PHI1104 Test 2

Accessing, Writing, and Submitting the Tests and the Final Exam PHI 1104 Fall, 2022 Prof. L. Byrne Questions during the Test · Students may ask the professor questions about non-course content during the test. The pro- fessor will check her e-mail from time to time from 9 AM to 5 PM on the day of the test. · It is, nevertheless, simply common sense, given that you have a long period of time to write and submit your test, that it cannot be guaranteed that you will receive a response at just the moment you would like to have one. If you are waiting for a response, simply move to the parts of the test about which you do not have a question. · Please submit your questions during the test to Prof. Byrne, not your TA. Deadline to Submit your Test · Late submissions will be subject to a penalty of 10 points. · The test will be made available through the Brightspace Assignments tool by 5PM on the day before the test. Students will have until 5PM on the day of the test to write and submit their work. The professor has given students this wide window of time as many might be unfamil- iar with accessing and submitting tests through Brightspace or have tech problems. This wide submission window does not mean that the test will take 24 hours to write! The test is roughly the same in terms of number of questions and the time it would take to write as a test meant to be written in class. Class tests were written in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Academic Integrity Plagiarism and Academic Fraud : Students should familiarize themselves with the university’s regulations regarding plagiarism and academic fraud by consulting Academic Regulations: https://www2.uottawa.ca/about-us/policies-regulations/academic-regulation-i-14-academic-fraud · This course does not use Respondus . This is because, following recommendations and best practices for online learning, the professor has constructed the test to measure deep learning and critical thinking rather than memorization. · Students may consult their textbooks, course materials, and lecture notes. Students may not, however, consult any other sources for information about course content. Students who do so will be charged with academic fraud. · Students may, however, consult other sources such as dictionaries, for non-course content when they do not know a certain fact or definition of a word. Concepts such as soundness, statements, and validity, etc. count as course content. Facts such as France is in Europe and definitions such as pure breed dogs must have parents of the same breed do not count as course content. · If you have any questions about what does and does not constitute course content may email the professor while writing the test. Please see Questions during the Test

· Each student must submit a test that is entirely their own work. Collaboration and assistance of any kind, including proof reading by another party, is not allowed and will be treated as academic fraud. Where to Learn about the Brightspace Assignments Tool · Go to the Brightspace homepage · Under Do You Need Help? Click Documentation · Click Learners · Click Assignments · Students are responsible for learning how to submit their tests using the Brightspace Assign- ments tool. Students are also responsible for resolving any difficulties they encounter. This is why students have been given a wide window of time to submit their tests. · The professor understands that working with the new learning technologies can be daunting at times. The professor also understands that students’ first thought often is to ask the profes- sor or TA for help. The professor and TAs, however, are not technical consultants for the course and cannot under any circumstances undertake this role. · As a result, students are strongly advised to learn how to access and submit their tests and re- solve technical difficulties before the day of the test. Learning how to access, write, and sub- mit the test is completely and without exception the responsibility of each student. Learning how to resolve technical problems is completely and without exception the responsibility of each student. Students must understand that neither the professor nor the TAs have the re- sources to resolve technical problems. Resolving technical problems is completely and with- out exception the responsibility of each student. If you Experience Technical Difficulties During the Test · Go to Do you need help? · Choose one of the following that best applies: · Chat (Fastest response time) 1-866-811-3201 Assistance Form Assistance Portal Documentation Accessing your Test · The Test will be posted as a Word Document (.doc) by 5PM on the day before the day the test is due. The test will be posted in the Assignments tool. It will be available as a file (doc). · You will have until 5PM on the day of the test to write and submit your test. The professor has given you this wide window of time as many of you might be unfamiliar with accessing and submitting work through Brightspace and resolving technical problems. Writing your Test 2

