School of Technologies
Assessment
Brief
Module Code Module Title
CSE4007 Professional Practice
Academic Year Semester
2023/2024 Semester 02
Module Leader email
thisaruR@icbtcampus.edu.lk
Content
Assessment Details ................................................... 2
Submission Details .................................................... 3
Assessment Criteria .................................................. 4
Further Information .................................................... 7
Who can answer questions about my assessment? ............... 7
Referencing .................................................................................. 7
Submission problems ................................................................. 7
Unfair academic practice ............................................................ 7
How is my work graded? ............................................................ 8
Assessment Details
Assessment title Abr. Weighting
Ethical, legal, and social issues arising in all sorts of PPT1 25%
projects.
Pass marks are 40% for undergraduate work and 50% for postgraduate work unless stated otherwise.
Task/assessment brief:
Group Presentation (15 Minutes) 25%
LO4: Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills
LO5: Understand the dynamics of working with others
Assume that your team is a part of a organization and you have successfully completed a project. You are assigned to present
below given areas to the senior managers in the organization after finishing the project. Explain the job role of each team
member during the project and the positive and negative effects.
The presentation should cover the following facts;
1. Team members and their roles and responsibilities (20 Marks)
2. Team members and their existing skills, knowledge, and experience, how they developed them selves after involving to
the chosen project (20 Marks)
3. Team strength and weaknesses, how you overcome those weaknesses (10 Marks)
4. Team communication practices (10 Marks)
5. Team time management, how you managed time effectively (10 Marks)
6. Mention specific actions taken to foster teamwork and achieve team collaboration (10 Marks)
7. Internal and External project resource management (10 Marks)
8. Presentation creation, presentation skills and Q&A (10 Marks)
Presentation Instructions
Every group member should contribute to the presentation. Slide count should not exceed 15 slides. Overall allocated time
duration per group is 15 minutes, for presentation 10 minutes with Q&A session of 5 minutes.
Word count (or equivalent):
This a reflection of the effort required for the assessment. Word counts will normally include any text, tables,
calculations, figures, subtitles and citations. Reference lists and contents of appendices are excluded from the
word count. Contents of appendices are not usually considered when determining your final assessment grade.
Academic or technical terms explained:
Submission Details
Submission This will be provided on This will normally be 20
Estimated Feedback
Deadline: the Moodle submission working days after initial
point. Return Date submission.
Submission By 2.00pm on the
Time: deadline day.
Moodle/Turnitin: Any assessments submitted after the deadline will not be marked and will be
recorded as a non-attempt unless you have had an extension request agreed or have
approved mitigating circumstances. See the School Moodle pages for more
information on extensions and mitigating circumstances.
File Format: The assessment must be submitted as a pdf document (save the document as a pdf
in your software) and submit through the Turnitin submission point in Moodle.
Your assessment should be titled with your:
student ID number, module code and assessment ID,
e.g. st12345678 BHL5007 WRIT1
Feedback Feedback for the assessment will be provided electronically via Moodle. Feedback will be
provided with comments on your strengths and the areas which you can improve. View the
guidance on how to access your feedback.
All marks are provisional and are subject to quality assurance processes and confirmation at
the programme Examination Board.
Assessment Criteria
Learning outcomes assessed
LO1: Understand ethical, social, professional and legal issues in Information technology world.
LO2: Understand the impact of modern technology in society
LO4: Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills
LO5: Understand the dynamics of working with others
Other skills/attributes developed
This includes elements of the Cardiff Met EDGE (Ethical, Digital, Global and Entrepreneurial skills) and other
attributes developed in students through the completion of the module and assessment. These will also be
highlighted in the module guidance, which should be read by all students completing the module. Assessments
are not just a way of auditing student knowledge. They are a process which provides additional learning and
development through the preparation for and completion of the assessment.
