For so called service courses consider contacting instructors over LMS. Use the email function provided there. LMS will be regularly checked for messages. High volume of emails in particular during the beginning of the term may result in late course related responses. If you however decide to send email for best result follow the instructions below.

Due to the high volume of course related emails, associating emails with students, courses, homework and so forth takes extraordinary amount of time, which is wasteful and unnecessary. The following course related email rules will be enforced:

eMail domain

Your email must be sent from @std.iyte.edu.tr domain. The exceptions are:

• Graduate students their emails may be from @iyte.edu.tr.
• non-IYTE students who must in advance pre arrange official email contact with Student Affairs and use that eMail for contact.

In particular, personal email accounts with various providers will not receive any course related responses - those accounts however may be used for non-course related issues.

eMail Subject

Your eMail subject line must start with the course abbreviation. For example if you a taking Math141 Calculus I then your email subject must start with Math141

eMail Signature

Your email must end with your name and Student ID number. In particular the body of your email cannot be empty. At the very least your name and Student ID number must be present.

eMail attachments

If you need to compress an attachement, consider sharing it via a link (say IYTE cloud). If that is not possible use tar.bz2 or bz2 style compression. Avoid any proprietary compression tools in particular there some included with rar and zip.

It is a human nature to err, so errors could be made while grading your work. After grades are announced you will have the opportunity to see your paper and to request a reevaluation. Any objections must be in written form and indicate clearly what you think is wrong and where and why you disagree with the evaluation you received. Your request will be looked at and as a result your grade may go either up or down. One sentence objections such as

• don't you think I should get more points,
• aren't my points too few,
• please, read question X again,

or anything similar will not be taken into consideration at all. Objections must be in English.

Cheating will not be tolerated in any form and automatically implies class failure; further academic punishments may apply. You are welcomed and encouraged to discuss homework and study with your classmates. However, any submission must be based solely on your own understanding. Rule of thumb to avoid cheating is to discuss problems with friends or other experts for as long as it takes you to understand what is going on. Afterwards you are to put all notes away (best destroy them) wait for at least two hours and then without taking any help do the work from scratch. Same applies for other sources such as the web, books etc. Get help from anywhere that suits you best but after studying leave all notes behind for at least two hours and then without any assistance do the work on your own.

In many cases evaluation questions are similar to past offerings from the same course. You are welcome to take work from your colleagues that have taken the same course, but submitting their work (via copy and paste) as your own submission is not acceptable.