COMP9321 Notices

Final Exam has Began

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Tuesday 05 May 2020, 12:06:12 PM.

Dear All,

Please be advised that the final exam Paper is now released ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/45621 )

You can submit your MCQ answers in Moodle Quiz ( https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/quiz/view.php?... )

Remember the instructions we have provided in a previous post ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/45621 )

Best luck to all...

Information about final exam tomorrow

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 04 May 2020, 02:58:26 PM.

Dear All,

Please be advised for the following:

• Exam is tomorrow the 5th of May 2020. start time is 12:00 PM Sydney Time (mid-day) and ends at 11:59 AM of the 6th of May.
• The Exam paper is going to be released in WebCMS in the "Exam Paper" menu item on the designated time and a notification will be sent.
• As we mentioned before, we are going to use Moodle Quiz Module for the MCQ. the link to the quiz will be visible on the designated time.
• Answers to the Written questions to be submitted via Give system as a pdf file and the file name should be z{id}.pdf.
• if you have any inquiry about the exam questions, please send an e-mail to ( cs9321@cse.unsw.edu.au ). Please try to read the exam paper the sooner the better, and do not leave questions to the last minute. The title of the e-mail should include "COMP9321 Exam". I will try to be available on Microsoft Teams as well most of time, but e-mails are your best option to make sure me or the course admin (MohammadAli) will get your inquiry.
• if there are any corrections or updates during the exam we will make an announcement in WebCMS an an e-mail will be sent to all. make sure to check WebCMS regularly and before submitting.
• There is no extra time or late penalty. the deadline is final and any submission made after the deadline WILL NOT BE MARKED . Do not leave the submission to the last minute and risk facing issues or forgetting.
• By submitting your answers you certify that all the answers are according to your own effort and are in your own words . We are going to use plagiarism/text similarity tool to check submissions and If your submission is not your own effort, you will get zero marks for the exam and a possible charge of academic misconduct.
• Below are some instructions from the school you also need to be aware of:

FIT TO SIT

By sitting or submitting an assessment on the scheduled assessment date, a student is declaring that they are fit to do so and cannot later apply for Special Consideration.

If, during an exam a student feels unwell to the point that they cannot continue with the exam, they should take the following steps: <o:p></o:p>

1. Stop working on the exam and take note of the time <o:p></o:p>

2. If the Course Coordinator or Tutor is present online during the assessment in Microsoft Teams, make contact immediately and advise them that they are unwell <o:p></o:p>

3. Immediately submit a Special Consideration application saying that they felt ill during the exam and were unable to continue <o:p></o:p>

4. If they were able to advise the Course Coordinator or Tutor of the illness during the assessment, attach screenshots of this conversation to the Special Consideration application <o:p></o:p>

TECHNICAL ISSUES <o:p></o:p>

If students experience a technical issue, they should take the following steps: <o:p></o:p>

1. Take screenshots of as many of the following as possible: <o:p></o:p>

 error messages <o:p></o:p>

 screen not loading <o:p></o:p>

 timestamped speed tests <o:p></o:p>

 power outage maps <o:p></o:p>

2. If the Course Coordinator or Tutor is present online during the assessment in Microsoft Teams, contact should be made immediately to advise them of the issue. <o:p></o:p>

3. A Special Consideration application should be submitted immediately after the conclusion of the assessment, along with the appropriate screenshots.

Best of luck to all...

MyExperience Survey + Recommendations for external parties + Consultations

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 30 April 2020, 03:03:15 PM.

Dear All,

three things in this announcement:

• Sorry to sound like a broken record but we are still suffering from extremely low participation rate in the course Evaluation ( MyExperience : https://myexperience.unsw.edu.au/ ). please if you have not participated yet do that ASAP as the survey will close midnight today. We appreciate your feedback and it really helps us improve further.
• Although we are not allowed to disclose the final marks in the course, but if you are applying to a job or to work on a project that you want to illustrate the skills you picked up in the course and need some of sort verification, please feel free to use my contact details as a reference in this regard. I'm more than happy to communicate with your potential employer. I'm still not going to share the mark but I will be able put a good word for you to illustrate how you did in the course.
• By the way, feel free to keep asking questions on WebCMS and if you need you can send me an e-mail and we can schedule a consultation using Microsoft Teams.

best of luck to all...

