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====== CM3203 One Semester Individual Project ====== | ====== CM3203 One Semester Individual Project ====== | ||
- | This is the main page for information about the 40 credit one-semester | + | This is the main page for information about the 40 credit one-semester |
- | * [[CM3203 Guide]]: The complete guide for CM3203 on a single page for printing/ | + | |
- | ===== Project | + | **Project |
- | At the beginning of the third year you are going to select your final year project. Below are guides on how to propose projects and select your project using PATS. | + | ===== Project Selection (Autumn Term) ===== |
- | * [[Project Proposals]]: | + | The setup of the module |
- | * [[Project Supervision]]: | + | |
- | * [[Supervisors]]: | + | |
- | ===== Deliverables ===== | + | * [[project_selection_lecture_notes|Project Selection Lecture Notes]] (autumn week 5) |
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- | This is an overview of the expected deliverables and related tasks you have to execute for your project. Details on these deliverables and tasks are available on the linked pages. You also find the required deliverables with their submission deadlines under your PATS project details. | + | Further video recordings from the lectures |
+ | ==== Setup ==== | ||
- | * [[Initial Plan]]: You must submit an initial plan (by beginning of week 2, at most 2,000 words, worth 5%). | + | Before project selection starts, you will get an account on PATS linked to your Cardiff University account. You will receive a notification to your university e-mail address when this is done. Once setup: |
- | * [[CM3203 Final Report]]: A final report | + | * Check your **PATS profile**. You can edit some fields yourself. Change of e-mail address |
- | * [[Project Viva]]: A project viva will take place after the exams for every final year project. | + | * If any information you cannot edit is **wrong**, contact the project |
- | * [[Project Publication]]: | + | |
- | For information about how to submit a report via PATS please see the [[Submission Guide]]. Note that in order to get an extension to the submission deadline the general coursework submission extension guidelines apply. | + | ==== Proposals |
- | ===== Guides ===== | + | |
- | These guides | + | You can select a staff proposal or propose your own project: |
+ | * You can **submit project proposals** on PATS as soon as you have been set up. The proposals | ||
+ | * If you **propose | ||
+ | * Supervisors may add more proposals during the selection period, | ||
- | An important point to remember is that the report should describe your work. Large chunks of bookwork describing standard material are unnecessary. You should simply refer to such material where necessary - assume that your reader is a competent computer or information systems theorist or practitioner. The guidelines here are arranged roughly in the order that you will need them. | + | See **[[Project Proposals]]** for further details. |
- | Your project supervisor will guide you on what it is reasonable to expect a project in your chosen topic to deliver. However, all projects are required to justify all decisions made at every stage of research and the development of appropriate deliverables, | + | ==== Selection ==== |
- | | + | Project **selection usually takes place from autumn week 5 to 11**. Details will be sent to your e-mail registered in PATS, and there will be a **lecture introducing the module**, including project selection |
- | | + | * Project |
- | | + | * Once you have selected |
- | | + | * Your **project must be related to your degree**, particularly if you are on one of the specialisms. You only see staff project proposals that they marked as relevant to your specific degree, but if you propose your own project, you have to make sure it is suitable. If you are unsure about the suitability of your own project or a staff project, please discuss this with potential supervisors. If queries remain, get in touch with the project coordinator. |
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- | * [[Sources for Further Guidance]]: | + | |
- | Further information on how to use PATS, prepare the various deliverables in a suitable format and related technical issues are available in these guides: | + | See **[[Project Supervision]]** for further details. |
- | * [[Submission Guide]]: General instructions on how to submit the deliverbales via PATS. | + | ===== Ethics and Other Issues===== |
- | * [[PDF Guide]]: Instructions on how to generate PDF files. | + | |
- | ===== Project Coordinator ===== | + | Your project may require **ethics approval**. All projects involving human participants, |
- | [[http://www.langbein.org/|Frank C Langbein]] at [[mailto:LangbeinFC@cf.ac.uk|LangbeinFC@cf.ac.uk]] | + | Please watch the **" |
+ | * **Simplified ethics**, i.e. approval by a supervisor: | ||
+ | * You can use this if **you are running one of the approved study types**: anonymous survey (to gather requirements for the system you are developing); | ||
+ | * And **you are not meeting the full review criteria** (i.e. you are not working with vulnerable participants and your dissertation does not focus on a potentially sensitive topic). | ||
+ | * **Regular ethics application**: | ||
+ | * Details on the ethics policies and procedures are available | ||
+ | The CM3203 ethics framework with the dissertation project ethics form for simplified ethics: | ||
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+ | with the following templates/ | ||
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+ | Other issues, such as **required resources** (e.g. special hardware or software) or **legal issues** (e.g. intellectual property and licensing), must also be considered for the proposal when agreeing to supervision and during execution, with proper risk management in place. | ||
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+ | **It is the student' | ||
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+ | ===== Project Execution (Spring Term) ===== | ||
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+ | The project is executed in spring term, from week 1 to week 12. **Regular supervisor meetings** will happen in that period and are to be arranged individually with each supervisor. As the student is expected to manage the project, they are also responsible for ensuring these meetings occur. The supervisors may follow up on students not attending, but this is not guaranteed. On average, the meetings are expected to be 30 minutes per term week, but the time can be distributed arbitrarily across the 12 weeks. It may include group sessions as suitable for the project. Specific arrangements should be agreed upon between the student and supervisor. If the student cannot get hold of the supervisor within the agreed schedule, they should contact the project coordinator (considering that usually, it can take up to a week for the supervisor to respond, even if often they are faster). | ||
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+ | The work on the project is towards the two assessments for the module: | ||
+ | * **[[CM3203 Initial Plan]]**: You must submit an initial plan (by the beginning of spring week 2, at most 2,000 words, worth 5%). | ||
+ | * **[[CM3203 Final Report]]**: A final report must be submitted at the end of the semester (by the end of spring week 12, at most 25,000 words, worth 95%). | ||
+ | You also find the required deliverables with their exact submission deadlines under your PATS project details. The **word limits** are a maximum for the main body of the report, not a target. Enough information such that a competent computer scientist can understand and reproduce the work should be given in the report, and any appendices or supplementary material (both do not count towards the word limit). More guidance and details about the coursework are in the corresponding sections above. | ||
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+ | ===== Extenuating Circumstances ===== | ||
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+ | If you have any extenuating circumstances, | ||
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+ | ===== Repeats ===== | ||
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+ | If you do the project in the **summer resit period** (for any reason), you would usually work on the same project with the same supervisor and moderator. This will automatically be set up, and you will get details on deadlines, etc., after the year exam board. If the supervisor is not available, another supervisor will be found. | ||
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+ | If you **repeat the project** (for any reason) during term, this will not be automatic. It will be an internal repeat of the module (external is not possible), taking you through the complete process. You must select a project/ |