Here are some useful links for this course:

• Assignment Submission - Use http://knightvision.calvin.edu; see below for more information.
• Grading Information - Use http://pella.calvin.edu/grading/; see below for more information.

If you have questions on either of these tools, don't hesitate to ask.

Assignment Submissions

All lab and project submissions for this course will be done using Knightvision, which provides (relatively) secure submission and feedback capabilities. Use these features as follows:

1. Log into your Knightvision account for IS 341 at knightvision.calvin.edu.
2. Go to the "Assignments" area and click on "View/Complete Assignment" under the appropriate assignment name (e.g., "Lab 1" or "Proj 1"). Be sure to submit your assignment under the appropriate name.
3. Attach your solution document (or documents). Note that you can use the "Comments" field for brief comments, but its contents are not formatted and it has a rather limited buffer size. Be sure to name your attached documents appropriately and explain what they are in the comments field.
4. Click on the "submit" button. Note that Knightvision will not allow you re-submit anything, so use the "Save" button until you are sure that you are ready to "Submit" for good. If you accidentally submit something early, let us know and we'll clear your submission so you can resubmit.

Knightvision will then indicate, in your gradebook, the time at which you submitted your assignment. The administrivia page will indicate when assignments of various types are due.

Grading

All grades for this course are distributed via the Pella grading system. We will assign you an ID and password on this system; be sure to change the password as appropriate. Use this system as follows:

1. Log into your Pella account at the Pella server.
2. Choose the course for which you want to view grades.
3. Look through the grading sheet. The grading system shows the full score computation, as defined in the course administrivia page, along with score histograms for all graded assignments. Ungraded assignments will have a score of 0 and will not have a hyperlinked histogram page.

Note that we use the grades on the Pella server to compute your final grade, so make sure that your submissions in Knightvision are reflected accurately on the Pella server.

The grading system is not directly accessible off-campus, so to get off-campus access, you must:

1. Login to your shell account on udu.calvin.edu using ssh (I use this implementation). Use your campus-wide email login and password.
2. Once on udu, type:

   lynx pella.calvin.edu/grading/
   

   Lynx gives you ASCII terminal access to the grading system, which isn't the best, but it's better than nothing. You may need to play with the interface a bit to learn how to work with it, but lynx does give you context-sensitive instructions at the bottom of the screen. The trickiest part is selecting the course once you've logged in. For this, you need to:
   1. Hit return to open your list of courses.
   2. Use the up/down arrows to select the course.
   3. Hit return to exit the selection mode.
   4. Use the down arrow to move on to the "get scores" button.
   5. Hit return to press the "get scores" button.