CPS420	Work Submission Information

Assignment Teams

You can be in different teams for different labs and assignments.

Submission of lab or assignment

Here is the student guide to Crowdmark and a few additional issues not mentioned in these pages:

• Once the lab opens up, you will get an invitation from Crowdmark to submit your lab.
• The lab will be set up to allow you to form your own groups (information for students is in the section called "What will students see?") This works very well except for one thing: be sure that you create your group before you start uploading answers. After that, team members can only be added by the instructors, and doing so will wipe out your submissions.
• Late labs will be accepted in Crowdmark, but the Crowdmark late penalty is incorrect. The correct late penalties are described below and will be recalculated manually.

You can find information on getting started with the moons in the References and Technical Information page.

If you do not already have an app to communicate with the moons, try MobaXterm for Windows. This app includes a file transfer window that you can use to upload your files to the moons, and a terminal window that you can use to type the commands above. MobaXterm is installed in the Computer Science labs. There are similar ssh clients for macOS. You can also use the macOS Terminal app to do the same thing, and then use ssh on the command line to work on the moons, or sftp to transfer files to the moons. There are various web sites explaining this in more detail.

Electronic submissions on the scs moons work as follows:

• If you developped your work remotely, upload your files to your own account.

• Using the UNIX cd command, go to the directory where you have uploaded or developed the files:

  cd directory-path

• Run submit-cps420 filename. For example submit-cps420 Graph.py (Please note that "submit-cps420" is one word: there is no blank before the minus sign)

  You can submit the same file as often as you want: the new copy will simply replace the old copy. If you do, be aware that the date stamp for the file will be that of the new copy.

  You can check your submissions by simply typing check-submit-cps420.

  You can also retrieve any document from your submissions directory using the get-submit-cps420 command which works somewhat like a UNIX cp command:
  e.g. if you want to retrieve a document called filename from your submissions directory and place a copy in destination-folder, just type
  get-submit-cps420 filename destination-folder
  Note that this does not delete the document in your submissions directory - it only copies it.

• If you choose to do the work by yourself:

  There is a D2L Assignment folder with the name of the assessment followed by " - Individual submission", for example "Lab6 - Individual submission". In that assignment folder, simply type in the textbox the moons userid you used to submit your work, as described in the previous section.

• If you choose to do the work in a team:

  This will be a two step process:

  1. Group enrolment: In D2L a team is called a "group". To be considered a team with a single submission and single grade two people will need to enroll in the same group.

     For this purpose, for each different assessment, 200 self-enrolment groups with a maximum of two members have been created. The groups can be found in the "Communications" menu of D2L. Once there, select an D2L group for the assessment you are working on (Lab6 or Assignment) that has 0 members and have all members of your team enroll in that group. It doesn't matter which group you choose as long as it has 0 members when you claim it.

  2. Assignment submission: There is a D2L Assignment folder with the name of the assessment followed by " - Group submission", for example "Lab6 - Group submission". In that assignment folder, simply type in the textbox the moons userid you used to submit your work, as described in the previous section.

     The maximum group size is set at two, so if you wish to have a third member in an assignment team, you will also need to declare that person's name and student ID in the textbox.

Due Times

Late Penalties

• 1 day late: -5%
• 2 days late: -10%
• 3 days late: -25%
• 4 days late: -50%
• 5 or more days late: -100%