Doing your homework is important
Homework feedback is something a lot of classes don't take seriously. A lot of the time you just get a score back, maybe if you're lucky they give a comment or two in the margins or on Stellar/LMOD. Gradescope was supposed to fix this to an extent, but graders still just write general comments per question at best, and don't bother going into detail into your submission.
That's the really great thing about 20.109. The staff gives thorough feedback, labeling specific points in your submission that need to be improved and how to improve them. They also make it pretty easy to talk to them afterwards for clarifications, either in person or through email. In my case at least, it really helped to review homework feedback when writing the Mod 2 research article. It's an assignment with a lot of different components and requirements, and the homework is meant to help you work through them.
Another useful resource for the research article was office hours. It really helps to have a good sense of what questions you want to ask before coming in, but even if you don't and just work while you're there, you'll usually find a few things that you can get help on along the way.
One suggestion I'd make to the staff is to use Piazza to manage student Q&A (a lot of course 6 classes use it). One of the things that happens a lot in classes is that many students can have the same question, but only a few will actually ask it. Piazza centralizes questions into a forum and makes them searchable, so students can just lookup questions by keywords. Both staff and students can answer questions, and good/useful questions can be pinned to the top of the forum by staff for more visibility.
What's also nice about Piazza is that it allows anonymous questions and responses, if students are worried it may be embarrassing to ask (the staff have to enable that option in their page's settings though). Students can also send private messages to staff, which is generally better organized than email. I've found Piazza invaluable when doing problem sets in other classes, and I think it could help organize student questions for 20.109.
- Sachin Shinde
That's the really great thing about 20.109. The staff gives thorough feedback, labeling specific points in your submission that need to be improved and how to improve them. They also make it pretty easy to talk to them afterwards for clarifications, either in person or through email. In my case at least, it really helped to review homework feedback when writing the Mod 2 research article. It's an assignment with a lot of different components and requirements, and the homework is meant to help you work through them.
Another useful resource for the research article was office hours. It really helps to have a good sense of what questions you want to ask before coming in, but even if you don't and just work while you're there, you'll usually find a few things that you can get help on along the way.
One suggestion I'd make to the staff is to use Piazza to manage student Q&A (a lot of course 6 classes use it). One of the things that happens a lot in classes is that many students can have the same question, but only a few will actually ask it. Piazza centralizes questions into a forum and makes them searchable, so students can just lookup questions by keywords. Both staff and students can answer questions, and good/useful questions can be pinned to the top of the forum by staff for more visibility.
What's also nice about Piazza is that it allows anonymous questions and responses, if students are worried it may be embarrassing to ask (the staff have to enable that option in their page's settings though). Students can also send private messages to staff, which is generally better organized than email. I've found Piazza invaluable when doing problem sets in other classes, and I think it could help organize student questions for 20.109.
- Sachin Shinde
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