About Weekly Effort Metrics

General Instructions

Everybody in the class needs to submit the Weekly Effort Form by Monday midnight.
You will receive 2 points for submitting a Weekly Effort Form each week for the corresponding week.
If you submit a Weekly Effort Form for the incorrect week, you will not not receive the 2 points.
Other than the incentive of receiving the two points, you should submit your Weekly Effort Form on time, to give the author of the Weekly Status Report (due on Tuesdays) enough time to analyze the Weekly Effort Forms of the team members
Week #xx includes the effort spent on project related activities, between Monday and Sunday (inclusive) of Week #xx.
Week #01 starts on Jan 31, since all the teams would have been formed, and all the project assignments finalized by Jan 31.
Special Cases:

Week #00 includes all the effort (if any) spent on the project, from the point of turning in the LCA packages up to Jan 31.
If you will be working on the project during Spring Break, then you should submit a Weeky Effort Form for Week #07
Week #14 includes any effort spent on project related activities (e.g., late transition activities) beyond the May 05 deadline, when all the deliverables are due.

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 your team members can view your Weekly Effort Report.
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. If you do that accidentally, then you have to live with it. The Teaching Assistant will not manually correct the problem.
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

Select your Name
Select your Team
Select the Week
Enter your student ID in the password field (use the format with dashes, e.g., 123-45-6789)
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

Click on the Submit Form button
If you entered your name, team, and password correctly, then your form will be processed.
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

You can also view the Weekly Effort Report for your team by going to the View Weekly Effort Report form

Select your Name
Select your Team
Select the Week
Enter your student ID in the password field (use the format with dashes, e.g., 123-45-6789)
Click on the View Report button
If you entered your name, team, and password correctly, then your form will be processed.
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
If the processing of your form is successful, you can: