Grading Policy

Grades are posted on the Grades Page.

Grading for this class is broken down in the following way -

Midterm - 25%

Final - 25%

Design (1) and Programming (3) Assignments - 40% (10% each)

Lab Assignments (7) 10% (Lowest grade will be dropped)

Participation in class is highly encouraged and may be considered in borderline cases (CS2390 CoWeb and newsgroup participation, discussion in class, etc.)

Letter grades are assigned according to the usual convention (A = 90+, B = 80-89, C = 70-79, D = 60-69, F below 60).

I believe it's only fair to know a fair amount of your grade by the drop date (Friday October 1). To this end, I will make every attempt to have around 50% of your grades for the semester back to you by then. Having said this, you must be prompt in turning things in and asking for re-grades, so we have time to do the grading. I can only help you if you help me.

Assuming a reasonable attempt at a program, program grades will be based 50% on design documentation and 50% on meeting project requirements. Design Documentation must meet class requirements. No late assignments will be accepted.

Attendance in lecture is mandatory. Lab sections are an excellent time to get help.

Since this is a college class, and we are all adults, I believe that everything in class can be up for discussion, including the grading policy or times for assignments. However, I also reserve the right to unilaterally make a decision because I want to.

Regrading:

All assignments will be returned to you within two weeks of the time they were turned in. From this, ...
Regrades are only possible within one week of turnback time time. (Not when you get it, when it gets returned to the class.)
Regrade requests must be in writing -- tell us what you want and why.
Regrade requests can go to TAs or Rodney. Having said this, go to the TAs first. I don't believe in stepping on my TAs toes with grading. They grade all the labs and assignments, so they know why they did something. Only come to me if you are not satisfied with the answers they give you.
Any assignment regraded will be COMPLETELY regraded, i.e., we may take off points for something else that we find.

If you submit something that the TA can't fileIn, she or he will alert you by email. You will have 24 hours to respond to the request with a file that DOES fileIn. If you do not respond, or if the new file does not fileIn, the TA will grade the file by-hand (her/his best guess as to whether it could have possibly worked) for no more than 10% of the grade.

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