About Weekly Effort Metrics

General Instructions

• Everybody in the class needs to submit the Weekly Effort Form by Monday midnight
• The first week (Week #01) to submit the Weekly Effort Form, consists of the effort spent on project related activities, between Monday, Sept. 12 and Sunday Sept. 19th (inclusive).
• The last week (Week #14) to submit the Weekly Effort Form, consists of the effort spent on project related activities, between Monday, Dec. 13th and Sunday, Dec. 19th (inclusive).
• You will receive 2 points for submitting a Weekly Effort Form each week.
• The hours you enter will NOT be used for grading purposes. The data is intended to be used for research at the Center of Software Engineering, so please enter accurate and meaningful data.
• The Weekly Effort data is kept confidential: you need to provide a password to submit your Weekly Effort Form (to prevent someone from impersonating you) and only team members can view Weekly Effort Report for that team.
• It is NOT recommended that you submit the Weekly Effort Form multiple times: every time you submit the form, the data will be appended to the Weekly Effort Report for your team.
• You may want to print out the Weekly Effort Form, and fill out the hard copy (this way, it might be easier to keep track of your hours as you go along), and then copy the values from the paper form to the online form every Monday

Form Instructions

Weekly Effort Form

1. Select your Name
2. Select your Team
3. Select the Week
4. Enter your student ID in the password field (use the format with dashes, e.g., 123-45-6789)
5. For each of the activities:
• Enter the number of hours spent on that activity on that particular day
• Enter ONLY numbers (integers or fractional): e.g., 3, 0.5
• DO NOT enter 'hrs' or 'hr' since the values you enter will be added
• Note that if you had a meeting with a team member that lasted 2 hours, then both of you and your team member should enter 2 in the activity Team Meetings and not 1 each.
• If you need help on the meaning of any of those activities, click on the link below each activity
• Click here to view explanations on the various activities
• For the empty fields under Other Effort Not Covered Here, you can enter the name of the other activities and the hours spent performing those activities
6. Click on the Submit Form button
7. If you entered your name, team, and password correctly, then your form will be processed.
8. If the processing of your form is successful, you can:
• Click on the link View the Weekly Effort Report for your team (you will not be required to re-enter your name, password, team and week)
• Click on the link Go back to the class homepage

View Weekly Effort Report

1. Select your Name
2. Select your Team
3. Select the Week
4. Enter your student ID in the password field (use the format with dashes, e.g., 123-45-6789)
5. Click on the View Report button
6. If you entered your name, team, and password correctly, then your form will be processed.
7. If none of your team members has submitted a Weekly Effort Form for a particular week, then the Weekly Effort Report for that week cannot be generated, and you will get an error message
8. If the processing of your form is successful, you can:
• View the Weekly Effort Report for your team
• Click on the link Go back to the class homepage