121 LEARNING CATALYTICS POLICIES GRADING You will use Learning Catalytics to answer Multiple Choice questions during the class period. Some questions may just be for practice, or may be used to measure the initial class knowledge of a topic; those questions will have time limits of 30-45 seconds. Most answers will be graded; those questions will have time limits of 60 seconds. You may always discuss the question with your teammates, but the answer that you enter should always be your own. Correct answers will receive 2 points and incorrect answers will receive 1 point; so there is a very small penalty for an incorrect answer. You will need a small hand calculator to answer some LC questions; please have one available for each class meeting. START DATE For the first two class meetings, all LC questions will be considered practice questions, as you learn to use the Learning Catalytics system. Beginning MON Aug 28, at least some LC questions will be graded. Even if LC works on your smartphone or laptop during class, your grades will not be passed to my online gradebook unless you have properly registered at your Learning Catalytics account. The instructions for correctly registering your LC account are available at our Learning Catalytics Registration page. WEIGHTING There are expected to be about 150 graded LC questions over the course of the semester, so about 300 LC points will be possible. However, about 255 LC points (or about 85% of all possible LC points should there be more or less than 150 questions) are all that are required to receive an overall LC grade of 100%. Your LC percentage will count 12% of your overall grade for our class TECHNOLOGY MALFUNCTION Since you only have to get 85% of all possible LC points in order to receive a Learning Catalytics grade of 100%, there are no make ups for missed Learning Catalytics questions for any reason. CHEATING You must use only your LC account and no other. You must be present for a class session in order to get credit for the LC question-answer process for that session.