Section 12 Course Policies
Class Participation: You are expected to participate daily in class discussions and activities. You need to come to class each day with a positive attitude and willingness to think about challenging ideas. You are expected to come prepared to class by having done the required readings and assignments. Our class should function as an inclusive community. Everyone needs to make room at the table for a diversity ideas and experiences. I expect everyone to treat each other with respect.
Cell Phones: Cell phones must be off and put away during class. Laptop computers and tablets are useful, but not required in class. If you would like to use one for classroom purposes, please use it in ways that are focused on the course and the activities of the class.
Electronic Recording/ Content Sharing: I may opt to record the classroom activities for instructional purposes and post them to the cloud. The electronic recording of classroom lectures, discussions, simulations, and other course-related activity is governed by Linfield’s Classroom Recording Policy (Faculty Handbook, VII.26 and Student Policy Guide). Students do not have permission to record any Zoom meetings. Students do not have permission to distribute or share any recorded content from Zoom meetings.
Use of AI in Student-Generated Work: Students in this course are expected to avoid the use AI tools, such as Chat GPT and PhotoMath, to generate activity, quiz, or homework solutions. Any tools used may only be in a manner that contributes to understanding math rather than avoiding the work necessary to deepen your understanding. Use of such tools, like any other academic work that is not entirely the student’s own, must be cited. Work for a grade that is not primarily in the student’s own words and properly cited, will be considered plagiarized. Note, many of the math tools that exist use techniques that are not part of this course. Clear violations of the policy will receive a 0 on the entire assignment/ quiz/ presentation, in addition to a lower Community grade. Some AI uses that are appropriate: generating questions to help you study for quizzes, helping summarize key concepts with additional examples, helping create a study plan for balancing your workload. Uses that are not appropriate: generating homework solutions with AI, having AI give you answers for the questions in Runestone, using any AI tool during a quiz.
