Participation Marks

To receive all 5 marks allocated for participation, meet all three criteria A, B, and C.

A Earned more than half of weekly participation points in at least 10 weeks.

Ways you can earn weekly participation points:
- Weekly quiz(es), if any:
  - Quizzes open around the weekly briefing time and stay open until the next briefing starts. In some weeks, there will be two quizzes (because two smaller quizzes are easier for you to manage than one big quiz).
  - If multiple attempts are allowed, we take the best attempt, not the latest attempt.
  - When awarding participation points for quizzes, we look for two conditions:
    - Condition 1: submitted early i.e., within four days of the briefing (briefing day (Friday) + four more days -> Tuesday 23:59) (reason: to encourage learning the weekly topics before doing the weekly project tasks)
    - Condition 2: answered correctly i.e., at least 70% of the answers are correct (reason: to discourage random answers)
  - You earn:
    - 3 points if both conditions are satisfied.
    - 2 points if only one condition is satisfied.
    - 1 point if submitted but both conditions are unsatisfied.
- Other activities related to the course (e.g., submitting a survey) can earn participation points too.
  - Such participation-graded activities can be identified by the icon .
  - Each such activity earns 2 points unless specified otherwise.
  - Refer to the activity description for evaluation criteria.
If you earn at least half of the points available in a particular week, you are considered to have 'participated' in that week e.g., suppose a particular week has a weekly quiz (worth 3 points) and a peer evaluation submission worth 2 points. You need to earn at least 3 (out of the total 5) points to be considered to have 'participated' in that week.
To satisfy condition A, you need to participate in at least 10 (out of 13) weeks of the semester. All 13 weeks of the semester have participation activities.

B Received good peer evaluations

-1 for each professional conduct criterion in which you are rated low by team members. 'Rated low' is receiving multiple Below Average or Poor ratings.

No penalty for scoring low on competency criteria.

C Sufficient performance in tutorial quizzes

Admin Tutorials → Grading (Extract)

Grading: The in-tutorial quiz is not graded for correctness. Just a sincere attempt is enough to pass. More specifically, you need to make a on at least total-2 in the tutorial to pass. e.g., if the session has 7 graded questions, you need to attempt at least 5.

You need to in at least 7 (out of 9) tutorials to avoid losing participation marks.
The buffer of 2 tutorials covers absences (or low participation) due to any reason, including valid reasons such as an MC and 'not-so-valid' ones such as 'my alarm glitched'. So, if you missed 3 tutorials but only 2 are covered by valid reasons, the marks deduction still applies. We can consider waiving the deduction only if you have valid reasons covering more than 2 tutorials.

-1 mark if you passed the in-tutorial quiz in only 6 tutorials.
-2 if passed in only 5 tutorials, -3 if only 4, and so on.
F2F tutorials that you attend only via Zoom are not counted for participation.

+ Bonus Marks

In addition, you can receive bonus marks in the following ways. Bonus marks can be used to top up your participation marks but only if your marks from the criteria above fall below 5.

[For briefing participation] Participated in briefing activities (e.g., in polls/quizzes done during the briefing) in at least 10 briefings: 1 mark
[For in-video quizzes] Answered in-video quizzes in at least 7 weeks: 1 mark
Starting in Week 3, some pre-recorded videos in the Topics tab will contain in-video quizzes. Videos containing quizzes are labeled Video Q+ (instead of the usual Video).
[For perfect peer ratings] Received good ratings for all 10 peer evaluation criteria: 1 mark
[For helping classmates] Was very helpful to classmates e.g., multiple helpful posts in forum: 1 mark

Examples:

Alicia earned 1/2, 3/5, 2/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 4/5, 5/5 in the first 12 weeks. Because she received at least half of the points in 11 of the weeks, she gets 5 participation marks. Bonus marks are not applicable as she has full marks already.
Benjamin managed to get at least half of the participation points in only 9 weeks, which gives him 5-1 = 4 participation marks. However, he participated in 10 briefings, so he gets a bonus mark to make it 5/5.
Chun Ming met the participation points bar in 8 weeks only, giving him 5-2 = 3 marks. He lost 2 more marks because he received multiple negative ratings for two criteria, giving him 1/5 participation marks.

FAQ What if I missed a participation task due to a legitimate reason? (e.g., falling sick, taking part in a university event)

Where to find your participation marks progress

Your participation progress can be tracked in this page from Week 3 onward.

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