Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 19th October 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 19th October 2022

In attendance: Neil Heatley Head of Informatics Student Services, David Sterratt Deputy Director of Teaching, Toni Noble Deputy Teaching Organisation Manager, Jose Garcia Student Adviser, Dimitrios Rakovitis Senior Computing Support Officer, Kendal Reid ITO

Apologies: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching

UG1

INF1A the drop in labs are very helpful.

CL the issues from last week which was causing confusion with the tutorial questions has now been well explained by the Course Organiser.

The occupancy of the Gordon Aikman Building last week, resulting in lectures having to be moved, cancelled or online wasn’t ideal but the students were happy that they got the CL lecture rearranged to the Informatics Forum.  The students would also like for the course reading to be made available on a Friday or Saturday!

ILA all lectures were moved to online due to the occupancy, the students found these hard to access and hard to understand.

UG2

DMP is very good.

INF2-FDS workshop this week was very good.

INF2-CS the labs are reported to be overran, very busy and only one demonstrator appears to be available.  They would like more support when it comes to setting up GitHub, the feel that this set up should have been given at the start of the semester!  There also needs to be more alignment between the coursework and the lectures.

UG3

ILP is there an update on the issues regarding the Piazza page comments?

*Action Neil/Bjoern*

MLG is a new course replacing IAML, as MLG is new there are no past papers available, it may be that IAML past papers may be helpful.  The students are unsure what will be examined it was suggested that the students to talk to the Course Organiser.

UG4

HCI the course is reported to be to theoretical, there are no tutorials and the coursework is not carefully designed.

TTDS is very well taught and although the lectures are 2 hours long, the students enjoy the examples given and the demonstrations on how to run code.

CARD the lecturer is very good and the students who were granted extensions where given an extra lab which was well received.

BDL is a 10 credit course, there are 4 pieces of coursework, as the course is 100% coursework the students feel that although coursework was meant to be reduced by 25% they feel that the content off the course compared to last year has increased!

*Action Bjoern*

MLP the students were given 10 days to submit coursework and they found the coursework to be time consuming!

MSc

RA there are few practical samples given but the students would like more slides to be made available.  There are 20 students taking the course and around 10 of the students were struggling with the first tutorial as there was a lot of Maths, and there is too much theory and not enough applications.  David suggested taking this to the Course Organiser.

General

The Examination Diet will be released the week commencing the 31st October.

David asked if the students would like to hold a session of what to expect when sitting an exam on campus, some students have voiced that they have concerns about this, as some of them have never had anything other than an online examination.  There is also concerns that the 2 hour time slot to sit the exam is much different to be it being online, although the students had 2 hours to do the exam and one hour to upload, they used this extra hour to work on the submission.

It was asked why some courses that are in semester 1 are examined in semester 2, the reasoning behind this is the December diet is only 2 weeks long and the April diet is 4 weeks, so there is more time to schedule exams in the April diet.

Can the ventilation override switches on level 9 be removed?

*Action Neil*

Dimitrios has asked the Reps to remind all students that none of the machines in the labs should be switched off, or any disconnect any of the devices, these machines have programmes and updates running and switching the machines delays the process!

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 12h October 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 12h October 2022

In attendance: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Neil Heatley Head of Informatics Student Services, Toni Noble Deputy Teaching Organisation Manager, Chloe Downing Student Adviser, Beth Hughes Student Advisor, Kendal Reid ITO

Bjoern suggested that if students have quite a lot to report then to send himself and Neil a list of bullet points, that can be looked into prior to the meeting.

UG1

INF1A the students reported that for the CL part of the course the tutorial questions were a lot different to the weeks before!  They found the optional question 3 very confusing and were unsure how to write or express it.

The Drop in Labs on a Monday are very busy, as the hand in is on a Tuesday, it would be worthwhile looking at getting another Demonstrator to cover the Monday slot.

*Action Kendal to talk to Don Sannella*

All tutor names are listed against each tutorial group number in Learn in the Tutorial Details listed on the left hand side.

UG2

INF2-IADS the students feel that the course has a lot of work especially as it is a full year course.

INF2-FDS the course is well organised and enjoyable.

DMP is really well ran and the students enjoy doing samples in the lectures.

