Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Autonomous practical work	40	30	1.2	CM09, KM14, SM13
Final work. Cartographic composition and data sources search	20	26	1.04	CM09, KM14
Theory and practical tests	40	6	0.24	CM09, KM14, SM13

Assessment

Items of the evaluation:

• 2 Middle term exams (theorical-practical) (20% half-semester-20% at the end of semester)
• Practical exercises (40%)

1. Introduction to cartography. Working with projections (10%)
2. Introduction to the treatment and consultation of geographic information (10%)
3. Data source (20%)

• Final work (20%): Elaboration a thematic atlas of Barcelona

Requirements for being assessed

The degree requires to attend a minimum of 80% to be evaluated. Only absences due to illnees or similar
reasons ay be justifiable.

Optional tasks

During the course, it will be other optional learning activities to complement the student's education. Delivery of these practices is optional.

Requirements to pass the course

Requirements to pass the course

Two requirments:

to have an average mark of 5/10;
to have a minimum mark of 4/10 in each exam
If the students do not pass the subject, the mark will be the result of the evaluation.

Other aspects
If there is no justified cause, the assessement activties will be at the day and time agreed by the university timetable.

RECOVERY PROCESS

When the ordinary assessment has finished, if the students fail, they can do a recovery exam according to the
University dates. If the student wnats to do the recovery have to:

deliver at least 80% of the practial work
pass the recovery exam
It will only be possible to reassess the theorical and practical examn. Failed exercises may only be resit when the average mark does not reach 5. The maxim mark in case of resit is 6.

PROCEDURE FOR REVIEW OF QUALIFICATIONS

For each assessment activity, the coordinator of the subject will indicatea place, date and time of the review. In this context,the student can claim about the assessment activity qualification, which will be reviewed by the coordinator of the subject. If the student does not submit to this review, this assessment activity will not be reviewed later.

QUALIFICATIONS

Honors. Granting an Honor is a decision of the coordinator of the subject. The UAB regulations can only be awarded to students having obtained a final grade of at least 9. It can be granted up to 5% of Honors of the total number of students enrolled.
A Student will be considered non-evaluable (NA) when it has not been presented the assessments activities whose weight are two thirds of the total grade of the subject.

PLAGIARISM AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES

Assessment activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject, this subject will be suspended directly, without opportunity to recover it in the same course. These irregularities include, among others:

• the total or partial copy of a lab exercise, report, or any other evaluation activity;
• let another student to copy; present a group work not done entirely by the members of the group (applied to all members and not only to those who have not worked);
• present as own materials prepared by a third party, even if they are translations or adaptations, and
• generally works with non-original and exclusive elements of the student;
• have communication devices (such as mobile phones, smart watches, pens with camera, etc.)
• accessible during theoretical-practical assessment tests (individual exams);
• talk with classmates during the individual theoretical-practice tests (exams);
• copy or attempt to copy from other students during the theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams);
• use or attempt to use written material related to thesubject during the theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when thesehave not been explicitly allowed.

REPEATING STUDENTS
In case of repeating students, the mark of thepractices of the previous course cannot be validated. Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student who may lead to a variation of the qualification in an assessable activity will be graded with zero (0).