Grading

Warning

Another time, for the people in the back:

  • Unless explicitly noted, all assignments must be completed individually.

  • Changes to submissions after the deadline will be ignored.

  • Missed assignments will receive a zero.

Just tell me about grades already.

—You, probably

Ok, fine… Here is the high level overview of grades.

—Me, defeated

From most important to slightly less important:

  • Discussion board replies: answering questions and/or moving conversations forward, being helpful and polite

  • Discussion board posts: asking questions-but don’t spam the board with low effort posts, sharing fun and related articles or code snippets (“Look what I found! Maybe this is useful”)1

  • Presenting pre-class exercise attempts (good faith attempts)

  • In-class coding (mostly effort based)

  • Contributions to discussions and poll/quiz answers

  • Is your camera on when I randomly take snapshots of the gallery?

A few notes:

  • Later assignments will receive larger grade components

  • Each assignment grade will come from an average of two peer reviews (adjusted for objective errors in reviews and large subjective ones)

  • Unless explicitly noted, all assignments must be completed individually.

You should aspire to

  • Write accurate and honest reviews

  • Actually run the code to verify accuracy

  • Give helpful, constructive, and nice feedback

It’s going to be fun!

1

Obviously, don’t share code used on assignments

Course structure + policies Gratitude