I reserve the right to ask any student to explain to me their solution of any problem on any of the assignments.

I may do so either one on one, or during a lecture in front of the whole class.

The decision as to how I will ask the student is entirely up to me.

If I want to ask the student one on one, I will email them and give the student

either 6 hours (if my email is sent before 2 pm) or until 10 am the following morning to respond.

If I do not receive a response within that time period, I will refer the student to the Center for Student Conduct.

Homework

The students are alllowed to talk about ideas of the solutions. However, their implementations of these ideas must be completely their own.
(It may be useful for you to know that no two codes written by two people independently, even using the same idea, will look remotely similar. This is based on my experience seeing many tens of such codes.)

All violations of academic integrity will be referred by me to the Center for Student Conduct (CSC). I will follow the rules described below in recommending to the CSC a penalty to be imposed to the parties involved. The CSC ultimately decides whether to follow my recommendation or not.

  - The first time that I detect excessive collaboration, as defined above, on (even part of) a homework assignment, I will impose the penalty from 50% (very unlikely) to 150% (very likely) of your entire assignment grade; this decision is left completely up to me.
Example 1:
Students A and B have been found to collaborate on 1 problem in a homework assignment. Suppose this entire homework assignment is worth 2% of the final course grade. Then, students A and B's grade for this assignment will be  between 1% (50% of the total of 2%) of the final course grade and -1% [minus 1 percent] of the final course grade. If violation is detected only in 1 problem, and all other problems clearly show the students' own work, I may (but am not under any obligation to) consider assigning the grade between 0 and 1%, i.e. in the higher range.
Example 2:
Students C and D have been found to to collaborate on 2 problems of the same assignment. These students' grade for this assignment will be -1% [minus 1 percent] of the final course grade.
Example 3:
Student E has used an external website to get an idea of the solution (but not the solution itself) to 1 problem and did conspicuously listed the website's URL is their work. This student will receive no penalty for their work. Student F has done the same, but for 2 or more problems. This student will also receive no penalty, but I will recommend that the student avoid using external websites in the future. The cases of students E and F are the only ones in this document which are not considered an academic violation and thus will not be reported to the CSC.
Example 4:
Same as in Example 3, but the student did not consipicuously list the URL of the external website. This student's grade for this assignment will be between 0 and 1% of the final course grade.
Example 5:
Same as either Examples 3 or 4, but the student, G, obtained not just the idea, but a significant (in my sole opinion) part of the solution to 1 problem from an electronic resource of any kind (an external website, an AI source, or anything else). This student's grade for this assignment will be -1% [minus 1 percent] of the final course grade.


Exams

  -  Remember that your work on the take-home exam must be entirely your own. Thus, you are not allowed to discuss the exam problems with anyone or anything else. If a student is found to be in violation of this rule, their grade for this exam will be -50% [minus 50 percent] of the exam's contribution to the final numeric grade.


In case of the second violation on any assignment, I will recommend that the student(s) be given an XF for the course.
All people involved in a given violation will be given the same penalty. This rule will not be changed under any circumstances.