Policies

• If the average of the entire course falls below 62%, or above 67%, the grades will be scaled as follows.
• If the average of the entire course is below 62, all the grades will be scaled up to an average of 62% and a standard deviation of 20%.
• If the average of the entire course is above 67%, all the grades will be scaled down at an average of 67% and a standard deviation of 20%.
• Perfect scores (100%) will not be affected by scaling.
• Scores of zero (0%) will not be affected by scaling.

• Any extension of coursework, quizzes, lab reports, assignments, midterms, etc., granted by the instructor for which a specific date has not been stated, expires at 5 pm on the last day of classes as per the UBC Calendar.

• Your grades will be accessible at WeBWorK, for midterms and homework, and at the Top Hat site for attendance and in-class participation records. For lab reports grades, talk to your lab TA. When, for the convenience of the student, a copy of those grades is made to a Piazza-linked spreadsheet, the original grade in WeBWorK or Top Hat (or the TA lab reports list) continues to contain the only legal grade. Sometimes, the Piazza grade may not be updated (especially when a single student takes a separatedly dated test), in this case, please refer to the WeBWorK or the Top Hat site as necessary. If there is a discrepancy between the Piazza-linked grades and those in Top Hat or WeBWorK, the latter ones take precedence.

• Passing the laboratory is a necessary condition to take the final examination (and pass the course). Anybody who fails the laboratory will not be allowed to take the final examination and will be invited instead to take the course the next semester that it is offered. In this case, the grade for the course will calculated this way: Using the weigts announced on this website, all grades (including zero for the final exam) will be weighted, and the minimum between that grade and 49 will be the course grade for that person. Example: Miss Joko Ono gets 90% in WeBWorK, 70% in TopHat, and 70% in all four midterms, but fails the lab with 40%. Her grade is computed as 0.1x90+0.1x70+4x0.07*70+40*0.05 = 37.6%, the grade is the MIN(37.6, 49) ----> 38% is the grade of Miss Ono is the course.

• Passing the final examination is a necessary condition to pass the course. Failing the final exam implies failing the course. If the student fails the course, the grade of that final exam becomes the grade for the entire course for that student (assignments, labs, midterms and participation in class will not be averaged in such a case). Example: Mr. F.A.Castro got 90% in WeBWorK, 70% in TopHat, and 70% in all four midterms, and 90% in the lab, but fails the final exam with 40%. The grade of Mr. Castro in ELEC 342 is 40%.

• Please refer to the UBC approved regulations on conduct of students during an examination: UBC-Student Conduct during Examinations.

• Attendance to lectures is optional, in the sense that you can still pass the course even with no attendance (theortically), but there is a caveat, without attendance you are not eligible for BRP (see EVALUATION) and because you would miss the questions asked in class your grade-ceiling in this course would be 90% and not 100% anymore.
  
  Refer to UBC's Regulations on Attendance as approved by the Senate and published in the Calendar:

"Regular attendance is expected of students in all their classes (including lectures, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, etc.). Students who neglect their academic work and assignments may be excluded from final examinations. Students who are unavoidably absent because of illness or disability should report to their instructors on return to classes.

Students may not, concurrently with their University attendance, take studies for university degree credit through any other institution by correspondence, evening or regular session class, without the approval of the dean of the faculty in which they are studying at the University.

The University reserves the right to limit attendance, and to limit the registration in, or to cancel or revise, any of the courses listed. Information concrning limitations on attendance for the various faculties and schools is found in the facutly and school entries. "

- UBC Academic Calendar 2006/2007, (5)Academic Regulations, Attendance.

• Laptops have proven to be seriously disruptive in classes this large so if you need to use your laptop you will be asked to leave the classroom.

• There are no make-up quizzes, if you present a doctor's note (or coach's note, etc.) that quiz will acquire the grade of your final exam, without such a note, the quiz mark is zero. If you have a doctor's note, post it privately a scanned version of it on Piazza visible to the instructor and title it DOCTOR's NOTE and tag it DOCTORS-NOTE.

• There is no late submission of assignments. A missed assignment gets a grade of zero.

• Private posts or emails that don't meet the following protocol will be ignored.
• In any written communication, before the message I'll begin with the standard English formula/salute: "Dear Mr. Lastname," and will add, after the message, one of the standard English closing formulas: "Regards", or "Sincerely", or "Thanks", or "Regards", ending it with my name, I expect the same in any written communication addressed to me by UBC students of our department, the future industry leaders of the XXI century. In your "signature" do include your student number right below your name. Do use your full name, or at least, initial of first name and last name. Do not just use just your first name, and much less an alias or preferred name.
• For in class protocol, please pay attention in class.