Students can choose the method of Assessment: Continuous or Exam-Only Assessment.

Continuous Assessment (CA)

There will be two possible ways or options to go through Continuous Assessment, which we call A and B. Student must choose the option in the subject virtual classroom during first month, one day before the first assessment exam. In any case, this deadline will be communicated sufficiently in advance in the official News Forum of the virtual classroom. After this deadline, the chosen continuous assessment option cannot be changed. Students who do not make any explicit choice follow the exam-only assessment. 

Given the necessary collaborative and social character of option B, groups that do not reach a minimum of 30 students, will only have option A for continuous assessment.

Continuous Assessment consists of four types of activities or tests:

• Qualifying activities in the virtual classroom. During the course, with an approximately weekly periodicity, tasks, resolution of exercises, questions and self-evaluation tests will be proposed in the virtual classroom for the students to carry out after school hours individually, autonomously. All activities will have a strict deadline. The completion of these activities allows students to obtain “merit points” (MP) up to a maximum of 100 points (in the case of the correct completion of all of them). The mark in this part will be calculated as the amount of MP divided by 100. In order to facilitate the achievement of the maximum number of points, it will be possible to obtain a certain amount of PM through rewards, and in tasks with submissions, peer evaluation will be used, which will allow students to obtain additional PM.

  The Merit Points only count for students who have chosen option B of continuous assessment. Those who chose option A of continuous assessment can also do the tasks and tests, but the MP obtained do not count for the final mark, being only indicative of their self-assessment. 
  
• Two intermediate one-hour multiple-choice tests to assess the progress of the subject (C1 and C2). Each control test has a weight of 15% on the final mark (FG) for students who chose option A of continuous assessment and 10% for those who opt for option B. The schedule of the different intermediate evaluation tests will be approved by the Comisión Académica de Grado (CAG)  and will be available at the beginning of the term.

• The development of a network program (NP). The deadline will be published together with its specifications. Compliance with the prescriptions and software quality will determine the qualification of this program. An assessment guide will be published along with the program specifications. This program must be coded and submitted individually. The NP will account for 20% of the Final Grade (FG), and it is required to reach 3.5 points to be able to pass the subject.

• A final exam (FE) covering all contents, has a weight of 50% of the Final Grade (FG). A minimum qualification of 3.5 points over 10 is required

FG-CA-A = 0.15 × (C1+C2) + 0.2 · NP + 0.5 × FE, if FE ≥ 3,5  and NP ≥ 3.5

FG-CA-A = 0.1 × (C1+C2) + MP/100 + 0.2 × NP + 0. 5 · FE, if FE ≥ 3,5  and NP ≥ 3.5

If either FE or NP does not reach the minimum mark of 3.5 => FG-CA-A =FG-CA-B = min(3.5, FE)

As said above, it is mandatory to choose the CA option, A or B, in the established period, that will be until the day before the C1 control test. Students that do not make any explicit choice will be subjected to exam-only assessment (EA).

Failure to take any of the control tests, C1 or C2, implies a mark of "0" on the test. These tests are not recoverable.

Exam-Only Assessment (EA)

Students who do not made any choice of continuous assessment within the stipulated time period are required to take the Exam-Only Assessment (EA)

The Exam-Only Assessment will consist of the same FE at the end of the term, and the submission of the same network program (NP) proposed for those going through CA. The submission deadlines will also be the same.

The grade of the NP in this case will be simply APPT (with an equivalent numeric value of "1"), if the qualification obtained in the NP is equal to or greater than 5, or NOT APPT (with a numeric value of "'0") if it is less than 5 or not delivered. In this case the final mark will correspond to the 40% of the FE. That is to say,

FG-EA = (0.4 + 0.6 · NP) × FE

Second call

In the official dates, a new final exam (FE) will be done only for students that failed in the first call. Students will also be allowed to deliver a new NP consisting of a modified version of the program of the first call, and whose specifications will be published with at least 3 weeks of advance with respect to the deadline. This deadline will never be later than this second final exam.

For students who chose CA, these FE and NP represent an opportunity to improve the mark in these with respect to the first call, and so the calculation of the final grade considers the best grade obtained.

For students who chose EA, the FE and the NP are considered joint and inseparable, that is,  

FG-EA = Max{(0.4 + 0.6 × NP-1st) × FE-1st, (0.4 + 0.6 × NP-2nd) × FE-2nd}

Those students who have failed in the first call by going through Continuous Assessment and wish to renounce it in order to choose the Eventual Assessment, will have to request it in writing to the subject coordinator before the review date of the first final exam. In this case, the conditions to pass the subject are exactly the same as those of the rest of the students that have chosen EA, being therefore compulsory the delivery of a new NP with the second call specifications. In this case, any reward obtained by the CA activities in the virtual classroom is also waived.

End-of-program call

Students participating in the extraordinary call must pass the FE, to be carried out at the officially established dates and obtain an APT grade in the NP, that must be delivered before the date of this FE. The specifications of this program are the same as those of the second call. It is mandatory to deliver this program on time, even if it has already been delivered in the second call.

The final mark of this call will be that of the EF if the NP is APT, and 40% of the EF if the NP is NOT APT

Other comments

All students presenting to any FE are considered to be presented to the subject. The marks for all exams, intermediate or final, and activities will only have effects on the current academic year.

The virtual classroom platform has tools to detect possible anomalous and dishonest behaviors in self-assessment tests (tests carried out among several people, previously known answers, etc.), as well as to detect plagiarism in written works or in software programs.

Plagiarism is regarded as serious dishonest behavior. If any form of plagiarism is detected in any of the works/test/exams, including the virtual platform activities, the final grade will be FAIL (0), and the incident will be reported to the corresponding academic authorities for prosecution.

All the official communications of the Subject will be published in the News Forum of the virtual classroom, to which all the students are necessarily subscribed by email. It is assumed that all students reads these messages and are properly informed of their content.

In the event of any contradiction that may have occurred between the different versions of this guide, due to any error in the translation, the prevailing version will be the Galician language version, with the exception of the English teaching group, for which the English version of the Guide will be considered.