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Naturally, exceptions to the above rules are allowed for reasonable excuses:
- The students may be excused attendance, in which case they
automatically get the extension.
- They can be excused for not asking for an extension, if
(retrospectively of course) they tell you why they did not. E.g., they may
have genuinely forgotten, or rushed off ill at the end of the session etc..
- They can be excused for not completing by the extended deadline, e.g.
through illness, or other personal or specific circumstances. However, the
excuse that laboratory staff can give here usually only lasts for one
extra session. Any additional allowed time can only be allocated by the year
Laboratory Manager
John Latham
(email: jtl@cs.man.ac.uk) or
Alan Williams
(email: alaw@cs.man.ac.uk)).
When you give excuses, you must mark them on the sheet in the appropriate
place (see below), and give the brief reason for the excuse (e.g. in the
margin or at the bottom of the sheet). The system stores excuses in the
database and collates them for each student. This helps immensely when
students come to sort out their problems in the laboratories. It also helps
identify the people who try to exploit the fragmented laboratories by telling
fibs to different Laboratory Supervisors. If you do not record excuses
properly, then the system will continue to hassle the student, and the student
will continue to hassle you, or in the worst case, go off into a corner and
cry. So please take care to record excuses properly.
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John Latham
2008-10-30