Spring 2018 <DRAFT 1.22.2018>

IST 400/600 – Blockchain Management Co-Instructors: Lee W McKnight & Richie Etwaru

lmcknigh@syr.edu; +1-315-278-4392; retwaru@us.imshealth.com

Class Date/Time: Monday, 2:15-5pm

Location: 021 Hinds Hall

Office Hours: Monday, Hinds 228 10:30am -12:30pm Faculty Assistants: Anmol Handa & Irfan Bakht, anhanda@syr.edu; Ibakht@syr.edu +1-(347) 208 7466

Course Catalog Summary

Blockchain distributed ledger technology is disrupting currency, property, financial, healthcare,

energy, and other markets – or will likely do so over coming decades. Information

professionals, university faculty and student researchers, entrepreneurs, coders and software

engineers, cloud managers and architects are avidly engaging in emerging opportunities.

Enthusiasts and speculators, accredited investors, venture capitalists, banks and many ‘fintech’

(financial technology) industry start-ups are placing bets on early winner and loser solutions.

Established market leaders are exploring a wide range of applications and uses of a secure

‘immutable’ technology initially developed to underlay the virtual/crypto-currency Bitcoin.

Wide interest in an innovation does not assure success. Early investors lost everything from

blockchain exchanges. Multiple times. Entrepreneurs have paid steep penalties including

incarceration for money-laundering, for serving blockchain markets without awareness or

conformance to legal requirements. Governments and regulators are applying regulations and

law to these technologies and new markets, with however presently limited experience

typically. Meanwhile ‘govtech’ entrepreneurs are developing methods for automating

governance, risk and compliance that should work for distributed ledger ecosystem partner, and

conform to legal requirements. They promise.

This course introduces students to key concepts such as trust and consensus, as well as the technologies utilized by alternative blockchains. Management and governance processes for

consensus and legal and regulatory issues for distributed ledger technology are also addressed.

Students will learn through labs, readings, and class discussion how trust and then consensus

has been achieved and may be maintained with autonomy. This may be done more or less well,

and is critical for enabling widely distributed and disparate parties to participate in public and

private blockchain market creation. Distributed ledger technology innovation, trust

establishment and maintenance, iterative consensus development, and autonomy in use resulting

from the prior conditions being fulfilled and maintained will all be explored.

Course Description and Objectives

IST 600 Blockchain Management is about the emergence of distributed ledger technology and

its management for business operations. Consensus, trust, governance, risk and compliance, and

more generally policy, regulation and legal issues such as smart contracts affecting distributed

ledger innovations will be introduced. Their application in Distributed Autonomous

Organizations will be addressed. Initially introduced as the special sauce enabling the virtual

currency/property market for Bitcoin, the potential applications of blockchain distributed ledger

technology appear to be innumerable, creating many exciting professional opportunities for

students to pursue.

This course teaches you about much more than Bitcoin: how to create, analyze, use, manage,

and govern blockchain distributed ledger exchanges, technologies, applications, and services.

Readings on virtual markets, virtual organizations, computer-supported cooperative work,

sociotechnical and distributed, and cryptographic systems will provide students with a wider

view and deeper understanding of the range of factors affecting blockchain management. This

wider view is helpful for both grounding your class research paper, and for providing a basis for

your class projects. Your in-class experiential learning will include several labs, and interaction

with senior industry executives and entrepreneurs. Applications within and between institutions,

including Distributed Autonomous Organizations in enterprise, healthcare, utility and many

other markets will be reviewed as use case examples. Students receive feedback from industry

leaders on their course projects in two in-class ‘sharktanks’.

