CPS710	Feedback on Course Work

Each of you has an individual Google sheet for this course summarizing your progress towards meeting all the learning objectives in this course. You will be given access to this sheet in the early weeks of the semester. You can find a summary of the numeric results of the assessments in the first tab, which is called "Progress Sheet". In this sheet, the original entry for each learning objective is a "-" symbol, which indicates that you have not yet submitted the associated work or it hasn't been assessed yet.

Timelines

The work that you submitted for that assessment before that date should have been assessed. Any work submitted after that date will be considered a resubmission that will be assessed whenever time permits.

Numeric Feedback

0. Work was submitted but does not demonstrate that learning objective has been met. Because we are looking for evidence that learning has taken place, submissions that are clearly simply copied from other sources will not be assessed as providing this evidence of learning. To provide this evidence, it is better to rephrase ideas using your own words, or elaborate on the explanations you found, or explain using examples. If this is too challenging, another way to demonstrate this learning is by discussing the idea with the instructor during an office hour.
1. Learning objective has been met
2. Learning objective has been mastered

Written Feedback

• If the work was submitted in Crowdmark, you will be able to see the feedback in Crowdmark.

• The feedback for work submitted in D2L works the normal way: Once a quiz (or late lab) has been assessed, you should be able to access it and see the feedback. If you can't, please let the instructor know. D2L is finicky and sometimes needs extra tweaking.

• Because the programming assignments are mostly graded with scripts that you can run yourselves, you should not be surprised by the results of their assessments in your progress sheet. Generally speaking, if your program passes all the tests for a specific learning objective then 2 will be recorded, and if if it doesn't pass any of the tests 0 will be recorded. 1 may be recorded if the tests are partially passed, but the threshold will vary from assignment to assignment. If we find it necessary to give you additional feedback, it will be in the form of a text file available your course submit directory on the moons. This file will have a name like "A1feedback" or "A1 tests" that makes it clear which assignment the feedback is for and what type of feedback it is. Instructions about working with your course submit directory are in the Submission Information page.

Following Up On Feedback

2. If you have demonstrated in that assessment that you have mastered a learning objective, and a 2 is recorded for that objective in your progress sheet, you can ignore all subsequent opportunities to meet this learning objective, unless the associated work is needed to meet a followup learning objective. For example: in Lab 3-1, you may meet 3Ba (Detect an ambiguity in a given grammar and explain why it is ambiguous), but not 3Aa (Remove the ambiguity in a given grammar). In order to make up 3Aa in Test1, you will also need to answer the 3Ba question in that same test because the two questions are about the same grammar, but if you do not answer 3Ba correctly, this will not impact negatively your existing assessment for 3Ba.

3. If you have demonstrated in that assessment that you have met a learning objective, and a 1 is recorded for that objective in your progress sheet, you can work to demonstrate your mastery of this objective (see next paragraph for how), or you may decide to focus your efforts on other work.

4. If you have not demonstrated in that assessment that you have met a learning objective, and a 0 is recorded for that objective in your progress sheet, please read the feedback on that objective, and either resubmit the work at the next opportunity, or demonstrate your knowledge orally during an office hour. If you do not understand the feedback, then the best way to deal with it is to discuss it during an office hour.