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Need more homework assignments! Make it required to send in assignments via email to the TA as well as webwork.

NO!!!!! More homework assignments exponentially increases the burden on the TAs to grade. More e-mails to the TAs give a bigger chance that important e-mails like "change my grade!" will be lost. This is all in my opinion as a TA that's been around for a while :) But good suggestion! Amanda Bennett

What is the site for that woman's survey?

Yah, didn't Monica Sweat say she was going to email us that survey that could be counted as a pop quiz or something? I never got the email.

I think that you should take the pop quizzes out of the grade in future. If somebody is so smart they don't need to go to class then they should be given the opportunity to go work on finding the cure to cancer and not have to make the lecture hall their bed.

That's an idea. We give the quizzes to try to get feedback from you guys on how you're doing in the class. Any other suggestions on how we can do this? Amanda Bennett

why has there been so many incarnations of this class?

We're still trying to figure out what works best. Amanda Bennett

pop quizzes are a bad idea......

When will we get our final exam grades??

We don't know at this point whether the grades will be posted to Webwork. Its upto the professors. - Bobby Mathew

I heard that the TA's will be grading them all Wednesday so I doubt we'll have to wait too long

They should all be graded tomorrow. - Bobby Mathew

Will you post answers from the tests? I want to know what I may have missed.

Answers will not be posted. - Bobby Mathew

If you're actually trying to find the cure for cancer while you're skipping lecture, be my guest. Of course, I don't think sleeping/watching anime/surfing the web are going to help you in your fight against the big C. Just an observation (because this is mostly what I've seen people who skip lectures doing with their extra free time).

Are we still dropping our lowest pop quiz grade?

Yes. We actually did one pop quiz fewer than we had originally intended, but we promised to drop one and that's what we'll do. Anybody with an excused absence for a class when we had a pop quiz will have that pop quiz grade dropped as well and the remaining pop quizzes will be averaged for the overall pop quiz grade. Colin Potts

I filled out the survey for Monica Sweat. Does that take out one of our pop quizzes or does it give us a 100 for one of them?...I'm pretty sure she said it was one of the two.

I wasn't in Monica Sweat's class, but I still filled out the survey.. does that mean we get a 100 for one of quizzes? And also, since the lowest pop quiz grade is being dropped, does that mean our grade only accounts for the best 4 grades? Thanks!

No one was in Monica's class, she didn't teach CS1315 this semester. I think she said that she was going to talk to Mark and Colin and see if she could get them to add it as an extra pop quiz. -Brittany Duncan

well since its the end of the semester im going to clear this board lol i always wanted to do it

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Final Exam Grades have been posted to webwork. Have a good break -Albert d'Heurle|

Since some idiot erased the soapbox, I never got to see if the final was going to be counted for 45% if we got above our midterm average. Fact or myth? Because that determines if i get a 79 or an 80. :(
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"In lieu of the difficult of the last test, it has been decided that the final at the end of the semester may count 45% towards your final grade if you do better on the final than both midterms (both midterms would not count towards your final grade in this scenario). If in the case your performance on the final is worse than the midterms the original formula posted on the syllabus would be used. If you have any questions about this please email me at albert@gatech.edu -Albert d'Heurle"

This is what it says somewhere down the announcements page (on the homepage of this site) :D!! I hope this helps!! Does this apply for all CS1315 classes...? I'm in Dr. Potts's class and remember him presenting a pie chart showing this change and hope to make sure, and I'm so sorry for this redundant question–!! Thank you so very much..!! :D

So, I did well on midterm1 but horrible on midterm2, and my final exam grade is a little above the AVG of 2 midterms. I hope my final exam grade counts 45%, because if it doesn't my final grade will be 89 instead of 90.

Who do we contact if we want to talk about our final exam grade?

Mark or me, depending on who was the professor for your section. Colin Potts

It is true for all the 1315 classes this semester that the final exam will be 45% if it is above the average of your two midterm grades. If you need to talk about your final exam grade, e-mail Albert (albert [at] gatech.edu). Thanks for a great semester guys! -Brittany Duncan

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Oh, phew!! :D Thank you so much, Madame Brittany!! Happy break to you and everybody..!!

Yay, thank you! happy holidays everyone.

Do we get to drop one of our pop quizzes or not? I know in class Colin said we would get to but I wasn't sure and it makes the difference between an A and a B in my case!!!

Yes. Explained above. Colin Potts

OK, so what if my final grade is 89.69, given the fact that is no curving this means I get a B in the class?

I asked the same question a while ago, and Bobby said most likely that will be an A.

The A/B split is at 89.5%. We dropped all the grading boundaries slightly to wherever there was a genuine gap between students. This means that no one should have a letter grade lower than someone else who has a total only 0.1% larger. Colin Potts

so I'm just wondering, is Monica Sweat's survey gonna be indeed a pop quiz? cuz its not showing on webwork.

We have all of our grades on Webwork and the static sheet so we should be able to determine our grade.
But will it specifically at some point " you made an 'A' in CS1315" ?

It should be officially part of your transcript now. Ignore Webwork and consult OSCAR for your letter grade. Colin Potts