TeachFront is a grading platform designed for the kind of grading system we use in this course. It is a fairly new platform, and yet to be integrated with other systems we use, which means you have to create an account on your own by following the steps below:
- Navigate to https://teachfront.com/
- Create an account using your Duke email (either netid@duke.edu or firstname.lastname@duke.edu)
- The platform will send you a verification email. This might take a few minutes, and the email might show up in your junk folder.
- Click on the verification link in the email to finish registering your account. Chances are you will see an error upon clicking the link. If this happens, simply refresh and try login into your account again.
- Enroll into our course using the code here.
- You should be able to see Homework 1. If so, you are all set for using the platform.
We will use TeachFront for all six homeworks, the infographic project, and all LO checkpoints. For LO checkpoints, this means we will scan your in-person work in class, grade it on TeachFront, and release the feedback to you directly on TeachFront. The other components of the course (e.g., engagement points) are not tracked in TeachFront. Therefore, the gradebook in TeachFront is incomplete, and does not display your final letter grade, which depends on things such as engagement points and quizzes that are not in TeachFront. However, we do configure TeachFront for you to easily track your LO progress in it; that is exactly the reason we use it.
