Lab Policies

1. Students are required to attend Lab Meetings.

   Since we will be doing instruction during the Lab Meeting, not just working through the material, attendance is necessary.

   Make-up labs will only be allowed in the case of an excused absence or a documented, valid emergency. The student must make arrangements with the Lab Instructor to schedule a make-up during another Lab time within a week of returning.

   If you must miss a lab contact your lab instructor and explain your situation. As stated in the Lab Policies a missed lab may be made up at another lab section, space permitting. There is one more lab sections at the Stark campus in this semester. The entire CS schedule at the Stark campus can be seen at http://www.stark.kent.edu/Academics/upload/Fall2009Schedule.pdf 
   
   If you make up a lab in another lab instructor's class, have the instructor sign the lab report from your manual to verify you attended his/her lab and performed the work there.
    

2. For the labs that are not taken from your manual, students are required to have an electronic Lab Notebook. An electronic Lab Notebook is a file in which you record the data from the experiment. Open a Word file and the window of the experiment. Record in Word your notes and the data collected while performing the Lab experiment in the other window.

   Your Lab Reports will be derived from the notes you recorded during the Lab in your Lab Notebook.
    

3. For each of those Labs, the students will be required to turn both the print of the electronic Lab Notebook as well as the print of the formal lab report. This allows us to check that your Lab Reports follow the data that you collected in your Lab Notebook.
    
4. The details of turning in lab reports are explained in the Lab Procedures.
   
   
5. Lab Reports will not be accepted from those that don't participate (attend) in the lab.
   
   
6. Lab Reports for each week are due by the end of each lab meeting except when stated otherwise by your instructor.
   
   
7. There will be a 3 points deduction per day, every day, for each day a lab report is late.