About the Co-Instructors

Lee W McKnight is an Associate Professor in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, and an Affiliate of INSCT, the Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism, College of Law/Maxwell School. Since 1998, Lee lectures annually at MIT on innovation. https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/lmcknigh/

Richie Etwaru is Chief Digital Officer, IQVIA, and Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Previously Richie was in Office of the CIO, UBS. He is the author of

Blockchain Trust Companies. Every Company is at Risk of Being Disrupted by a Trusted Version of Itself, Dog Ear Publishing, 2017, one of the required texts for this course. Professor Etwaru, who resides in Edgewater, New Jersey, will join the class in Syracuse on January 22nd, and thereafter every 2 weeks. Professor Etwaru participates remotely on alternate weeks.

https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/detwaru/

Recommended Programming Hands-on, Self-Paced Learning

HTML and CSS for Beginners - https://www.codecademy.com/ar/tracks/htmlcss

Intro to JavaScript - https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-javascript--ud803

Introduction to Node.js - https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-node-js-microsoft-

dev283x

Required Textbooks

Narayan Pristy, Building Blockchain Projects: Building decentralized Blockchain applications with Ethereum and Solidity, Packt Publishing, 2017, ISBN-10: 178712214X; ISBN-13: 978-1787122147; https://www.amazon.com/Building-Blockchain-Projects-

decentralized-applications/dp/178712214X (Refer to GitHub Repository of Author for accessing the code present in the book - https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Blockchain-Projects )

Richie Etwaru, Blockchain Trust Companies. Every Company is at Risk of Being Disrupted by a Trusted Version of Itself , Dog Ear Publishing, 2017. SU bookstore link for orders: http://bookweb.syr.edu/ePOS/form=cat.html&cat=993&store=1

Recommended:

Arsdeep Bahga, Blockchain Applications: A Hands-On Approach, VPT, 2017, ISBN-10: 0996025553; ISBN-13: 978-0996025553 https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Applications-Hands-Arshdeep-Bahga/dp/0996025553

Richie’s book is available through the bookstore; all 3 are available on Amazon; and will be available from SU bookstore and Bird Library soon.

Communications We will primarily communicate with you in class and via Blackboard. We will post

announcements and additional recommended readings on Blackboard. Please send us email whenever you have a question or suggestion to improve the course and your learning experience.

We will respond within 48 hours. Please call or text Professor McKnight if an issue requires

immediate attention.

Activities and Assignments The course is organized around several learning activities, including readings, videos, and

podcasts, labs, lectures, individual and group assignments.

IST 400 Assignments/grade points

Participation Labs 1-5

(Undergra

d Students

do 4 of 5

labs

Midterm

Exam Mid-term

Presentation/ 3-5pp concept

paper

Final Project

Term Paper Final Presentation

Demo + Poster

14 36 (9 points/lab)

10 10 20 10

IST 600 Assignments/grades

Participation Labs 1-5 Midterm

Exam Mid-term Presentation/ 3-5pp concept

paper

Final Project Term Paper

Final Presentation Demo + Poster

15 35

(7 points/lab) 10 10 20 10

1. Class Participation: (15pts) for IST 600; (14pts) for IST 400 students

You do not get 15% - 14% credit just for showing up. But please plan to attend every class,

as expected. A new tool may be used to assist the instructors and faculty assistants in monitoring your attendance; more information on that will be added to an update of this

syllabus for your information.

- In class participation and attendance: (15) (14)

o Classes and online discussion may include blockchain management

analysis or governance debate.

o Your team will offer feedback on other student team presentations.

This is NOT optional; non-participation by you and teammates will

cost you points. 2. Labs (7 points each (grad); 9 points each (undergrad)

Each completed lab report (including screen shots demonstrating your mastery

and completion of the many steps required to complete each lab) is worth 7 points

for grad students, and 9 points for undergrads. Full points awarded to students

whose lab documentation is to professional standard of thoroughness, and

demonstrates analytic creativity, as well as depth of analysis.

3. Mid-Term Exam (10 points)

An in-class exam (individual) covers main topics discussed in readings & class.

4. Mid-Term Sharktank Presentation & Concept paper (10 points)

Your group will prepare and present to your professors and industry

executives, and afterward submit a 3-5 concept paper incorporating feedback.

This either becomes the basis for your group’s final project, or indicates that

based on this feedback your group will explore a new direction. Note: Your

team will offer feedback on other student team presentations. This is NOT

optional; non-participation by you and teammates will cost you points

5. Final Project Paper – Blockchain Management Research Paper with Executive

Summary (20pts) your 2-4-person team will conduct research, evaluate and

deploy technology (likely Ethereum and/or Hyperledger, but the team may

choose differently) exploring use of distributed ledger systems to address a real

world problem over the semester. The co-instructors may offer suggestions and

guidance towards interesting datasets, questions, and opportunities. Each team

will submit a 10-15-page paper AND a 1-page Executive Summary. Both will

have 1.5 spacing, 12-point font, and 1 inch margins. Academic references

following the APA format are expected. If you are unfamiliar with APA

reference expectations, you are expected to learn, by consulting a librarian, or a

fellow student, perhaps enrolled in the LIS program. Topics are to be discussed

with and approved by the professors.

