'Math 3F03'

Calibration Exercise. Kritik requires a short Calibration exercise once in the term to be most effective. Here’s how it works: each student will review the same three submissions, randomly chosen from Assignment #1, and give stars just as you would in the Evaluate phase. No written comments, and no Feedback stage. The idea is to set the baseline for how you are interpreting the Rubric, so that Kritik can better score you on your Evaluate steps throughout the term. As you’ve just gone through these problems, and there is no writing to do, I expect it will take you very little time to do the Calibration. I will give it to you tomorrow night and it will be due on Wednesday Sept 29 at 11:00pm. There will be a bonus for participation in this exercise.

The next Kritik will be given next Wednesday.

Following the Poll, my regular office hours will be on Mondays right after class.

Note that the first tutorial, called Tutorial 0, has been posted under Tutorials in our Team’s Math 3F03 class.

There is a group chat on our Teams class: I encourage you to use it! You can get informations from your peers, and from time to time Pip and I will take a look.

I will hold an office hour tomorrow at 2pm on Teams.

Important info: Don’t write your name or your ID on your assignment, since this is kept confidential for the people who will “kritik” your assignment.

Read the rubric before writing your answers: you will be evaluated by your peers based on the rubric, so you should make sure that your assignment is clear and complete.

Assignment problems and instructions are on your Kritik account page: Kritik.

You should submit the answers to the assignment on Wednesday Sept 15.

What happens after you submit your assignment:

You will receive 4 randomly selected assignments that you will “kritik” based on the rubric. You will be evaluated for this “Evaluation phase”: you should not only give points, but more importantly you should write useful comments. This is due Monday Sept 20.

Finally, you will receive your assignment with the evaluations and will give feedback on how helpful the evaluations were: this counts on your final grade as well. This is due Wednesday Sept 22.

There will be a calibration exercise right after the feedback process to ensure that the evaluations are done properly and fairly.

TIMELINE:

So the three phases of a Kritik assignment are:

Take a look at the practice problems before Friday’s tutorial. It is essential that you try them before the tutorial in order to make full use of the tutorials. For the future tutorials, Pip will welcome suggestions in advance of problems to do for the tutorials.

This Friday’s tutorial will cover examples on how to do well in a Kritik assignment.

I will hold an office hour on Teams at 2pm in case you have questions.

The final version of the Syllabus is posted below and is different than the one posted in June. Make sure to read the final version of the syllabus.

Video content for this course will be available via MICROSOFT TEAMS. This course is NOT available on Avenue to Learn.

You should now be able to access the Math 3F03 Team on the Microsoft Teams application. If you are not able to do so please email me. The first class will be delivered live at 1:30 pm on Wednesday September 8, and you must access it using your Teams account.

We will be using Kritik as a system for evaluating assignments, a learning tool and a way to participate in class. Here are some info that you should read to get acquainted with it: Kritik_info. You should have received an email inviting you to join Kritik (https://app.kritik.io/) Please create an account ASAP.

This is the final version of the syllabus with all informations about content, textbooks, Kritik, exams, tutorials, etc…It has been modified since the version posted in June.