Very poor demonstration Content just acceptable, Demonstration some Competent performance Highly professional Demonstration / demonstrating little or no but poorly planned insight into the students with an acceptable guide. demonstration, with functionality, and unable demonstration. Able, with work OR shows limited Demonstrated sound guide providing an viva to provide any defence of prompting, to answer some functionality of the knowledge of the majority excellent view of the approach taken of the questions posed. system. Reasonably well of the material relevant to projects functionality and planned. Able to answer the project. Satisfactory technical aspects. majority of questions responses to majority of Logically presented with a posed. questions in the viva. thorough grasp of the relevant material. Excellent defence of the project in the viva. Presentation / viva Very poor presentation Content just acceptable Presentation provided Competent presentation Highly professional demonstrating little or no but poor presentation some insight into the using acceptable visual presentation with clear knowledge of material skills OR Satisfactory student's work but aids. Demonstrated sound informative visual aids relevant to the project presentation skills but performance at the oral knowledge of majority of providing an excellent and unable to provide any knowledge of relevant rather pedestrian. Able, material relevant to the overview of the project. defence of approach material very patchy. with prompting, to answer project. Satisfactory Clearly spoken with a taken. some of the questions responses to majority of thorough grasp of relevant posed. questions in the viva. material. Excellent defence of the project in the viva. Project Poor project management: Inadequate project Adequate project Compentent project Exemplary project Inadequate time management. Serious management, but with management, Well management: Good time Management management, little or no deficiencies in time some problems with time organized and proactive management; development contact with supervisor, management, maintaining management, proactively with largely successful well-organized, proactive late or missing documents. contact with supervisor, or recognising and carrying time management, sought and self-directed, getting documents out activities, maintaining contact with supervisor, actively seeking and acting produced. contact with supervisor, or produced required on advice from the producing documents on documents on time. supervisor. Timely time. production of required documents. Criteria for distinction overall:
Demonstration / viva Very poor demonstration demonstrating little or no functionality, and unable to provide any defence of approach taken Content just acceptable, but poorly planned demonstration. Able, with prompting, to answer some of the questions posed. Demonstration some insight into the students work OR shows limited functionality of the system. Reasonably well planned. Able to answer majority of questions posed. Competent performance with an acceptable guide. Demonstrated sound knowledge of the majority of the material relevant to the project. Satisfactory responses to majority of questions in the viva. Highly professional demonstration, with guide providing an excellent view of the projects functionality and technical aspects. Logically presented with a thorough grasp of the relevant material. Excellent defence of the project in the viva. Presentation / viva Very poor presentation demonstrating little or no knowledge of material relevant to the project and unable to provide any defence of approach taken. Content just acceptable but poor presentation skills OR Satisfactory presentation skills but knowledge of relevant material very patchy. Presentation provided some insight into the student's work but performance at the oral rather pedestrian. Able, with prompting, to answer some of the questions posed. Competent presentation using acceptable visual aids. Demonstrated sound knowledge of majority of material relevant to the project. Satisfactory responses to majority of questions in the viva. Highly professional presentation with clear informative visual aids providing an excellent overview of the project. Clearly spoken with a thorough grasp of relevant material. Excellent defence of the project in the viva. Project Management Poor project management: Inadequate time management, little or no contact with supervisor, late or missing documents. Inadequate project management. Serious deficiencies in time management, maintaining contact with supervisor, or getting documents produced. Adequate project management, but with some problems with time management, proactively recognising and carrying out activities, maintaining contact with supervisor, or producing documents on time. Compentent project management, Well organized and proactive with largely successful time management, sought contact with supervisor, produced required documents on time. Exemplary project management: Good time management; development well-organized, proactive and self-directed, actively seeking and acting on advice from the supervisor. Timely production of required documents. Criteria for distinction overall:
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