As a student enrolled in this course, one of your responsibilities is to submit course work by the due dates listed in Canvas and zyBooks. With that said, we take our role as your instructor very seriously, and, in fact, we care about how well you do in this course and that you have a satisfying, rewarding experience.

To that end, it is our commitment to you to respond individually to the work you submit in this class and to return your work in a timely manner. Many items in this course are automatically graded.  Items that require manual grading will be graded within 1 week. (If, however, due to unforeseeable circumstances, the grading of your work takes longer than the times we have listed here, we will keep you informed of our progress and make every effort to return your work with feedback as soon as we can.)

Keep a copy of all work created for the course, including work submitted through Canvas course learning management system.

Reading Assignments are interactive readings in the zyBooks platform.  You get points for completing these interactive readings and doing their participation and challenge activities.

Lab and Programming Assignments are in the zyBooks platform and use zyLabs.  You will complete the assignment using your own IDE and paste the resulting code into zyLabs for submission.

Lab Attendance worth 50% of your lab grade. You will be working with a classmate to do your explanation of how to solve your lab problem and that will be counting as your attendance. You will write your explanation, show it to the UTA to receive feedback and won your attendance points.

Worksheets are done in class as part of a group activity. The results are not graded, merely marked as a participation activity/attendance.

Quizzes are done during the semester as a formative kind of assignment, meaning that you can do/redo them up to 15 times during the entire semester. The highest grade will be kept for purpose of grading.

• Quizzes are initially due prior to the associated Exam and will be given an initial zero if not completed. Quiz retakes are then allowed through the last day of regular classes (generally the Friday before finals week).

Exams are given throughout the course.  There is a total of 6 unit exams and a comprehensive final exam.  The module exams are cumulative in that concepts covered up through and including the exam’s module may appear on the exam, however they often focus on material since the last exam (or since the start of the course for the first exam).