Two evaluation systems will be offered to the students in this course: Continuous Evaluation and Single Evaluation (at the end of the semester). The student must choose, in the first week of class, the modality that will continue. Once the choice is made, the student may not change the system.

Regardless of the evaluation system chosen, the pass mark for the course is 5 out of 10. Below the characteristics of both systems and the particularities of the subsequent calls are detailed.

Continuous Evaluation

The student must carry out 5 assessment activities that can be divided into 3 groups:

• 1 theoretical exam (theory assessment). The score of this test corresponds to the Grade of Theory (GTheory)
• 2 practical exercises (practical assessment). These exercises are done by pairs, achieving both members the same score. Each exercise has the same weight and their mean corresponds to the Grade of Practice (GPractice)
• 2 assessment activities related to the development of a project (project assessment) carried out by a group of 3-4 students. The first activity involves the presentation of the project proposal and has a relative weight of 0.4. The second activity concerns the evaluation of the project elaboration, for which "work packages", individually coordinated by each group member, will be defined. Each activity is evaluated according to a predefined rubric which mainly includes elements of group evaluation (e.g. level of innovation of the proposal, degree of utilization of techniques discussed in class), but also elements of individual assessment (e.g. quality of the exposition, achievements in the assigned "work package"). The weighted average of these activities corresponds to the Grade of Project (GProject)

The student must obtain a minimum grade of 3.5 (out of 10) in each of the groups to pass the course. As long as this condition is met, the final Mark (M) of the student is the weighted average of scores in each group, based on the following relation:

M = 0,35 * GTheory + 0,3* GPractice + 0,35 * GProject

If the student has not achieved a score of 3,5 in any of the groups, the final Mark will be the minimum between 4 and the value obtained according to the above relation.

In addition, the following rules must be observed:

• A student attending any scheduled activity of the continuous evaluation modality is considered he/she definitely has chosen that evaluation system, and he/she may not appear as "No Presented" in the transcripts.
• The continuous assessment activities are not recoverable. That is, if a student does not attend any of them at the scheduled date, the faculty has no obligation to repeat it.

Single Evaluation

Students who chooses the Single Evaluation system shall submit the software and the report of a project whose functionality, scope and formats will be agreed upon with the faculty (at least one month prior to the delivery date). In addition, the student must take a written examination that includes both theoretical questions and problems and practical exercises. The date of the examination, and delivery of the project, will be established on the School Board and officially communicated through appropriate channels.

The final Mark in this evaluation system is the harmonic mean of the scores obtained in the examination and in the project.

Evaluation of subsequent calls

The second call will be governed by a procedure similar to the Single Evaluation system. Thus, the student must submit a project report and take a written exam. However, if the student had a score higher than 4 in the project (whether by continuous or single evaluation system) he/she would not be required to submit the project report and he/she would keep the previous score. When submitting the project report, the valid score will be always the mark of the new submission. Similarly, if the student had a score higher than 4 in the theoretical part of the single evaluation system or a mean score over 4 between the scores of theory and practice of the continuous evaluation system, the student may waive the exam, in which case the score would be the previously obtained.

None of the marks obtained in the course, regardless of the chosen system of evaluation will be retained for subsequent courses.