Assignment Overview

Due Dates

Most assignments are given as in-class lab exercises. They are nominally due at the end of the class in which they are assigned. If you cannot finish in that class time, you may turn them in at the BEGINNING of the class period NO LATER THAN ONE WEEK from that in which they were assigned. Assignments submitted more than one week after the class in which they were assigned will not be accepted.

Blackboard students: Assignment completion/submission dates will be indicated in the Blackboard system.

Identification and formatting

Handwritten assignments should be as legible as possible. If necessary, write answers to questions on a separate sheet of paper. Make appropriate annotations (e.g., "See Attached") so it is clear where you wrote your answer.

Be sure to include at least the following information on any assignment:

Your name
Course number and section (e.g., ITSC1307-101)
The date

Email or other electronic submissions

Assignments submitted by e-mail or posted in Blackboard must be in a non-proprietary format. A list of acceptable formats, in decreasing order of preference is: 

  ASCII text ("Plain text") in message body
  ASCII text ("Plain text") in attached file
  Postscript, in attached gzipped file
  PDF in attached file
  OpenDocumentText (.odt) in attached file
  Other OpenDocument files produced by OpenOffice as attachments
Set your email client to compose messages in plain text. On Windows, use a text editor like 'vim', 'gvim', 'Textpad' or 'Notepad' (in that order of preference) or install OpenOffice.org. On UNIX, use any plain text editor of your choice ('vi', 'emacs', 'pico', etc.) or install OpenOffice.org.

If it is necessary to send or post images such as screen captures, they must be either Portable Network Graphics (PNG, .png) or Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG, .jpeg, .jpg) format, in that order of preference.

Email composed or assignments posted using HTML, RTF, or containing proprietary document formats (Word, Wordpad, .BMP, etc.) either inline or attached will be summarily discarded or considered as having not been submitted!

The Subject: line of any email should start with the course name and section, followed by your last name, all lower-case, no intervening spaces. After this, include the title of the assignment or other appropriate subject description, e.g., for student Charles Daguerre in section 101 of ITSC1407: 

itsc1407101daguerre - Lab 1 answers

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