Midterm Evaluations

Click here to download your (updated) evaluations to date.

Please note the following:

• The document has four pages: a summary of your evaluations to-date, followed by evaluations for Exercises One through Five, Project One and the first two parts of Project Two.
• The TOTAL in the summary is your midterm grade. If it is below 60%, you will be receiving an official Mid-term Warning email from me on or before February 25.
  
• In many cases, your midterm grades are poor because you have not labeled your work correctly. It is extremely difficult to locate specific blog posts. This is the purpose of the labels. If you feel that you have not been evaluated for work completed, please send me a single email message ASAP with the links to the post(s) in question, and I will update your evaluations accordingly.
  
• Several of you have not completed parts 1 and 2 of Project Two. These are giveaway grades! 5/5 was awarded to any student who posted five substantial toy ideas that were reasonably clearly communicated; similarly, 5/5 was awarded to any student who posted substantial constructive feedback. I will still be accepting toy proposals and feedback, but you must email me and let me know that you have made a post, and your posts will be subject to a late penalty of 25%. It will be difficult to pass Project Two without these two posts. In some cases, I can see that it was difficult to give substantial feedback as a result of insubstantial ideas. If you feel that you have been unfairly penalized as a result of this situation, please post feedback to a different set of proposals and let me know.

In general, I try to be as transparent and open as possible regarding evaluation procedures, and I welcome any questions you might have. This is not, however, an invitation to complain or attempt to renegotiate your evaluations. Evaluations are non-negotiable, except in the event of an error on my part.

I hope you're having a good break, and I look forward to testing your toy prototypes next week.

-Jesse