Teaching this fall? You should know . . .

. . . the faculty regulates examinations and assignments for all subjects.

View the complete regulations at http://web.mit.edu/faculty/teaching/termregs.html.

Select requirements are provided below for reference.

Contact Faculty Chair Steven Hall at x3-0869 or srhall@mit.edu for questions or exceptions.

No required classes, examinations, oral presentations, exercises, or assignments of any kind may be scheduled after the last regularly scheduled class in a subject, except for final examinations scheduled through the Schedules Office.

Undergraduate Subjects
By the end of the first week of classes, faculty must provide:

• a clear and complete description of the required work, including the number and kinds of assignments
• the approximate schedule of tests and due dates for major projects
• an indication of whether or not there will be a final examination, and
• the grading criteria and procedures to be used

By the end of the third week, faculty must provide a precise schedule of tests and major assignments.

Tests, required reviews, and other academic exercises outside scheduled class times shall not be held on Monday evenings. In addition, when held outside scheduled class times, tests must:

• not exceed two hours in length
• begin no earlier than 7:30 p.m. when held in the evening, and
• be scheduled through the Schedules Office

In all undergraduate subjects, there shall be no tests after Friday, December 5, 2014. Unit tests may be scheduled during the final examination period.

Graduate Subjects
By the end of the third week, faculty must provide:

• a clear and complete description of the required work, including the number and kinds of assignments
• the schedule of tests and due dates for major projects
• an indication of whether or not there will be a final examination, and
• the grading criteria and procedures to be used

For each graduate subject with a final examination, no other test may be given and no assignment may fall due after Friday, December 5, 2014. For each subject without a final examination, at most, either one in-class test may be given, or one assignment, term paper, or oral presentation may fall due between December 5 and the end of the last regularly scheduled class in the subject.

Collaboration and Academic Conduct
Due to varying faculty attitudes towards collaboration and diverse values and priorities regarding academic honesty, students are often confused about expectations regarding permissible academic conduct. It is important to clarify, in writing, expectations regarding collaboration and academic conduct at the beginning of each semester. This could include a reference to the MIT Academic Integrity Handbook.

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