What to write in the explanation box
In short
Every coding problem has an explanation field. By default it carries 30% of the problem's grade, and faculty can change the split.
What the grader looks for
- Four rubric dimensions: clarity, technical accuracy, depth, and completeness.
- Why the approach works and what trade-offs you made, not a line-by-line restatement of the code.
- Your own words: what you decided and why, not a recap the grader could get from the code itself.
If faculty set the explanation weight to 0, the field is neither required nor graded.
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