6. Final –Project Presentation/demo, Video and Poster (10pts) Now, wow your classmates, professors, industry sharktank participants, and iSchool peers with your creativity and hard work over the course of the semester. Your team will

offer feedback on other student team presentations. This is NOT optional; non-participation by you and teammates will cost you points

NOTE ON OUR EXPECTATIONS FOR YOUR WORK

Let us be very clear that we have very high expectations for both the quality of your work

and the quality of your participation. We will also make sure you are equipped with the ability to meet our expectations. Everyone can do well in this course if they put in the effort. This course

should also be fun. This class relies heavily on intensive classroom interaction.

IST 400/600 Blockchain Management Class Schedule

Class Topic Readings & Assignments Deadlines

1.22 Introduction to course. Final

project/semester roadmap + intro to ledgers + contracts

and inter-party trust. Decentralized Autonomous

Organizations

Blockchain Trust Companies, Chapter

1: Cooperation and Control

Blockchain Applications, Chapter 1,

Blockchain Concepts(pdf)

1.29 Virtual currency/ property + commons markets + emergent/virtual

market models;

Blockchain Trust Companies,

Chapters 2: Partnerships and

Corporations; and

3: Financial Control Building Blockchain Projects, Chapter 1: What is a DApp? and Chapter 2: Understanding How Ethereum Works

Lab I Building a basic application with Ethereum

https://www.udemy.com/blockchain-application/

Lab I Assigned

2.5 encryption + distributed ledgers + hash + consensus

Trust Companies Chapter 4: The Flow of Wealth; Projects, Chapter 3 Writing Smart Contracts, Chapter 4, Getting Started with Web3.js

Lab II Leveraging Web3.js to build a

Ethereum based application

Lab 1 Due

Lab II Assigned

Guest Lecturer:

Harpreet

Geekee,

Advisor,

Government of

Canada,

Solidity Smart

Contracts Lab II

2.12 proof of work +

proof of stake + public/private ledgers

Trust Companies Chapter 5: The

Trust Gap; Building Blockchain

Projects Chapter 5: Building a Wallet

Service

Chapter 6: Building a Smart Contract

Deployment Platform

Refer to the course for reading about

consensus algorithms and Hyperledger Platform https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-linuxfoundationx-

lfs171x (Read Chapter -1 and Chapter -2)

Lab III Hyperledger

Build your first chaincode https://developer.ibm.com/courses/all/

blockchain-essentials/?cm_mmc=dw-

_-blockchain-_-EdTechStudent2017-

_-OTH

Lab II due

Lab III assigned

2.19 Ripple + Ethereum + Hyperledger (existing blockchain

platforms)

Trust Companies Chapter 6 Big Data, Big Problems; Building Blockchain

Projects, Chapter 7: Building a Betting

App

Lab III due

Earn IBM

Hyperledger

badge! : )

Guest

lecturer/lab

presenter:

Gerald Jamar

Smith, IBM

2.26 consensus + once we trust data, what

Mid-term exam

In-class exam

+

consensus can we draw on truth (problems in

society that we never thought solvable)

Students should come to class ready

to share a few ideas of what interests

you as a possible class project, could

build on (a) blockchain.

Course project

brainstorm/

Scrum team

goal-setting

3.3 Autonomous programmable

networks + smart contracts

Trust Companies Chapter 7:

Spreadsheets Need to Be Disrupted

Chapter 8: The New Corporate

Models Aren’t so New Building Blockchain Projects,

Chapter 8: Building Enterprise Level

Smart Contracts

Chapter 9: Building a Consortium

Blockchain

Lab V Ethereum Private Network

Set up account:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-

us/free/

Open the below mentioned link, right

click on pdf file and click on save link

as:

“ Ethereum Consortium Blockchain in

Azure Marketplace”

Then follow directions in pdf.

