Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

The course management will be conducted through the Virtual Campus (https://cv.uab.cat/), which will be used to view materials, manage practical groups, submit assignments, view grades, communicate with professors, etc.

EVALUATION

The course consists of three parts: Theory, Problems, and Practical Work. The Theory part represents 50% of the final grade, Problems represent 20%, and Practical Work the remaining 30%. It is essential that the weighted average of the three parts is at least 5.0 to pass the course. Additionally, a minimum grade of 5.0 is required in each part to pass the course.

The dates for continuous evaluation and the submission of problems and practical work will be published on the virtual campus and may be subject to possible rescheduling due to unforeseen circumstances. These changes will always be communicated through the virtual campus as it is understood to be the usual mechanism of information exchange between professors and students.

Honors will be awarded based on calculating five percent or a fraction of the students enrolled in all teaching groups of the course. They will only be awarded to students who have obtained a final grade of 9 or higher.

The evaluation of each of the different parts of the course (Theory, Problems, and Practical Work) is detailed below:

Theory.
The evaluation of the theoretical part will be done with two intermediate tests. The date of each test and its content are indicated in the course planning sheets. The theory grade will be the average of the two theory tests, provided that the grade of each test is 5.0 or higher. The first test cannot be retaken on the day of the second test.

For each test, a place, date, and time for review will beindicated where the student can review the activity with the professor. If the student does not attend this review, the activity will not be reviewed later.

Problems.
The evaluation of the problems part will be carried out by submitting solutions to the problems published on the virtual campus.

Practical Work.
The evaluation of the practical work will be based on the work developed during the laboratory sessions and the reports written for each session.

The report for each session must detail:

Objective of the practical work
Description and approach of the practical work
Description of the procedures used at the functional level
Description of the problems encountered during the practical work and the solutions found
Conclusions drawn from the practical work
Configuration and testing details
Recovery Activities:
A final theory exam will be planned. This exam will have a part for each test, and it will be necessary to reevaluate the tests that were not passed (minimum grade of each test being 5.0 or higher).

In cases where one of the parts of the course is failed (<5.0), after the recovery process; and the final grade calculation according to the corresponding percentages is higher than 5.0, the final grade for the course will be 4.5.

Problems and practical work are not recoverable.

Plagiarism and copying.
Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student that may lead to a variation of the grade in an evaluable activity will be graded with a zero (0). Evaluation activities graded in this way and by this procedure are not recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these evaluation activities to pass the course, this course will be failed directly, without the opportunity to recover it in the same academic year. These irregularities include, among others:

total or partial copying of a practical work, report, or any other evaluable activity;
allowing others to copy;
unauthorized use of AI (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalents), etc., in any evaluable activity will result in it being graded with a zero;
presenting group work not entirely done by the group members (applied to all members, not just those who did not work);
presenting as own materials prepared by a third party, even if they are translations or adaptations, and generally work with non-original and exclusive elements of the student;
having communication devices (such as mobile phones, smart watches, pens with cameras, etc.) accessible during individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
talking to classmates during individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
copying or attempting to copy other students during individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
using or attempting to use written materials related to the subject during theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly allowed.

If the course is not passed because one of the evaluation activities does not reach the required minimum grade, the numeric grade recorded in the transcript will be the lower value between 4.5 and the weighted average of the grades. Exceptions include that a grade of "Not Evaluated" will be given to students who do not participate in any evaluation activities, and the numeric grade recorded will be the lower value between 3.0 and the weighted average of the grades if the student has committed irregularities in an evaluation act (thus making it impossible to pass by compensation). In future editions of this course, a student who has committed irregularities in an evaluation act will not have any of the evaluation activities carried out validated. In summary: copying, allowing others to copy, or plagiarizing (or attempting to) in any of the evaluable activities results in a FAIL, not compensable and without validations of parts of the course in subsequent academic years.