Sagewell Learner Code of Conduct

1. Purpose and scope

This code applies to everyone enrolled in a Sagewell program, including employer-sponsored learners. It covers every Sagewell space:

• Online lessons, assignments and knowledge checks
• Live Wednesday practice labs and optional office hours
• Cohort discussion spaces, email and direct messages with instructors or classmates
• Your final project and live demonstration

By enrolling, you agree to follow this code for the length of your program.

2. Respect and inclusion

Sagewell is designed for women and open to every learner who meets the course requirements. Learners come from different careers, ages and comfort levels with technology, and every one of them belongs here.

We expect you to:

• Be patient and encouraging, especially with classmates who are newer to technology
• Give feedback on the work, not the person, and keep it specific and kind
• Let others finish speaking in labs, and share airtime
• Respect different backgrounds, opinions and experience

We do not tolerate:

• Harassment, bullying, threats or intimidation of any kind
• Insulting, demeaning or discriminatory comments, including about age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender or national origin
• Unwelcome personal or romantic attention
• Selling, recruiting or promoting outside businesses to classmates without the instructor's approval

3. Academic integrity

Your certificate says you can do the work yourself, so the work you submit must be yours. Using AI is part of this course; hiding how you used it is not.

• Use AI openly. When an assignment uses AI, note which tool you used and what you checked or changed. Submitting AI output as if you wrote and verified it yourself is a violation.
• Do your own knowledge checks. Complete quizzes on your own, without help from classmates or other people.
• Credit others. If you build on a classmate's prompt, template or idea, say so.
• Collaborate where invited. Discussing ideas and helping each other in labs is encouraged. Copying another learner's assignment or final project is not.
• Demonstrate honestly. Your final demonstration must use your own workflow, run live on a new example. Report your real test results, including what didn't work.
• Don't share answers. Do not post quiz answers, graded work or rubrics where future learners can find them.

The certificate requires 80% or higher on knowledge checks and at least 80 of 100 on the final project. Work found to be dishonest may receive a zero and does not count toward these requirements.

4. Safe and responsible AI use

Practice the same safety habits in class that you would use at work. These are also essential requirements of the final project.

• Use sample or approved information only. Work with the sample business data provided, or information you have written permission to use.
• Never enter private data into an AI tool. That includes customer records, employee information, financial account details, health information, passwords, or anyone's personal details.
• Protect your employer. Do not upload confidential documents, client files or internal data from any workplace, even to show a real example.
• Use approved tools. Use the tools named in the lesson, or tools your employer has approved for the task.
• Keep a human in charge. Check facts, figures and sources before you share or rely on any AI output.
• Don't use AI to cause harm. Do not use course tools or skills to deceive, impersonate, harass or create misleading content.

If private information ends up in your work by mistake, stop, remove it, and tell your instructor.

5. Privacy and confidentiality

What classmates share in Sagewell stays in Sagewell.

• Respect personal stories. Do not repeat what a classmate shares about her job, employer or life outside the cohort.
• No recording without consent. Do not record, screenshot or photograph live labs, office hours or classmates without everyone's permission. Sagewell will tell you in advance if a session is recorded.
• Keep contact details private. Do not share a classmate's name, email or phone number outside the cohort without her permission.
• Keep course materials for your own use. Lessons, templates and handouts are for enrolled learners. Do not resell, republish or distribute them. You may keep and show your own final project and portfolio case study.

6. Participation and live labs

The weekly lab is where most of the learning happens, so come ready to practice.

• Attend when you can. Live labs meet Wednesdays, 1:00–2:30 p.m. Pacific. If you miss one, complete the equivalent practice assignment by the date your instructor sets.
• Show up prepared. Finish that week's online lesson before the lab when possible.
• Join with your camera on if you can. Mute when you're not speaking, and use a setting free of private documents or screens in view.
• Ask questions. No question is too basic. Asking is part of the work.
• Communicate. If you fall behind, are struggling or need to step away, tell your instructor early. Most problems are easier to solve in week 3 than week 9.
• Use Sagewell channels. Send course questions to your instructor or hello@sagewelltechacademy.com.

7. Reporting concerns and what happens next

If something makes you uncomfortable, or you see a violation of this code, tell us. You will not be penalized for raising a concern in good faith.

• How to report: Email hello@sagewelltechacademy.com, or call 760-409-3430. You can also message your instructor privately during or after a lab.
• What we do: We review every report promptly, talk with the people involved, and keep details as private as possible.
• Urgent situations: If anyone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first.

Depending on how serious a violation is, Sagewell may take one or more of these steps:

1. A private conversation and reminder of this code
2. A written warning
3. Removal from a live lab, discussion space or office hour
4. A zero on the affected assignment or project
5. Dismissal from the program without a certificate

Serious violations, such as harassment, threats or misuse of private information, may lead directly to dismissal. Any tuition refund follows the Sagewell Refund and Cancellation Policy.

8. Acknowledgment

Before your first lab, you will be asked to confirm:

[ ] I have read the Sagewell Learner Code of Conduct and agree to follow it.

Sagewell may update this code between cohorts. Questions? Email hello@sagewelltechacademy.com.

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