Assessment

The breakdown of your total course grade is as follows:

Please follow the links above for details on the first three assessment components. The engagement component is explained below. There will be no exam at the end of the course.

Engagement

The course has the following engagement checkpoints:

Your overall mark for the engagement component of the course is determined by (1) computing the average of the two best performing quizzes after rescaling the points of each quiz to a common 0-100 scale, and (2) using the following table to combine that average from the quizzes with your summary mark.

Summary mark / Quiz score 100-96 95-86 85-66 65-46 45-26 25-6 5-0
A* 801 75 68 62 48 35 0
A 75 75 68 62 45 30 0
B 68 68 62 58 42 25 0
C 62 62 58 52 35 20 0
D 58 58 52 42 30 15 0
below D 52 45 42 30 20 10 0

Policies

The course follows the University’s and School-wide policies:

  1. You may get a mark higher than 80 if you satisfy the requirements for a mark of 80, and also demonstrate outstanding engagement in other areas of the course, such as by correctly and helpfully answering many Piazza questions. We reserve the right to make these judgments and will not answer queries about or petitions for higher marks.