We are just over two weeks away from the final project deadline and presentations! We just wanted to call out a few things to help you start preparing for that day. Some of this will be called out again as part of the final project progress document, but we want to get you thinking about it early. We also want to clarify the grades breakdown in a bit more detail than what’s on the website, so that you can get a better sense of how your grade is looking:

• The final project is due Wednesday August 10th at 12PM! 

• The final project presentations will be August 10th from 5:30PM to 8:30PM.
  • We’ll likely start at around 6PM but it’s good for everyone to get in early and set up.

• • We’re planning on running a poster session like experience using Gather.Town 🙂 In the event that doesn’t work out, we’ll switch to Zoom and run it as single groups presenting. We’ll be running it on Zoom!

• • There will be 4 clusters of 6 groups.

• • Each group will get 7 minutes for a demo, followed by 5-6 minutes of questions from the grading group + any guests (leaves us 2 minutes to move on to the next group and make sure everything is set up).

• • It should take about 2 hours to go through all the groups, with a bit of “chill” time left over.

• • There will be 4 grading groups, each composed of 1 sessional lecturer (or TA), 1 TA, and 1 industry guest judge.
    
  • We’ll try and provide some practice sessions the week of the final project presentations (more details to follow)

• Grading for the final projects will happen in the week following the due date. Each project will be graded by two course staff members independently, with grades being compared afterwards and averaged. Any big deviations between graders will be discussed. 
  • Calling this out because students have already raised it independently … the project grade for “Above and Beyond Functionality” is a very subjective grade and also one that is marked very harshly. In general, most groups get 3/9, some get 6/9, very few/if any get 9/9. Things that have gotten 9/9 in the past have ranged from extensive use of AWS with multiple different types of integrations to websites with UI/design/responsiveness/accessibility that was stunning. So, there isn’t one direction to get these marks. But in order to get them, you need to go above and beyond this course and the things we’ve covered in assignments, and do so in a way that is done well and that really impresses us. In general, we would advise that you focus on building a well developer/designed website that does what you want it to do well, and avoid thinking too much about this. Too often students focus on these marks, and let the rest of their website suffer as a result. Focus on the basics of your site and go after “Above and Beyond” when you are ready to do so. It may not be worth going after. 

• For both the final project and the demo, please see the syllabus here for what to consider and how we’re grading (look at sections 7 and 8): https://blogs.ubc.ca/cpsc4552022s/assessment-rubrics/#sec-7

• Here is the grading breakdown:
  • 30% = Assignments (5% each)
  • 50% = Final project
    • 5% – project demo for industry judges
    • 15% – project demo for course staff
    • 25% – final project submission (code, documentation, etc.) … we then apply a weight to this based on intra-team survey results
    • 5% – design review grades (5 design reviews worth 1% each)
  • 11% = Participation
    • 3% – Scrum Reports
    • 3% – Lab Attendance
    • 2% – Survey Completion
    • 3% – Slack Claps
  • 9% = Leadership/Teamwork
    • 6% – Intrateam Survey Results
    • 3% – Design Review Participation

If you have any questions about any of this, please ask us in the #general Slack channel (or reach out to the course staff directly if appropriate).