Our lectures are scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:30PM - 2:30PM, Pacific time, in Bishop Auditorium. Lecture participation is a component of your grade this quarter, though participation can only help and not hurt you (we compute your grade both with and without lecture participation factored in and take the higher of the two scores). All lectures will be video recorded for asynchronous viewing. It usually takes about 2-3 hours after the end of class for the videos to post to Canvas, where they will appear under Panopto Course Videos.
If you have a question during lecture, you may of course raise your hand to ask it at any time. You also have the option to ask questions during lecture via our online forum in a special megathread that will be continuously monitored by one instructor while the other lectures.
Lecture Participation Credit
It's important to keep pace with the lectures rather than to batch them up and watch them all in one go. (That model works great for Netflix shows that really hook you in, but it's not great for learning.) To give you an incentive to stay on top of lectures, we've reserved 5% of your grade for lecture participation in a way that can only help and not hurt your grade. Here's the details:
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Starting on Wednesday, January 18th, we'll ask a small number of practice questions through the PollEV polling system. If you attend lecture in person and answer those questions, you'll earn participation credit for the day regardless of whether your answers are correct.
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If you aren't able to make it, simply watch the video on Canvas and answer a few questions on Gradescope so we know you're up to speed. Unlike practice questions we do in class, you do need to answer these correctly to earn that day's credit. But Gradescope will give you the chance to retry questions you miss. These make-up questions need to be completed before the start of the next lecture (i.e., Monday lecture questions submitted before the start of Wednesday's lecture) to earn credit.
At the end of the quarter, we will calculate your total course grade including the 5% particpation, and also not including it (and putting that 5% on the final exam instead). Whichever formula ends up more favorable to you is the formula we will apply for you. So if you'd rather not attend lecture or watch videos, because you are confident in other methods of learning the material, you can do what works for you without it damaging your grade.
To allow for some flexibility, you're allowed to miss the credit opportunity (i.e. not completing PollEV or Gradescope quiz) for two lectures over the course of the quarter and still earn the full 5%.