4474: Course Policies and Requirements

Course #/Title

Course Materials and Access to Resources

• UNIX-Distance Learning Online Text, Bill Dyer, 1st edition
• HP-UX User's Guide
• HP VUE User's Guide
• Notations and Evaluation of the UNIX Operating System a.k.a the student's notebook

Required Materials:

• Due to the fact that the course is online, the student will need access to a computer. The computer must have a web browser capable of viewing graphics, and a Telnet utility.
• The student should also have their own notebook. UNIX allows each individual of style of their own. Good notes will not only prove useful in this course, but in the future as well.

Course Requirements

1. The student is expected to have the ability to type for this course.

2. The student is expected to maintain a high standard of individual honor in their scholastic work. Students who are guilty of cheating, plagiarism (copying), or dishonesty may be excluded from the course with a failing grade. In cases of flagrant acts of dishonesty, the student may be forced to dance with the staff assigned to the disciplinary board.

3. The student is granted the use of an account for the purpose of completing this course. The student is not authorized to tamper with, reconfigure, modify, or delete any file or settings outside of their home directory or on any other computer.

Exams, Quizzes, Grading Policy

The student is expected to complete all exams on time. A penalty of 10 points will be made if a student must take a make-up exam. Students may take an early exam without penalty. Only one make-up exam may be taken. Exams will be posted the date they are scheduled to be taken.

Quizzes will be online. Quizzes will be given for each assignment.

The student is expected to complete all quizzes on time. Due to the nature of online learning, and the large number of quizzes, a singular date for giving and taking a quiz cannot be made. Instead, the student will be expected to meet a due date. Quizzes may not be made up.

A blitz is an unnanounced quiz. Electronic mail will be sent to all students when a blitz is posted. Blitzes must be completed; they are not optional and they do carry weight toward the student's final grade.

Assignments, as well as their due dates, for this course are posted online. For each day an assignment is late, the student will lose 10 points from the final grade that would have been received. Assignments will not be accepted after the third day of the due date and a grade of zero will be given. There are no exceptions to this policy.

The grading policy is straightforward. The averages of exams, quizzes, blitzes, and assignments will be calculated separately. These four averages will then be combined to compute the final grade.

The grading scale is as follows:

A - Between 90% - 100% of the final average
B - Between 80% - 89.9% of the final average
C - Between 70% - 79.9% of the final average
D - Between 60% - 69.9% of the final average
F - Below 60% of the final average.

Class Attendance

Other Course-related Issues

Should results hinder a student's progress, the student will not be held accountable. For example, online exams require scripts to perform the processing of the student's answers. Should a script fail, the student will be able to retake the exam after the script has been debugged or be allowed to send answers via electronic mail.

Changes to the course text may be made during a course cycle. Minor changes, such as those needed to explain a point more clearly, can be made during the course. These changes will not affect the topic. Major changes, deletions, and additions will be saved until after the end of the course.

Last Modified: February, 2005