(as far you can manage)

Lab IV

Assigned;

Blackboard

Participation I

(On IOT and

Blockchain)

3.10 Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break

3.19 Decentralized

autonomous organizations I

Trust Companies Chapter 9: Enter

the Blockchain Protocol;

1st Sharktank: Faculty and industry

provide feedback on project concepts

and architectures, business models

Sharktank

Guest Judges

(tent.): Kevin

Quigley, IBM;

Nomi Bergman,

Advance

Newhouse;

John Quinn,

VMware

(invited)

3.26 Decentralized autonomous organizations II

Trust Companies Chapter 10: From

Abundant Trust to Autonomy;

Lab V- Writing your own Solidity

Lab V assigned

Lab IV due

Compiler using Solc.js

4.2 Final Project

Teams &

Concepts

Review

Trust Companies Chapter 11: From

Consensus to Autonomy;

Applications, Chapter 10, Advanced

Topics

Lab V due

Final Project

Paper Concept

Due for review

and feedback

(not graded

but required)

4.9 Blockchain

Management

Project research

Trust Companies Chapter 12: The

Future: Trust Companies

Blackboard

Participation II

Assigned (on

DAO Attack)

4.16 Blockchain

Management

Project

Implementation

Students refine final plans and work

schedule to prepare blockchain

‘demo or die’ presentation; and

complete Research Paper, Video &

Poster

4.23 Final

Presentations &

Demos Part I

Industry Sharktank and faculty offer

feedback and recommendations for

points to clarify for final paper; and

on business viability of student work.

Guest

Sharktank

Judges TBD

Presentations,

Demos &

Posters Due

4.29 Optional &

Ungraded

Experiential

Learning Road

trip to Fordham

University, New

York City

Members of 4.23 student teams may,

but are not required, to present at

Fordham Blockchain Conference,

Sunday, April 29th.

Approximately 250 attendees

expected – an opportunity to practice

your public speaking skills!

(Optional)

@ Fordham

Blockchain

Conference

Presentations,

Demos, Posters

of 4.23 projects

4.30 Final

Presentations &

Demos Part II

Industry Sharktank and faculty offer

feedback and recommendations for

points to clarify for final paper; and

on business viability of student work.

Guest

Sharktank

Judges TBD

Presentations,

Demos &

Posters Due

5.7 Final Paper Incorporating feedback and

suggestions from your poster and

Sharktank presentations, your final

paper will be of course – brilliant!

Final Paper

Due

Required & Recommended Assigned Readings

Books Narayan Pristy, Building Blockchain Projects: Building decentralized Blockchain applications with Ethereum and Solidity, Packt Publishing, 2017, ISBN-10: 178712214X; ISBN-13: 978-1787122147; https://www.amazon.com/Building-Blockchain-Projects-decentralized-

applications/dp/178712214X (Refer to GitHub Repository of Author for accessing the code present in the book - https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Blockchain-Projects )

Richie Etwaru, Blockchain Trust Companies. Every Company is at Risk of Being Disrupted by a Trusted Version of Itself , Dog Ear Publishing, 2017. ISBN-10: 1457556626

ISBN-13: 978-1457556623 Recommended Book

Arsdeep Bahga, Blockchain Applications: A Hands-On Approach, VPT, 2017, ISBN-10: 0996025553; ISBN-13: 978-0996025553

Journal Articles Aitzhan, N. Z., & Svetinovic, D. (2016). Security and Privacy in Decentralized Energy Trading through Multi-Signatures, Aitzhan, N. Z., & Svetinovic, D. (2016). Security and Privacy in Decentralized Energy Trading through Multi-Signatures , Blockchain and Anonymous Messaging

Streams, 5971(c), 1–, 5971(c), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2016.2616861 Benshoof, B., Harrison, R. W., & Place, P. (2016). Distributed Decentralized Domain Name Service. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2016.109

Bhargavan, K., Delignat-lavaud, A., Fournet, C., Gollamudi, A., Gonthier, G., Kobeissi, N., Swamy, N. (n.d.). Formal Verification of Smart Contracts Short Paper F *, 91–96.

