Math 199 (Fall 2020) Policies: Quiz and Exam Policy

Because we are working on line this term, quizzes and exams will need to work a bit differently than usual. We will have four quizzes durring the term and one midterm exam (see the course calendar for their dates). The quizzes will occur during class time, but the midterm exam will be an evening exam at 7:00pm (I will compensate you for this time cancelling the class day after an exam). The evening period gives more flexibility for extra time, if needed, and provides better opportunities to handle those with special needs. Students in the past have found the evening exams to be preferable to in-class ones.

Each quiz or exam will be made available via our Nexus site, and you will be able to download it from there at the time the quiz or exam begins. You will submit your work via Nexus as well, once you have completed it, in the format described in the next paragraph. We will be taking the quizzes and exams from the course Zoom Room so that you can ask any questions you may have, and so that I can provide clarification to the whole class if there are any corrections to be made. That should be the most efficient way to handle getting you any updates in a timely fashion.

Your solutions will need to be submitted in a single PDF file (possibly multi-page). If you have a printer and scanner, you should be able to print the quiz or exam and scan your results for submission. If you don't have a printer or scanner, you can use a plain piece of paper for your answers, and can use the free Genius Scan program (for iPhone or Android) to make multi-page PDF files from photos of your work. Please be sure that the results are in focus, well lighted, and easily legible.

One of your first homework assignment be to test-run this process. This will walk you through the process so that you have practiced it once before our first quiz.

You are responsible for knowing the precise definitions, statements of theorems, and proofs that we cover in class for the main theorems. You may be asked to reproduce these on exams.

You are expected to know how to do all the problems from the problem sets and homework that have been assigned, even if we didn't go over them in class. If you didn't get the problem right on a problem set or homework, it is even more important that you work out the solution before the exam. If you have questions about a problem, be sure to ask them before the exam.

You are expected to be able to recognize the notation and terminology that we have been using in class without further explanation on the exams.

Copies of the best solutions will be made available on our Nexus web site, as will any solution that I write up myself. If I circle a problem number in red on an assignment that you turn in, that means I have made a copy of your answer and placed it in that collection (this is just for your information). See the discussion about solutions for more information.

See the discussion of the grading policy for the percentage of your grade that will come from your quizzes and exams.

If you have a learning disability for which you should receive extra time on quizzes and exams, you must arrange with me for how we will handle that by Friday of the second week of class (since the first quiz will be on the next Monday).

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