Department of Computer Science and Engineering

CSE 247 / 502N

Fall 2016

Grading Policy

We recognize that students enter CSE247 with a wide variety of backgrounds. Therefore, CSE247 strives for a non-competetive learning environment. Our aim is to help you learn, not filter you out. To avoid putting you in competition with your classmates, we will not compare students in the determination of grades for CSE247. No means are used and there are no curves.

Your semester score is computed as the following weighted average:

Component	Weight
Studio	18%
Labs	20%
Course Evaluation	2%
Exam I	20%
Exam II	20%
Final Exam	20%

Studio

Attendance in studio is mandatory and you must be present to receive credit.
If you write the professor an email about why you missed studio, and that email is sent no later than the day of studio, then you may be granted an excused absence for studio.
In that case, you will have to make up the studio with a TA in TA office hours.

Exams

There are two in-term exams planned and one cumulative final exam.

Labs

Labs are due by the date indicated on the course syllabus. Your lab must be your own solution.

Automatic copy-detecting programs will be run on your labs to find incidences of academic integrity violations.

Labs are due as posted on the course calendar and syllabus.

We realize that you are taking other courses, and that you may occasionally need more time to complete a lab. You are given a certain number of late-lab coupons as described in the late policy, and these are spent automatically when you demo a lab after its regular deadline and before its late deadline.
Once you are out of coupons, no other late labs will count toward your lab score.

Your lab score is the fraction of labs you have completed as compared to those assigned. Thus, your lab score will be 100% if all labs are completed as described above.

How are grades assigned?

Your letter grade in this course is based on your semester score, computed as described above. No rounding is performed on your semester score: you must have at least the stated number of points to earn the associated grade. The following table explains how the score is converted into a letter or pass/fail grade:

Score	Grade Option	Pass/Fail Option
97	A+	Pass
93	A
90	A-
87	B+
83	B
80	B-
77	C+
73	C
70	C-
60	D	Fail
0	F	Fail

What if I feel my work was not graded properly?

Once a grade for an assignment has been posted to blackboard, you have one week to ask for a review of that grade.

It is your responsibility to check your grades and make an appeal, if appropriate, in the alloted time period.

A request of this nature will trigger a regrade of all aspects of the work associated with that grade. It is possible this review will result in a lower, not higher score. So proceed carefully.
If the work in question was of a written nature, the work must be submitted with no alteration of the contents.
A cover letter must be supplied that explains the nature of the reconsideration request.

Appeals made beyond the one-week consideration period will not be considered. Emails or piazza posts concerning regrades past the one-week consideration period will not be answered.

Last modified 21:59:23 CDT 25 August 2016 by Ron K. Cytron

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
CSE 247 / 502N	Fall 2016

Department of Computer Science and Engineering CSE 247 / 502N Fall 2016 Grading Policy