The final exam will be comprehensive but will be weighted a bit more heavily on recent material from the last third of the course. The lecture material is organized into eight units with varying numbers of lessons and homework and laboratory assignments in each. Note that since you are not going to class, a successful student should spend at least 6 hours a week reading the lessons and doing the homework. Compared to a regular course, an online course must have more frequent assignments. Thus my current style is to have homework due every Monday and Thursday throughout the semester.
Some students think the homework weight is too high.
Now let me show a typical scenario. Gretchen was a student with reasonable ability and made 70's on the exams, a 93 on the project, but only 50 on the homework. The moral of this story is that regular effort is the key to this course. All work submitted by the student for grading must originate from that student. Academic dishonesty will be dealt with accordingly.