Team Lab Policies
Team Labs are the number one student-rated course component for learning the problem-solving techniques presented in the course. One of the objectives of the team labs is to give you experience working in groups to solve problems. For this reason, team lab attendance is part of your overall course grade. Team lab attendance is taken during the team lab. Students who arrive late, leave early, disrupt, or otherwise do not participate fully will not receive full credit for that Team Lab. Each week, when you arrive at your team lab, one teammate will login to Learn@UW and open the current week's Team Lab and either Maple or Matlab as required for that team lab topic.
The only way to get attendance credit for team lab is to attend team lab and work with a team to solve the given problems. Any attempts to misrepresent your attendance at team lab will result in a zero for the entire team lab attendance portion of your grade and potentially other penalties if University Academic Misconduct rules are violated (see the Academic Misconduct Guide for Students).
If you know that you will be unable to attend your team lab during a particular week, you may (with prior approval and if space permits) attend one of the other team labs that week to receive attendance credit for that week's lab. Contact the instructor of the team lab you wish to attend to find out if space is available and to receive further information.
Cell Phone use during Team Labs is prohibited
In Team Labs, cell phone use is disruptive to your learning and to the learning of your team mates. Please turn off all electronic devices prior to the start of each Team Lab and leave them off for the duration of the lab.
This is common sense for all but a small percentage of our students, but it is stated here for those students. Thank you for your compliance. Answering cell phones or text messaging or other types of electronic communication during Team Labs is strictly prohibited and will result in reduced credit or a zero for that Team Lab.