Assignment Instructions
Health Informatics is a growing and collaborative field, and there is no better way to learn than to interact with your peers, to participate in one another’s project studies, and to see the variety of approaches taken by your classmates to the class’s assignments. Thus, participation is required. However, we understand that requiring participation has a tendency to incite inauthentic participation. Our goal with the participation policy is to give students enough ways to fulfill their participation credit in the way that is most natural and useful to them.
There are a few ways to earn participation points. Our goal is for the participation policy to be organic. If you are active on Piazza (e.g. posting high-quality topics or comments a couple times a week), complete your status report and survey tasks, you shouldn’t ever need to worry about the participation policy. We expect that for the majority of students, you’ll earn your participation points without really trying.
The following are the ways you may earn participation credit:
- Participation on Piazza (1pt)
- Completing your Project Status Reports on Time (10pts)
- Completing the Course Surveys on Time (4pts)
Grading Information
Your number of participation points will be averaged out of 15 possible points and included as 15% of your final average. Earning 15 points or above will give you 100% of the possible participation credit.
Below you can find a refined schedule that highlights the participation assignments and the CIOS Evaluation. You can find the full course calendar and all of the course deliverables here.
| Week # | Week Of | Deliverable | Assignment Due Date |
| 1 | 08/21/2017 | Intro & Interest Posts, Start-of-Course Survey | 08/27/2017 |
| 5 | 09/18/2017 | Quarter-Course Survey | 09/24/2017 |
| 8 | 10/09/2017 | Project Status Report 1 | 10/15/2017 |
| 9 | 10/16/2017 | Mid-Course Survey | 10/22/2017 |
| 10 | 10/23/2017 | Project Status Report 2 | 10/29/2017 |
| 11 | 10/30/2017 | Project Status Report 3 | 11/05/2017 |
| 13 | 11/13/2017 | Project Status Report 4 | 11/19/2017 |
| 14 | 11/20/2017 | Project Status Report 5 | 11/26/2017 |
| 16 | 12/04/2017 | End-of-Course Survey, CIOS Survey | 12/10/2017 |