Assessment plan
Your grade for NWEN 243 will be determined based on the following assessment weightings:
| Item |
Weight |
| Labs (learning objectives 1,2, 3 & 4) |
50% |
| Final Examination (learning objectives 1,2 and 3) 2 hr |
50% |
Late Submission
Late Labs and Assignments will be penalised at a rate of 10% per calender day late, up to a maximum of 5 days late, at which time the work will not be accepted for marking.
Final Exams
The timetable for final examinations will be available from the University web site. The final examination will be
TWO hours long. Non-programmable electronic calculators or programmable calculators with their memories cleaned will be allowed in the final examination. Paper non-English to English dictionaries will be permitted.
Practical Work
This course is built heavily around a practical component. There will be labs most weeks as specified below. The 2.5% lab projects will usually be carried out entirely within the lab session and marked off after it has been demonstrated to the lab tutor. The 10% labs will require additional work outside the lab, including answering related questions, and will be submitted electronically on the dates shown in the submission system.
| week |
Item |
Weight |
| Demo in Lab 24 July - 6 August |
A little cryptography (demo) |
2.5% |
| Electronically Submit 4 August |
Frequency Analysis (hand in) |
10% |
| Electronically Submit 14 August |
Cnet (hand in) |
2.5% |
| Electronically Submit 27 August |
Routing (hand in) |
10% |
| Demo in Lab 11- 22 September |
TCP and UDP Clients (demo) |
2.5% |
| Electronically Submit 29 September |
TCP server (hand in and demo) |
10% |
| Demo 2 - 14 October |
Android application development (demo) |
2.5% |
| Electronically Submit 22 October |
Web service development (hand in and demo) |
10 % |
NOTE: please refer to the submission system later for the exact submission dates.
Plagiarism
Working Together and Plagiarism
We encourage you to discuss the principles of the course and assignments with other students, to help and seek help with programming details, problems involving the lab machines. However, any work you hand in must be your own work.
The
School policy on Plagiarism (claiming other people's work as your own) is available from the course home page. Please read it. We will penalise anyone we find plagiarising, whether from students currently doing the course, or from other sources. Students who knowingly allow other students to copy their work may also be penalised. If you have had help from someone else (other than a tutor), it is always safe to state the help that you got. For example, if you had help from someone else in writing a component of your code, it is not plagiarism as long as you state (eg, as a comment in the code) who helped you in writing the method.
Mandatory Requirements
- You must achieve at least a D grade in the final examination.
Passing NWEN 243
To pass NWEN 243, a student must satisfy mandatory requirements and gain at least a
C-grade overall.
