A1 Feedback – Course Overview

Here’s the general feedback on Assignment #1 – you’ll find your specific grades and a grading sheet attached to your grade in VistaBB.

• You put in a lot of effort in trying to understand this course.
• You became familiar with the web design skills quickly even though many of you were introduced to Google Sites for the first time.
• Those who lost significant points typically did so by not addressing an entire required section, or by not providing meaningful detail.
• Some points were lost because you did not address the audiences in an effective manner, such as:
  • missing web site key dates (Audiences will not know whether the web site is up to date.)
  • only a last name was used throughout the web site (a public web site is more than just a paper assignment, which is addressed only to the grader. The purpose of the web site is to share and exchange information. So the author should at least provide the most basic personal information.)
  • some students wrote as if they were instructor (using "students will/should...") in one section and the student he/herself (I, we, us) in another (Lack of consistency. But no penalties were taken for this.)

Assignment Resubmission for Additional Points

As will be the case for all except A7, you may resubmit your assignment (by correcting it and sending an email to me and Ellen Peng) within a week of receiving it back.  You must specifically identify the parts that you’ve changed in that email).  We will grant up to 2/3 of the points lost if you’ve corrected them.

Jim Mitchell