Weekly Quizzes
A short quiz at the start of every lecture, on that lecture and nothing else. The best 7 of 12 scores count, worth 20% of the course between them.
Due: 21 February 2027 · Weight: 20%
The brief#
Twelve small quizzes, not one large one. Show up, answer what that lecture just covered, and let the best seven speak for the other five.
There is no artefact to prepare here and nothing to hand in. A quiz opens on the first slide of every lecture, delivered by a QR code, asks about that lecture’s content and nothing further back or forward, and closes before the next one starts.
Two tracks, one question#
The room and the stream see the same question, on two different clocks.
In the room. Two minutes, and you may talk it over with whoever is next to you. Turning up without having done the reading is entirely recoverable here — that is what the two minutes and the room are for.
Watching online. About thirty seconds — long enough to answer if you already know it, not long enough to open a second tab and go looking. Doing well here means the week’s page was read before the lecture started, not during it.
Why the two clocks differ, and what that says about the course’s own subject, is on the arc page, next to the timeline this component sits inside of.
What counts#
Twelve quizzes run across the semester. The best seven of those twelve scores are the ones that count, worth 20% of the course. The other five are free to lose — to a missed lecture, a slow morning, or a question that was simply hard to answer in thirty seconds — with no explanation owed and nothing lost beyond that quiz’s own mark.
How this is marked#
Automatically, at the moment each quiz closes: correct or not, with no partial credit and no re-mark. The judgement this component asks for is not in any one answer — it is in showing up, and having read enough of the week to be worth two minutes of somebody’s attention.
What you submit#
Nothing prepared in advance. Be in the room or watching live, answer inside the window you are given, and let the best seven of twelve stand for the rest.
The spec
The brief poses the problem and leaves room for a response. The spec is the fixed part: what a marker checks. Some lines can be checked mechanically; the rest call for judgement.
- one quiz at the start of every teaching week, on that week's content only
- delivered by QR code, closed before the next lecture begins
- a two-minute window with in-person discussion allowed, a thirty-second window online
- the best 7 of 12 scores counted; the rest carry no penalty
How it is marked
Marked automatically the moment each quiz closes — correct or not, no partial credit, no re-mark. The best seven of the twelve weekly scores count toward the grade; the other five carry no penalty beyond that quiz's own mark.