PHY 2053 - Physics I - SPRING 2010
STUDENT RESPONSE SYSTEM (HITT)
In-class graded HITT questions (student response system) begin on Tuesday January 19, 2009, but you should get your remotes sooner for practice questions that will help you to become familiar with the system before the questions starting counting toward your grade.
You should each purchase the HITT remote transmitter associated with the in-class student response system (the same system is also used by chemistry so you may already have the remote). This transmitter will let you respond to questions posed during class. Your response will be recorded. Simply responding will get you 1 point credit for the question while responding correctly will get you 2 points credit. To get the credit you must register on the system. To register visit http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~hitt/ at your earliest opportunity and follow the instructions on that page. It is your responsibility to ensure that your remote is functioning properly and that you are sending on the correct channel (see web site above for link to instructions for setting the remote channel). It is recommended that you set the channel at the start of each lecture. Lights on the remote will indicate that your answer has been recorded on the system. The student response grade will count as 5% of your course final score. To provide a measure of forgiveness for unavoidable missed classes and for problems with the HITT transmitter, the HITT score will be normalized using the following formula:
Normalized HW score = (Your score/Maximum possible)*50/8.5).
The factor 50/8.5 normalizes your score so that a 85% is increased to 100% and then converts it to a number between 0 and 5 (maximum possible is 5 even if you get a number greater than 5 after normalization).