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A reminder that there are no quizzes until further notice.

While the strike continues, you may attend any tutorial, but with the important proviso that if the room is full, the TA may ask you to leave. It is the TA's right and responsibility to do this, because classrooms all have a maximum capacity that the Fire Department will not allow us to exceed. If this becomes a serious issue, let me know and we will try to find bigger rooms where needed. However, at least 16 of the 28 tutorials are running, so I hope things will work out.

Be prepared for things to be chaotic this week, while we work out what is going on.

Expect instructors (and me) to hold extra office hours as necessary.

So as to be fair to all students, there are no quizzes until the Monday after the TAs return to work. This means that you will not be disadvantaged if your TA should choose to strike. (The reason for the "Monday after" thing is to ensure that all students write the same number of quizzes, as far as possible). Your course quiz grade will be determined from the quizzes that were written and marked. I will strive to ensure that everyone is treated fairly in this regard.

The answers recorded for you are here. See the instructions below for decoding this. The major reason for seeing your original Scantron is that the answers recorded for you disagree with what you noted down (on the question paper), and you want to find out why.

A few students bubbled in multiple answers for the same question (indicated by MULT). This means that you automatically get the question wrong. It might be caused by failing to sufficiently erase the answer that you no longer wanted.

It is possible for two (different) student numbers to scramble to the same thing. This happened 14 times here. (This is actually deliberate, because it means that there is no way of going backwards from a scrambled student number to an original one.) If this happens to you, one of the multiple rows in the table will be yours. They are all there. It should be easy enough to tell which one it is.

If you notice a discrepancy between what is posted here and what you thought you answered, you can check your original Scantron to find out what is going on. This can be done during my (Ken's) office hours. I haven't finished sorting the original Scantrons yet, but I should be finished with that during reading week. The rules on that: (a) I need to see your student card to verify that the exam you are looking at is yours, and (b) the original Scantrons do not leave my office.

Next, I want to put up a web page with (encoded) student numbers and answers recorded for all the questions. That will enable you to check what was recorded for you. After that, I need to sort the big pile of Scantrons so that you can look at yours. I'll let you know when that's done.

• upload the marks to Blackboard. As long as you filled out the bubbles for your student number on your Scantron, the mark should upload properly. Potential problems:
  • If you bubbled your name but not your student number, I will have to look up your student number, enter it into my spreadsheet, and re-upload the marks. This will take time, but it will be done.
  • If you bubbled your student number wrong, I will be told this when I try to upload your mark to Blackboard. I then need to find the wrong student number in my spreadsheet, correct it and then upload again.
  • If you didn't bubble anything, but you did write something like your name or student number on the Scantron, you will have to wait until I get the original Scantrons back, which will be another couple of days. I then have to match the nameless line in my spreadsheet with the Scantron and fill in that identification in the spreadsheet, and upload again.
  • If you didn't bubble or write any identification on the Scantron, I may have one or two workarounds (that involve extra time on my part and probably yours), but you are at serious risk of scoring zero.
• make a table of responses by student and question, so that you can check what was recorded for you.
• when I have received and sorted the (nearly 900!) Scantrons, you can come and check yours, should you wish to. I keep the original Scantrons, but you can look at yours as long as you stay in my office while you are doing so.

If you as a student miss a quiz due to illness, you can either (a) write the quiz in another tutorial, for the one week only, or (b) get a note from your doctor certifying that you were unable to get to tutorial, and give it to your TA (or your instructor, or me, Ken). In that case, you will see the "-1" notation appear as your "grade": this means "missed with documentation".

A reminder that the only thing on the "LEC030201" section on Blackboard is quiz grades. The midterm marks will also be available there, but there is nothing else to see there.

You are currently looking at the central course website. Look here for overall course-related information. If you are in Olga's section 1, you will have access to the LEC01 section on Blackboard (this is unaffected by the Blackboard issues), and if you are in one of Srishta's sections, you can consult her webpage.