an in-class session, he or she may not attempt the online post-lab. If the student submits
responses to the post-lab without having completed the in-class session, a 2 point penalty will be assessed
against the assignment.
If the make-up session happens within the week, the student should complete the post-lab as normally
scheduled. If the make-up session happens during the make-up week (or any other time), the Post-Lab due
date will be reset to allow it to be completed without a penalty. The time between the make-up session and
the Post-Lab due date will vary depending on circumstance, but will never extend beyond the end of the
course term.
A make-up for an in-class session is only allowed if the score for that session is missing or 0. Lab make-ups
may not be used to obtain penalty-free access to the associated post-lab.
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Missed Post-Labs (only)
Missed Post-labs can be made-up by requesting an automatic extension from WebAssign. The link for
requesting an extension is visible near the link to the assignment after the due date has passed. Extensions are
granted for 24 hours as long that as 24 hours fits within a 7 day period following the due date. Beyond the 7
day period, no make-ups on post-labs will be allowed.
Post-Lab extensions are granted only after the due date has passed. Requests for extensions of a post-lab that
come before the due date will be ignored.
If the Post-Lab is missed because the student has not yet completed the in-class session, the Post-Lab due
date will be reset after the in-class session is done, and the student can complete it without a penalty. The
time between the make-up session and the Post-Lab due date will vary depending on circumstance, but will
never extend beyond the end of the course term.
There is a 40% penalty applied to a Post-Lab extension (up to 2 points out of 5). The penalty only applies
to the submissions answered correctly, since incorrect submissions are awarded 0 points. In addition to the
automatic penalty, essay question in the post-lab, which are by default awarded 0 points until they are graded,
will not be graded unless the student specifically requests by writing to his or her TA.
If the student has a valid reason for missing a post-lab one of two options will apply: If the student has
completed the assignment within the 7 day extension window, the penalty may be removed from the post-lab
score. Or, if the student has not completed the post-lab and the 7 day extension window has passed, the
instructor may excuse the assignment from the student's final scores.
Post-lab make-ups or extensions are only allowed if the in-class session has been completed. If the student
submits responses to the post-lab without having completed the in-class session, a 2 point penalty will be
assessed against the assignment. This penalty is separate from the late work penalty, and is absolute: it is
possible for the assignment score to be negative when this penalty is applied.
Students are not allowed to use an automatic extension to "fix" incorrect answers that have been submitted
and graded in order to recover lost points. Such action will be regarded as cheating and a student who does
this will be cited for academic dishonesty.
A poor score (even a zero) on a post-lab may not be remedied by attending an in-class make-up session
during make-up week if the student already has credit for completing the in-class session.
Grading of essay questions in Post-Lab make-ups
As part of either the pre-lab or post-lab, students may be asked to to write a short essay or a few sentences on
a concept or a matter that should be discussed with partners during the lab session. These questions will be
"hand-graded" by the TA or instructor, not automatically scored by WebAssign. Until the question is graded,
WebAssign will assign 0 points to it. As noted above, such essays may not be graded at all if they are
completed after the due date during a post-lab extension period, and the student has not requested the essay to
be graded.
Assignment Excuse vs. Assignment Extension
To "excuse" an assignment means to remove the score from the final grade calculation. To "extend" an
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assignment means to allow a student to make-up the assignment past the due date. The only usual extension
without penalty of an assignment is for post-labs following the completion of a missed in-class session. An
excuse requires a valid reason.
Valid Reasons for an Assignment Excuse
Valid reasons for having a pre-lab or post-lab score excused from the final lab grade are
an illness that requires the student to miss all of his or her classes for 2 days or more;
a period of grief for loss of a family member or friend;
a family emergency.
Other reasons may also be be deemed valid by the instructor.
Not Valid Reasons for an Excuse
Nearly anything that does not fall into the above short list will be regarded as not valid reasons for missing a
WebAssign deadline. Here are some examples:
Not understanding how WebAssign works because the student has never used it before;
Not being aware that the assignment was due;
Not being able to access WebAssign because of a problem with the student's computer or Internet
connection;
Being unaware as to whether the computer was correctly communicating with the WebAssign web site;
Running out of time because the student has another assignment due or a big test coming up;
A learning disability or other condition that the student has not yet communicated to the faculty
member in charge of the lab (please see the Disability Resources for Students rules for more
information).
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