You are expected to take them when they are scheduled.
Final Exam
Like the exams, but twice as long!
You are expected to take it when it is scheduled.
Quizzes
5-10 minute short quizzes given every week or so.
Unless you have a valid excuse to miss class, quizzes cannot be made up.
Homework
There will be a veritable plethora of homework assignments.
All assignments are equally weighted. In other words, it does not
matter how many points each assignment is.
Please review the relevant sections of the Policies
page for additional details about my expectations for homework assignments.
Although you will learn a lot more by struggling through problems on your own,
you may use Significant outside assistance for up to 50% credit on a problem.
See the Homework Assistance section of the Policies page for more details.
Homework should be submitted on paper at the beginning of class.
Activities
This includes the following:
Textbook exercises
While reading AIDMA you must complete all of the exercises in the book for each reading assignment.
These are graded only based on effort. Typically I pick a random page from the section and ask you to show it to me
and if you have work on the page I assume you have done all of them for the given section.
You are responsible to make sure you know the correct answers (since they
are all in the back of the book). Ask question in class for the ones that you do not understand!
Reading Questions
Reading questions are at the end of each chapter.
These will be graded in different ways:
Sometimes I will give you credit for answering them, and sometimes
I may grade some or all of the problems like a homework assignment.
At the beginning of the semester you should create a Google Doc named
RQ_Smith, where you replace Smith with your last name.
Share it with me and give me permission to edit the document.
Create headings for each reading assignment (e.g. AIDM 2.3) followed by the numbered list of
answers to the questions. Place them in reverse chronological order
(i.e. so the new ones are at the top of the document.)
Feel free to copy the questions into the document as well, but it is not required.
(And if you do, you need to do it one section at a time since they will be in the wrong order otherwise.)
Reading questions are technically due by noon on the due date, but as long as they are done by the time I grade
them then I will accept them. With that being said, I may grade them at noon on some days, and 5:00 pm on other days,
so take your chances if you wish!