Bird, G. (2016). Block chain technology, smart contracts and Ethereum. Retrieved December 05, 2016, from https://developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/2016/05/19/block-chain-technology-smart-contracts-and-ethereum/

Huckle, S., Bhattacharya, R., White, M., & Beloff, N. (2016). Internet of Things, Blockchain and Shared Economy Applications. Procedia Computer Science, 98, 461–466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.074

Loi Luu, Duc-Hiep Chu, Hrishi Olickel, Prateek Saxena, and Aquinas Hobor. 2016. Making Smart Contracts Smarter. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 254-269. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1145/2976749.2978309

Maxwell, D., & Speed, C. (2015). “Effing ” the Ineffable : Opening up Understandings of the

Blockchain, (Figure 2), 208–209. McKnight, L, and William Lehr, Show Me the Money. Contracts and Agents in Service Level

Agreement Markets,’ in Digital Policy, Regulation, and Governance (previous: info), www.emeraldinsight.com, ISSN: 1463-6697; https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/1493

McKnight, L., Etwaru, R., and Yu, Y., Commodifying Trust: Trusted Commerce Policy Intersecting Blockchain and Internet of Things, 45th TPRC Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, September 8-9, 2017

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2944466

Mettler, M. (2016). Blockchain technology in healthcare: The revolution starts here. In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (pp. 1–3). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749510

Underwood, S. (2016). Blockchain beyond bitcoin. Communications of the ACM, 59(11), 15–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/2994581

Xu, X., Pautasso, C., Gramoli, V., Ponomarev, A., & Chen, S. (2016). The Blockchain as a Software Connector, 182–191. https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2016.21

Technical and industry reports, trade articles & blog/web posts

Deloitte, Blockchain. Enigma. Paradox. Opportunity, 2016. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/Innovation/deloitte-uk-blockchain-

full-report.pdf

Ernst & Young, Blockchain Technology as a Platform for Digitization. Implications for the Insurance Industry, 2016.

http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY-blockchain-technology-as-a-platform-for-digitization/$FILE/EY-blockchain-technology-as-a-platform-for-digitization.pdf IBM Institute for Business Value, ‘Fast forward. Rethinking Enterprises, ecosystems, and economies

with Blockchains,’ 2016 file://hd.ad.syr.edu/01/0a16e5/Documents/Downloads/IBM%20Blockchain.pdf Ralph C. Merkle, DAOs, Democracy and Governance, Version 1.9, May 31 2016

http://merkle.com/papers/DAOdemocracyDraft.pdf

‘Bitcoin distracts from the real value of blockchain: For technology executives, the new challenge is

to chain or be chained’ http://www.cio.com/article/3110606/leadership-management/bitcoin-distracts-from-the-real-value-of-blockchain.html

Joanna Belbey, How to Invest in the Institutional Revolution of Blockchain, Forbes Magazine, January 18, 2017

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannabelbey/2017/01/18/how-to-invest-in-the-institutional-revolution-of-blockchain/#1954e4233cdf

Larry Loeb, ‘Ethereum: A Second-Generation Blockchain for the IoT,’ on Security Intelligence, posted December 3, 2015. https://securityintelligence.com/ethereum-a-second-generation-blockchain-for-the-iot/

Stan Higgins, ‘Dubai's Government Launches Blockchain Trade Finance Trial with IBM,’ Coindesk, posted Feb. 7. 2017. http://www.coindesk.com/dubai-ibm-blockchain-trade-finance/ http://www.coindesk.com/dubais-global-blockchain-council-aims-spur-industry-job-growth/

https://media.consensys.net/5-blockchain-iot-applications-6202c8e7c4c0#.g0t63fizs

Blockchain & Related Resources and Labs

The Homestead Documentation Initiative

http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/about.html

https://www.ethereum.org/dao

http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/blockchain/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/learning-paths/iot-suite/

https://www.hyperledger.org/ https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric

https://developer.ibm.com/courses/all-courses/blockchain-for-developers/ https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-ibm-blockchain-101-quick-start-guide-for-developers-bluemix-trs/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/internet-of-things/platform/private-blockchain/ https://ripple.com/build/how-to-multi-sign/

http://iotatoken.com/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

Videos The Blockchain Effect on Healthcare: How #Blockchain Will Transform Healthcare in 25 Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9Q7i-IcA8