Morty

STEM Leaders Program

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 27 April 2020, 11:22:25 PM.

Dear All,

I have a message from one of your colleagues who asked me to advertise the STEM Leaders Program if there are any students interested.

//BeginQuote

Hi,

Real Skills Education will be hosting its extremely popular STEM Leaders Program (SLP) in July. The SLP is an intensive 3 week online program that provides students the opportunity to develop their technical and professional skills essential for succeeding in the evolving STEM industry in a risk-free environment.

What will you be doing in the program:

lWork on industry projects in teams provided by our partner companies (we’ve partnered with Accenture, GHD and Railius with more partners yet to be confirmed) and present your solution to the company

lProfessional workshops run by industry experts who will expose you to non-traditional leadership and teamwork skills required in the STEM industry

lA chance to forge long-lasting professional relationships with industry leaders, mentors and students from various universities across Sydney

lExperience what it's like to work collaboratively online and from home.

The program is free of cost and is open to all STEM students!

Applications close 17 May and spots are limited

Application Link: https://bit.ly/SLPWinter2020Applications

For more information, visit our Facebook event https://bit.ly/SLPWinter2020Event or view our information pack https://bit.ly/SLPWinter2020InfoPack

Thanks everyone! Looking forward to your applications!

//EndQuote

Quiz4 Released

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 23 April 2020, 10:57:40 PM.

Dear All,

Quiz4 is released. We are going to use Moodle for this quiz to make you familiar with the MCQ system that we are going to use also in the final exam. the link to Moodle Quiz is ( https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/quiz/view.php?... )

you do not need to submit anything on WebCMS for this Quiz as only your answers in Moodle will be marked.

best of luck to all...

Assignment 2 has been Marked

Posted by Mehmet Rad Thursday 23 April 2020, 10:50:01 AM.

Dear Students,

The 2nd Assignment has been marked and you can access to your mark using GIVE.
If you have any inquiry about your mark, please contact the corresponding tutor (provided in the feedback).

Cheers,

Final Exam

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 16 April 2020, 03:35:59 PM, last modified Thursday 16 April 2020, 03:41:17 PM.

Dear all,

for the Final exam of COMP9321 it has bee scheduled at Tuesday the 5th of May 2020 . Please be advised for the following:

1. It is an All Day Exam (You have 24 hours to submit your answers) this is to accommodate the students that are currently out of the country with different time-zones.
2. the Exam consists of Two Parts:

• Part1 MCQ : We will use Moodle Quiz and the question Bank so that we can have MCQ that are distributed randomly to the students and since the Quiz open for 24 hours so that minimize the issues with unreliable network. the Link to the Quiz on Moodle will be visible to the students on the time of the exam.
• Part2 Written Answers Questions: We will have the exam paper with questions that require long written answers released to the students on the time of the exam through WebCMS. the students will answer the questions and submit a PDF file using the Give System before the deadline of the exam. No late penalty and the submissions after the deadline is marked as zero. We will use Turnitin to check for plagiarism.

We will have a mock exam with examples in Week10 so that you will have better idea how the exam is going to be.

P.S. I have added this announcement in "Discussion of Course Changes" thread so if you have any comment, feedback and/or question you can follow up there ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/44527 )

Waiving the Late Penalty for Assignment3

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 15 April 2020, 01:55:20 PM.

Dear All,

We have received multiple request for extending the deadline for assignment3. Unfortunately we can't extend the deadline since this will make providing the marking before the exam impossible (it is currently very challenging but we will try our best).

What we can do is waiving the late submission penalty. Pay attention to something here: any submission after the 24th of April WILL NOT be marked.

best of luck to all...

Clarification about the Impact of COVID-19 on the Course

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 13 April 2020, 08:05:17 PM.

Dear All,

Just to clarify in regard to the impact of COVID-19 on the course. Nothing has changed to what I have announced before. We could not build a case for relying on the old evaluation system and hence COMP9321 is moving to the SY/FL system. I believe the school already sent a communication about this to all students. For any questions about the impact of these changes to your WAM please refer to the e-mail circulated by the faculty/school and check ( https://student.unsw.edu.au/grade/changes ).

