The students who choose the virtual or
distance mode can follow the subject through the “Curso Virtual” in the virtual
teaching platform Moodle, from the University of Vigo. Here they can access to
the necessary materials to acquire the competences and achieve the learning
results, both in the theoretical and practical contents. The teaching
methodologies and the evaluation activities will be specified, as well as the
submission calendar (on-site lesson and distance learning). Activities that require
the presence of the student will be replaced by others that allow to achieve
the same grade percentage. The individual progress of the student involvement
through the ITC will be done by means of the platform tools (involvement,
access statistics, fulfil online tests and exercises, etc.). The use of the
materials available via Moovi by the students must respect the copyright
regulations and those test or exams that “copy in essence the works from
others, rendering them as their own” (DLE-RAE) will be graded with a zero (the
lowest grade).

All the lectures from the professor and
the practical lessons (when possible) will be recorded. The recordings will be available
for the students in the platform MooVi, where they can watch them whenever they
consider it appropriate.The student must fulfil the minimum assistance
requirements to benefit from the continuous evaluation. Besides they must
attend the tests that the professor considers necessary. The attendance to the
theoretical and practical lessons will be quantified (10%), either on-site in
the classroom or in the virtual recordings of the lessons in MooVi. To pass the subject (and have a weighted
average with the evaluation of the practical exercises) it is necessary to
obtain a grade equal or higher than 4 in the exam (mid-term exams or final
exam). Besides it is necessary to submit a significant enough part of the
practical activities, to obtain a grad equal or higher than 3. The same
conditions apply for the second examination sitting.Beside the continuous evaluation, the
general norm for the on-site and virtual students, all the students can opt to
be evaluated via a “global evaluation” mode. The choice must be communicated to
the professor of the subject within 31 days from the beginning of the term (art
19.4 del Regulamento sobre a avaliación, a calificación e a calidade da
docencia e do proceso de aprendizaxe do estudantado, de la Universidad de
Vigo). The global evaluation test will be done by means of a traditional
written exam, about the contents of the lessons (55%), and the submission of a
practical report, agreed with the professor, equivalent to the laboratory/field
report and to the practical exercises (text analysis, stratigraphic sequence
analysis, etc.) done in the semminars (45%). To pass the subject, the student
must achieve in the exam a grade equal or higher than 4 and a grade equal or
higher than 3 in the practical exercises, to obtain a mean equal or higher than
5.