INF2-CS the labs are covering content ahead of the lectures!  The would prefer content to be covered in the lectures first.

Joint courses such as Computer Science and Maths have timetabling issues, as Maths and Physics are based at King’s Buildings, sometimes they can’t attend live classes due to the time constraints getting from A to B.  Bjoern explained that this is always the case with courses being held on different Campuses!

UG3

COMN lectures are good and the Quizzes.

ST the students have spoken to the Course Organiser about the issues from last week and the Course Organiser was happy with the feedback and to discuss it.

ILP there are issues with the Piazza page, the students feel that the replies they receive can be inappropriate.

*Bjoern to talk to the Course Organiser*

UG4

TTDS is a very well ran course.

CAR is very enjoyable.

CiC the lectures are great.

MSc

The Reps would like to find out more about why students frequently ask to change courses, Neil suggested sending out an email to the Cohort.

PhD applications can be submitted in November, if students require a reference they should ask their Supervisor.

General

Students are asking if the emails sent out about tutoring posts could be limited to the people who are only interested in applying for roles.  Neil explained that this is difficult as there is no specific email list!

What is TARDIS, Bjoern explained that TARDIS is part of a club ran by CompSoc.  TARDIS is a project group of servers, primarily run and maintained by students and alumni of UoE.  They aim to provide services like GitLab, email and service hosting to users, and to give students a safe sandbox for system administration.

ttps://comp-soc.com/

Could more monitors be supplied on Level 9?  Neil also explained that no-one should be allowing anyone who is not meant to be on Level 9 access, it is strictly for final year students only!

*Action Neil*

The Wi-Fi Eduroam has been dropping out recently, it was suggested if there are certain black spots then to report them to Information Services.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/contact-helpline

Informatics hoodies the design is still being worked on, and once this has been done hoodies will be ordered and available to purchase.

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 6th October 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 6th October 2022

In attendance: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Neil Heatley Head of Informatics Student Services, Toni Noble Deputy Teaching Organisation Manager, Mitchell Hunter Computing Support Officer, Chloe Downing Student Adviser, Marjorie Brewer, Kendal Reid ITO

Bjoern welcome everyone to the meeting and thanked the Reps for volunteering to be part of our weekly meetings and explained that the purpose of these meetings was to cover any issues that arise giving the School a chance to rectify negative feedback and pass on any positive feedback.

Toni asked if any students would be willing to volunteer to be part of the Board of Studies meetings with members of academic staff that meet three times in Semester One, three students came forward and gave their names to Toni.  These meetings are held to discuss things such as changes to degree programmes, curriculum degree structures, prerequisites, learning outcomes, new courses and how the coursework and exams would like and volume of coursework.

UG3

ML there are no tutorial solutions made available!  It is a fast paced class and you are expected to pick up a lot of Maths quickly and when you are working on the tutorials in class, there is a lot of content and the student don’t have time to complete all the questions before the end of the tutorial.

It was asked if ML is a pre-requisite for 4th year MLP

The DRPS Page states:

It is RECOMMENDED that students also take Applied Machine Learning (INFR11211) OR Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (INFR11130) OR Accelerated Natural Language Processing (INFR11125) OR Data Analysis and Machine Learning 4 (ELEE10031)
Students MUST also take: Informatics Project Proposal (INFR11147) OR Case Studies in Design Informatics 1 (INFR11094) OR Honours Project (Informatics) (INFR10044) OR MInf Project (Part 2) (INFR11093) OR MInf Project (Part 1) (INFR10051) OR Individual Project in Advanced Natural Language Processing (INFR11192)

It is recommended that students have taken a previous course in machine learning (or with significant machine learning content). Those who have not MUST register for one of the co-requisites noted above.

UG4

BDL the course has a very clear explanation of what is expected and the first lecture was explaining the coursework.

TTDS the lectures are 2 hours long, the students feel that the lectures keep the students attention as they have demonstrations included within the lectures.

MLP has good lectures although it can be based a lot around Maths, and is quite a complicated course.

ST the Course Organiser decided to pre-record his lectures and make an in-person lecture more interactive, the students feel that this has doubled up their teaching time on this course, they would prefer not to watch a pre-recording, as they feel during COVID they missed out a lot of University life and would much prefer to have it all on campus.  The students ran a survey and 89% agreed to on campus teaching as it is better for their mental health.  Bjoern suggested the students take this forward with the Course Organiser.

