Assessment and Completion

We want assessments to be helpful and provide the opportunity for you to demonstrate your abilities, so we are not focussed on exams and essays. Assessments allow you to present evidence that you have met the learning outcomes for each module. They include specific tasks or challenges to complete and participation in scheduled activities (for example, homegroup check-ins). You must complete all assessments to be eligible for Bootcamp.

Assessments include:

• Student Blog
• Tic Tac Toe Game
• JavaScript Carnival
• Reflections
• Participation

These are challenges you will complete throughout the Foundations curriculum. Assessments occur continuously and unobtrusively during your learning experience.

In many instances, completing challenges does not mean that you have the correct answer, the perfect code or the best explanation. It is your own, honest, best attempt at tackling the challenge using the processes we define. We are interested in how you learn and problem-solve, not the "right" answer.

If you are a bashful beginner, your attempts may not yield a working solution - this is OK! Passing is not the same as working code. We also consider your engagement with the course, your skill development in the process and provide opportunities for you to demonstrate your knowledge. Technical assessments are not only about making code work. Working code is ideal, but if your solution ends up being 30 lines of pseudocode and you don't know where to begin, comment saying where you are stuck and submit it. Then you can reach out to your cohort mates to see if anyone has solved the challenge and pair with them.