Student: Project Check-Ins

For long-running or open-ended projects, students check-in weekly on their progress. This provides some implicit structure, and lets students dynamically rescope their projects as they learn more about what is involved in their execution.

Project Check-In

Each week of your project, please submit as a single PDF:

• a description of the work you have done in the last week, including:

  • what you intended to do for the task

  • what you were able to accomplish

  • how much time you spent on each task

  • who worked on each task

  • documentation from your design journal that illustrates your progress

• a brief reflection on what you have learned through the week's project work

• a brief reflection on how your tasks this week (and success/failure in achieving them) relate to the overall goals for your project

• a description of how, if at all, you plan to re-scope your project given your experience thus far

• a description of the tasks you intend to perform for next week

• a list of questions you have for instructional staff, on how we can best support your project work