Exam Policies and Rules

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• The exam takes place on the Trafalgar/Oakville campus in either your regular face-to-face classroom or a designated classroom (for virtual classes). Check your SLATE calendar for clarification and exact details.
• If you are in a virtual class, your exam takes place at the Trafalgar/Oakville campus in-person. See the SLATE calendar for the specific room number. If you are unfamiliar with the Trafalgar/Oakville campus, it is expected that you will arrive early enough to find the exam classroom.
• You are required to bring your Sheridan oneCard to all exams at Sheridan. If you do not bring your oneCard, you will not be permitted to write the exam unless you can provide official, valid ID (and your exam will not be graded until you provide a Sheridan oneCard that matches your ID).
• The exam is exactly 2 hours long. There will be no lesson after the exam.
• The exam is written on paper. No laptops are allowed to be open or on the desks during the exam.
• Bring your own writing materials.
• The exam is closed-book. Besides an approved reference sheet, no textbooks, notes, references, or any other material are allowed on the desks during the exam unless specified by your professor. A re-usable beverage container of an appropriate beverage is permitted.
• No other paper, notes, books, or calculators are allowed on the desk during the exam unless it is provided by your professor or the invigilator.
  • If your professor gives you scrap paper, it MUST be returned with your exam.
  • Failure to submit any scrap paper will result in a grade of 0.
  • The professor/invigilator has the right to inspect any materials at your desk to ensure no cheating is taking place.
• All phones, smart watches, and other devices must be turned off during the exam (not just silenced or on vibrate: they must be OFF). You may not use/answer your phone, use a smart-watch, or use or use any electronic device during the exam.
• You will be required to leave all bags, backpacks, purses, phones, tablets, jackets/coats, hats, headphones/headsets, food/beverages, etc. at the front of the room. This list is not exclusive: your professor may have you leave other items at the front of the room. You may retrieve these items once you have submitted your exam.
• Phones, smart watches, and all other devices must also be left with your belongings at the front of the room. If you are found with a phone, smart watch, or other device at your desk at any time during the exam, you will receive an automatic grade of 0.
• If you are wearing long, baggy sleeves you will be required to roll them up during the exam.
• Ear phones, ear pods, or other listening devices are not permitted during the exam (this does not include accessible devices e.g. hearing aid, chochlear implant). If you are found with any listening device at your desk at any time during the exam, you will receive an automatic grade of 0. Disposable foam ear plugs are permitted: you must show them to the professor/invigilator BEFORE insertion into the ear.
• You may not leave the room for any reason during the exam. You may only leave the room after you have submitted your assigned sheet.
• You are not permitted to discuss the exam with anyone else while you are writing it. You are not permitted to ask another person for help/advice/etc (except your professor/invigilator).
• You are not permitted to communicate with any other person during this exam except your professor or an invigilator/proctor. This includes but is not limited to chat communication, voice communication, and forum or discussion board postings, using any device.
• You may not share/post or otherwise make public or give to anyone else your exam questions or answers during or after the exam. This would constitute a breach of academic integrity on your permanent record and will be dealt with accordingly.
• If you are late for the exam, you will only be allowed to write the exam if no one else has completed the test and left the room. You will not be given extra time.
• There are no make-up exams.

Plan ahead!! Make sure you don't sleep in, as that is not a valid reason for missing a test. Make sure you leave for school earlier than normal in case you encounter transportation problems on the way (i.e traffic jam, broken-down bus, etc). If you drive, make sure you have a bus schedule - if your car won't work when you leave for school, you'll have the time and resources to take the bus, instead.

Exam Procedure

The exam begins on the hour and takes place as two parts, as follows:

