policies, grading, procedures
This class meets once a week. Missing one class is equivalent to missing a week of school. Do your best to stay healthy and attend all classes. I suggest beginning homework the day after it is assigned. This will give you time to get help with issues that are not completely understood or issues with the software. I will not be able to repeat 3 hour lectures for students who miss class. If you miss a class please make sure you have contact info for classmates who can help you catch up.
Grading:
You are graded every week on the homework that you complete. Homework will be evaluated each week in class. Do not wait to till the night before class to complete your weekly projects. Plan on Murphy's Law striking every week. Late homework will not count. Final projects count no more than the work of any other week. Final grade is an average of the 15 weekly grades, attendance and participation. Weekly evaluations are based on depth and quality of project exploration.
Students' success will be evaluated by each student's ability to:
1. successfully employ the 12 principals of animation.
2. demonstrate proper use of timing
3. demonstrate clear and convincing use of balance and weight
4. employment believe use of body mechanics
5. become fluent and facile with the graph editor
6. show up for class on time and meet weekly deadlines.
University policy on incompletes:
An incomplete grade may be given only in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the instructor and at the student's request no more than 48 hours after the final exam or class. The student must be passing the course at the time of the request or be sufficiently close to passing that the instructor believes that upon completion of the work, the student will pass the course. If the work is not completed with one year of recording the I, the grade will become an F(I)
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Student planning on advancing to digital media 4 must earn a grade of C or above in digital media 3. Please see the design section of the umass catalog for a complete list of grade and course prerequisites for digital media classes.
Attendance:
Attendance is taken only once, promptly at beginning of class and is used in determining grades. This class is about timing. (If you cant get to class on time you are in the wrong field.) An old wise man once said: "if your on time your late, if your are early, your on time." If you must miss a class you can attend the sister class on T or W.
If you do miss a class please alert me as to the reason.
Time expectation:
You will need to allocate a minimum of 6-9 hours outside of class per week. You have one evening homework session reserved for you in the lab. Use of lab on weekends recommended.
Grades are a way to get feedback on your efforts. If your goal is to find employment in this field there are other factors that are equally or more important. These are the quality of your portfolio (including preliminary sketches and story board), letters of recommendation, references, and work experiences, such as internships.
Server Access
ACCESSING YOUR STORAGE FOLDER:
When in the labs, in order to access your storage folder, all you need to do is to tap once on Mac desktop to activate it.
Next, pull down the GO menu and select CONNECT TO SERVER.
Or you can type "COMMAND and K"
Joy Miller has already entered the address in the CONNECT TO SERVER WINDOW, which is:
cifs://netwin.umassd.edu/CVPA-Design-Students/
Click on the blue CONNECT button
Enter your user name and password
Click on the CONNECT button
WARNING! The above only works on the computers in the labs and classroom. In order to connect from a laptop or home computer, VPN must be set on the laptop or computer. At this time you cannot connect from the dorms but in time you may be able to.
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VPN directions:
When you want to set up access to the digital media folder from your wireless connection of your laptop or home computer you must set up a VPN password used only once to set up your VPN network protocol via a wireless connection.
To set up the VPN acct password, visit this page: https://email.umassd.edu/activate/
Enter your user name. jmiller for example
Click on the CONTINUE TO NEXT STEP BUTTON
Next, choose: "I wish to change or set my VPN/Wireless password"
Set up VPN via instructions, here: http://www.umassd.edu/cits/wireless/welcome.cfm