Grading

Checkpoints 1-5: 20% Total (4% each)
Milestones 1-3: 25% Total (8.33% each)
Responsible Robotics Short-form essays: 10% total
Journal Updates 1-5: 20% Total (4% each)
Final Project Demo and Report: 25% Total

Integration and Optimization will be key: each milestone involves integrating previous checkpoints, and offer an opportunity to improve upon past performance by optimizing the approach.

Teaching and Learning in the Age of COVID

We are committed to providing the necessary resources, time, and considerations to help everyone excel in the course. To this end, we would like to suggest the following:

• We understand that availability may be hard during disruptions
  Please let us know if you are unable to make it to class.
• Please share ideas for technological solutions
  If you have ideas for additions to course infrastructure, or useful third-party tools, please share with the class!
• Please attend class, and participate in the discussions
  Both online and in-person options will be available for the duration of the semester. We all learn a lot more from discussions than just passive lectures!
• When attending class remotely, please share your video
  Non-verbal cues are an important part of social communication, and seeing each other helps us all feel a little bit less isolated.
• Disruptions are normal when attending remotely
  Working from home is hard, and it is completely okay to be interrupted by kids, family members, partners, and pets.

COVID-19 Resources

These resources are adapted from the instructional FAQs for instructors, accessed 8/22/2021

• Pre-Semester COVID-19 Testing for Spring 2022
  FAQs about Pre-Semester COVID-19 Testing for Spring 2022
• Student process for positive COVID-19 test
  Self-reporting process and additional guidance for students if they have a positive COVID-19 test
• COVID-19 health information and resources
  Useful information and best practices to protect yourself and our community from COVID-19 infection
• COVID-19 Vaccinations
  UT Health information about where to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations on campus. Vaccinations are free and not billed to health insurance.
• What to do if you have symptoms
  Guidance on what to look for and instructions on what to do if you have COVID-19 symptoms
• University Health Services COVID-19 information
  Student portal for all university health information, processes, and guidance related to COVID-19.
• University’s mask guidance
  Make sure your recommended protective face mask covers your nose and mouth.
• Proactive Community Testing
  Will be available throughout the semester and remains an important part of the university’s efforts to protect our community. Tests are fast and free.
• Visit protect.utexas.edu for all university COVID-19 updates and information.

Academic Honesty

• All work that you submit must entirely be your own team’s work.
• You may discuss the algorithms for the homework with other students, but all code, written solutions, and mathematical derivations that you turn in must be your team’s alone.
• If you referred to an online, printed, or otherwise external resource to solve a problem, you must cite it in your writeup. If you reproduce matter from a resource without citing it, it will be considered plagiarism.
• Engaging in academic dishonesty will result in a failing grade in the course. Since such dishonesty harms the individual, all students, and the integrity of the University, policies on academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. For further information, please visit the Student Conduct and Academic Integrity website at: http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/conduct.