1. When you arrive, after you have placed your belongings at the front of the room, submit your reference sheet to the professor (not the invigilator) IN PERSON.
   • Do not give it to another student to give the prof.
   • Do not leave it on a desk/table at the front or at your desk.
   • Hand it to the professor, only.
   • If you forget your sheet in your bag, locker, or elsewhere you will not be permitted to retrieve it once the exam has begun.
2. After submitting your reference sheet to the professor, find the desk that has a sheet of paper with your name and student number. This is your assigned seat and must remain as your assigned seat for the duration of the exam.
   • You may not change seats.
   • When the exam is completed, you will be returning this seating assignment sheet to the professor. You may not take it with you: failure to return it will result in a grade of 0 on part 1 of the exam.
3. Part One of the exam should take 30 minutes.
   • Stay in your seat after you have completed part 1. Raise your hand and the professor will take your test paper.
   • If you need the washroom, let your professor know.
   • If you are not leaving to use the washroom, you can begin part 2 of the exam.
   • Any time left in the 2 hours is used for part 2 of the exam: do not take a long washroom break, as this will cut into the time you have for part 2. Do not take too long to complete part 1, as this will also cut into the time you have to complete part 2. The exam ends after 2 hours from the scheduled start time, regardless of how you managed your time.
4. When you are given part 2, you will also be given your reference sheet, if you have provided one at the start of the exam AND if it meets the Reference Sheet Guidelines.
   • After you have submitted Part Two, you must return your test paper AND your reference sheet to the professor.
   • After submitting your test and your reference sheet, you can quietly collect your belongings and leave the room.
   • If you do not return your reference sheet or exam paper, you will automatically receive a 0 on part 2 the exam.

Exam Format

The exam will include the following types of questions:

• Multiple-Choice and True/False.
• Short-Answer questions, such as:
  • define something, what's XYZ stand for, etc.
  • fill-in-the-blank
  • write one or two code statements to do something
  • locate, identify and fix errors
• Long-answer / coding questions, e.g.
  • Name/Describe: name/describe x number of steps/stages/characteristics/types of whatever, etc.
  • Explain: explain why abc is important, explain what makes good xyz, explain why developers do blah, etc.
  • Code: Write code to perform a certain task (e.g. write some HTML code to create a certain thing). HINT: make sure you've tried all of the coding questions in the notes!!!

Remember, this exam is worth 25% of your final mark.

Summary of Topics

Introductory Material

• Client-server model - describe, draw or fill in a diagram, what is meant by "client", what is meant by "server", which web technologies are client-side technologies and which are server-side technologies, etc.
• Request/Response model - describe, what does this mean, how does it work? Describe what happens when user requests a URL.
• Internet and how it works - packets, routing, where is it, who runs it, who owns it, what is HTTP, etc.
• WWW - how does it relate to the Internet? What is W3C and WHATWG, what do they do?
• What is HTML, what does HTML stand for?

Intro to Accessible Web Design

• What is progressive enhancement (PE) and why is it important?
• What is WAI-WCAG? What are the four principles?
• WCAG is made up of principles, guidelines, success criteria, and techniques: define what each of these mean.
• The four categories of disabilities (visual, motor, auditory, cognitive); examples of each, issues each one has with web apps, etc.

HTML: Basics

• Syntax - opening/closing tags, attributes, nesting properly, etc.
• Minimal HTML of a document, you should be able to code it, describe what each of the elements are for and how they're used.
• In-line vs. block elements.
• How whitespace is rendered e.g. tab/space/newline.
• Valid/well-formed HTML - what this means, why it's important.
• Elements: semantic vs. non-semantic (and what that means), all the semantic and non-semantic elements you learned and where you should use them, etc.
• Attributes - what they are, what they're for, all the attributes we've learned so far and what tags they belong to.

HTML Elements: Document Structure, Content, Text

• Links - anchor element <a></a>, internal (jump links) vs external, syntax, etc.
• Embedding images, alt attribute on images, figure/figcaption and where we'd use them, etc.
• paragraphs vs. br, proper use of br
• Document structure elements and how/why we use them e.g. article, section, nav, header, etc.
• Content grouping elements e.g. figure/figcaption, div vs p, main, lists, tables, etc.
• Text semantics: strong, em (vs b, i), abbr, dfn, sup/sub, etc.
• Character entities - why, how? Different types (named, numeric decimal, numeric hexadecimal); you don't have to memorize them all but you should know &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, and &nbsp; and if you need others they'll be included in the exam.

HTML DOM

• What is the DOM, what does DOM stand for?
• What do we use the DOM for, examples?
• DOM terminology: nodes, child/parent, next/previous sibling, draw DOM tree, etc.
• You should be able to draw a DOM tree from existing HTML, or be able to code HTML from a DOM tree, or be able to answer questions about a DOM tree.

Lists, Tables

• Lists - ordered lists, unordered lists, changing ordered list type and start value, nesting lists properly, etc.
• Tables - parts of table (row, cell, header, caption) and the tags for each, rowspan/colspan, etc.
• Accessible tables: caption, scope, etc.