Assignment policy

• Please, try to submit your work before the deadline. An assignment that is not submitted before the deadline is considered missing. A zero grade is issued for every missing assignment.
• You are encouraged to contact your instructor by email, but assignments should only be submitted using moodle or on paper¹, according to the specific instructions of the assignment.
  You are responsible to read the text of the assignment and in case you don't understand the requirements to ask your instructor for clarifications.
• You can contact your instructor about a submission, but do not sent the assignment by email unless you are specifically asked to do so. NO Exceptions.
• If, for some reason, you are unable to submit your work before the deadline, you must contact your instructor before the deadline, not after the deadline.
  • Requesting an extension just few hours before the deadline may be ignored.
  • Requesting an extension at least 24h before the deadline may have a chance to be approved.
  • In case your request for an extension is approved the new deadline will be specified.
• Any attempt to obtain an extension, by contacting your instructor after the deadline, is ignored.
• Any attempt to submit assignments after the deadline, without having the permission of your instructor to do so, is ignored.
• NEVER (try to) submit assignments by email, mainly if you are late! If you do, your message will be deleted!
• An extension or late assignment submission may be granted, at the solely discretion of the instructor.
• In case an assignment is submitted late, a penalty is associated with the mark. Penalty is not negotiable and the instructor decides its value. Submitting late is your choice. The penalty may be higher than the value of the assignment; in this case a zero grade is issued for the assignment.
• In most cases, submitting the assignment in time is part of the grade, which means that, if you send a wrong file or you are unable to submit the assignment for one of the following reasons
  • Using a browser that cannot communicate well with the submission server
  • Using an operating system that cannot communicate well with the submission server
  • Working on a computer that hasn't got appropriate software installed or properly configured
  • Using a computer infected by viruses or other malicious software
  • Using a computer with unreliable hardware (this include the failure of the HDD)
  it is your choice. Your instructor is not responsible for your choice and your assignment is marked only for the work submitted.
• For some assignments, specific instructions or changes may be announced in class. It is your responsibility to attend classes² and be aware of these changes or instructions.
• Please, do not forget to consult the general policies of UPEI.

Please keep, a copy of your submission, just to be on the safe side.

Advice: do not wait until the very last moment to submit your assignment, since the time on your computer may not be synchronized with the time on the UPEI moodle server. Once the sumbission server closes the submissions links, they will not be reopened.

After final mark is submitted, assignment marks may be updated only in very special cases. I give you enough time to review your assignments' marks and send comments, before the final mark is computed and submitted to the Registrar's Office.

Update for storm closures

• In case UPEI is closed for the day (because of bad weather or other unforseen circumstances) the rules are as follows.
  1. If there is no power outage, all electronic submissions will have the same due date (nothing changes).
  2. If there is a power outage, all electronic submissions will be delayed and you will be notified via moodle about the new due date.
  3. Paper submissions will be delayed until the university reopens³. You may submit it in advance, or the next day¹.

Marks