Students are offered two different methods of assessment: continuous assessment and global assessment.

Students opting for continuous assessment will be required to complete three assignments: two midterm exams (each worth 35% of the final score) and a project involving the configuration of a basic IP PBX (30% of the final score). In any case, a minimum score of 3 (out of 10) in each of the assignments is required to pass. Students who score more than five points in the overall score but less than the minimum score in any of the tasks will receive a FAIL (4.5). The score of the project will depend on the functionality and performance of the developed IP PBX (70%) and the answers to a practical exam solved individually by each member of the group (30%). None of the three assignments are recoverable and all are valid only for the current course.

Students can also opt for a global assessment, in which case they will be evaluated by means of just one final exam covering all the contents of the subject at the end of the course. In this case, the final score of the subject will be the score obtained on that exam.

Students will be considered to have opted for continuous assessment if they take the first midterm exam or the IP PBX project. Only students who take the second midterm exam (or the final exam in case of global assessment) will be considered presented to the subject.

Plagiarism is regarded as serious dishonest behavior. If any form of plagiarism is detected in any of the three tasks, the final grade will be FAIL (0), and the incident will be reported to the corresponding academic authorities for prosecution.

Those who have not passed the subject after the ordinary opportunity will have to take, for the extraordinary opportunity, a written exam that will cover all the contents of the course. For this opportunity, the score obtained in the project can be kept, with the same weighting as in the ordinary opportunity.

For the end-of-program exams the assessment will just consist in the realization of a written exam covering all the contents of the course.

The schedule of the midterm/intermediate exams will be approved in the
Comisión Académica de Grado (CAG) and will be available at the beginning
of each academic semester.