As mentioned before there is NO DOUBLE pass requirement for COMP9321 (this has not changed and will not change). To get SY/FL, it is due to accumulation of all the assessment items (Quizzes+Assignments+final exam).

Please refer to the previous post for more details about the final exam ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/43961 )

Best of luck to all...

Assignment 3 DataSets Have been Modified

Posted by Mehmet Rad Thursday 09 April 2020, 06:07:32 PM.

Dear Students,

Please use the last version of the dataset which contains the "movie_id" column.
This will help you in generting the expected output files.

Technical difficulties with uploading lecture recording today

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 08 April 2020, 07:03:30 PM.

Dear All,

I'm having some technical difficutlities uplodaing the videos of the lecture for today. I will try to resolve this issue with support tomorrow morning and you shall be able to access the lecture recording.

sorry for the inconvenience...

regards,

Assignment 3 has been released

Posted by Mehmet Rad Sunday 05 April 2020, 09:01:19 PM.

Dear Students,

3rd Assignment has been released. You have 2 weeks to submit your assignment.
Be noted that you can access your tutor using the team created on "Microsoft Teams"

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19:508e7b7463...

During the lab hours, you can ask for help from the online tutor.

Good Luck with the assignment.

Quiz 3 released

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 27 March 2020, 05:01:41 PM.

Dear All,

Quiz3 is released in the activity section. Make sure to participate before the deadline.

best of luck...

Participate in a Poll about the course evaluation

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:42:22 PM, last modified Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:56:03 PM.

Dear All,

please participate in the Poll ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/activities/polls/1231 ). I do not promise that this will assure that the course will go back to the original way of evaluation but nevertheless I can pass this to the school and make an attempt.

the poll is going to close tomorrow 8:00 AM so make sure to participate before that.

regards,

P.S. I have made the results invisible to students but I will share the result of the poll after it is closed

Discussion Thread about changes in the course

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 26 March 2020, 02:52:10 PM.

Dear all,

I have created a resource in WebCMS where we can discuss the changes in the course. feel free to leave your comments and feedback there.

https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/43961

Changes on Final Exam and how the COMP9321 is going to be Evaluated

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 26 March 2020, 02:06:57 PM, last modified Thursday 26 March 2020, 02:56:06 PM.

Dear All,

Due to the COVID-19 situation some changes are to be made for the final exam and how the course is going to be marked. There has just been a faculty decision that engineering courses, except for project/thesis courses, will move to pass/fail (SY/FL) by default. COMP9321 is to follow this decision.

for the final exam, and after checking the feedback and suggestions from students and teaching staff, the following adjustments are proposed:

1. It is a 24 hours long exam in order to accommodate the students that are currently out of the country with different time-zones.
2. We will use Moodle Quiz and the question Bank so that we can have MCQ that are distributed randomly to the students and since the Quiz open for 24 hours so that minimize the issues with unreliable network.
3. We will have the exam paper with questions that require long written answers released to the students on the time of the exam through WebCMS. the students will answer the questions on a rich text documents and submit the file using Give before the deadline of the exam. No late penalty and the submissions after the deadline is marked as zero.
4. We will use Turnitin to check for plagiarism since the answers are on the level of having enough text making this realistic.

Please feel free to comment and provide feedback about the above mentioned

regards,

Live Q&A and other remote support methods

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 25 March 2020, 11:39:04 AM.

Dear All,

after looking at the poll results and although the majority of the class has not participated for this week the live Q&A for the lectures will be conducted after the lecture time (i.e., Wednesday 9PM-10PM and Thursday 8PM-9PM). definitely if you can't make it to the time also feel free to post your question on the relevant resource.

The way to keep things manageable and easy to find for all students reference is that you post your question as a comment on the lecture slides and during the mentioned time I will be there and answer your question.

if you require to meet virtually to ask questions or have a discussion then I'm also available on Microsoft Teams the same COMP9321 labs space. Send me an e-mail with COMP9321 in the subject of the email (m.al-banna@unsw.edu.au) to specify a time. also if I'm avilable online on the channel just remember to use @Morty... to select my name so I will get a notification.

By the way feel free to comment here and provide feedback about the way we are delivering lectures, Lab consultations, Q&A...etc. we really appreciate your feedback about what is working and what you think can be done better/differently.

Stay safe and healthy...

