[COMP6200-supervisors] MSc Project Marking: Deadlines and Procedures

[Oliver Bills]

Hi all,

I know this is a busy time for us all, but this is a final reminder that you must have completed your independent marking by the end of today

If you have a reason as to why you are unable to do this, please email me as soon as possible

Best wishes,

Oli

On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Oliver Bills <O.Bills at soton.ac.uk<mailto:O.Bills at soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear all, I hope the first week of term has gone well for you!

As it's a busy time, just a reminder that for the MSc projects, the marking deadlines are as follows:
*Monday 14th of October* - independent marking and feedback forms of supervisor and second examiner
*Monday 21st of October* - mark moderation forms with the final agreed mark

There is therefore one week remaining before your independent marking for all students (including late submissions) must be completed. This is important to ensure the moderation stage can be completed the following week and it is unfair on other examiners on the project if this is delayed.

The final mark with full moderation complete must be completed by Monday 21st of October.

By now, you should have hard copies and TurnItIn scores for all submitted projects, including those who submitted late. Hard copies of any late submitted projects are now available for collection at the ECS reception, if they haven't already made their way to your research group.  Any issues, let me know.

If a project has been submitted particularly late, it may not already be in TurnItIn when you go to check. If you follow the Academic Integrity link, you are able to upload and process the document yourself using the Upload Document button on the MSc project without needing to wait for the additional time for me to do so in the next batch. Again, any issues, let me know.

Best wishes,

Oli

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:11, Oliver Bills <O.Bills at soton.ac.uk<mailto:O.Bills at soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear all,

All students who did not take referral exams have now submitted their MSc projects and they are ready for marking. Students with referral exams or special considerations will be submitting next week.
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The marking deadlines are as follows:
*Monday 14th of October* - independent marking and feedback forms of supervisor and second examiner
*Monday 21st of October* - mark moderation forms with the final agreed mark
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It is important to adhere to these deadlines to allow for any third examination, and also for the programme leader reviews (please sufficiently explain how the final mark was agreed) and the External Examiner reviews to take place prior to the MSc Project Board.

The dissertations have been printed and are in the process of being delivered to you or your group by the end of this week. Later submissions will be printed and made available come October.

For each project where you are a supervisor or second examiner, you must complete the following, using the e_marking system at https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/e_marking/assess/COMP6200/1819/

1) Please check the similarity index and TurnItIn plagiarism report. If there are signs of plagiarism or the similarity index is greater than 15% please contact the AI Officer, Alex Weddell (ecsai at soton.ac.uk<mailto:ecsai at soton.ac.uk>) as soon as possible, so this does not delay the process later.

2) If there are no AI issues, please complete your independent marking form, with reference to the marking criteria at https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/documents/MARKING_CRITERIA.pdf

3) Once both independent marking forms from the examiner and supervisor are complete, you should then discuss the final mark with the other. It is the responsibility of the supervisor to contact the second examiner.

4) Once discussed and agreed, both supervisor and examiner must complete their own moderation form (there is a moderation form for both examiner and supervisor, both of which must be completed). Please summarize your discussion about marks moderation, so that there is a record in the E-marking system of how the final mark was decided. This has been raised repeatedly by the External Examiners.

The full marking procedures and details can be found here: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/procedures.php

Thank you all for your support of our MSc students over the Summer and for all the work you have put in.

Best wishes,

Oli Bills
MSc Project Coordinator
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