CS 6242 - Digital Libraries

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 01:22:26 AM SGT : Updated for 6242.

Assessment for the course centers on depth and breadth. A final, accounting for 20% of the grade, will assess the students' knowledge of the breadth of the material covered in lecture. For breadth of interest to the student, a survey paper is mandated. For depth, student (teams) will execute a project related to some aspect of Digital Libraries.

Description		Percentage
Survey Paper (due on W6)		20%
Project		60%
- Proposal (due on W3)	10%
- Write-Up and Deliverables (due on W12)	40%
- Presentation (scheduled for W13)	10%
Final Exam		20%
Total		100%

Participation

While not required, participation can help your grade improve. Participation will help round up your grade up (up to 5%; half a letter grade) if I deem your participation helpful (see below). Both in-class and out of class participation are equally weighted; if you prefer to contribute to the class discussion offline (in the forum) rather than online in class, that is fine as well.

Pedagogically, participation is very helpful for your teaching staff too. Without it, we have very little idea whether you understand the material that we've presented or whether it's too difficult or trivial. Giving feedback in the form of questions, discussion provides us with a better idea of what topics you enjoy and which you are not too keen on. Of course, marks for participation are subjective and will not be publicly revealed; students will be informed of whether they have been credited with a participation bonus at the end of the course, before the final exam.

Your teaching staff will try their best to provide you with detailed assessment marks within three weeks of the submission due date. You are welcome to debate/argue for any extra points that you feel that you deserve within one week after the initial grades have been released. Due to time constraints on finalizing grades, grade appeals beyond this time may not be entertained.

Academic Honesty Policy

Collaboration is a very good thing. Students are encouraged to work together and to teach each other.

On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense. Please don't do it! Concern about cheating creates an unpleasant environment for everyone.

So how do you draw the line between collaboration and cheating? Here's a reasonable set of ground-rules. Failure to understand and follow these rules will constitute cheating, and will be dealt with as per University guidelines. We will be policing the policy vigorously.

You should already be familiar with the University's academic code. If you haven't yet, read it now.

The Facebook Rule: This rule says that you are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss assignments with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper is acceptable during the meeting; however, you may not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. This applies when the assignment is supposed to be an individual effort. After the meeting, engage in a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like catching up on your favorite social networks), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself, using your own brain.
The Freedom of Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. Failure to adequately acknowledge your contributors is at best a lapse of professional etiquette, and at worst it is plagiarism. Plagiarism is a form of cheating.
The No-Sponge Rule: In intra-team collaboration where the group, as a whole, produces a single "product", each member of the team must actively contribute. Members of the group have the responsibility (1) to not tolerate anyone who is putting forth no effort (being a sponge) and (2) to not let anyone who is making a good faith effort "fall through a crack" (to help weaker team members come up to speed so they can contribute). We want to know about dysfunctional group situations as early as possible. To encourage everyone to participate fully, we make sure that every student is given an opportunity to explain and justify their group's approach.

Late Submissions

All assignments are due to IVLE by 11:59:59 pm (Singapore time) on the due date. These penalties are very strict, so plan to finish on time. Excuses will not be tolerated, and no exceptions without a medical certificate will be made. The following penalties will apply for late submissions:

late within 10 minutes: 5% reduction in grade;
late within 1 hour: 10% reduction in grade;
late within 24 hours: 30% reduction in grade;
late within 3 days: 50% reduction in grade;
late within a week: 70% reduction in grade;
after one week: zero mark.

Min-Yen Kan <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg> Created on: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 01:56:00 AM SGT | Version: 1.0 | Last modified: Wed Jul 13 02:33:54 2011

CS 6242 - Digital Libraries

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