Project Hand-in and Retrieval Procedures

We will be using Illinois Compass to handin finished projects this semester:

https://compass.uiuc.edu

Submitting Your Project

After logging into Compass, go to the homepage of “CS 418 - Computer Graphics - Fall 2005”, and you’ll see all the assignments listed. Go to the assignment submission page by clicking on the corresponding icon. In the submission page, you can use the “Add attachments” button to upload your project. In the top text box indicate the platform (Windows or Linux) that you want your project run on.

Please note that every student should compress their projects into a single .zip file, say “netid-mp1.zip” for mp1, “netid-mp2.zip” for mp2, etc.

Contents of Your Zip File

• Submissions should unzip to a folder with the same name as your zip file, e.g. student-mp1.zip should unzip to student-mp1/*.*
• Always place the readme inside the root of your submission, e.g. student-mp1/Readme.txt.
• Always include a precompiled executable that runs right out of the box. We should be able to run it directly from command line or by double-clicking it in a file explorer. Note that VC8 executables in Release or Debug directories may not satisfy this requirement unless you run them through Visual Studio, and we don't want to need to do that.
• Always include whatever data files are needed to run your program (e.g. obj files, ppm files, etc...).
• Always include a Makefile or VC8 project files that compile on our Linux or Windows machines without assumptions on the environment!

Retrieving And Re-submitting Projects Before Due Time

You can submit your project multiple times before it is due. The last submission will overwrite the previous ones, and the submission time will be the time of your last submission.

After submitting your MP, you should be able to see it through these steps:

1. On the upper right corner of the course homepage in Compass, click on the “Assignments” link. You’ll see a table with 4 tabs, namely “Inbox, Submitted, Graded, Published”.

2. Click on the “Submitted” tab, and your submitted MP should appear here.

3. • To check that your submission is what you intended, click on title of the MP. In the next page, right click on the link to the “.zip” file and select “Save Link As…”. What you get will be exactly what the graders will get.

   • To re-submit a newer version of your MP, click on the rightmost icon under “Options”. This will move your MP from the “Submitted” tab to the “Inbox” tab. Then you can go to “Inbox” and remove or add the attached file, and re-submit after that.