Each of you will be in one of three homework partner situations: working alone, working with a partner who you identified, and working with a partner who the staff helped you find. This page explains what each situation needs to do in order to submit your work properly.
If you are working alone you don't need to do anything. The system will assume everyone is working alone by default.
If you chose your own homework partner log into InstructAssist and go to the "Preferences" menu, then "Request Teammate". One of you will indicate that you want the other as a partner; the second student will get an email to confirm the pairing. Partners must be confirmed before 7pm on the Sunday before the assignment is due.
If you want help finding a homework partner first fill in this form to indicate that you want a partner. We will make one round of partner assignments on Friday afternoon and another on Sunday morning. Requests for us to pair you up with someone must be received by Sunday morning at 9am. We will email you your partner assignment. You then have until 7pm Sunday evening to select and confirm your partner through the system (as did students who chose their own partners).
Once the partners are configured, we will open the system to accept submissions. This means that assignments will be open for submissions starting at 7:30 on Sunday evenings.
Once we open an assignment for submissions, you cannot configure your partner on your own. The staff have to adjust it manually. Whether we would have time for that depends on how busy we are with office hours, appointments, email, and helping students who are trying to finish the assignment. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to configure you manually before the deadline. So if you don't get your partner request in, you should work independently that week.
We realize this may seem harsh. Unfortunately, with a large class, we have to balance our time between helping everyone and handling missed deadlines. The former is more important to us.