COURSE REQUIREMENTS

This is a hybrid class, designed half online and half face-to-face. Textbooks, readings and videos are posted each week on the class blog and students are expected to finish reading the textbook and reading materials before starting the weekly assignments. Since this is a three-credit course and the class meets every other week, it is expected that students will spend a minimum of 5 – 6 hours a week on reading, watching videos and doing assignments.

1.    Weekly quizzes: 12% of the grade.

On the day of each onsite class, students will be given a quiz on HTML/XHTML and CSS codex. There are 6 quizzes, each carrying two points. The quiz will be posted on the Blackboard from Sundays 6:30pm to Mondays 6:30pm with duration of 10 minutes.

2.    Weekly Assignments: 65% of the grade.

Weekly assignments are posted on class blog to practice skills learned in class. Students are expected to complete their own assignments. Grades are given according to the completeness of the assignments. Assignments will not receive grades if the links fail to work, so please make sure the Web page works before submitting the link. Five points will be counted for each assignment (total of 13 assignments).

Students are expected to submit the assignments on time. All assignments are due 8:00 am on Tuesdays. If there is a personal emergency which prevents you from completing the assignment, please inform me at least 10:00 pm the night before in class or via e-mail. Any submissions after the due time will automatically lead to the deduction of your grade by 50%.

3.    Lab Assignment: 10% of the grade.

Students will be asked to create a Web site by using the concepts and techniques learned in the first half of the semester. Any late submission will automatically lead to the deduction of your grade by 50%.

4.    Final Exam: 13% of the grade.

Students will be asked to create a website with special visual requirements with the concepts and techniques learned for the semester. Tasks will be given in the class. It will be an open-book exam.