Sun, 4 Oct 2020, 17:24

My students,

My TAs have asked me to provide the following guidelines for you to use in
submitting your exams and assignments from here on.  Doing so will help us
a lot with respect to our grading and getting the results to you quickly. 
This applies to the exam on Wednesday and also the assignments throughout
the semester.  There are more than 90 students in the class, and it easily
becomes a grading nightmare if each student submits the exam in his/her own
way. 

1. Please clearly mark off which pages contain which answers on Gradescope.
If your answer spans multiple pages, mark them all.

2. Please do not submit one single really long page containing every problem.
Instead, break your submission up into pages. ...but it's ok for more than
one problem to be on a single page if it does not make the page unduly long.

3. If a problem has enumerated questions, enumerate your answers.

4. If you choose to handwrite and scan or photograph your solution, please
make sure that the image is clear and free of shadows. We recommend
CamScanner, which has a "Magic Color" option to make writing look clearer.
Using flash to take the photo may help. Also, it is important to write
legibly.  Bottom line: we can not grade it if we can not understand what you
have provided us.

5. In a simple yes/no type question that does not explicitly ask you to
justify your reasoning, you don't need to take the time to justify your
reasoning.

6. Be sure to give constants in the correct specified format (binary,
decimal, hexadecimal) for the problem.

7. Simplify math (e.g. write "255" instead of "2^8-1").

Finally, when it comes to the problem sets, please submit only one copy
for your entire study group, and include the names of all group members
in that submission.

Good luck on Wednesday's exam, and the rest of the course.

...and, as always, please stay safe.
Yale Patt