Late Semester Q&As

Progress Quizzes

  • Each week is 1 quiz on 2 modules. This is done to ensure slow, steady progress in the course. Students cannot take more than 1 quiz per week and cannot take more than 2 modules per week. 
  • You can complete at most 10 quizzes. Students will not get credit for any attempts after 10 quizzes. If you only take 1 module on a quiz, it does not increase the number of quiz attempts you get. 
  • There are four more quiz opportunities left: Progress Quiz 8 (11/12-11/14), Progress Quiz 9 (11/19-11/21), Make-up Quiz (12/3-12/5), and Progress Quiz 10 (12/7-12/9). Students who have taken 5 or fewer quizzes up to this point will not be able to take 10 quizzes. There is no penalty for taking less than 10 quizzes, but it will be less opportunities to master modules. Students with extended periods of excused absences Links to an external site. should contact Dr. Chamberlain. 
  • You need to do both modules in one sitting. The quizzes previously allowed students to submit multiple times to accommodate students unfamiliarity with the process and the small issues that popped up. These have become almost nonexistent and so it will go back to being locked to one submission. Students who have issues with the quizzes will need to contact Dr. Chamberlain to have their submission deleted so they can submit correctly. 
  • You cannot take multiple progress quizzes during a makeup week. The course is set up to slowly build on the material. You are expected to work on two topics at a time, master them, then move on to more difficult material. Gating the content is done to give you the maximum chance for success in the course. 

Advanced Modules

  • Students who have passed all core modules work on 1 set of advanced modules.
  • You can only get credit for 1 set of advanced modules. You can switch if you want, but advanced modules mastered doesn't carry over. 
  • If you complete modules 1-12, you are done with progress quizzes! You would just need to take the final exam and not fail (60%+), along with completing the necessary amounts of homework and weekly assignments, to earn your A.
  • There are two tracks:
    • Modeling - Word problems taking the functions we learned in modules 1-8 and applying them to real-world situations. Meant for students moving on to Survey of Calculus. 
    • Limits - Classic topics meant for students moving on to Calculus I. Big topics: Composition of functions, synthetic division, and graphing rational functions.
  • It does not matter which track you choose.

Final Exam

  • The Final Exam will be required 25 multiple-choice questions on Modules 1-8. 
  • Students will get 2 hours to complete the final. 
  • Doing well (80%+) can increase your final letter grade and doing poorly (<60%) can lower your final letter grade. 

Course Grade

The grades are mainly determined by passing modules on quizzes:

    A: 8 Core Modules, 4 Advanced Modules
    B: 8 Core Modules, 2 Advanced Modules
    C: 8 Core Modules
    D: 6 Core Modules

However, there are other "grade thresholds" that have to be passed, and missing them lowers your grade by 1/3 of a letter grade:

  • Core Modules Homework: 80%
  • Advanced Modules Homework: 20% x (# of Adv. Modules mastered)
  • Weekly Assignments: 80%
  • Final Exam: 60%

Getting 80% or more on the final exam raises your level by 1/3 of a letter grade.