Assessment

a)Assessment process and activities  
The subject is composed of the following activities:
Theory: 60% of the final grades. It is divided into two written examinations where each of the tests corresponds to 30% of the final grades.
Problems: 10% of the final grades
Laboratory: 30% of the final grades. 20% belongs to the evaluation of the work done in the sessions and 10% of the reports of the practical labs

Students must have a minimum grade of 5 in theory and problems and a final global mark of 5.0 to pass the subject. In case of not obtaining this minimum, the numerical value in the student record will be the lower value between 4,5 and the average of the grades.

Theory evaluation will be done in the form of two written partial examinations. The test scheduling and the topics to be evaluated in each of the tests will be described in the subject planning sheet. Only students with a grade greater than 3,0 will be able to attend the second partial examination. Theory final grade will be the average of the theory tests when each of the tests grades is higher than 5. It is important to state here that second test will not cover the first part of the theory of the subject. If it is not possible to organise a test in a physical classroom of the Engineering school they will become remote assessment tests. For these tests it will be necessary to apply a mechanism of identity check using a webcam and a procedure to send the anwers to the questions during a specific time interval.

There will be specific sessions for practical questions assessment. Students will have to deliver a solved question before the session using the virtual campus. These exercices will be done individually and the final grades will account all delivered tasks by averaging delivered tasks by the total number of sessions.

Laboratory work: Last year students can compensate last year marks by request to the theory coordinator. Lab group teams will be managed using the virtual campus.Activation date to register in a specific lab will be public in the news part of the subject in the virtual campus. Remember that attendance is compulsory for all the sessions for all the group members.

Laboratory sessions are of compulsory attendance. Students must show the adequate work of lab deliveries that will be verified by the lab teachers. Each student in the lab also must answer correctly the questions of the teachers and must deliver in due time a written report of the lab sessions. Contents of the report will be:

• Objective of the lab
• Description and proposed work: pseudo code, block design
• Descriptions of the reasons of the answers to the questions in the report
• Description of the procedures used and their functionality
• Description of the problems found during the lab sessions and solutions proposed for the problems.
• Conclusions of the work done in the lab
• Source code of the work
• Procedure steps of building an application from provided source code

The final lab grade will be calculated using the average of each of the labs.

b) evaluation activities calendar

The actual calendar of the evaluation activities will be published the first day of class in the virtual campus and in the Engineering school website. These dates could be modified, so any modification on calendar will be published in the virtual campus that will be the main channel of official documentation and notifications between students and teachers.

c)final examination process

Theoretical content of the subject will be evaluated in two different exams during the course. The second test will not cover the topics of the first part of the subject and students need a grade that is equal or greater that 3.0 to attend the second test of the subject.

Those students that have not reached the minimum grade to pass the subject will have a final examination of the subject theory at the end of the semester. Labs and problems are not re-examined. Students will have to take a final exam of each part of the subject previously evaluated with a grade smaller than a 5.0. Students must get a grade above 5.0 in each of the two parts of the subject to pass the theoretical part and calculate the average with problems and labs for the final subject evaluation grade.

After the final examination of theory, there will be a lab exam for those students with a grade greater or equal than 4.5. The date of this test will be published in the virtual campus in the general planning of the subtect. Students that have not passed any of the labs during the semester will have to pass a specific practical test. This test will be scheduled the same day of the final theory exam.

d)Qualification revision
For each evaluated activity, there will be a place, date and hour for the students to review the activity with the teacher. If the student does not attend the revision date the activity will not be revised again.

e)Qualifications
A student can get the maximum qualification when the final grade is above 9. In order to provide a selection of this qualification we will consider the maximum amount of honor qualifications that can be given following the general UAB regulations.

Given the continous evaluation methodology used in this subject, if a student delivers any evaluable proof of work like problem test, lab report or theory test it will interpreted as the student will to be evaluated and to get a different evaluation than Non-Evaluable (NA). A NA qualification can only be obtained when absolutely no delivery is made during the semester.

Last, it is important to consider the importance of correct formal expression in any delivery provided by students. The quality of the text of the deliveries will be evaluated. All errors found related to grammar, spelling or low quality text expressions will account up to 20% of the final grade.

f)Irregular behavior and plagiarism
According to the current UAB norms, and apart from any other disciplinary measures, any plagiarism activity detected in an evaluated activity will be qualified as zero (0). Activities qualified in this way will not be reexamined during the course. If plagiarism is detected in a compulsory activity, the subject will be considered not passed and there will be no further opportunities to get a new evaluation during the course. These activities include, among others:

• Total or parcial copy of a lab, report or any other evaluation activity
• encourage any plagiarism activity
• deliver a group work not done by all the components of the group
• deliver material of others as it was done by the components of the group, being those translations or adaptations.
• Have communication devices during the individual evaluation tests: smartphones, smart watches, cameras installed in pens, etc.
• Speak with students during evaluation tests or exams
• Copy or try to copy from other students during the evaluation tests or exams
• Use or try to use written material during the evaluation tests or exams when these have not been explicitly permitted

In summary, any plagiarism activity in any of the evaluation activity will be equivalent to the impossibility of passing the subject, without any opportunity of re-examine in the same course and without any compensation of any part of the subject in the next courses.

h)Last year students evaluation
Students taking their third evaluation of the subject can compensate the labs done in the last course. Also, their final grades will be calculated using the average of the exams of both parts of the subject. Students that meet this requirements must request this special evaluation to the teacher during the first two weeks of class