Introduction to Bioelectronics  released their slides for the whole 11 weeks at the start of Semester one, which the students found very helpful.

COMN the classes are very good, it does on campus and hybrid teaching, the students are enjoying the course.

Honours project there is a talk tomorrow Thursday 6th regarding the UG4 Projects on how to gather background research but the students feel that this should be held in week 1 to give them more time.  There will be a Dissertation Workshop held in Semester 2, week 2.  Once students pick their chosen project it is up to the student to work on their project as they please and use the Supervisors for support and guidance, the Projects will be released in January.

MSc

NC the room is very small and students are having to sit on the floor.

*Action Neil*

COMN the students aren’t able to refresh when completing their Quizzes, if you refresh it submits your work without being able to go back to it.

*Action Neil to talk to the Learning Techs*

MLP is hard to connect to DICE remotely, Mitchel recommended connecting to the VPN and having a look at the Computing Support web page:

https://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/remote-working

Students can also use the Drop-in service:

https://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/help-desk

If you’re an undergraduate student you can chat online. You’ll find them in Teams – just click Chat then search for infhelp. We’re there from 10:30 to 12:30, Monday to Friday. If we can’t answer your question right away, we’ll ask you to create a support ticket using the Computing Support Form.

General

Some students feel that Academic responses to Piazza questions are sometimes quite rude in their replies and discourages students to ask questions.

*Action Neil*

Students complained that some lecture recordings are cutting off before the actual lecture has finished, Neil and Iain Murray have sent out an email to all Teaching Staff explaining the start and end times of lectures and staff should stick to these specific times.

Some recorded lectures are not being released until 24 hours after the event.

*Action Neil*

Is it possible to have subtitles with better captioning available on live and recorded lectures especially for International students?

We are investigating available and recommended tools for auto-captioning.

If there are any queries regarding Tuition Fees, information can be found here:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/tuition-fees

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 6th April 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 6th April 2022

In attendance Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Neil Heatley Head of Informatics Student Services, Lisa Branney Student Support Officer, Sophie Mills Student Support Officer, Lindsay Seal PGT Administrator, Michelle Bain UG3 Administrator, Kendal Reid ITO

UG1

INF1-OOP the students have not received their feedback for coursework 2 and they require this for report writing in coursework 3.

There appears to be an issue when submitting coursework in CodeGrade coursework 1 only took a few seconds but coursework 2 is taking 2 or 3 minutes, and can an extension be given for coursework 3 from Friday 8th April to Monday 12th?

*Action Bjoern to talk to the lecturer*

G2

IADS Quiz 3 was cancelled due to the Strike action and the last quiz is worth 2.5% which was released with late notice and the students feel there is too much content to cover.

SEPP coursework 3 is now out which is in 2 parts SE part 3 is worth 38% and ProP is worth 25%, the students have to write an essay which is compulsory and the students don’t know why!  It was explained that essay writing is very important and beneficial to when it comes to doing their UG4 Dissertation.

FDS the students had to do a presentation of progress which they found very good.

UG3

ADS the students were told that they would receive individual feedback for coursework one but they only received the marking scheme, they would have liked to know what marks they got and why!

*Action Neil to talk to the lecturer*

The Reps had their UG3 Staff Student Liaison Meeting last week and they felt it went really well.

It was asked if the Project selection could be moved to the summer break, Neil explained that there are a lot of staff that take annual leave through the summer due to teaching responsibilities and then there is the marking of the MSc Dissertations, so it wouldn’t be possible.

CS has extended their coursework 3 deadline due to the clash with SDP.

UG4

The Project submission web page only has last year’s submissions being shown, the students would like to be able to see if their submission has went through,  this has been brought to the attention of the Course Organiser by the students.

MSc

No Reps in attendance.

 

 

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 30th March 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 30th March 2022

In attendance Neil Heatley Head of Informatics Student Services, Lisa Branney Student Support Officer, Michelle Bain ITO, Kendal Reid ITO

Apologies : Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching

UG1

Calculus and its Applications the students are confused about the marking scheme, and the information on the course on Learn and Piazza both differ!

