Structural Analysis and Systems 2

Honour code

All students enrolling in this course undertake that:

• they will conduct themselves with honour and integrity, both inside and outside the lecture theatres;
• they will exercise kindness, empathy, and compassion in their interactions with other students, tutors, faculty, and staff;
• they will not give or receive aid in the mid-semester test and the final examination;
• they will not give or receive unpermitted aid in assignments, in the preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by the instructor as the basis of grading;
• they will do their share and take an active part in seeing to it that others as well as themselves uphold the letter and spirit of the Honour code.

Examples of conduct that may be regarded as being in violation of the Honour code include:

• Copying from or referring to an assignment solution from another student or any other source
• Giving or receiving aid on an assignment under circumstances in which a reasonable person should have known that such aid was not permitted
• Representing the work of another as one’s own work
• Copying from another student’s test or examination paper or allowing another student to copy from one’s own paper
• Giving or receiving unpermitted aid on a take-home examination
• Revising and resubmitting an assignment, test, or exam for regrading, without the instructor’s knowledge and consent

Sanctions for violating the Honour code may range from a fail grade in the course to suspension from the university.

Special consideration

• You may apply for special consideration only for the mid-semester test and the final exam.

• The academic remedy offered for special consideration will be an equivalent alternative assessment. This alternative assessment will only be available to students who have approved special consideration applications for the assessments at
level.

• Your score on this alternative assessment will replace your original score in the course grade calculation unless you decline the offer or otherwise do not sit the alternative assessment, in which case your original score will be used.

• The alternative assessment for the mid-semester test will be held in the week of 6 May 2024, while that for the final exam will be held in the week of 8 July 2024. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are available on these dates, in order to
offered academic remedy.

• All communication associated with the arrangements of these equivalent alternative assessments will be conducted using official UC email accounts. The offer to sit an alternative assessment will come with a date/time during the resit week. You will have a clearly specified amount of time to respond to the offer. Failure to respond will be interpreted as a declined offer.

• If you have applied for special consideration but the application has not yet been approved when arrangements are being made for the alternative sitting, you may be permitted to sit the alternative assessment, but your score will only be applied
severity level.

• Additional information on applying for special consideration can be found on the UC  Special Considerations website: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/study-supportinfo/study-topics/special-consideration.