COMPUTER
GRAPHICS
CLASSROOM
RULES & Procedures
It is important that we have a working
understanding of how things operate in this room. Being
mindful of the rules and procedures will help you keep the Classwork category
of your grade as high as possible! (Likewise, failure to follow the rules
and procedures will result in loss of Classwork points. "Forgetting"
the rules is not a valid excuse. As young adults, it is your responsibility
to be aware of the rules, and to remember to follow them.)
1. Enter the classroom
wearing your ID properly. Students who have to be stopped
at the door to find, put on, or uncover an ID will lose daily classwork
points (daily work habits). Additionally, if you do not have an ID, you
will not be permitted to log on to any computer. This will result in a
zero for participation for the day.
2. Be in your assigned
seat, ready to work, when the tardy bell rings.
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3. Begin the warm-up immediately. Check for instructions
for the warm up. They can usually be found in the online calendar, or
projected on the board. In order to earn credit, warm ups must be accomplished
within the first few minutes of class, before the lesson begins.
4. Do not talk. Hold all unnecessary talking until after
class, or until the teacher indicates that talking is appropriate for
the task. Particularly during the first FIVE MINUTES of class, while the
teacher is taking roll and dealing with the business of starting class,
NO one should be talking. Students may lose up to 10 points from participation
if they are talking during this time.
5. Do not bring food, drink or liquids of any kind into the classroom.
This includes cosmetics and lotions. Leave these items on the table provided
by the door. Ten points will be deducted from the participation grade
if drinks or food is found. "Forgetting" doesn't change this!
6. Handle the computers with care!!! Do not bump or jar
the computer or touch the monitor screen with your fingers.). Also, be
careful that you place the keyboard & mouse out of harms way when
you are not using it.
7. Adhere to the Code of Conduct and The Roosevelt Way: Respect,
Responsibility, Integrity & Kindness! In
the real world, if you are polite and patient you have a much better
chance of getting whatever you want. That works here, too!
8. Move carefully in the classroom! We have delicate equipment
and many stools, cords, etc.
9. Personal electronic devices must be off and out of sight! (If
you are asked to put away an electronic device, assume that points have
been deducted from your classwork grade!). Depending upon the situation
and the frequency of this problem, between 10 and 50 points may be deducted
from the participation grade.
10. Back up your work weekly! Don't be caught short! Hard
drives crash, and it is your responsibility to be sure all your work is
protected!
CLASSROOM
PROCEDURES:
Classroom
procedures are just as important as rules!
PART
I: ABSENCES & MAKE UP WORK:
If you are absent, it is your responsibility to make up the work. It is
my responsibility to make sure the work is provided to you. Most often,
this will occur via the class website, where assignments are kept on the
daily calendar. Remember that according to the county policy, you have
exactly as many days as you were out to make up the work.
This applies also to computer lab time, particularly if you've missed
work on projects and assignments that need to be completed, or if we learned
new skills. If make up time is not done, loss of Classwork points may
happen! While computer lab time is technically expected to be made up
within the time allowed by the policy, I am open to some flexibility.
We will work together to find a time when you can come in. See me to schedule
a time the day you return. (Note: In most cases, I would expect that 1/2
a period is enough time to make up the work or practice time missed. Consider
coming in the second half of your lunch time, or just after school.)
TRUANCY:
Students who have an unauthorized absence for a day, portion of a day,
or individual class, is considered truant. Remember
that the only person who can excuse you from this class is your teacher,
your administrator or your guidance counselor. I expect that you will
be in class every day, not making up tests, finishing work for other classes,
etc. If you are not in class and do not have a documented, state approved
reason, you can expect to lose all points for the day, and any assignments
due that day. (Note: I am not usually unreasonable. If you are a student
in good standing, and have a need to be somewhere else in the building,
please check with me first! Chances are good that I will say "yes"!)
OTHER THINGS YOU NEED
TO KNOW:
1.Late work is not acceptable,
and will not be graded. Turn in homework and classswork assignments on
time.
2. BACK UP YOUR WORK!!! It is your responsibility to
back up your work, either by writing CD’s or using a flash drive
or using the H-drive!!. Hard drives fail! Don’t risk all your work
by not following the required procedure to back up each week! Any ungraded
work must be redone if work is lost due to not being backed up! (It happens
to some unlucky person every year!!!)
2. WET STUFF: Leave wet umbrellas and coats over on the side of the classroom.
Feel free to hang them on a chair...but NOT on the large tables.
