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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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<div>This is a reminder that you must complete at least <b>six options</b> in the Choices system by
<b>Thursday November 28th. </b>The full details of the process can be found in the email below. </div>
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<div>You can access your Options on the Choices system here: <a href="https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450" target="_blank">
https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450</a></div>
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<div>At present, just over half of supervisors have currently met the requirement of 6 options in the system. This must be complete by Thursday. Programme leaders will be reviewing the Options for their Cohort on Friday 29th November.</div>
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<div>If you have any problems doing so or any questions, please do get in touch.</div>
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<div>If you have received this follow-up email, this means that <b>you are on the list of people expected to be supervising or examining MSc projects</b>. If you believe this not to be the case and you have received it by mistake, please let us know immediately.</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>Oli, Maurits and Nic</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 09:29, De Planque M.R. <<a href="mailto:m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear All,<br>
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The new Choices Form is now available at:<br>
<a href="https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450" target="_blank">https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450</a><br>
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This year we require everybody to enter <u>at least six Options</u> (i.e. examples of MSc projects that you can supervise). Please provide sufficient detail for students to get a feel for the scope of the project.<br>
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The deadline for completing this is <b>Thursday 28 November 2019</b>.<br>
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Please consider Options for the MSc Artificial Intelligence students, as this is a very large cohort of 130 students. Last year, many CS and EEE academics offered machine learning related projects, which was very helpful.<br>
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Please see below for more detail. We will contact new staff separately.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Maurits de Planque<br>
Nicolas Green<br>
Oliver Bills<br>
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More information about the <b>allocation procedure</b>:<br>
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1) An Option is a description of a project. Options should be seen as examples of projects that you can supervise. Please provide sufficient detail for students to get a feel for the scope of the project.<br>
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2) Once students have been allocated to you, you are expected to make every effort to agree on a project. It does not have to be one of your Options in the Choices system.<br>
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3) The project coordinator and programme leaders will review the number of Options with respect to the size of the various MSc cohorts. The relevant programme leader could ask you to make some of your Options available to their cohort. <br>
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4) Students cannot contact potential supervisors until the allocation has been made. Prior to allocation, programme leaders may contact you if their students have questions about your Options. <br>
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5) The students will have access to the Choices system after it closes for supervisor edits, and will then have several weeks (including the Christmas break) to select multiple Options from different supervisors. Programme leaders will discuss cohort-specific
Options with their students in the week before the Christmas break.<br>
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6) The initial student-supervisor matching will be performed in January, aiming at an even spread of students over supervisors. Programme leaders will then refine this preliminary allocation.<br>
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More information about the <b>Choices system</b>:<br>
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1) The Choices system is used to facilitate MSc project allocation. Each supervisor is asked to put
<u>at least six</u> "Options" into the Choices database - examples of projects you can supervise. Students will use these Options to help them identify supervisors which match their interests.<br>
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2a) If you entered Options into the system last year, they have been carried over and this is an opportunity for an update.<br>
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2b) If you did not supervise MSc projects last year, you need to create at least six Options now. <b>New academics</b> will receive additional information about project supervision.<br>
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The link to the 19/20 MSc Form in the Choices system is:<br>
<a href="https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450" target="_blank">https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450</a><br>
(login with your iSolutions user name and password)<br>
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From this screen, you can edit your 19/20 Options as copied from 18/19 and you can add new Options. If you have problems accessing the form, after logging in, go directly to the above URL again. If you continue to have problems, please respond to this email. <br>
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3) If you wander around the Choices system, please do not edit any information regarding Part III projects or past MSc years. The top of the screen ( "Home > Forms > Current Forms > ....." ) should show "<b>ECS MSc Choices 2019-2020</b>" and not “ECS <b>Part
III</b> Project Allocation" or "ECS MSc Choices 2018-2019"<br>
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4) Any 'Resources' that you attached to your 18/19 Options were not copied over to your 19/20 Options. Unfortunately you will have to add these again. You can view your 18/19 Options (with their 'Resources') when you click on "My Forms" and then scroll down. <br>
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5) For the new MSc Internet of Things, please review your cohort selection. Options suitable for EMECS students: please tick "MSc Embedded Systems”.<br>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">De Planque M.R. <<a href="mailto:m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk</a>><br>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>19/20 MSc Projects - please update your Options in Choices by Thu 28 November</b><br>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date:
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To:
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Cc:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Nicolas Green <<a href="mailto:ng2@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">ng2@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>, Oliver Bills <<a href="mailto:O.Bills@soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">O.Bills@soton.ac.uk</a>>,
Ecs-Hod <<a href="mailto:hod@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">hod@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>><br>
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<div>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The 18/19 MSc students will receive their project marks and their degree classification coming Monday, November 18th. The project feedback will also be made available then. The external examiners commended the quality and the scope of the projects; we would
like to thank all supervisors for their efforts.<br>
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For the new cohorts, we will once again use the Choices system to facilitate project allocation. It remains the expectation that all teaching staff will supervise MSc projects over the summer.<br>
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The 19/20 Choices Form will be available early next week. Your information from last year will be copied over and you will have the opportunity to revise your “Options” (i.e. examples of projects you can supervise). <br>
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The deadline for such edits and/or new entries is<b> *Thursday 28 November 2019*</b>, so that all example projects can be reviewed by programme leaders and summarized to the students at the following COMP6238 project allocation meetings.<br>
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Please consider Options for the MSc Artificial Intelligence students, as this is a very large cohort of 130 students. Last year, many CS and EEE academics offered machine learning related projects, which was very helpful.<br>
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You can view your previous Options here:<br>
<a href="http://www.choices.soton.ac.uk/forms" target="_blank">http://www.choices.soton.ac.uk/forms</a><br>
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We will send detailed instructions for new staff (and a reminder for older staff) next week.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Maurits de Planque<br>
Nicolas Green<br>
Oliver Bills
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