Final grades have been posted to the registrar’s system.
Grades for DC3 were posted to Canvas along with brief comments – we didn’t have time to write extensive feedback.
Computing final grades worked out almost exactly as described when the semester began:
We averaged 6 things:
- 3 design challenges
- A Discussion Grade, A Seek and Find Grade (as mentioned at the beginning of the semester, the quantitative measures for these max out at an AB).
- For “participation” we gave everyone an AB, unless there was a problem. We took our subjective opinion into account for border cases.
For border cases, we moved people up.
Generally, to get an A, you needed a better than AB average on the Design Challenges.
We were less likely to move someone up if they missed a lot of in class exercises (without telling us), or were often late with assignments, … In these cases, people got their numerical averages.
If you’re curious, more people got As than any other grade (almost half the class).