General PCC Grading Guidelines are found at catalog.pcc.edu/handbook/g301-gradingguidelines.
Each day of class that you attend is worth 0.25 % of your grade, up to a maximum of 4 %. This does not include holidays, inservice days, or days where the entire class period is devoted to an exam. Typically in a term this leaves at least one absence that would not have a direct effect on your grade. However missing class will hurt your chances for success on exams because you will not get the same attention that your classmates had.
Most of your homework for this class is to be submitted online through the free program WeBWorK. For details, see Section 8. Collectively, all web assignments are worth 16 % of your final grade. For every web assignment that you do not submit (or have a poor score for), I will replace that score with the score you get on your next exam.
If you write up all of the problems from a web homework on paper, you may turn that in so that I may review your math communication style and give you feedback. This is not a replacement for doing the web homework online. Instead, if you do this, I will add up to 10% to those web assignments. For example, suppose your WeBWorK grade for an assignment is 85% and you turn in a write-up of those problems. Suppose that I grade your write-up to be \(9/10\text{.}\) Then your final recorded score for the assignment will be \(85\%+9\%=94\%\text{.}\)
Some problems will be assigned to write up and turn in. These will be exercises where part of the task is to create some kind of graph, so WeBWorK will not be able to grade you. Each written assignment is worth 1 % of your grade for a total of 5 %. See Section 9 for the specifics.
Web assignments are due whenever WeBWorK says they are due for full credit. There is no way to get credit for a late web assignment (unless you unlock an achievement item reward). After the due date, you may still type in answers to check your work, but doing so will not increase your score. After the due date, answers are available if you re-visit the problem. Any WeBWorK score can be overwritten by your next exam score, if that is to your benefit.
You may always ask me for an extension to the web homework due date, as long as you ask well before the due date. I cannot change the due date for you if the problem set closes first. If you need an extension, please email me to request that at least 24 hours before the regular due date.
Written assignments that are received late may receive a zero. If I have already graded the stack of everyone else's papers, then it is absolutely too late. You may try to turn in something late, and if I have not yet graded everyone else's, then I can grade yours.
Please refer to the Calendar for exam dates, and Exams for details about what is covered on each exam. Exams 1, 2, and 3 are each worth 25 %, of your grade.