HealthIT TV - Debating the utility of Blockchain in Healthcare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgljmCA9I0

#DisrupTV: Defensive Incumbent Innovation at IMS Health https://vimeo.com/165635152

CNSSummit - Blockchain 101: The Institutional Revolution & Healthcare (Richie Etwaru) https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=738s&v=EvUNGRMnqGA&app=desktop

Executive Exchange - Moving Beyond the Hype of Blockchain https://vimeo.com/192524153

Other Resources

Open Specification Model for Wireless Grids in Internet of Things v0.4 by Lee Warren McKnight - Research Project on ResearchGate. (n.d.). Retrieved February 4, 2017, from

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Open-Specification-Model-for-Wireless-Grids-in-Internet-of-Things-v04

5-56-onc_blockchainchallenge_mitwhitepaper.pdf. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/5-56-onc_blockchainchallenge_mitwhitepaper.pdf

11-74-ablockchainforhealthcare.pdf. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/11-74-ablockchainforhealthcare.pdf

Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations. (n.d.). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from https://coinmarketcap.com/ Greenspan, G. (2013). MultiChain Private Blockchain - White Paper, 1–17. Retrieved from

http://www.multichain.com/download/MultiChain-White-Paper.pdf

Related Course Syllabi MIT: MAS.S65 - Blockchain Technologies: Decentralize all the Things http://blockchain.media.mit.edu/syllabus.html

Stanford: CS.251 – Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/syllabus.html

Coursera: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies – Princeton University

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

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Innovation Policy

Students at Syracuse University retain 100 percent ownership of student created intellectual property inside or outside of the classroom unless the innovation is created as an employee of Syracuse University or with significant use of Syracuse University laboratories. The faculty may encourage open innovation and information sharing for research and education. Students may be

advised to seek additional feedback and guidance from the Blackstone LaunchPad, the Syracuse Technology Commercialization Law Program, and/or to submit an ‘Ideas and Inventions’ Disclosure Form to Syracuse University’s Office of Technology. The university may then better advise and assist you. If a student is working on a federally funded research project, they must

disclose to the instructors and their faculty research supervisor. This is so that we may better assist

and advise students on their Blockchain Management course presentation and project plans .

FERPA The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) and SU’s FERPA institutiona l management (http://supolicies.syr.edu/studs/ferpa.htm) set forth requirements regarding the privacy of student records. Federal regulations and University policies are fairly complex, but in

general, you should err on the side of caution whenever dealing with issues of student privacy. Specific questions may be directed to the iSchool Student Services office or to the Registrar’s Office (443- 3535). There are a number of rights for students of which instructors must be aware.

Faith-Based Observances Syracuse University recognizes the diverse faith traditions represented among its campus community and supports the rights of faculty, staff, and students to observe according to these. View

a detailed student policy. Under this policy, students are provided an opportunity to make up examination, study, or work requirements that may be missed due to religious observance provided they notify the university and their instructors before the end of the second week of classes. Students will have access to an online notification system for this purpose on MySlice during the first

two weeks of the semester. Instructors will also have MySlice access to a list of students who have provided notification. We ask that you be as flexible as possible in accommodating these students. View more information within the iSchool Faculty Center and a list of the religious traditions on the Syracuse University Chapel schedule.

Turnitin This class will be using Turnitin, a plagiarism prevention system. The ease of using the Internet

has made it very easy for students to “cut and paste” material into papers that they are writing without proper citation. I will submit all/some/ papers that you write in this class to Turnitin, a service that identifies “matched text.” I will then interpret the originality report, based on your writing capability and writing style. In this class, you will also be given the opportunity to submit

your own papers to Turnitin to check that all sources you have used are properly acknowledged and cited. Note that all submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database, solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers.

IT Services IT Services works closely with SU’s central Information Technology and Services group to provide

IT support services to students, faculty and staff. Students have access to a range of specialized

software and hardware in our labs and also to a large library of applications through our participation in the Microsoft Academic Alliance and the VMware e-academy. In addition, faculty and staff may also have access to certain specialized applications. For more information about

software availability, visit ITS-Syracuse University Faculty can find answers to other common questions at our Top Ten Faculty questions page:

Syllabus updated January 22, 2018