Homeworks are posted every Wednesday and are due the following Tuesday. There will be 9 homeworks in total. Each homework will consist of about five problems, and each problem will be assigned to a team of about three students.
Here is an outline of what happens during each grading cycle. The grading cycle for each homework starts the Wednesday the homework is posted to class, and ends on the day the graded homeworks are handed back to the students (this will be the Monday after the week the homeworks are due).
You can volunteer as a team (of about 3 students) - in that case your email must have the names and email address of all members of the team - or as an individual. We will combine individuals or groups of 2 into a team when needed. You can volunteer for a particular problem, or for any problem, meaning that we choose for you. You can specify a second, third, etc, choice in case your prefered problem has been given to others already. Also say whether your last choice is "any" or "none".
You may put yourself, or your team, on a waiting list for a particular homework cycle before the assignments are posted; in that case you need to confirm by email (and possibly choose a problem) on the Wednesday soon after the posting of the assignments. We will answer grading requests only on (or around) Wednesdays. There appears to be a long waiting list forming, and we will use the time of first posting to cs154grading@cs to decide who gets to grade first.
As soon as the positions are filled we tell the volunteers whether or not they have been selected, and for which problem. Each team gets assigned a supervising TA.
The team also meets to fine-tune the model solution based on grading experience, if needed. The model solution may contain a discussion of common fallacies in solving the problem (essentially all corrective text that you don't want to repeat in red ink on each of the student's write-ups for which it applies).
Fill in the scoresheet by writing the grades behind the names. Use only tabs to separate names from grades, and do not edit the names in any way. Unknown students may be added at the bottom.