Bonus Point Opportunities

• There are several ways to earn extra credit or bonus points in this class. Other than what is outlined on this page, no other extra credit will be given

• Over Labor Day weekend there will be an optional pre-course diagnostic given in Lon-Capa and an opional pre-course survey. At the end of the semester on the weekend just before the final exam, there will be a second, optional post-course diagnostic and a second post-course survey. A 0.5% participation bonus will be added to the final average of any student who makes a serious effort to complete these four assessments/surveys. If you seriously participate in all of these optional assignments, 2% will be added to your final average; if you seriously participate in three of them, 1.5% will be added to your final average; if you seriously participate in two of them, 1 % will be added to your final average, if you seriously participate in one of them, 0.5% will be added to your final average. If you don't attempt a diagnostic (or survey) or don't give a serious effort, no bonus will be added. Simple submission patterns (like AAA..., or BBB...) or rapidly clicking on any response throughout the diagnostic(or survey)are not considered serious efforts and no bonus will be given.
• There are bonus questions in the online lecture folders. You should be able to answer these after completing the assigned reading from the required text and watching the online lectures. These bonus questions are programmed to look like exam questions, as such, they are all multiple choice. In addition, some of these bonus questions are questions used on previous exams for this course and its traditional equivalent. Lon-Capa's feedback option is disabled, so unlike regular homework problems, Lon-Capa will not tell you if you have the correct answer until after the due date. In addition, the discussion board on these questions has been disabled. These questions are meant for you to work out yourself after having read the assigned reading and watched the online lectures. All points earned here will be added to your total homework points as a homework bonus (so, homework scores over 100% are possible). Hints and/or solutions to the bonus questions will not be provided.
• The midterm exams will have a correction exam assigned as a homework assignment in Lon-Capa. 30% of the positive difference between the correction exam and the in-class exam will be added to your in-class exam score as bonus. As such, the correction exam homework assignment can only add points to your midterm exam score. Only students taking the original exam will have access to the correction exam. The correction exam will be available at noon on the day after the scheduled exam and will be due at the regular homework due date/time the following week.
• There will be about a half a dozen extended response homework questions. Each of these will ask you to explain your reasoning. These questions will not be graded for correctness, but will come with a bonus homework point for any of these extended response questions completed. They will be in the online lecture folder -- same folder as the other bonus homework questions outlined above.

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Last updated: August 16, 2016