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Grade Components
Your grade will be determined both by your personal performance as well as the performance of your small team on a course project. These components will be weighted as follows:
Individual
10% - Class participation
10% - Assignment 1 - Digital Collections immersion (weekly, ongoing)
10% - Assignment 2 - Multi-schema Metadata Creation
10% - Assignment 3 - Retrieve Web Metadata
Group projects
20% - Digital Collection Discovery (pairs)
40% - Project (groups of 3-ish)
Grading Scheme
Your final letter grade will be calculated as follows:
| Grade | Cutoff |
| A | 95% | |
| A- | 90% | |
| B+ | 87% | |
| B* | 83% | |
| B- | 80% | |
| C+ | 77% | |
| C | 73% | |
| C- | 70% | |
| F | <70% |
*You must get a grade of B or better for iSchool core courses to satisfy your degree requirements. This course is NOT a core course
Class Policies
Student Rights & Responsibilities
You have a right to:
- a learning environment that supports mental and physical wellness.
- respect.
- be assessed and graded fairly.
- freedom of opinion and expression.
- privacy and confidentiality.
- meaningful and equal participation, to self-organize groups to improve your learning environment.
- learn in an environment that is welcoming to all people.
No student shall be isolated,excluded or diminished in any way.
With these rights come responsibilities:
- You are responsible for taking care of yourself, managing your time, and communicating with the instructor and with others if things start to feel out of control or overwhelming.
- You are responsible for acting in a way that is worthy of respect and always respectful of others.
- Your experience with this course is directly related to the quality of the energy that you bring to it, and your energy shapes the quality of your peers’ experiences.
- You are responsible for creating an inclusive environment and for speaking up when someone is excluded.
- You are responsible for holding yourself accountable to these standards, holding each other to these standards, and holding the instructor accountable as well.
Attendance
| I recommend attending every class session. If you must miss class or delay the submission of deliverables due to a university excused absence (religious observance, military service, or health reasons), please notify me as early as possible. I require at least a two week notice for religious observances. Health issues or military service should be reported as early as possible with appropriate documentation (doctor's notes or order to report for duty). |
Device use
| I recognize that there is a wealth of resources on the Web that can enrich classroom education. I encourage you to look up relevant information, whether during or outside the classroom. However, always connected devices also present a distraction as you may receive messages or calls during class. With this reality, I use the following policy: Students may use their laptops and other computing devices (for example, tablets, smartphones) in the classroom for class-related activities only. Use of devices for personal (non-emergency) reasons such as emailing, chatting, facebooking, playing games is prohibited. Students who use their devices for non-class related activities will be excused from the class and will have points deducted from their class participation grade. Each infraction will result in a loss of one minor letter grade (for example, A to A- or B- to C+). |
Assignment due times and submission
Unless otherwise noted, all assignments are due at the beginning of class on their due date. All assignments should be submitted through the course Canvas page unless the assignment instructions specify an alternate medium. Assignment due dates set in the syllabus will only be changed by a unanimous vote of all participants (including myself). Every member has a veto to prevent a change to due dates specified in the syllabus. If you would like a class-wide change, please bring up the topic and we will discuss the modification in class. While we all have the best intentions to meet every deadline, I recognize that life happens. Each assignment can be turned in up to two weeks after its due time. Late assignments submitted within two weeks will incur a flat 20% reduction in grade (NOT 10% per week). I will not accept late assignments more than 2 weeks past the submission time unless supported by a class, school, or university policy. |
File naming and identification
| It is difficult for me to find assignments submitted by a specific student (especially, after I download these to my computer) if many use filenames like "assignment1.doc". To facilitate easy discovery, all submitted files must be named as follows: Individual work: INF385S-<lastname>-<firstname>-<file-content-description>.<extension> In addition, please also include on the first page of your submission:
Warning: If you do not follow these requirement, your submission may be returned without a grade and without a possibility to re-submit it. |
