Assessment

Your work in CS135 will be assessed in a variety of ways. We hope that CS135 will be able to be conducted entirely in-person. However, we may be forced on-line for some or all of the course.

Each marked component of the course will earn you “points”, which may differ if it is in-person or on-line. Your mark for the course will be the total of the points you earn divided by the points available times 100.

For example, suppose everything is in-person except the final exam. You earn 80% on assignments (20 points), 60% on the midterm (15 points), ace (100%) the the participation marks (5 points) and get 80% on the final (16 points; remember, in this example it’s on-line).
You’ve earned $20+15+5+16 = 56$ points out of the 75 available. So your mark for the course is $56/75*100 = 75$. This is known as the “normal calculation”.

There is one caveat – in order to pass the course, you must:

• earn half of the available assignment points and
• earn half of the available exam points.

If you don’t meet the above requirement, your final mark will be the smaller of the normal calculation and a mark of 46%.

A passing mark in CS135 is 50%. However, to go on to CS136 you need a mark of at least 60%.

An INComplete will be assigned to a student with more than 3 excused¹ assignments or more than 1 excused exams, provided the instructors think the student has a reasonable expectation of passing the course.

The points available for each assignment are given on the Assignments page.