3. CAREFUL OF ARTWORK! Be mindful of artwork laid out on the student tables!
It takes time and money to print...and injury can occur from moving items
or stacking things on top of artwork. Don’t do it! Be respectful
of other peoples work and handle it with care! Check with your teacher
for help.
4. Remember that it is the teacher’s job to answer the door. It’s
a big room. If Ms. Cunningham doesn't’t hear the knock, please call
her attention to it. Do NOT answer the door.
5.Do not borrow from my desk or anywhere in the room without asking. You
MAY use items on the Student Work tables. And there is always tissue and
paper towels for your convenience.
6. If you are illegally tardy, sign the tardy log. Write neatly, and place
the date and time in the area provided. Failure to sign in will result
in an unexcused absence!
7. DO NOT MOVE STOOLS unless you check with Ms. Cunningham first! It is
dangerous and hazardous to the equipment. If you have a need, see me!
(I don’t like the stools either, but we are stuck with them until
sometime in the future. Make do!)
8. HALL PASSES: In general, I do not give out hall passes unless it is
an emergency. Don’t plan to have too many (emergencies). Use your
class change time for personal business. If you have a medical reason
that necessitates having to leave the room often, please see me. Passes
will not be issued
to go to your locker or take care of personal business.
9. Do not use the back door to enter or leave the classroom at any time.
It is open strictly for ventilation and will be closed permanently if
this becomes an issue.
10. If you bring balloons to class, secure them somewhere away from the
computers, as you come in. Static electricity is the enemy of computers!
11. TLC...Let me know if you need TLC today....We all have those
days!
PART
II: Notes, Yellow Slips, ID’s, etc.
IF YOU ARE ABSENT, follow these steps:
1. Upon returning, put your yellow slip (or note, if your class is Period
1) in the blue tray on my desk. (Pick it up on your way out!)
2. Go online to the class website for information. Check the calendar
to see the objectives for that day you missed, and what we did in class.2.
Check the HANDOUTS webpage and the ARCHIVE DOCS if you've missed any handouts.
3. See me after school
or during the second half of my planning period to get any information
you may have missed. (Per 3)
4. Come to the Graphics Lab for make up time. Because this is a skills
based class, you are expected to make up time and practice. This is how
you recover the classwork points lost when you are absent.
Most days, the Graphics Lab is open after school for
45 minutes most days. Please let me know you are
coming, so that I won't lock up and go home!
PERIOD
1: NOTES
FOR ABSENCES should be presented first thing in the morning, as we are
taking care of attendance. It is your responsibility to pick up new or
signed yellow slips from the tray at the end of the period. Please
realize that your note must be written with one of the state approved
reasons for being absent. The most common of these are: personal
illness, court order (attach paperwork) & death in the family. (Please
read the county guidelines carefully for who is covered under death in
the family). Any
notes presented with reasons other than the State Approved reasons will
result in an UNEXCUSED yellow slip. (Note: family emergency, personal
problems, family business, babysitting, weddings, vacation, etc, are NOT
state approved reasons.)
Need a Temporary ID?
It’s your responsibility to let me know you need an ID if I don’t
catch it! Bring it to my attention after the Warm Up.
BUS SLIPS for late legal arrivals
must have your name, and the stamped time and date. Place in the above
tray.
PERIODS
2-7:
Please place your yellow slip in the blue tray on my desk marked "NOTES".
It is your responsibility to pick it up on the
way out of class.
PERIOD
8: Please place your yellow slip
in the blue tray on my desk marked "notes". It will not
be returned to you.
OTHER STUFF FOR ME TO SIGN: Progress
reports, sports reports, field trip forms, or any other kind of form I
need to read and sign also go in the designated tray. It’s your
job to pick them up at the end of class. Please be responsible for getting
these forms to me on time. DO NOT interrupt other classes with these items.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT Sports, Field
Trips, and other school approved activities:
Many
times students are part of a planned school event, field trip, SGA event,
Cheerleader activity or sports/team event. These are considered excused,
however, if you have homework due that day YOU MUST TURN IT IN
prior to leaving or participating in the event in order to receive
credit. This means, if you have a baseball game during your afternoon
class, your homework is still due that day! If you reported to the building
for any reason you are responsible for handing in any work due that day!
Follow the procedure above to see what you missed.
