Hello Lifespan Development students. I
wanted to take a minute and emphasize
the importance of completing the work in
this course.  If you look at the grading
break down here in this distribution pie
chart, you'll see the percentages of each
grading category for your overall final
grade. Looking here - discussions there are four
of those, their 50 points each and they
equal twenty percent of the final grade
collectively. Likewise, there are four
journals and the journals collectively
equal twenty-four percent of your final
grade.  But if you look at the majority of
this pie chart right here, from here to
here, you'll see all of these categories
relate to the final project. The three
milestone assignments are twelve percent
of your grade, the final project is fifteen
percent and this Module One Literature
Worksheet that you are going to complete in
this first module equals five percent
of your grade.
Therefore, it's very very important that
you work to complete each of the
milestone assignments. If you miss one of
them, the best grade you could
have, with hundreds on all the other
assignments, is an 88.  If you miss two
of them and get hundreds on everything,
you're looking at a 76.  These are
weighted heavily towards the final grade.
Keep that in mind as we move forward - a
non- submission, a 0 earned on these
assignments can be very detrimental to
your overall course grade.  If you have any
questions,
use the General Questions Forum or email
your instructor.
