• Overview
• Schedule
• Labs
• Class Project
• Testing
• Grading Policy
• Course Policy
• Textbook

Labs

Overview

Lab class sessions are held twice a week in classroom CS110. Each student is responsible for 1 initial lab assignment and 12 Lab Assignments using the MyITLab simulator software. There will be one Lab Assignment due one each week including Week 1 (initial setup) and excluding weeks 8 (midterms) and 15 (finals). Each Lab Assignment consists of a set of trainings, a pre-test taken on Tuesday, and a post-test taken on Thursday and is worth up to 20 points. All of the Lab Assignments are in MyITLab simulator software provided by the publisher of the textbook.

First week

Students will register their MyITLab software during their lab session on their scheduled Tuesday or Thursday recitation in the first week . BE SURE to bring your codes to either the Tuesday or Thursday lab during the first week. Do NOT register ahead of time. You will take an assessment over the syllabus that will count for your first lab assignment.

Trainings

Each Lab Assignment has a set of trainings that teach the student the fundamentals necessary to take the pre-test and the post-test. These trainings may be taken as many times as you want (only the highest score will be kept). The trainings may be done either in the CS110 Lab classroom or at home on your own PC (Sorry, no Mac support). The trainings can be done before taking the pre-test or post-test - but they MUST be taken by 5pm on Thursday.

Each training is pass/fail (85%), and is worth 5 points of the Lab Assignment.

Pre-test

The pre-test exam can be worth up to 15 points of your Lab Assignment grade, but the score is only valid if you score 85% or higher on the pre-test. If you do not score 85% or higher, the recorded score is a zero. Only the first occurrence of the pre-test exam counts towards the pre-test score, even if the software allows you to retake it. The pre-test exam MUST be taken in your recitation period in the CS110 Lab classroom on Tuesday. Any exceptions require an excused absence as defined in the Course Policy.

Post-test

The post-test exam can be worth up to 15 points of your Lab Assignment grade. Only the first occurrence of the post-test exam counts towards the post-test score, even if the software allows you to retake it. The post-test exam MUST be taken in the CS110 Lab classroom during your recitation period on Thursday. Any exceptions require an excused absence as defined in the Course Policy.

Scoring for Lab Assignment

As mentioned, the score for the pre-test exam only counts if you receive an 85% or higher on the test. If you do not receive an 85% on the pre-test exam, or you want to improve the score you received on the pre-test exam, you MUST take the post-test exam. We will take the max of the two test scores times the points available for the testing portion (15 points) + the pass/fail score of the trainings (either 0 or 5) to compute the number of points you will receive for the lab assignment.

Making up a lab assignment

Any student that is misses a lab assignment for an excused absence (see the Course Policy tab for the definition of an excused absence) will be allowed to make up that lab without a penalty. In addition, there will be two make-up days during the semester (see the schedule for these days). On these days, each student can make up 1 (and only 1) missed lab assignment. A 50% reduction will be applied to maximum score possible of the lab assignments that are made up on those days (i.e. the maximum possible score for labs done on the make-up days is 10 points).

Basic lab Rules

Students MUST bring their Colorado State Student ID for admittance to the Lab. This ID will be scanned upon admittance and the attendence reccorded. If the student does not bring his or her Student ID, he or she will not be allowed to take the Lab Test. No other ID will be accepted.

No books, notebooks, cell phones, IPods, pagers, or carrier pigeons will be allowed at the lab station at any time during class recitation hours, or when a student is taking an on-line quiz. Lab operators will be available MWF from 8am to 6pm in the CS110 Lab classroom for tutoring, assistance with trainings, make-up exams, quiz proctoring, etc.

Lab Sections