Revision process

At the heart of the learning process in our CS courses is a system of submission and revision of your work that will allow you to make improvements to your work based on instructor feedback. Most grades on work are not final; you will have the chance on almost every submitted item to revise and resubmit to improve its quality. First, lets’s detail how to submit your work in the first place.

Submission of work

Submission of quizzes and challenges is easy: These are completed during class meetings once per unit and posted to TowerNet, so you simply turn in your work when you’ve finished in class. Similarly easy is the submission of Practice Problem, Labs, PSETs, and Videos. These will all be posted to Tower Net with explicit instructions on how to submit each one.

Revision

You can revise any quiz and any Challenge Problem (with some restrictions; see below) until you are satisfied with the results. The process for doing these revisions is different for the two kinds of work.

Revising Quizzes: All quizzes must be attempted during a designated assessment period first. Once this has been done, if the grade is Unsatisfactory, you can retake the quiz in one of two ways.

  1. You can retake it during a later assessment period in class by submitting a request at least 48 hours before the quiz period during which you want to re-take a quiz.
  2. Unless your feedback on the quiz tells you otherwise, you can schedule a 15-minute session to retake up to two (2) quizzes orally. Please note the restriction on both the time (15 minutes) and number of assessments (1 appointment per week, 2 assessments per appointment) that can be done orally. Appointment slots are available on a first-come first-served basis. Please note that oral assessments are only for retakes. You must first attempt a quiz during class and receive Unsatisfactory ratings on it to be eligible for an oral retake.

In either case, you will receive ONE (1) POINT for attempting a re-take and an additional HALF (0.5) POINT if you earn a satisfactory. NOTE that the highest grade you can earn for a quiz is on a re-take is 1.5 POINTS.

The following restrictions apply to quizzes:

  • Requests for in-class retakes of quizzes must be made using this form at least 48 hours before the quiz period during which you want to re-take a quiz. This allows sufficient time to construct and copy the correct batch of assessments. Requests that come in after the deadline will be declined and students who attempt an assessment without requesting it will be charged one token per assessment.
  • The oral retake option is only for work that showed good faith and complete effort on paper initially but was rated Unsatisfactory. Assessment work that is incomplete or does not show sufficient effort may require a second attempt on paper before an oral retake is allowed. If this is the case, a note will be left on the paper assessment saying so. This is to prevent students from intentionally doing Unsatisfactory work in class because they want to do an oral exam instead.
  • The oral retake option for quizzes may be used no more than once per week per student and must be scheduled using this form. Drop-in requests will be declined. Students who are late for appointments may be asked to reschedule at a later date, and repeated issues of not showing up on time for appointments may result in not being allowed to use oral retakes at all in the future.

Revising Challenge Problems: Challenge Problems which are turned in on time AND recieve a grade of R or better can be revised and resubmitted by addressing the issues pointed out in Mr. Soistmann’s feedback, and then submitting the problem again. The highest grade attained so far will be the one recorded in the gradebook.

FINAL, FINAL DEADLINES

Finally, there are two important dates for your work:

  • No requests for oral retakes of quizzes will be accepted after…
    • First Semester - 11:59 pm Eastern time on January 7, 2025
    • Second Semester - 11:59 pm Eastern time on May 20, 2025
  • No further submissions of Challenge Problems, either new submissions or revisions, will be accepted after…
    • First Semester - 11:59 pm Eastern time on January 21, 2025
    • Second Semester - 11:59 pm Eastern time on May 28, 2025