• Presentation Skills
• Soft Skills
Marking/Assessment Criteria
Group Presentation - Assessment Criteria
Task Poor Satisfactory Good Excellent
01 Team members Roles and Roles and Roles and Roles and
and their Roles responsibilities are responsibilities are responsibilities are responsibilities are
and unclear, somewhat clear but clear and well-defined clearly defined, well-
for most team documented, and
Responsibilities mismatched, or lack detailed understood by all
members. (11-15)
(20 Marks) missing. (0-5) definition.(6-10) team members. (16-
20)
02 Team members Limited Basic information Clear presentation of Comprehensive
and their existing information on on team members' team members' skills, presentation of team
skills, knowledge, team members' skills, knowledge, knowledge, and members' skills,
experience. Roles and knowledge, and
and experience (20 skills, knowledge, and experience. experience. Roles and
responsibilities are
Marks) and experience. Roles and responsibilities are
well-defined. (11-15)
Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and
responsibilities are somewhat defined. aligned with project
unclear or (6-10) goals. (16-20)
undefined. (0-5)
03 Team Strengths Weaknesses are Some Clear identification of Thorough discussion
and Weaknesses not acknowledged acknowledgement strengths and on strengths and
(10 Marks) or addressed. of weaknesses with weaknesses with weaknesses with
reasonable strategies well-thought-out
Limited vague strategies for strategies for
for overcoming
discussion on improvement. (3-5) overcoming
weaknesses. (6-8)
overcoming weaknesses. (9-10)
weaknesses. (0-2)
04 Team Poor Some Effective Seamless
Communication communication communication communication among communication
(10 Marks) among team challenges evident team members among team members
evident. Good evident. Excellent
members evident. but efforts made to coordination and
coordination and
Lack of address them. collaboration. (6-8)collaboration. Used
coordination and Moderate new technologies to
collaboration. (0- coordination and communicate (such
2) collaboration. (3-5) as zoom, teams,
trello, Monday
platforms) (9-10)
05 Team Time Consistently Some deadlines met Most deadlines met All deadlines met
Management (10 missed deadlines, but overall time with good planning with excellent
Marks) poor planning, management needs and time management planning and
(6-8) proactive time
and lack of time improvement (3-5) management (9-10)
management (0-
2)
06 Team Poor teamwork, Occasional Effective teamwork, Excellent teamwork,
collaboration (10 frequent conflicts teamwork, some and reactive and proactive
Marks) and poor conflicts and resolution of conflicts resolution of conflicts
(6-8) (9-10)
resolution of satisfactory level
conflicts (0-2) resolution of
conflicts (3-5)
07 Internal and Inadequate Basic management Effective management Efficient management
External Project management of of internal and of internal and of internal and
Resources internal and external project external project external project
resources with clear resources with
Management (10 external project resources with thorough planning
planning and
Marks) resources. Lack of some planning and and organization. (9-
organization. (6-8)
planning and organization. (3-5) 10)
organization. (0-2)
08 Presentation Poorly crafted Somewhat Well-crafted Professionally crafted
Creation and presentation with organized presentation with clear presentation with
Skills (10 Marks) lack of clarity and presentation with structure and excellent structure,
coherence. visual aid and
coherence. moderate clarity coherence.
Presentation skills are
Presentation skills and coherence. Presentation skills are
good. Used practical
are weak. (0-2) Presentation skills examples. (6-8) exceptional. Used
are average. (3-5) practical examples.
(9-10)
Final Grading criteria :
Marks Final Grade
>=70 Distinction
69-55 Merit
54-40 Pass
<40 Fail
Further Information
Who can answer questions about my Technical submission problems
assessment?
It is strongly advised that you submit your
Questions about the assessment should be work at least 24 hours before the deadline to
directed to the staff member who has set the allow time to resolve any last minute
task/assessment brief. This will usually be the problems you might have. If you are having
Module Leader. They will be happy to answer issues with IT or Turnitin you should contact
any queries you have. the IT Helpdesk on (+44) 2920 417000. You
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drafts of your work prior to submission. The submission.
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Supervisors to provide feedback on a draft of Extensions and mitigating circumstances
your dissertation.
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you are encountering particular hardship
Please ensure you reference a range of
which has been affecting your studies, then
credible sources, with due attention to the
you may be able to apply for mitigating
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your programme more scope to adapt the
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of your submitted work.
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for information on extensions and mitigating
and 30% of the time you are expected to
circumstances.
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represents 200 hours of study time. The rest
Unfair academic practice
of your time should be taken up by self-
directed study. Cardiff Met takes issues of unfair practice
extremely seriously. The University has
Unless stated otherwise you must use the procedures and penalties for dealing with
HARVARD referencing system. Further unfair academic practice. These are
guidance on referencing can be found in the explained in full in the University's Unfair
Study Smart area on Moodle and at Practice regulations and procedures under
www.citethemrightonline.com (use your Volume 1, Section 8 of the Academic
university login details to access the site). Handbook. The Module Leader reserves the
Correct referencing is an easy way to right to interview students regarding any
improve your marks and essential in aspect of their work submitted for
achieving higher grades on most assessment.
assessments.
Types of Unfair Practice, include:
Collusion, which can be defined as when
Plagiarism, which can be defined as using work that that has been undertaken with
without acknowledgement another person’s others is submitted and passed off as solely
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work, for instance by copying, translating submission are permitted, in all other cases
from one language to another or they are not.
unacknowledged paraphrasing. Further Fabrication of data, making false claims to
examples include: have carried out experiments, observations,
• Use of any quotation(s) from the interviews or other forms of data collection
published or unpublished work of other and analysis, or acting dishonestly in any
persons, whether published in textbooks, other way.
articles, the Web, or in any other format,
where quotations have not been clearly How is my work graded?
identified as such by being placed in
quotation marks and acknowledged. Assessment grading is subject to thorough
• Use of another person’s words or ideas quality control processes. You can view a
that have been slightly changed or summary of these processes on the
paraphrased to make it look different from Assessment Explained Infographic.
the original.
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in a bibliography/reference list. simplified version of these Grade Band
Descriptors (GBDs) with short videos
• Use of assessment writing services,
explaining some of the academic terminology
essay banks and/or any other similar
used can be accessed via the Facilitation of
agencies (NB. Students are commonly
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mills).
We would strongly recommend looking at the
• Use of unacknowledged material
Study Smart area of Moodle to find out more
downloaded from the Internet.
about assessments and key academic skills
• Re-use of one’s own material except as
which can have a significant impact on your
authorised by your degree programme.
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