HW8: Drafting Course Policies
CS302, Spring 2024

Draft a Syllabus / Course Policies

The assignment for this week is to do a nearly complete draft of your course syllabus, which is dfferent from a list of topics.

Academic Misconduct Policy

What student facing messaging will you have about Academic Honesty and Misconduct? Draft your policy. You should then add this to your syllabus.

Required listening/Reading

• Design Issues for Learning Environments
• Misconceptions and Attitudes that Interfere with Learning to Program

Audit: Inclusivity of Syllabus

Now that each of you have learned about accessibility and inclusivity, work as a team to carefully go through your syllabus and audit the wording. Imagine how different students would read and what their reactions would be (low confidence students, high confidence students, those with lots of programming experience, those with little experience, etc).

Find a few things to improve about your syllabus and write it up as a team in the responses document.

Rubric (Do this for full credit)

• (Team) Mentioned where you will advertise course application on responses document.
• (Team) Create and copy Academic Misconduct Policy in the responses document
• (Individual) Left 1 or more comments on Misconceptions and Attitudes that Interfere with Learning to Program.
• (Individual) Left 1 or more comments on Design Issues for Learning Environments.
• (Due 10:00 AM Friday) (Individual) Left 1 or more comments on 2 other courses’ Academic Misconduct Policy on responses document.