Grades for this class are available on a password-protected web site
maintained by the Department of Astronomy. The site is located at:
Your login name on this site will be your UVa/ITC-assigned email/login
ID. You will be asked to select a password when you first log-on
to the site.
Grades will be updated every couple of weeks, as work is graded.
Alerts will be posted on the Announcements page.
10/20/08: Grades are posted for Lab 1 and for the first 5
Review Quizzes (through 10/10).
11/04/08: Grades are posted for Labs 1 & 2 and for all
Review Quizzes (through Week 8, 11/3)
11/11/08: Grades are posted for Labs 1, 2, for all
Review Quizzes (through Week 8, 11/3),
and for the Midterm exam.
11/25/08: Grades are posted for Labs 1, 2, and 3, for all
Review Quizzes (through Week 8, 11/3),
for the Midterm exam, and for Optional Lab 1.
Note that Review Quiz scores have NOT been
updated for late submissions. Those will
be picked up later.
12/17/08: FINAL GRADES ARE NOW POSTED
Because Lab 4 was made optional owing to the
bad weather this semester, the grading scale
was adjusted downward. People who submitted parts of
Lab 4 received extra credit for those.
The mean total score for all assignments was
653/850.
Have a great holiday!
Here is the meaning of the column headings on the grade page:
MDX = Midterm Exam score (126 point max)
RQZ = Review Quiz total score (75 points max) [Note: for
individual quiz scores, see the Collab Gradebook]
L1 = Constellation Lab (100 point max)
L2 = Intro Binoc Lab (100 point max)
L3 = Intro Small Telesc Lab (150 point max)
L4 = Telescope Obs I (Extra credit only)
O1, O2, O3 = Optional labs (100 or 200 points each)
TOT = Total score (end of semester, sum of all points)
LET = Final letter grade (end of semester)