Grading:

You have control over the grade you receive in this class. Basically, the more work you do, the higher your grade will be. The grading criteria are detailed below. Below that are the general class policies and the grading scale.

MMC 3260 grading criteria

To earn an A:

Be an active Twitter user posting at least one update per day that demonstrates knowledge of online media
Miss no more than one lecture and one lab without prior permission
Complete four exams with an average score of 90 points
Turn everything in on time
Be able to code most HTML and CSS from memory
Personal website project (in addition to the project requirements):
- Content contains no spelling or punctuation errors
- Pages look practically identical in all browsers
- Site is entirely hand coded and does not utilize a design template obtained elsewhere
- All HTML and CSS validates
- Code is logically constructed
- HTML and CSS include comments
- First page of site is named “index.html”
- All file names follow naming conventions taught in class
- Images and all graphics include height, width, alt and title attributes
- Images are well cropped and properly optimized for the Web
- Graphical logo and page headers are included and were created by you
- Design is attractive, follows conventions taught in class
- Navigation is intuitive, follows conventions taught in class
- Page titles are logical and unique to each page
Final project (All of the above plus):
- Demonstrate more sophisticated use of CSS than in the previous project
- Include at least two multimedia components you for which you have created and edited all the content. At least one must include video.
- Present the content in a non-linear fashion

For a B:

Be an active Twitter user posting an average of five times a week. Most of the updates relate to online media
Miss no more than two lectures and labs without previous permission
Complete all four exams with an average score of 83 points
Turn everything in on time
Be able to write basic HTML and CSS from memory
Personal website project (in addition to the project requirements):
- Content contains no more than two spelling or punctuation errors
- Pages look mostly identical in all browsers
- Site is hand coded. If a design template is used, substantial changes have been made to it
- HTML and CSS validators show fewer than three errors
- Code is logically constructed
- HTML and CSS include comments
- First page of site is named “index.html”
- All file names follow naming conventions taught in class
- Images include height, width, alt and title attributes
- Images are well cropped and properly optimized for the Web
- Design is attractive, follows conventions taught in class
- Navigation is intuitive, follows conventions taught in class
- Page titles are logical and unique to each page
Final project (all of the above plus):
- Demonstrate more sophisticated use of CSS than in the previous project
- Include at least one multimedia component you for which you have created and edited all the content
- Present the content in a somewhat non-linear fashion

For a C

Be an active Twitter user posting an average of three updates per week. Some of the updates relate to online media
Miss no more than three lectures and labs without previous permission
Complete all four exams with an average score of 73 points
Do not be more than one day late on one assignment. The rest of your work is turned in on time
Be able to demonstrate knowledge of HTML and CSS syntax
Personal website project (in addition to the project requirements):
- Content contains no more than five spelling or punctuation errors
- Pages look good in one or more browsers, at least load in others
- Site is hand coded. If a design template is used, minor changes have been made to it
- HTML and CSS validators show fewer than five errors
- Code is logically constructed
- HTML and CSS include comments
- First page of site is named “index.html”
- All file names follow naming conventions taught in class
- Most images include height, width, alt and title attributes
- Images are well cropped and properly optimized for the Web
- Design is attractive, follows conventions taught in class
- Navigation is intuitive, follows conventions taught in class
- All pages have titles
Final project: (all of the above plus):
- Show improvement from the previous project
- Include at least one Soundslides

Policies

To ensure privacy for all students, grades on exams and assignments will be posted online at the university's password protected eLearning site, lss.at.ufl.edu. You will need a Gatorlink ID and password to log in. The instructors will not give grades via email or telephone except when grading your Web projects. If you are concerned about your email privacy or for any reason do not wish to receive grades via email, let us know in advance and your lab instructor will critique your work face-to-face.

The semester grade will be computed as follows:

Semester Web project: 30 percent
Personal Web site : 20 percent
Exams: 40 percent
Lab assignments: 10 percent
Twitter: 1-5 bonus points

Grade scale

94-100 A
90-93 A-
87-89 B+
83-86 B
80-82 B-
77-79 C+
73-76 C
70-72 C-
67-69 D+
63-65 D
60-62 D-