Final exam scores

Your final exam scores are on moodle ...

The final course grade posted is basically correct, but subject to an audit of my master spreadsheet. Very few were on a grade boundary (either +/- or a full grade) as it turns out, so probably nothing will change, but I want to be on the safe side and check everything a few more times.

Now is a good time to check that your HW, lab, and quiz grades seem correct. If you are curious about what grades you are missing (e.g., HW not turned in), send me an email.

Final Exam

Your final exam is here, if you want to look back at it ...

Also, moodle is now up to date with everything except the final exam. Labs 9, 10, and 11 were from the rocket competition:

L9 = competition performance
L10 = quality / correctness / cleverness of code
L11 = quality / cleverness of the physical setup and measurement system

FYI, the grading breakdown (weighting, number dropped, etc.) can be found here.

Moodle

HW 12 grades are now up on Moodle. The only grades missing are from the rocket launcher project, which counts as 3 lab grades.

Excepting the 3 rocket grades, you have 8 lab grades in so far. I will add in the 3 rocket grades (performance, code, and hardware) and drop the lowest 2 grades overall (for a total of 11 lab grades). I should have this done late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

After you finish the final exam tomorrow, you can check with me to see that your grade distribution is accurate - e.g., missing homeworks and labs. If you don't see this in time, send me a short email and I'll let you know what grades I'm missing from you to make sure everything seems to be correct.

I will probably have final grades done by Friday; I'll post here when I have everything finished.

Current Grades

Moodle has been updated, your grades for HW10 and labs 7-8 are now there. Everything except HW11 is now up to date.

HW11 should be added by the end of the week, and HW12 over the weekend so that your grades are current going into next week's exam.

(FYI - Lab 6 = project memo; Lab 7 = sensor calibration; Lab 8 = group talks)

Exam II grades are on Moodle

Check it out.

Average: 82% / std. dev.: 13%

Details to follow.

(UPDATE: details in the next post. Homework 6 and Lab 5 are also on Moodle now. The only outstanding grades right now are those from HW7.)

Midterm grades

Except for the very last lab (momentum) and homework set (#6), all grades should now be up on Moodle.

I have included a separate field for your midterm grade, which was calculated by dropping 1 lab, 1 homework, and 1 quiz. The relative percentages are in the syllabus for the curious.

Midterm grades are due Monday evening, so let me know ASAP if you see any irregularities or have any questions.

Checking grades online

I how have a system set up so you can log in and see your grades.

1) go here: http://faculty.mint.ua.edu/~pleclair/moodle/

2) Click on "Physics 125 / Dr. LeClair"

3) Then, to log in to the system:

• your username is same as your bama email address
  

• Thus, if your bama email is "jdingus@bama.ua.edu" your username is "jdingus"
  

• your password is the last four digits of your CWID. You can change the password if you like after logging in.

Once you have logged in successfully, you should be at the main ph125 course page. There are a great number of things on this page, most of them are not useful. This is a new (and free) online course system I'm test-driving, so most things are just placeholders.

From this page, you can access your grades. You should see a link for "Grades" on the left-hand side of the page, about halfway down, under "Administration." For that matter, you can change your profile, create a little blog or discussion board, or all sorts of other things.

Any feedback you have on this system is helpful. Let me know if it works ... and I should have more grades entered early next week. Right now, all four quizzes and the first two lab and homework grades are there.