COURSE REQUIREMENTS
for CIS 110 class taught by Ron James

STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITIES

GENERAL INFORMATION:

• Students are required complete the online Orientation - No exceptions
• Students may be dropped from the class if they fail to submit assignments in a timely fashion or fail to login to the class web site for 10 days (5 days during summer classes).
• The best way to contact me is via email
• If you have a problem completing assignments contact me (e-mail) as soon as possible - I'm here to help. 
• If you cannot find the answer to study guide questions or do not understand concepts presented in the text:
  • Ask the class in the discussion forum
  • Send a message to Ron via email

DROPPING THE CLASS:

•  It is your responsibility to complete the necessary forms to withdraw from the class. If you do not drop the class it is possible that you will remain listed on the class roster and receive a grade of - F.

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Students are expected to complete their assignments without assistance.
  • Support is available from your instructor via private messages if your are having difficulty completing an assignment.
  • You cannot have another student do any part of an assignment for you.
  • You cannot submit work that another student contributed in creating. This means unless you are required to download a data file that for most assignments you will start with an empty file and create your assignment content without assistance.
  • You cannot cut and paste content from another document.
• You cannot share a computer with someone else in the class without contacting me for approval first.
• I use various methods to identify students who share work or submit the work from another student as their own.
• Students who submit work created or derived from the work of another student will earn 0 points from such submissions.
• A second such submission will result in being dropped from the course. I follow the college Academic Honesty policy described below with students who submit work from another student or plagiarize work from any source without listing the source of their submission.
• Assignments must be submitted by the due dates.
• If your computer has problems you should use one of the college open labs until it is fixed  (Computer problems are not a valid excuse for late work)
• Some of the lab assignments require significantly more time to complete. (Don't wait until the due date to stat your lab assignments)

LATE ASSIGNMENTS

• Students will be dropped from the class, for lack of progress, if they are behind by 3 assignments or more.
• Late assignments earn credit as follows. 
  Assignments less than 1 week can earn up to 50% of possible points
  Assignments over 1 week late do not earn any points

QUIZZES / TESTS

•  The quizzes cover the lecture from the Discovering Computer text.
•  The quizzes on the lecture material will generally consist of between 15 and 30 multiple choice, matching, fill-in or short answer questions. These questions are taken from both the chapter reading and the online content. 
•  Study guide questions will help you prepare for the quizzes

HOMEWORK

• All chapter review questions are to be completed but will not normally be collected or graded. The student assignments from the lab books will submitted as assigned.
• I will explain the answers to the chapter review questions when requested.

CLASS DISCUSSION

• Students will present their opinions regarding selected topics related to computing technology.

Academic Honesty

My policy follows the college academic honesty policy. You can see it here.

Software Copyrights

Students in all classes at Cuyamaca are expected to respect the software copyrights and follow the college policy detailed here.

GRADING

• All grading is done on an absolute scale and is based on a percentage of the total points possible. Approximate breakdown of points to be awarded is shown in the table below.

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 Updated 01/19/07