ASSIGNMENT CLARIFICATION


There have been some suggestions to clarify how the Net grading
(of 25 percent) will be done. This strikes me as the best way to do it:

25 percent of the total points is 150 points. So, the Net exercises
are worth (obviously) 150 points.

--Ten percent (50 points) will be on WebBoard. You will receive a
  weekly grade (caluculated at the end of the semester). Of the
  8 weeks, only your top five weeks will be counted (10 points each).
  SO:
    <> no log-ins and no posts on webboard is obviously an F/zero.
    <> A login or two and a post or two is a C
    <> A few SOLID substantive posts that answer others' questions,
       continue a thread, provide good information, or start a
       thread move people toward the A range. About 5 *solid*
       posts a week would be moving toward the A range

--100 points will be available through assignments. Actually, I'll
  make more than 100 points available in the various assignments
  so if you don't like one grade, you can do another assignment to
  replace that grade. The assignments will be of varying points
  and varying difficulty. What this means is that if
  you do 3 assignments worth 20 points each and bomb them and get
  only 10 points each (totalling 30 of the 60 points), and do
  four assignments worth up to 10 points and max out on them
  for 40 points, you'd have 70 total points (30 + 40). 
  You'd obviously want to preserve the 4 A assignments, but you'd
  likely want to try to improve the other 3. So, you could do
  other assignments as "replacement" assigments. You can do as many
  rf you don't like one grade, you can do another assignment to
  replace that grade. The assignments will be of varying points
  and varying difficulty. What this means is that if
  you do 3 assignments worth 20 points each and bomb them and get
  only 10 points each (totalling 30 of the 60 points), and do
  four assignments worth up to 10 points and max out on them
  for 40 points, you'd have 70 total points (30 + 40).
  You'd obviously want to preserve the 4 A assignments, but you'd
  likely want to try to improve the other 3. So, you could do
  other assignments as "replacement" assigments. You can do as many
  replacements as you wish.

The assignments will be found at:

 http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas/class/488/Assigs/netassigs.html

They will go up at least once a week, usually more often.
Some will be do within a few days, others at the end of the term.

~  f you don't like one grade, you can do another assignment to
  replace that grade. The assignments will be of varying points
  and varying difficulty. What this means is that if
  you do 3 assignments worth 20 points each and bomb them and get
  only 10 points each (totalling 30 of the 60 points), and do
  four assignments worth up to 10 points and max out on them
  for 40 points, you'd have 70 total points (30 + 40).
  You'd obviously want to preserve the 4 A assignments, but you'd
  likely want to try to improve the other 3. So, you could do
  other assignments as "replacement" assigments. You can do as many
  replacements as you wish.

I will put assignments up at:

 http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas/class/488/Assigs/netassigs.html

They will go up at least once a week, usually more often.
Some will be do within a few days, others at the end of the term.

~eplacements as you wish.

I will put assignments up at:

 http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas/class/488/Assigs/netassigs.html

They will go up at least once a week, usually more often.
Some will be do within a few days, others at the end of the term.

They will also sometimes (but not always) appear here in this conference.

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