Coursera: Fantasy and Science Fiction (Summer 2012) discussion

When do we get the final grade or whatever for the course?

Consensus on the forum was it could be a month or more, going off the experience from other courses. I was a bit sad, actually, I would have thought it would have been easy to display it with your last essay grade, for closure's sake if nothing else.

You can work it out, though - add up your seven best scores and divide by 14. So mine is (5.5 + 5 + 5 + 4.5 + 4 + 4 + 4)/14=2.3, which is an A for writing, and I did all 10 essays so that's an A overall. They round up, though, so eg if you got an A for writing but only did 9 essays you'd still get an A overall.

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hmmm I should have done the last essay then.

Well, you'd still get a 9 for participation, that's 50% of your score. So if, say, you'd got a C for writing you'd get a B overall, wouldn't you?

Just dropped by the class forum - surprisingly still open - and spotted a post-course survey:

https://class.coursera.org/fantasysf-...

You may also find https://www.coursera.org/account/records useful - there's nothing there for Sci-Fi yet but hopefully that's where we'll find certificates. :)

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https://class.coursera.org/fantasysf-...

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I found it interesting that there were yes/no drop down boxes, but an open question for your sex. :)

Also I wondered how they were going to make money. I see it in the survey now. They do want to charge for courses and they are looking to have employers pay them to send us recruitment emails.

Let's hope they stay affordable, then - I'd gladly pay $30 for a few I really fancy, but I can't afford to do multiple courses like I am now. Not all at once, anyway!

Oh, now I have 100% because they can't manage to work out a quality AND a participation score to give a sensible grade. *slow handclap* Well done. Can no-one do programming over there?

It'll sound bonkers but I liked my 76% better, it represented the quality of the work I did much more accurately.

They did something odd, because I went from 76% to 90%. Well, that's something that really needs to be sorted out before they think anyone is going to pay for this.

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