Assessment (Tentative!)
- Assignments: 20%
- Development Blog: 10%
- Participation: 10%
- Peer Review: 10%
- Project: 50%
Important Notes
All due dates indicated on the Schedule, are hard deadlines, late submissions are not accepted. Not ever! Submit early and often instead! :-)
It's hopefully obvious what Assignments are and what the Project is. You will actually submit your project three times in the form of alpha, beta, and final releases as outlined on the Schedule.
The Development Blog should be updated regularly and will be graded at several (usually unannounced) dates. The idea is to keep it current with interesting stuff that's happening in your team as you work on your game. Peer Reviews are your chance to express formally how well you and your team mates did working on the project, who made the biggest contributions and who slacked off too much, etc.
Participation covers all kinds of stuff including (but not limited to) attending lectures, labs, and other meetings, doing in-class exercises, taking part in discussions, helping others (without cheating of course!) in class and on the discussion list, writing lecture notes, etc.
Final Grade
Each grade item is measured as a percentage relative to the highest actually achieved score for that item. Grade items in each category (Assignments, Diary, Participation, Peer Review, Project) are averaged, multiplied by the weight of their category, and added together to yield your final percentage score in the course. Your final grade is determined according to the following scale:
| Score | Grade |
|---|---|
| 100 – 90 | A |
| 89 – 80 | B |
| 79 – 70 | C |
| 69 – 60 | D |
| 59 – 0 | F |
Plus and minus grades fall at the extreme ends of these ranges, for example 89 is a "B+" grade but 88 is a "B" grade. There is no curve, you can all get "A" grades! There are no "I" grades either!