· Download the test to your computer and save it as a Word Document. Your test is a Word Document (.doc). You can save it as either .doc or .docx. · Type your answers on the test. Brightspace does not have the functionality to deal with hand- written tests. · Students must follow the submission directions for tests and the final exam. Tests and final exams which do not follow submission directions (submitting a handwritten test, submitting to the wrong TA or section, submitting an assignment for another class, submitting in an in a format other than Word [.doc or .docx.], etc.) will be subject to penalty of 10 grades. The penalty will begin to apply at the 5PM submission deadline. · Save your completed test to your computer as a Word Document. You can save it as either .doc or .docx. · Be sure to save your test as you work. Be sure to keep a copy of your test on your computer, even after you submit it. Students themselves are entirely responsible for the consequences of not backing up their work. It is always wise to double back-up your work on an external hard drive, in your email, on in the Cloud. Submitting your Test · Students may make unlimited submissions up to the 5PM submission deadline. Only the last submission being kept by Brightspace. You must submit your test as a file (Word Document) from your computer. The Assignments tool supports both doc and docx. · From the navbar, click Assignments . · On the Assignments page, click on the assignment you want to submit to. · Browse for your saved test file on your computer. · Click Submit . · Be sure to submit your work to the correct section, TA, and course. Be sure to submit the as- signment for the course. · Check to see that you have, indeed, submitted a complete and uncorrupted test and exam! · Follow this link to learn how: · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0ogyh- IhQ&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=BrightspaceTutorials Penalties for Incorrect Submissions · Students are responsible for checking to see they have submitted a test or exam that is accept- able for grading. Blank, incomplete, corrupted files or files that are unacceptable for grading in some other way will be subject to penalty of 10 grades. The same applies to assignments meant for other courses. The penalty will begin to apply at the 5PM submission deadline. · If you do submit a file that is obviously unacceptable, you will receive an email from your TA informing you that your assignment has been incorrectly submitted; of the nature of the problem, e.g., a blank file; that your work will receive a penalty of 10 marks; that the penalty applies at the 5PM submission deadline, and that you must contact me, asking me to reopen the window of submission so that you can resubmit. · While students will be notified about submissions that are obviously unacceptable, it is ultimately the student’s responsibility to check that they have submitted an acceptable test or exam. As a result, once the grades tests and exams have been returned, students may not 3

appeal the grade by claiming that they inadvertently submitted an unacceptable or incomplete assignment. · Students must follow all the submission directions for tests and the final exam. Tests and fi- nal exams which do not follow submission directions (submitting to the wrong TA, submit- ting in an in a format other than Word [.doc or .docx.], etc.) will be subject to late penalty of 10 grades. The penalty will begin to apply at the 5PM submission deadline. · If you do not follow submission directions, you will receive an email from your TA informing you that your assignment has been incorrectly submitted; of the nature of the problem, e.g., submitted to the wrong TA, submitted in the incorrect format, etc.; that your work will receive a penalty of 10 marks; that the penalty applies at the 5PM submission deadline, and that you must contact the Professor by email, asking her to reopen the window of submission so that you can resubmit. Policy for Students who cannot Submit a Test or Exam Ontime because of Tech Problems If you have tech problems during an online test or exam such as a power failure, computer break- down, internet connectivity issues, or Brightspace freezing, etc., you have two options: 1) You may write the make-up test. To do this, you must submit convincing proof which the uni- versity would recognise of the technical difficulty, e.g., correspondence with Brightspace or other tech services; computer logs of saved files; receipts for computer repair; correspondence with your internet provider; screenshots of Brightspace freezing, etc. 2) You may submit your work late. In this case, your work will receive a penalty of 10 marks. This penalty applies at the time of the submission deadline. If you choose this option, you must email me, requesting that I re-open the submission window. Policy for Students who cannot Submit a Test or Exam Ontime because Brightspace Freezes when Assignments are Submitted Close to the Deadline · Don’t leave submission until the last minute! Brightspace tends to freeze when many stu- dents try to submit just around the deadline . · It is your responsibility to avoid this well-known technical glitch by starting early enough to have plenty of time to submit before the last minute. Remember, the 24 hour submission win- dow does not mean that the test will take 24 hours to write! The test is roughly the same in terms of number of questions and the time it would take to write as a test meant to be written in class. Class tests were written in 1 hour and 20 minutes. · If you encounter this glitch when you try to submit just around the deadline, your paper will be treated as a late submission. See Deadline to Submit your Test above. 4