UG2

IADS Quiz 4 was disregarded due to the strike.

SEPP the coursework is now back and the students are not happy with the marking scheme and that you can’t achieve any more than 80 marks, you also have to submit an essay and you don’t get a good mark for it if it isn’t of publishable quality!

UG3

SDP the students were asked to produce an A1 size poster with 5 days’ notice and prepare a mock presentation with one days’ notice, the students are working for weeks on hardware and they feel that this should be reduced.

CS the lectures are badly run, the coursework release was a week late and the deadline has been set for the 12th April which falls into the spring break, SDP concludes on the 8th April which is taking up a lot of the students time and they feel that if the CS coursework was released when it should have been it would have made the workload easier and the communication from the CS course is not great!

FNLP is a well organised course, good guidance and the communication regarding strike action and curriculum changes were well received.

ADS there is no response on Piazza.

*Action Bjoern*

OS coursework one was completed in average hours, coursework two took along the lines of 20/30 hours and coursework three the advanced task was in two parts and not worth a lot so some students didn’t see the point in doing it being worth so little.

UG4

No issues to report.

MSc

No Reps in attendance.

General

It was requested that information could be sent out to students explaining the common marking scheme and the rubrics?

Careers are scheduling events the week the UG4 Dissertations are due.

The keyboards in AT are really dirty and sticky.

Lack of hand soap in level 5 toilets.

There is a roof leak on the concourse.

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 23rd March 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 23rd March 2022

In attendance: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Lisa Branney Student Support Officer, Kendal Reid ITO

UG1

No Reps in attendance.

UG2

INF2-SEPP the students would like more time for coursework 3, for the last 2 weeks the students have been really busy with coursework across UG2.

*Action Bjoern to talk to the lecturer*

UG3

Students are very busy with coursework there are a lot of deadlines on the 28th March.

OS is proving to be very difficult with a steep learning curve, the students feel that the course does not have enough background and useful for anything.

Dissertation students are being given take home assignments by some supervisors for them to do to see if they are suitable for a project, this can take up to 2 hours to do on top of the heavy coursework deadlines.

*Action Bjoern to look into this*

There is a very limited choice of Artificial Intelligence based projects to choose from.

UG4

It is reported that some UG projects appeared to be copied from previous MSc project and they have not been edited to suit UG, some projects required Formal Verification which students can’t take until they are in the 4th year.

MSc

AV due to the lecturer striking the students have only had 5/6 classes out of 10, the have received no material, they have lost 10 bonus points for missing a guest lecture and they are getting really anxious about what will be examined, as they have received no information.  They would like to have a revision lecture of some information on what to expect in the exam.

*Action Bjoern to talk to the lecturer*

General

Bjoern has asked the Reps to get in touch with him regarding workloads, he would like to know what courses the students feel are beyond their specification for example has a 10 credit course got more work than a 20 credit course, the School is looking into the heavy workload and trying to work out a way to reduce this for next year.

There are several locations in the University central campus that have issues with wif-fi, Bjoern asked if the students could send him the information on locations and he will take this up with Information Services.

*Action Bjoern*

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 16th March 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 16th March 2022

In attendance: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Neil Heatley Head of Student Services, Mohammed Javaid Computing Support Officer, Toni Noble Deputy Teaching Organisation Manager, Michelle Bain ITO, Lindsey Seal ITO, Kendal Reid ITO

UG1

INF1B the TA for the course is very good, very helpful and responsive.  The Q & A sessions are not very well attended but this could be due to a timetabling issue.

UG2

IADS the students said that the tutorials and solutions are clear, which is good.

The general UG2 feeling is that the coursework is quite heavy.

UG3

It was requested that the deadline for the Honours Project could be extended, Neil suggested the 25th March and will take this back to the Course Organiser.

*Action Neil*

ADS a Piazza page has now been set up.

CT initially had 4 coursework’s and coursework 4 was removed due to the Strike action and the weighing was changed, coursework one was worth 20% and it is now worth 30%, the students feel that they should have had an option to do either coursework 3 or coursework 4.  Bjoern explained that the BoE will look at impact of coursework 4 being removed.

UG4

AV the lecturer has extended the coursework deadline by 2 weeks to the 31st March, due the errors that was in the coursework.

