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Assignments

An overview of the kinds of graded work in CCE 114. Each week's page on the schedule links what is due that week, and exact due dates for the current semester are on Learning Suite. How each category counts toward your grade is on the Grading page.

Lab Exercises

The labs are the core of the course: hands-on projects in QGIS that take the week's concepts and apply them to a real engineering problem with real data, from making a first map to a full site selection analysis. The Thursday hands-on session prepares you for each one. Each lab has its own page with the data, step-by-step instructions, the deliverables and the grading rubric, linked from the week it is due. You submit a lab as a single PDF report on Learning Suite, due Saturday at 11:59 pm; late labs lose points, as described on the Grading page.

Reading Quizzes

Quizzes on Learning Suite over the week's reading in GIS Fundamentals (Bolstad & Manson) and the lecture material. They are open book and untimed, meant to be done with your notes and the book in hand. Each quiz opens on Tuesday and closes Saturday at 11:59 pm of its week, and quizzes cannot be submitted late. The same concepts reappear on the Concepts Exams, where the book is not available, so treat the readings seriously.

In-Class Activities

Short activities done during class and recorded on Learning Suite the same day. On Tuesdays they are part of the concepts lecture; on Thursdays they are the hands-on work in QGIS. Each week's page describes that week's activities under In-Class Practice, with a link to the full guide where there is one.

Experiences

Larger assignments that take you outside the classroom. Each is submitted as a PDF on Learning Suite and is a good place to use AI well; see the AI Use Policy.

BYU Belonging Map

Let us cultivate a Covenant Belonging community (see belonging.byu.edu). Attend a cultural or sporting activity with at least two other BYU students, take a picture together, build a map in QGIS showing where your event was held along with any other relevant mappable information, save it as a PDF, and upload it.

Community and Professional Map Experience

Let us expand your real-world professional experience. Attend a real professional construction or engineering event or presentation (an easy option is a city council meeting), take a picture at the event, and build a map in QGIS showing where it was held plus any other relevant mappable information. Upload the PDF together with a brief explanation of any maps that were shown and discussed and what you learned about professional map-based communication. Answer:

  1. What data did they use to make their map?
  2. What analysis did they do and show?
  3. What decision or question were they trying to inform or help answer with this map?

Web Mapping with AI Experience

Learn how to build a website with a map on it, with AI assistance from the start: a public web page with an interactive map showing a layer you exported from QGIS, plus a short note on how you used the AI. Full instructions: Web Mapping with AI Experience.

Final Project

A mapping term project at the end of the semester that brings the skills from the labs together: finding data, building a workflow, running an analysis, and communicating the result with maps. See Final Project.

Attendance and Course Evaluation

Mark your attendance on Learning Suite for each Tuesday and Thursday class. At the end of the semester, completing the course evaluation at studentratings.byu.edu earns extra credit; the instructor can see who completed it but not the evaluations themselves. See Grading.