"Open" quizzes can not be graded

There is a Catalyst feature that allows students to answer quiz questions and save the answers, without submitting the quiz for grading. This is good and bad. It means that you can finish the quiz questions at different times.

However, it also means that you can complete all the quiz questions without submitting it for grading. To submit the quiz, be sure to select this option at the very bottom of the quiz, once you have completed all the questions.

NOTE: Please check that your quizzes are graded. If not, check that they are submitted. If a quiz id still in the "open" status, it can not be graded. There are several students who have quizzes in the "open" status.

Final project wiki work

Congratulations to Final Project Group 3 for starting up your project wiki page.

http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Summer_2009/Group_3

I strongly recommend that all groups start working in the wiki page provided for your group - see links provided at
http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Summer_2009

This is where you will "deliver" your final project so it really helps to start working here now. Trying to figure this out within hours of the project due date is a bad idea. Start now. Find someone on your team who can coordinate the group page and help others in the group.

The wiki is key to collaborative writing. That is the primary objective of the final project - working as a team in an online collaborative writing project.

Be sure to use the discussion forums too. This provided better tracking of group communication than email or messages. This is important.

Please ask questions if you need clarification or help. But try to get everyone in your group involved. Remember - this is a group project. The process is as important as the product. Let me know if someone isn't participating - we can work something out. This is a group project - not the work of one or two students.

Hope this gets you going.
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learning activities

Q: for the computer and society question, it would be perfect if you can tell use more directions or examples, the area is too large, i didn't know if i was doing what you were expecting.

The objective was to figure out that the area is large, and to be successful in this course, you need to learn to work with that. There are millions of web articles that satisfy the assignment. Your job was to pick one and say why you thought it was applicable - as described in the Assignment activity instructions.
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Topics, activities and due dates

The course is set up in topics, each based on a textbook chapter. For each there is

• Assignments page - lists all the activities for the topic
• Notes - questions to guide your textbook reading
• discussions, quizzes, assignments - specific descriptions and instructions are included in the Assignment page - you have to follow the instructions provided for full points
• due date - all the activities listed in the topic Assignment page are due on the specified due date for the topic. There is also an entry in the Events list in the right navigation menu for at least one assignment within the topic as a reminder of the due date for the topic

In regular semesters, the topics correspond to weeks. However, in Summer session the topics are due on Thursday and Sunday through the 6 weeks.

So to answer your question, the information for completing the I think 2 assignment is provided in the associated topic activity description in Assignment 2.

The expectation is that most students will be working on the "current" topic for the next due date. You are welcome to work ahead if you wish. However, your discussion participation grade will include points for interaction with other students as they work on the topic up to the due date.
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