An example:
You play tennis. You will be missing 7th period Computer Graphics due
to a tennis match. There is a journal (homework) assignment due that day.
You must turn in the journal (homework) assignment prior to leaving, in
order to receive credit. You may bring it buy between classes, before
school, or send it with a buddy (realizing that if the buddy doesn't follow
thru, it will be your responsibility!) Late assignments are not accepted,
so you will receive a failing grade if you turn it in the next school
day.
HOMEWORK
and Sketchbook/JOURNALS
Homework is DUE at the beginning of the period. Turn homework in to
the designated tray as you enter the classroom, on your way to your
seat. This tray will disappear shortly after the tardy bell rings.
Homework submitted after this time will not be graded. Homework left
anywhere else, including my desk, will be not graded. Late homework
will not be accepted. ( Note: A green pass does NOT guarantee that I
will accept the late homework or journal assignment. I will
use my own discretion as to whether this is an acceptable late arrival...or
a ruse!)
About Journals:
Each week, you will receive a journal/sketchbook assignment. The due
date is the following day, unless otherwise announced. Journal/sketchbook
assignments are an OVERNIGHT assignment.
(I may however, choose to have you bring them in on another day so that
we can look at them together. This is called a class critique.) Students
are expected to have the journal finished and ready to evaluate the
day after the assignment is given. Also, be aware that any day you are
in school you must make arrangements for your journal to be turned in
on time. Sports events, trips to the nurse, SGA activities and other
school activities do not keep homework from being due! (If you are too
ill to make it to class and must report to the nurses office, please
ask the nurse to send her student aide to me with your homework.)
TESTING
ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY:
ALL WORK TO BE GRADED is included in the Integrity Policy.
Violation of any part of the Integrity Policy will result in a zero
on the assignment or test. Refer to your Integrity Policy for details.
Students will be required to sign (or write) the Integrity Policy prior
to any test.
This will include a statement that they did not "give or receive
help in any form".
In this class,
you are expected to do your own work.. Here is a partial list of some
of the things that will be considered cheating: (1) Sharing
of work, (2) doing work for someone else to turn in, (3) sharing and/or
copying any information such as test answers, homework, classwork or
warmups,
(4) turning in work, projects or papers that have previously been turned
in to another class for grading or credit,
(5) using electronic devices (phones, computers, etc.) to get information
during a test or graded activity (except where allowed), etc.
These and other violations will result in a zero for both parties. It
may also result in further disciplinary action.
Infractions will be reported to advisers of any team, organization,
sport or honors organizations to which the student belongs or participates
in.
And it’s OK to say NO. If someone asks to view your classwork
or homework for the purpose of copying, just say no. Tell the other
student you will not jeopardize your grade, or your academic integrity
standing for anyone. Remember that a real friend would’t ask!
See me privately if you have any problems with this issue!
TEN RULES FOR TEST TAKING:
During a test, quiz or exam the following rules will
be in effect. Failure to follow the rules will result in a zero. There
are no “second chances”!
1. Come to class prepared with BOTH pencil and pen.
Many tests will be scantron, necessitating a pencil. It is your responsibility
to come ready for the test. Scantrons taken in pen will not be scored,
and a zero will result.
2. Do not talk, speak aloud, use sign language or communicate
in any way.
3. Eyes must be kept strictly on your desk, your test
and/or your computer screen. Looking at your neighbor or his/her work
is considered a form of communication.
4. All materials except writing utensils must be put
away during the test and not touched until the test is over. During
a test or quiz, unless it it clearly written on the test, no notes,
notebooks or any other written or digital
information may be used. Do not get into notebooks, bookbags, purses,
cell phones, etc., during the test.
Computers must be logged off unless otherwise instructed.
5. Electronic devices (cell phones, pagers, etc.) may
not be on or visible during the exam.
6. If you have a question, raise your hand and wait
patiently for the teacher to come to you. Do not leave your seat or
speak out.
7. When you are finished, raise your hand and wait
patiently for your test to be collected. Remain seated and quiet until
the test is over.Do not raise your hand unless it is an emergency. Do
not ask for a pass.
8. Students are to remain seated for the entire period,
or until Ms. Cunningham has verbally indicated that the test is over
and that students are free to move around. STAY SEATED!
9. When the test is completed, you will know it is
over because Ms. Cunningham will say:
“Everyone has completed the test and you are now free to move
around and speak”.
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GRADING
POLICY
(as prescribed by the Board of Education)