MSc

The students are concerned that there will be a delay in receiving their marks back in time to apply for a PhD, Bjoern explained that if this impacts anyone then to let him now and he can write a letter explaining the issues revolving around the strike action and possible marking boycott.

General

COVID restrictions are still place until the end of Teaching in Semester 2, then after that it will be reviewed.

The DICE machines on Level 3 that are in flip desks have been taped off as the flip desks are broken and there will be new desks put in their place.

Students would like more power points installed so they can plug in their laptops.

AT will remain with the current opening hours and will not be 24 hours, as the building would need to be staffed.

The standing desk on level 4, the plug don’t work.

Strike action is scheduled for the 20th – 25th March and a marking boycott is being talked about, but the School does not have further information on this as yet!

Further information can be found here:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-administration/industrial-action

Previously there was an Opportunity Fund which students could apply to for extra funding for loss of Teaching to use against teaching materials such as books etc.

Bjoern will circulate the final report from the IPR meeting as soon as he receives it.

I was asked if the Computing spaces could be made to look more appealing, Neil asked the students if they have any suggestions to do this then to let him know.

It was asked if the DICE machines could have docking stations of HDMI/USB cables so the students would hook up their laptops to the monitors but Mohammed explained that there would be no way to secure the cables and they would end up going missing and they couldn’t include docking stations as they would not all be compatible to all laptops.

 

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 9th March 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 9th March 2022

In attendance: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Neil Heatley Head of Student Services, Sophie Mills Student Support Officer, Jennifer Oxley Computing Support Officer, Kendal Reid ITO

UG1

INF1-OOP coursework 2 has been released but the students would like more transparency and an example layout of what it should look like.  The Language MCQ answers are too explained, it would have been better to have them written out more plainly.

INF1-CG although the course is open to non-Informatics students, some students have not done any coding or assignments in Phyton previously, it would be good to have an induction tutorial or video to let students see what to expect beforehand, as a lot of students end up dropping out, as the course isn’t what it seems.

UG2

INF2-FDS the coursework marks are back and the marks are not justified by the feedback, a lot of students got lower marks than expected.  There was a feedback session held today.  David explained that the 3 markers were well aligned with the marking, and some didn’t give as detailed feedback as others but due to the volume of the coursework, more time for marking would have been beneficial, hopefully more time will be given for the next assignment.

SEPP the students would like to know how to achieve a mark of over 80 in the coursework, it isn’t clear as to what they are aiming to achieve,

Some students feel that he/she should be renamed in the slides as “they”.

UG3

CT initially had 4 coursework’s and one was then dropped due to the Strike action and the weighing was changed, coursework one was worth 20% and it is now worth 30%, the students feel that out of the one coursework that was dropped then they should have been able to pick which coursework they wanted to do.  Bjoern explained that the BoE will look at any courses that were affected by the Strike.

ADS there is still no Piazza page, coursework one was not explained in the lectures or the reading, there is no support.

*Action Bjoern*

CS coursework 2 was a really good challenge.

SDP the students are busy with Demo’s.

Honours Project choice deadline be extended?

*Action Bjoern*

UG4

NLU+ coursework feedback was meant to be returned the previous Friday and It wasn’t and coursework 2 is already released.

ST there was issues with the coursework and the demonstrator is trying to fix it.

AV the lectures recordings are over running the scheduled recording time, which means the video cut off before the lecture ends.  Could the coursework model be improved?  The files for the coursework were both wrong, and this wasn’t spotted until after the coursework had been started!  The lecturer has extended the deadline by 2 weeks to the 31st March.  Due to the Strike action there has been lectures missed and the students have no idea what will be examined there is no material only Powerpoint slides and will there be a exam revision sessions?

*Action Bjoern*

SP the lecturer spends a lot of time of points but then runs through the lecture to quick, also could the lecture recordings be longer?

MSc

IRR has still not returned any feedback and no deadline for this has been given!

General

There is another Strike to be held between the 20th and 25 March, and also a marking boycott is being talked about.  It was asked if some deadlines could be extended but Bjoern explained that extending deadlines could lead to further problems, coursework marking that lead to Graduation will be priority.

Bjoern will talk to Engineering regarding their marking and feedback given in Gradescope.

