Students are required to adhere to the polices expressed at the University web site Academic Policies and Rights. In particular, students must follow the UMB Academic Honesty Policy, as described in Appendix B of the Student Code of Conduct document. This means that all submitted work must be completely yours — that is, written from scratch, in your own words, without reference to anyone else’s work. Read all of the subsections of this policy for clarifications and additional prohibited behavior.
First offense: Zero on the assignment.
Second offense: Zero for the assignment and reported to the department and school.
Third offense: Failing grade for the course.
Note that the department and the Dean of Students Office may also impose additional penalties on top of the ones listed above.
See list of Academic Honesty Violations and Collaboration Policy for more details.
All submitted work be must your own —
Discussing homework with other students, however, is allowed and
encouraged.
Consulting other reference sources to learn course materials is also
allowed, with the exception of “tutoring” sites like Chegg, Course Hero, Study, Bartleby, etc.
All discussion or external sources, however, must be disclosed. See README.
Every submitted homework must include the following information, either as a separate file named README (with an appropriate file extension) or as a section of the main file marked README:
the names of other students you worked with,
any books or websites you consulted (other than the course textbooks), and
how long you spent on the assignment (in hours).
Submitting work that is not your own is an academic honesty violation.
Note that taking someone else’s answer and doing any of the following is still
considered “not your own words”:
changing variable names or replacing words with synonyms,
changing a sentence’s grammar,
rearranging order of sentences or paragraphs,
cutting words or sentences,
any other isomorphic obfuscations.
If you are unsure, ask a member of the course staff.
Course materials may not be distributed without permission from the instructor.
This means you may not post homework questions to mailing lists or websites like Stack Overflow, Chegg, Course
Hero, etc.
Infractions will be considered academic honesty violations.
(Adapted from Harvard CS50’s policy)
The course staff understands that many academic honesty violations occur in a moment of panic right before a deadline.