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ECEN 1400, Introduction to Analog and Digital Electronics Peer Grading Instructions PREPARING YOUR PRELABS AND LABS
• If you create an electronic document, save it as a pdf.
• If you work by hand, scan the entire document to a single pdf at one of the many
CU scanning services, as detailed here:
http://www.colorado.edu/oit/services/teaching-learning-spaces/student-printingand-scanning
• Please use a real scanner and not a cell-phone camera so your work is legible.
• Name your prelabs using your student ID number:
o “SIN Prelab N.pdf”
o For example “123456789 Prelab 1.pdf”
• Name your labs using all of the student ID numbers of the lab members:
o “SIN1 SIN2 SIN3 Lab N.pdf”
o For example “123456789 234567890 345678901 Lab 1.pdf”
• If you do not put your correct student ID number on the file, you will not receive
a grade (just as if you forgot to put your name on it).
• Use this same name as a “title” for your documents – that is, include your SIN(s)
and the assignment in the document.
• Do not put your name anywhere in the document or file name.
TURNING IN YOUR PRELABS AND LABS
• Log in to desire2learn at learn.colorado.edu and select this class
• On the class calendar, find the dropbox associated with this assignment.
• Check the name and date: make sure you are putting your assignment in the right
dropbox!
• Upload your file before the due date and time.
If you are late
• Get TA approval based on a reasonable excuse. If you just upload your file late, it
will not be graded.
• Follow the instructions above.
• The last day of class is the absolute drop-dead date for late assignments, no matter
how good the excuse.
PEER GRADING - GETTING YOUR ASSIGNMENT
• Each of you who turned in an assignment will grade one assignment. If you didn't
successfully turn in the assignment, you are not part of the peer grading for this
assignment.
• A google drive link to the directory of the HWs will be shared via email.
• There is a file in this directory named "Assigment Grading Assignments.csv",
where assignment = “Prelab 1” for example. This is a text file of comma
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separated values. Excel or any text editor will open it. There are two
columns. The first is YOU, the second is WHO YOU ARE GRADING. Find
your SIN in the first column. The SIN in the second column is your grading
assignment. Find that file in the directory and open it. For labs with multiple
partners, there will be multiple SINs in each file name – you are looking for the
single file with the SIN of the student you are grading. A search function on your
computer can be helpful in this case.
PEER GRADING - SOLUTION AND GRADING RUBRIC
• The solution is posted on the website, just to the right of the original assignment.
• For homeworks, text in blue is the grading rubric. I have attempted to break this
down into easy, bite-sized pieces so that giving partial credit is simple.
• For labs, read the solution and understand it. Use this to guide your grading. This
is not as “step by step” as the homework, so you have to use your judgement.
PEER GRADING - DOING THE GRADING
• You will submit grades via a google form shared to you via an email link.
• You must be logged in to your colorado.edu account on google for this to
work. This email is logged with your response.
• The form should be easy to follow and exactly parallel to the grading rubric.
• I expect this to take about 15 minutes, but I'd be interested to hear if it's much
longer.
• Do your best to follow the rubric. If you are not sure, grade the best you can, then
email a TA (NOT Dr. McLeod) with the SIN of the person you are grading, the
specific problem you are unsure of and what was your concern. We'll take a look
after you are done and modify if needed.
• Only give credit for the portions you can read. That is, anything illegible gets
zero credit.
• FOR LABS:
o Please use a pdf reader that can make anonymous annotations. Online
resources like http://www.pdfescape.com work well. When you take
points off in the google form, please make a notation on the lab report like
“-4 points: did not label graph”.
o Save the graded pdf back to the same google share drive. You will not be
able to overwrite the original file, so you’ll have to add a suffix like
“graded”.
LOOKING AT YOUR GRADES
• A spreadsheet of the detailed grading will be put back in the google drive
assignment file and the total will appear in the d2l grade book.
• For labs, you should have multiple graded labs placed back in the google drive (as
many has your group had partners). Go get them and look at the comments.
• If you feel you have been graded incorrectly, go to a TA's office hours with your
assignment and explain why.
• If the TA feels that the grading was unfair, they will set the grader's grading credit
to zero for this assignment.
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