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Marking Guidelines
Team Submission
Submission Details

As implied by the module's aims, a good team effort is crucial to the success of the project, and beneficial to all people in the same team. To maximise the likeliness of a good final outcome, and to catch potential problems as soon as possible, the quality of the team effort is part of the module assessment. The simple way in which the quality of the team work is assessed is by periodically inspecting the team activity record as made available on CANVAS.

Each team has a homepage on CANVAS, containing links to a number of collaboration tools that are private to the team (Announcements, Discussions, a link to BigBlueButton, among the others). Also, the area links to a private File store (via the link Files). We will periodically monitor your use of your CANVAS space.

In particular, each team is expected to hold regular formal meetings, typically at a rate of one per week although this rate may change over time. The purpose of these meetings is to report on progress, and to plan future work. A copy of all meeting minutes must be made available in the group Files space within three days of each meeting. Each team should make sure that the files related to these meetings are named in a clearly recognisable way. For instance TEAM15-Agenda-20210210.pdf or 20210210-Agenda.pdf could be used for an agenda document, and TEAM15-Minutes-20210210.pdf or 20210210-Minutes.pdf for the minutes. Same as it is a bad programming habit to use non-meaningful names for variables and other objects within a piece of code, it is not advisable to use casual, uninformative names for the documents related to the teams meetings. The quality of the meeting documents is also important. Some advice on good minute taking is available in the Meetings page.

Each team will periodically receive feedback about the quality of their Team Activity Record. This will be visible in your Grades area. New feedback will be returned in week 4, week 8, and week 12. The feedback returned in a certain week will look at the quality of the record generated so far. Therefore the feedback in week 12 will be the most comprehensive. In particular for this reason the Grades entry for the Team Activity Record (check the picture in the Assessment page) will show an Incomplete sign until the end of term: the assignment is an on-going one, only completed at the end of term. Number of meetings, meeting date distribution, arrangement of various files, quality of the written documents, are the main factors that will influence the assessment of the Team Activity Record.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. Meeting notes

When are we expected to record our first meeting?

Answer: There is no deadline. the schedule of those meetings is entirely up to the individual teams. But obviously one meeting per month would not be very useful. The page on Meetings should give you more details. Basically write down some notes and leave them, clearly marked on CANVAS, every time you meet as a team.

Where should we put the meeting notes?

Answer: Each team has a "group page", which has the same structure as the main Canvas site. This should be the centre of each team's activity. This was mentioned in the Introduction page material. The picture here tells you where to find this

Use the Files area of your Group page to post your meeting notes. Files posted there will be accessible to all team members, as well as all Staff.

Q2. Whatsapping?

Can i use Discord (or Whatsapp) to work with my team colleagues?

Answer: There is no reason why you should not, but remember we cannot chase your team activities on half a dozen different social platforms. The quality of your team activity will be assessed based SOLELY on what we find in you homepage on CANVAS, and, as explained above, a good record of all your team meetings is, in particular, what we want to see.