Mon, 11 Oct 2021, 21:02 Re: Cheat Sheet on Tablet
A student writes: > Hi Dr. Patt, > I was wondering if I could make my cheat sheets using my tablet. I like to > color code things and was going to write on the tablet then print it out. > The TA's said to ask you if it was ok. If not, that's fine. Thanks. > > <<name withheld to protect the student wanting use his tablet>> No, it is not ok. I hate to be firm about this, but the point of the three cheat sheets is to allow you to write down everything you do not want to bother memorizing. ...which I think is a good thing. The first time I offered this, one student carefully prepared a set of cheat sheets which he sold to students in the class, thereby defeating what I had hoped to accomplish by not requiring you to memorize stuff that you can easily look up. So, I quickly adjusted my constraints on the cheat sheets to: "they must be in your own handwriting." In that way, no one can prepare your cheat sheets for you. Allowing the use of a tablet to prepare the cheat sheets defeats the purpose. By the way, colored pens can be used to color code. Good luck on the exam. Yale Patt