CogSci 3
Spring 04
Assignment 5 -- Fancy Web Page -- Grading Criteria

There are different point scales used on each assignment. Harder assignments have more points possible.

Assignment 5 -- Topic (Fancy) Web Page

44 points -- plus 6 additional extra credit points, 3 of which are for the readability of your HTML.
These criteria are mostly laid out for the graders, top to bottom, rather than how the assignment instructions told you how to put things on your page.
- The assignment is graded by looking that the Web version of the page using Netscape 6 or higher. Note, in the past we have seen pages with "broken" (incorrect) HTML that will display okay in Internet Explorer but not in Netscape, or visa versa. Netscape is the "standard" that we will be using to grade this assignment with.
- We will also look at the HTML source. In fact, the scoring is described in terms of the HTML "objects" found in the source file from top to bottom.
If the page looks funny in some way not explained below, up to 5 points can be deducted.
If it appears that an HTML edit tool (e.g., FrontPage, DreamWeaver, Netscape Composer, etc) was used, up to 10 points can be deducted (for extreme cases)
If the student has the HTML to create a particular effect, but it's wrong and so the effect doesn't appear, only a partial deduction.

The description of the points below corresponds approximately to the order that the HTML Objects appear in the source file rather than the order in which they were created.

Setup -- 7 points total

1 point for a hw5 folder in your "Class Resources" (cg3xzz home directory); if it's not there, we can't grade it.
1 point for a topic.html file in hw5
1 points for having <TITLE> tags and appropriate title.
1 point for comment with name and account:

if the comment tags are wrong, deduct 1 point here for all incorrect comment tags (i.e., no double jeopardy), as there are 3 other comment tags. However, a full -1 if any comment tag is missing completely.
2 points -- adding BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, and VLINK to <BODY> tag
-1 point (total) if not in "#rrggbb" format (omitting the "s and # probably works but is not the format described in the instructions.
-1 point if there is more than 1 <BODY> tag
1 point for a <A NAME=> tag that is referenced by the link in the middle of table 3. The <A NAME=> should be up near the top of the HTML file, probably in front of table 1.

TABLE 1 -- 11 points total
1 point -- comment for table 1:
2 points -- Table with 1 row and 3 cells, and a border
2 points -- image in left cell
-1 broken image
1 point -- hyper link citation for image
2 points -- <H1> heading in center cell, with <FONT COLOR=> and a different color from those used in the <BODY TEXT=> tag.
-1 if no <FONT> tag
2 points -- image in right cell
-1 broken image; be careful here. Because of stupid Windows ignoring case in certain circumstances, the student may have been able to see their images on their page, but they won't view when used in a web context (which we are using to grade with). If there is a case mismatch, assume the student was able to preview and take no points off; however, make a comment about it, because it won't work for them when they move their webpages to the internet.
1 point -- hyper link citation for image

TABLE 2 -- 10 points total
1 point -- comment for table 2:
2 points -- Table with 4 rows and 2 columns, and a border
3 points -- a "heading" row with a large, colored title for the table spanning the 2 columns
-1 point for no COLSPAN=2
-1 point for <FONT COLOR=>
-1 point for <FONT SIZE=+2>
3 points -- for hyper linked URLs and description in each cell (.5 per cell). We won't check all the links ot see if they all work, but perhaps one random one (or one that looks interesting ).
-1 if a "title" was used instead of a URL as the clickable part of the hyper link
1 point (total) -- for indenting cells using <DL> list

TABLE 3 -- 12 points total
1 point -- comment for table 3:
2 points -- Table with 1 row and 3 cells, and a border
1 points -- arrow image in left cell
-1 broken image
1 point -- hyper link to assignment description
2 points -- hyper link to top of page (<A NAME=> anchor; should be in the same color as <H1> title in Table 1 and title of table 2.
-1 if no <FONT COLOR=>; only -.5 if there is a tag but it's not close enough to the text (inside the <A> tag)
2 points for a working counter --
-1 if the counter has a giant number
1 point for proper alignment of hyper link and counter (link above counter and both centered)
1 points -- arrow image in right cell
-1 broken image
1 point -- hyper link to home page
-1 if the link is to the right of the arrow!
Finishing Touches -- 4 points total
1 point total for <CENTER>ing all 3 tables and for space (<P> or <BR><BR>) between tables
1 point for the Copyright
2 points for description of software and location of work; .5 each for editor name (pico, NotePad, etc), location (home, campus lab), browser name, and version.
Extra Credit -- up to 6 points
2 points for creating a table in the middle cell of table 3; 2 rows, 1 column. It should have both the hyper link and counter in it.
1 point for VALIGNing the <H1> heading in the middle cell of table 1 at the top of the cell.
3 points neatness, structure. Up to 3 points can be awarded if your code is easy to read. This is somewhat subjective .

CogSci 3 Spring 04 Assignment 5 -- Fancy Web Page -- Grading Criteria

Assignment 5 -- Topic (Fancy) Web Page

Setup -- 7 points total

TABLE 1 -- 11 points total

TABLE 2 -- 10 points total

TABLE 3 -- 12 points total

Finishing Touches -- 4 points total

Extra Credit -- up to 6 points

©opyright 2001-2004 Mark R. Wallen Last updated: Fri May 21 09:08:20 2004

CogSci 3
Spring 04
Assignment 5 -- Fancy Web Page -- Grading Criteria

©opyright 2001-2004 Mark R. Wallen
Last updated: Fri May 21 09:08:20 2004