Policies

The rules that move your grade are on the home page and on Using AI. This page is the layer underneath: what Indiana University and the O’Neill School require every syllabus to say, and the support you’re entitled to. Where a policy belongs to the university or the school, this page links to it rather than reprinting it, because theirs is the version that governs.

Credits and workload

SPEA-V348 Management Science · 3 credits · Prerequisite: SPEA-K 300, MATH-M 025, or MATH-M 118

Expect 6 or more hours a week outside class on reading, the take-home, and practice. Weeks 1–2 are lighter (math refresher); the Solver weeks and the run-up to each exam are heavier. The home page has the course description and grading table.

Course policies

IU requires every syllabus to state these plainly. The full versions of the first three are on the home page.

• Attendance. Three absences carry no penalty; after that each costs a point off your final grade, and nine is an automatic F. You’re present when you’ve signed in and your name is on that session’s submitted in-class work, and Canvas carries your count.
• Missed in-class work and make-ups. Group practices are earned in the room and can’t be made up, except by an approved religious observance or AES accommodation arranged in advance. Each exam does have a make-up path, so contact us beforehand where you can. The midterm is Wed Oct 21; the final is in the Dec 14–18 examination period, so nothing graded lands in the last week of classes.
• Late assignments. Three no-penalty late submissions, each valid within 72 hours of the deadline.
• Technology in class. Bring a laptop, with Respondus LockDown Browser installed for the two exams (see Software & setup). Otherwise use your judgment and keep devices on course work. Keep your phone on silent rather than off: IU sends campus emergency alerts by text.
• Withdrawing from the course. Deadlines are on the official Registrar calendar. After the auto-W deadline it is limited, needs permission, and must meet O’Neill’s requirements. Talk to us early; there are usually better options.
• Changes to the schedule. Limited change is possible in extenuating circumstances, announced in class and on Canvas.

O’Neill Student Honor Code

O’Neill substantially revised its Student Honor Code (PDF, two pages) for 2026–27, and it applies to you here. It covers academic conduct, taking IU’s definitions of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, interference, violation of course rules, and facilitating dishonesty, and civility and professional conduct: attending prepared, staying for the session, following the device policy, carrying your share of group work, treating people with respect.

One clause is the hinge with this course: academic misconduct includes AI use “that is not permitted by the instructor.” Here the tier labels set that permission.

Academic integrity

Your responsibilities are defined in the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, & Conduct, whose academic misconduct section is what any integrity question here gets decided against. Two edges are specific to this course.

Acknowledgment keeps AI use clean. With AI permitted, the disclosure is what separates use from plagiarism. Disclosed use never costs you points; an undisclosed or false disclosure is the violation, as is submitting a model you can’t rebuild and explain.

A solved workbook is not shareable. Handing one to a classmate, or a chat transcript containing one, is misconduct for both of you. Talking through a method together is not.

Course materials and AI

Using AI is what governs your work here, with a tier label on every task. The O’Neill requirement below is the layer under it.

O’Neill asks every syllabus to state the instructor’s rights over course materials. In our words: we hold the rights to what we make for this course. Take notes and use them however you like for your own learning; don’t re-post, distribute, sell, or upload them to a generative-AI tool without permission. Selling gets reported to the Dean of Students as academic misconduct, and that clause isn’t boilerplate we’re quietly ignoring: don’t post this course’s workbooks to Chegg, Course Hero, or Studocu.

Here is that permission, in writing. Everything published on this website is cleared: these pages, the weekly lesson pages, the self-checks, and the starter .xlsx and .docx files you download from them. Paste them into whatever tool you like, subject to the tier labels. It does not cover:

• the Tier 0 exams. No AI during or about them, and nothing from an exam goes into a chatbot afterward;
• another student’s work, in any form: a solved workbook, a shared file, a photo of their screen;
• anything we hand out in class or post to Canvas that isn’t published here;
• anything we mark as not-for-AI.

Support, accommodations, and safety

Use these. Asking early is always cheaper than asking late.

Accessible Educational Services (AES)

Accommodations are a shared responsibility between you, us, and the AES office. Send us your memo early and we’ll set things up quietly; you never have to explain the underlying reason. This matters most for the two timed exams, where extended time is straightforward to arrange with notice. If you might qualify and have never registered, AES is where to start.

If anything here is hard to use with a screen reader, keyboard, or magnifier, the interactive widgets included, tell us. IU is working toward full digital-accessibility compliance, and we’d rather fix it than have you work around it.

Religious observance

IU policy ACA-59 protects your right to observe religious holidays without academic penalty, and along with an AES accommodation it’s one of the two routes by which missed in-class work can be made up. The form and procedure are on IU’s religious observances page, currently a Request for Accommodation for Religious Observances to us at least two weeks ahead, one per absence per course. Send them by the end of Week 2 where you can, so we can plan the alternative work together.

Counseling and mental health

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is IU’s counseling service, included in your student health fee. If something bigger is going on, tell us what you can. We don’t need details, and we’d much rather help you plan around a hard stretch than watch you disappear from the roster.

Sexual misconduct and Title IX

Title IX and IU’s Sexual Misconduct policy prohibit sexual misconduct, and titleix.iu.edu is the office that handles it. For confidential support, IU’s Find Help page lists the current Bloomington contacts. If you’re in immediate danger, call or text 911.

We are not confidential resources. University policy requires us to pass any report of potential sexual misconduct to the Title IX Coordinator, after which a small number of people work to offer resources and appropriate measures. We’re telling you up front so you can choose who you talk to.

IU Culture Centers

The IU Culture Centers offer community, programming, and a place to land. Open to everyone.

Per IU policy ACA-85, this site is the syllabus for V348 and is posted to the Canvas syllabus page before the term begins.