In redesigning AP50 for an online environment, we decided to focus on a steady workflow for you — the student — with a fixed weekly schedule. Many of the activities will be asynchronous so as to give you maximum scheduling flexibility. There will be no class meetings on Wellness days and we will reschedule or eliminate activities that fall on these days.

In order to promote effective team work (see also next page), you need to prepare yourself and work on each activity individually before working on it with your team. You can choose to do the individual work as early as you want, but you must complete it before you revisit that activity with your team. You can schedule teamwork whenever suits your team. (To overcome time-zone differences, team members will be selected from the same section cohort.) The better you prepare yourself, the more efficient your team will work, and the more your team members will appreciate you. This, in turn, will improve your peer evaluation scores.

You will be working on five types of scaffolded activities in AP50:

reading		Basic information transfer and a replacement of an ordinary lecture (which, incidentally, means "reading" in Latin!)

readiness assurance		A self-assessment of your understanding and an opportunity to address misunderstandings with your team

tutorial		Resolve common misconceptions and deepen your understanding of the material

assignment		Develop problem solving and estimation skills; self-assessment of your knowledge and skills

project work		The glue that holds the course together. Apply your knowledge of physics to real-world problems.

The work on these activities falls into three modalities:

work you do on your own
work you do with your team
work you do with your team during scheduled class section times

You can schedule teamwork whenever suits your team. (To overcome time-zone differences, team members will be selected from the same section cohort.)

The scheduled section times (Tu/Th 9:00am and 4:30pm ET) will be reserved to resolve difficulties that are best addressed by the teaching team. If you need additional help outside these regularly scheduled section times, reach out to someone on the teaching team.

Each of the 13 weekly modules starts on a Friday. The schedule of a typical module looks like this (estimated time commitment for each activity in parentheses):

Day	On your own	With team	With team in Section

Friday	Deadline for starting weekly reading assignment (2-3 hrs)	project work

Sunday	Deadline to finish reading and complete Readiness Assurance Activity (30 mins)	(when needed)

Monday	Complete tutorial (45 mins)	Revisit Readiness Assurance Activity (45 mins)

Tuesday	Start working on weekly assignment (varies; 1-4 hrs)	project work	Revisit tutorial (75 mins)

Thursday		(when needed)	Revisit assignment (75 mins)

On average you should allocate around 10 hours per week on the course, of which 2.5 hours are in the scheduled section times. You can schedule the rest to suit your (and your team's) schedule. What you get out of this course depends very much on what you put in, and putting in less than these 10 hours will diminish your learning.