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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% - Project weekly updates (use template provided in Canvas)
Group projects
10% - Project proposal (Oct 2)
10% - Group assignment (In canvas, due Oct 30)
10% - Metadata schema description (Nov 6)
10% - System architecture (Oct 16)
10% - User interface description (Nov 13)
10% - Project code available in GitHub (Dec 11)
10% - Final presentation/poster (Dec 11)
10% - Adherence to coding standards - variable naming, comments, use of literals in code (Dec 11)
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% |
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 highly recommend bringing a laptop to the classroom. Often, we will read or refer to online documentation in the class. 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. 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. While the assignment due dates are set to avoid conflicts between deliverables for this class, it is beyond impossible to account for all the other commitments that students have. Life happens. For non-university excused reasons, you can always submit an assignment up to one week late for a 20% penalty for that assignment. |
File naming and identification
| All documents that you are submitting should 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. |
All submitted files must be named as follows:
Individual work: INF385T-<lastname>-<firstname>-<file-content-description>.<extension>
Group work: INF385T-<group-name-or-number>-<file-content-description>.<extension>
