Projects

What a project is

Every course ends with a capstone project. Where an activity works through one topic, the project asks you to make one larger piece of work out of what the whole course taught you.

What you make, how long it is, and the format you turn in differ from course to course, and your course’s project page has all of it. Read the whole page before you start. On any question about the deliverable itself, follow that page.

What stays the same in every course is how you post the project and the four replies that follow it.

Post

Post your project as a single new thread in the Project discussion forum, with the deliverable attached or linked. Everything the project asks for goes in that one thread, not spread across several posts. If the project page names a subject line, use it. If it asks for a link to one of your AI conversations, include it with a sentence or two on what the chat shows and why you chose it.

Write it for your classmates. They’re the audience for a project the same way they are for an activity, and the Activities page explains what that means for what you post.

Replies

Reply to four classmates’ projects, each from a different classmate. The replies are part of the learning, because judging how someone else handled the assignment sharpens the way you handle your own.

Make each reply specific. Point to something in their project: a point they got right, or a place you would have gone another way, and why. A specific comment is worth more than praise. If the project page asks your replies to do something in particular, do that.

Late projects

Projects aren’t accepted late. The late work policy gives half credit for late activity posts, replies, and the Midterm Journal, but not for the project.