Class Essentials
This is the minimum percentage grade a student must earn to receive an "A" in the course.
What is 90%?
This is the absolute exception to the "minimum grading" rule, resulting in a 0% that cannot be dropped.
What is an Academic Integrity violation?
Homework is assigned weekly through Canvas, opening on Mondays and closing on this day and time.
What is Sunday at 11:59 p.m.?
This specific type of calculator is required for the class, while graphing versions are not allowed.
What is a non-programmable scientific calculator?
To remain compliant with the course AI policy, students must always do this whenever they use AI in their work.
What is cite when and where they used it?
Every student starts the semester with this many "Life Happens Tokens".
What is 4 tokens?
This specific type of binding is acceptable for your lab notebook, while spiral-bound is strictly prohibited.
What is permanently bound (or a composition book)?
Generative AI tools are strictly banned in these three specific sections of a student's lab reports.
What are the calculation, discussion, and conclusion sections?
A token can be used to extend a homework or lab assignment due date by this many hours.
What is 48 hours?
This grading policy ensures that the lowest score a student can receive on a standard submission is 50%.
What is minimum grading?
Arriving late to lecture is distracting, and a student will be given an unexcused absence after this many late arrivals.
What is more than 3 arrivals?
Besides extending an assignment deadline, a token can also be redeemed to do this.
What is excuse a missed quiz entirely?
Combined together, these two grading categories make up exactly half (50%) of your final grade weight.
What are Exams (35%) and Final Exam (15%)?
A student may be dropped entirely from the Chemistry course after reaching this many unexcused absences.
What is two unexcused absences?
Under no circumstances can a student use a token to make up this type of course assignment.
What is a missed exam?