DC2 Rubric

Everyone who turned in a draft should have gotten some (limited) feedback as a comment on Canvas. (note: I may not see any replies you make to those)

To help you decide how to finalize your DC2, here is the draft of the grading rubric. It will hopefully give you some idea as to what we are looking for when we do grading.

In doing grading, most of the grade will be on the “final” project, however…

1. You will be penalized if you did not turn in all aspects of the assignment. We will deduct 1/4 of a grade for each assignment missed (e.g., if you missed 2 parts, your A will turn into an AB).
2. We will consider the quality and completeness of your Phase 1, 2 and 3. Doing exceptionally well or badly on a part can push a grade in either direction (so if you’re on the borderline, this will matter more). Great early parts will help more than bad early parts hurt.
3. The early parts are per person – a “final” grade is given to a team, and then the per-person adjustments are added.

DC2 Rubric:

No project is expected to excel in all areas. A project should get into the top score in a few categories and/or middle scores in a lot of categories.

• Quantity/Diversity of Designs:
  1. One (or multiple similar)
  2. Good (a few, reasonabe diversity)
  3. Exceptional
• Creativity/Cleverness of Designs:
  1. Simple Tweaks to Standard Designs
  2. Interesting / Non-Obvious
  3. Exceptional / Innovative
• Degree of Implementation:
  1. Sketch
  2. Mockup / Use of Tool / Use of Fixed Data
  3. Demoable tool
• Visual Quality of Design Presentation
  1. Rough sketch
  2. Works enough to get idea
  3. Details thought through to be usable
• Matching to Task
  1. Tasks not stated, or not connected
  2. Tasks described and connected
  3. Convincing task rationale and critique
• Critique
  1. Limited
  2. Explains good/bad
  3. Thorough
• Evaluation Plans / Sample Data
  1. Minimal
  2. Thought through description
  3. Exceptionally Complete
• Quality of Presentation
  1. Has Basic Stuff
  2. Clear and Clearly Complete
  3. Exceptional
• Design Documentation
  1. Hard to understand what is going on
  2. Clearly communicated
  3. Exceptional (conveys design and rationale)