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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a reminder that the deadline to complete your options in the Choices system is
<b>TODAY</b>, Thursday November 28th. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The full details of the process can be found in the attached email below and access is at the following link:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450">https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Programme leaders will be reviewing the Options for their Cohort tomorrow, Friday 29th November.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have received this follow-up email, this means that you are on the list of people expected to be supervising or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">examining MSc projects. If you believe this not to be the case and you have received it by mistake, please let us know<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">immediately.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nicolas, Oli, Maurits<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 09:29, De Planque M.R. <</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:#2B68AC">m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">The new Choices Form is now available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:#2B68AC">https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">This year we require everybody to enter at least six Options (i.e. examples of MSc projects that you can supervise). Please<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">provide sufficient detail for students to get a feel for the scope of the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline for completing this is
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Candara-Bold;color:black">Thursday 28 November 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Please consider Options for the MSc Artificial Intelligence students, as this is a very large cohort of 130 students. Last<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">year, many CS and EEE academics offered machine learning related projects, which was very helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Please see below for more detail. We will contact new staff separately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Maurits de Planque<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Nicolas Green<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Oliver Bills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">More information about the
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Candara-Bold;color:black">allocation procedure</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">1) An Option is a description of a project. Options should be seen as examples of projects that you can supervise. Please<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">provide sufficient detail for students to get a feel for the scope of the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">2) Once students have been allocated to you, you are expected to make every effort to agree on a project. It does not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">have to be one of your Options in the Choices system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">3) The project coordinator and programme leaders will review the number of Options with respect to the size of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">various MSc cohorts. The relevant programme leader could ask you to make some of your Options available to their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">cohort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">4) Students cannot contact potential supervisors until the allocation has been made. Prior to allocation, programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">leaders may contact you if their students have questions about your Options.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">5) The students will have access to the Choices system after it closes for supervisor edits, and will then have several<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">weeks (including the Christmas break) to select multiple Options from different supervisors. Programme leaders will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">discuss cohort-specific Options with their students in the week before the Christmas break.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">6) The initial student-supervisor matching will be performed in January, aiming at an even spread of students over<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">More information about the
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Candara-Bold;color:black">Choices system</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">1) The Choices system is used to facilitate MSc project allocation. Each supervisor is asked to put at least six "Options"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">into the Choices database - examples of projects you can supervise. Students will use these Options to help them identify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">supervisors which match their interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">2a) If you entered Options into the system last year, they have been carried over and this is an opportunity for an update.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">2b) If you did not supervise MSc projects last year, you need to create at least six Options now.
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Candara-Bold;color:black">New academics
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">receive additional information about project supervision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">The link to the 19/20 MSc Form in the Choices system is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:#2B68AC">https://choices.soton.ac.uk/forms/author/450<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">(login with your iSolutions user name and password)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">From this screen, you can edit your 19/20 Options as copied from 18/19 and you can add new Options. If you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">have problems accessing the form, after logging in, go directly to the above URL again. If you continue to have problems,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">please respond to this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">3) If you wander around the Choices system, please do not edit any information regarding Part III projects or past MSc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">years. The top of the screen ( "Home > Forms > Current Forms > ....." ) should show "</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Candara-Bold;color:black">ECS
MSc Choices 2019-2020</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">" and not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">“ECS
</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Candara-Bold;color:black">Part III
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Project Allocation" or "ECS MSc Choices 2018-2019"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">4) Any 'Resources' that you attached to your 18/19 Options were not copied over to your 19/20 Options. Unfortunately<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">you will have to add these again. You can view your 18/19 Options (with their 'Resources') when you click on "My Forms"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">and then scroll down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">5) For the new MSc Internet of Things, please review your cohort selection. Options suitable for EMECS students: please<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">tick "MSc Embedded Systems”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Nicolas Green<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Reader (Bioelectronics, Nanoelectronics and Microfluidics)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> School of Electronics and Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> University of Southampton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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