*Action Bjoern*

MSc students will be granted access to level 9 around the 9th April, Neil will follow this up with an email.

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 2nd March 2022

Year 1

–          Students were pleased to have received their assignment feedback on time

–          They mentioned that some tutorials didn’t seem to be going ahead due to the strikes and would have appreciated being notified in advance. NH explained that this would defeat the purpose of the strike action, but that no further strikes were planned for the remainder of the Semester so further disruption is unlikely.

Year 2

No comments

Year 3

–          Students have still not received feedback for Informatics Large Practical. They have been given a revised deadline which has pushed it back by one month

–          The remote network access used by the System Design Project is not stable. It appears that Computing Support website with instructions is outdated.

–          All the coursework dates seem to be clustered in March; as a lot of the courses are more CW focused, this is putting more pressure on students as it is more difficult. It was noted that this has always been a fine balance as if the dates were pushed any later then feedback may not be received in time for the exam diet. Students have such a large choice of courses and this is something that can be considered when choosing courses

Year 4

–          Students are still pushing for an extension to the Year 4 project. NH advised that there is no guarantee that there will be any additional extensions this year

–          Feedback on Software Testing coursework was that the nature of the work doesn’t appear to be very meaningful. Updates on the assignment would keep being released which meant people had to redo work they’d already completed. The assignments should be proof tested before being released.

PGT

–          The microphone in AT LT5 isn’t working. ACTION: NH confirmed he will follow up once again with Estates

–          There are no marks for IRR, there was a large amount of extensions for the course but there has been no timeline of when the marks will be due

–          Feedback from the Secure Programming course is that the lecturer provides a lot of detail at the beginning of the lecture but as they tend to run out of time towards the end, the remainder is covered at a high level. It would be good to have more of a balance with the level of detail here. BF advised that the lecturer is relatively new and a little inexperienced, so maybe the issue should be fed back to the lecturer directly.

 

Additional comments

Some coursework, especially for 10 credit point courses, isn’t worth a lot of credits but takes up a lot of time

 

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Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 23rd February 2022

Staff Student Rep Meeting – Wednesday 23rd February 2022

In attendance: Bjoern Franke, Director of Teaching, Neil Heatley Head of Student Services, Michelle Bain ITO, Lindsay Seal ITO, Kendal Reid ITO

UG1

INF1B the questions in coursework 1 were not explained, there was big paragraphs in it and the students would have preferred for this to be broken down to stages easier to read, better examples would have been helpful and the terminology explained., for example what is an Interface, Bjoern explained that Interface means the concept of a programming language.

The instructions in the labs were unclear there was no steps and unclear on how to use the instructions in the exercise.

The Q & A sessions were very helpful.

Neil mentioned that the class might find INFPals and Inf Connect useful.

UG2

The courses are reported to be interesting.

 

SEPP the coursework is set to work in pairs, the pairs were allocated randomly this year to enable students to work together and get to know their fellow students, previous years students picked their partners, some students are experiencing difficulties with their partners not contributing and they feel they are receiving no support.  The lectures will also remain recorded, and will remain as such until the end of semester 2.

*Action Neil to talk to the lecturer*

INF1B/INF1-CG the labs are on a Tuesday 4pm – 6pm and a Friday 2pm – 4pm could they merged into the same lab? INF1B is on level 5 and INF-CG on Level 6!

*Action Neil*

UG3

No Reps in attendance

UG4

The School of Maths have extended their Dissertation deadline due to the strikes, does Informatics plan to do the same?

*Action Neil*

CT has moved their final deadline to the day after the Project deadline and increased the weighting, as one coursework was missed due the strike, the students are concerned about the deadline being moved.

*Action Neil*

There was a  Dissertation Open day in GatherTime (virtual) last year which had positive responses which allowed students to interact with one another, is there plans for another one?

MSc

IPP it is reported that some tutors are not following the slides on Learn and not sharing them with the students and there is no discussions on the reading.

*Action Neil*

SPT is a semester 1 course the course had an exam in December, but it is presented to the June MSc Board of Examiners Meeting, therefore the exam/course result will not be ratified and published until June 2022. It was agreed by DDT that the course will be allocated to the June Board, there was also coursework in Semester 2 scheduled after the January MSc Board of Examiners meeting.

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