Saturday, January 23, 2010

CPS data is up.


I just uploaded the CPS scores for both sections. Look in your My Grades page, in Webcourses, You will see two new rows:

C4-L5 answered:This row tells you how many questions you answered and sent to my CPS receiver. The 24 points on your semester grade will be based on this data. You want 85% of these to get all 24 points on your semester grade.

Note: because this is 85% and not 100%, there is some leeway for you if you miss a lecture or two.
C4-L5 correct:Here you see how many questions you actually answered correctly. The 4 bonus points on your semester grade, which I included in your syllabus, depend on this data. You want 75% of these.
Meaning of C and L:

  1. The letter C, third letter in the alphabet, is for section 0003. C4 indicates lecture 4 for section 0004, which we had on Thursday.
  2. L stands for lecture. The MWF section 0004 gets this symbol. Our fifth MWF lecture was Friday, so the CPS data from that day gets the code L5.
So the row of the My Grades page C4-L5 indicates the CPS data for the last lecture of this week in both sections.

It will be an interesting process to keep the CPS data straight this semester, with this kind of staggered section schedule!!