CSCI 3355 Grading Scheme

Evaluation Category Weight
Website Development (see note 1 below for details) 40%
Two zyBook Assignments (see note 2 below for details)
(No Extensions) 		30%
Hands-On Exercises and other in-Lab Work
(see note 3 below for details)
(To get your points you have to be there.) 		30%
Total (see notes 4, 5 and 6 below for details) 100%
Virtual (online) attendance is not allotted any direct point value, but is regarded as important, and is expected of all students. And students are required to be familiar with whatever material is covered in all of the online sessions. That familiarity is best acquired by attending the online sessions in real time, but the recorded session can and should be viewed later if the live session is missed.

Important Notes on the Grading Scheme

  1. Your major task for the term will be to develop a functional website that satisfies each new group of specifications provided as the course progresses. This will take place in six stages, and both development instructions and feedback will be provided along the way, along with in-class discussion of topics needed for the development. The total points accumulated by your final submission of each of the various versions of the website will count for 40% of the course grade.
  2. The second major task will be to complete the activities in several chapters of the zyBook assigned to the course. These consist of Participation, Challenge, and Lab Activities within the zyBook. The total points accumulated for completing these Activities within the zyBook will count for 30% of the course grade. There are two zyBook assignments: each is worth 15%.
  3. The hands-on exercises done in the Recitation/Lab sessions will be designed to help you become familiar with various aspects of the technologies you should be using to develop your website, and may also, from time to time, involve students interacting with and critiquing the websites of other students. In any case, whether a particular activity involves individual effort or group effort in a breakout room setting, you have to be present and submit/perform to accumulate whatever points have been allotted to the event(s) of that session. The total points accumulated for these activities will count for 30% of the course grade.
  4. The total numerical grade determined on the basis of the percentages in the above table will be the key factor, but not necessarily the only factor, in assigning a final letter grade for the course. For example, a passing grade for the course may not be given if a student has clearly not made an honest effort to complete all parts of the course. Actual letter grades will be assigned according to the scheme outlined in the university calendar, and based on the numerical total calculated according to the above table.
  5. There will be no mid-term test, and no final exam.
  6. If the instructor suspects, for any reason, that a student has not been doing his or her own work during the course, no grade in the course will be assigned to that student until the instructor has had a one-on-one Zoom session (complete with audio and video) with the student in question, and the student has answered, to the satisfaction of the instructor, whatever questions about the course material are posed by the instructor during the session.