It is our expectation that for most groups, all of your teammates will pull their weight, and so you will be able to simply give equal points to each member. But if you have as teammates, Sam Slacker, Annie Average, Hugh Helpful, and Connie Conscientious, for example, then you might allocate your 100 points as follows:
Annie Average | 25 |
Sam Slacker | 10 |
Hugh Helpful | 32 |
Connie Conscientious | 33 |
If on the next assignment Sam starts pulling his weight, you should reflect his new performance (and not his past record) in the assessment for that assignment. We will use this information in determining final grades. By the way, many engineering companies use peer review to determine annual raises, and so making your peers think you are useful is a good skill to have.
Also we want to have you rate each of your partners according to his or her absolute contribution to the work of this assignment. Each score should be between 0 and 100. A rough scale would be as follows:
actively and engergetically got everything wrong and cost us time and effort | 0 |
stayed out of the way and didn't make things worse | 25 |
competent and satisfactory contribution to the effort | 50 |
very competent, good insight, worked hard. | 75 |
genius; was able to complete assignment online, immediately, and then explained to us what s/he did. | 100 |
Don't be late! Nevertheless we understand that things will come up so we will use flexible slip dates for the implementation assignments, which are also always due at 12:59pm (right before class). Each team is given an automatic extension of 5 calendar days. You can use the extension on any assignment during the semester (in increments that are rounded up to the nearest integer). For instance, you can hand in one assignment 5 days late, or each of five assignments 1 day late. For project assignments, the slip time will be deducted from each team member's dates. This should let you schedule due dates around the due dates for other courses. No assignment will be accepted more than 5 days late.
After you have used up your slip time, any assignment handed in late will be marked off 10% (linearly) per day. Extensions will not be granted. Please note that nothing will be accepted after Dec. 1, 2002.