HW7: Drafting Course Policies
CS302, Spring 2025
- Due Date: 11:59 PM on Wednesday, May 7, 2024
- Homework 7 Responses Document (Google Drive Folder)
- Peer Comments Due: 12 PM on Friday, May 9, 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
Draft a Syllabus with Course Policies
In a new document, draft a set of course policies. You should include the following:
- Grading system and the scale (e.g., points, curved, etc.)
- The weight of each component (e.g., homework, exams, etc.)
- Late policies (e.g., how many late days, if you will use flextensions, etc.)
- Academic misconduct policy
- Attendance policy
In the responses document, link to your syllabus and include a short explanation of your policies. Pick 2-3 policies that you think are most important (or novel) and explain why you chose them.
Rubric (Do this for full credit)
- (Team) Draft potential (or ideal) course policies in a syllbus 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 2:00 PM Friday) (Individual) Left 1 or more comments on 2 other courses’ policy documents.