Verified Certificate

Coursera offers the Signature Track, which verifies the identity of students. Students in the Signature Track can receive a Verified Certificate if they meet the criteria described below. It's mandatory for students in the Signature Track to successfully achieve a Verified Certificate in all MOOCs in the Specialization to take the Capstone project at the end of the Specialization.

This MOOC consists of lecture videos with integrated quiz questions designed to ensure students understand the material covered in the videos. The estimated time commitment is roughly 8 -- 12 hours per week, depending on background and interest level. In addition to completing the auto-graded weekly quizzes, students will also complete auto-/peer-graded programming assignments. These programming assignments will involve writing concurrent Android applications using its pattern-oriented frameworks written in Java. The final grade for the course will be calculated as follows:

1. Weekly quizzes (Weighting: 30%)

Each quiz will contain a number of equally-weighted questions. You will have until noon central time on the last day of the class to submit the quiz. There will be ~4 quizzes.

2. Programming assignments (Weighting: 70%)

You will have N programming assignments (where _N _== ~3) by the end of the course. You will have roughly 14 days to submit your solution. The total weekly assignment score will be 70% of the final course score for students. Each assignment will account for 1/_N_th of the total programming assignment points, so it's possible to miss an assignment and still pass the class as long as you do well on the other assignments.

To receive a Verified Certificate students will need to score at least 70% on their final grade (which combines the weekly quizzes and programming assignments).