Participation
Purpose, Task, and Criteria
Purpose
Successful managers communicate effectively, share experiences and ideas, evaluate options, and reach sound conclusions. Class discussions will allow you to practice these skills and listen and learn from your peers. It is also a means by which faculty verifies that you have absorbed the materials and are able to apply them effectively. For these reasons participation is encouraged, measured, and rewarded. Come to every class well-prepared. You will get much more from your in-class experience.
Task
Class participation is defined broadly: it means to have a positive attitude and a leadership role in class, making the class better for
all. This includes answering the instructor's questions, asking good questions, and offering insightful comments during demos and code
walkthroughs. It also means filling the end-of-semester survey.
If somebody asks a question in the class chat and you can answer it within the limits of the honor code, do so! I am monitoring the chat and
might give you extra participation points for helping others.
Criteria
Your class participation is assessed every day. Your final participation grade is determined based on the average of your daily
participation scores. These are the scores and their definitions:
- +3 Stood out as an exceptional contributor to class dialogue. Made memorable, high-quality comments
- +2 Appeared engaged and prepared, contributed as expected
- +1 Attentive, but did not engage in the discussion, or made repetitive or irrelevant comments that did not add much value
- 0 Absent
- -1 Appeared distracted or unprepared; behaved in ways that negatively impacted the classroom experience
Also check the attendance policy and its implications for participation.
WINIT replacement
More volunteers offered to do WINIT than we had available spots. In an attempt to provide a fair opportunity to everybody who wanted to do so but could not for logistical reasons, you may optionally submit alternative work.
The alternative work is a .pdf document that contains the research that you would have presented as WINIT. Feel free to include video links and pictures, as if you had been in class. There is a minimum number of words (1,250-1,500), but no fixed page length, so you can insert any material (tables, pics, etc) you like without worrying about space, font sizes etc. Make it look polished and formal: Title, date, author, subsections headings, references... Add a conclusion that summarizes your opinion on the issue, as we do in WINIT in class.
Deadline: email it to the Professor by the last day of class at midnight.