Late Registration, Missed Quizzes and Certificates
There is a forum thread, and some of you have emailed me directly, on the topic of people who registered late and missed early quiz deadlines, or who miss quiz deadlines for other reasons. A number of you are wondering whether certification will be possible under such circumstances.
I am generally sympathetic to late registrants, and people who might miss the occasional quiz deadline for other reasons. My goal is to award certificates to everyone who completes the course and shows reasonable comprehension of the main themes via the quizzes.
I have asked Coursera staff whether the platform supports certificate award logic such as "take the average of the student's k best quiz scores out of n, and compare it to some threshold value". If so, I will likely use such a rule with a value of k that permits some missed quizzes. If not, I will simulate it by taking what I consider to be a reasonably good average score and then reducing it by zeroing out some number of quizzes in order to compute the certification threshold. I'll update on this topic once I know what is possible.
In short, if you missed the first week's quizzes, or miss a few over the course, don't sweat certification; I will figure out a way to be flexible and fair on this topic. Just do your best to keep up with the pace from here on out.
Best
Prof Kearns
Mon 24 Sep 2012 7:42:00 AM PDT
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