Assignment 1 has been Marked

Posted by Mehmet Rad Wednesday 25 March 2020, 09:58:03 AM.

Dear Students,

• If you have any question regarding your mark, please contact directly your examiner ( email provided in the feedback).
• If you have not been mark, drop me an email.

Assignment 2 has been released

Posted by Mehmet Rad Friday 20 March 2020, 01:14:53 PM.

Dear Students,

2nd Assignment has been released. You have 2 weeks to submit your assignment.
Be noted that you can access your tutor using the team created on "Microsoft Teams"

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19:508e7b7463...

During the lab hours, you can ask for help from the online tutor.

Good Luck with the assignment.

Wednesday Lecture recording available in WebCMS

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 19 March 2020, 06:51:59 PM.

Dear all,

finally we found a way to upload the lecture recording. for yesterday lecture (Wednesday) the recording is available via links (three parts) in WebCMS in the Lectures section in the subsection of Week5 ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/42027 ).

for today lecture I'm working on remaking the video to be suitable for the method used and will upload tonight.

sorry for the delay and hopefully you find the lecture informative.

for Any questions about the lecture material please participate in the Pole ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/activities/polls/1220 ) for selecting the best time. I will be available online and monitoring WebCMS where you can ask questions and I will answer these questions. for the sake of organization it is better to ask the question with the lecture resources so that it is easier for other students to find and draw reference to what are the questions about.

stay healthy and safe...

Lecture recording

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 19 March 2020, 01:00:13 PM.

Dear All,

sorry for the inconvenience in regard to the lecture recording. I have uploaded the file to UNSW TheBox service and since yesterday 7pm till now it is still processing. I have contacted system support and they are looking at it. I will keep you posted in this regard and if it doesn't work I will record again and share.

for today lecture, if the problem is not solved I will do the lecture on another platform and send another notification.

again sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding...

stay safe and healthy,

Social distancing and COMP9321 teaching

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Tuesday 17 March 2020, 03:34:21 PM.

Dear All,

Due to the COVID19 situation, we have been advised to rely on social distancing in order to reduce the risk of virus transmission. Mohammadali already made the announcement about the consultation labs and how to acquire support remotely for doing the hand-on activities.

For the lectures, we are also considering video recording and online Q&A sessions in addition to WebCMS. I will follow up with details about how to access the videos and the live Q&A in the next announcement.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation through these challenging times.

Stay safe,

Lab Consultations

Posted by Mehmet Rad Tuesday 17 March 2020, 03:10:13 PM.

Dear All,

Please join the COM9321 Lab team by clicking on the following link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19:508e7b7463...

You must use your university email and password to login.

• During the lab hours , you can post your question or ask for a private call with the tutor.
• Please do not use the team for personal communications;
• Tutors will only be available during the lab hours.

Labs

Posted by Mehmet Rad Tuesday 17 March 2020, 06:38:28 AM.

Dear All,

Today's lab is going to be online. Please send me an email during the lab hour if you want to have an online call with me.

You must install Microsoft teams, and login with your university email and password.

Quiz 2 released

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 13 March 2020, 10:12:39 AM.

Dear All,

Quiz 2 is released. please make sure to participate before the deadline as late penalty apply.

best of luck

Assignment 1 Clarification

Posted by Mehmet Rad Tuesday 10 March 2020, 09:56:04 AM.

Hi All,

Please take a look at the specification before your final submission. To make every thing clear, we have added some updates in each question based on frequently asked questions in the labs and forums. The specification has not been changes; these updates are just for clarification.

Assignment 1 has been released

Posted by Mehmet Rad Tuesday 03 March 2020, 10:58:07 PM.

Dear All,

Please be advised that the first assignment has been released.
Due is 13 March 18:00

Quiz 1 released

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 28 February 2020, 02:41:14 PM.

Dear All,

We have release Quiz1. please make sure that you submit your answers before the deadline as there is a penalty of 1 mark for late submissions and no submission will be accepted after the results are released the next day.

best of luck to all

Students affected by the travel restrictions

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Tuesday 25 February 2020, 05:48:32 PM.

Dear All,

Just a follow-up about what I mentioned in the first lecture regarding the students affected by the travel restriction. What I mentioned is an advise, we will not force anyone out off the course. In terms of assessment items the Quizzes and Assignments can be submitted online. the final exam require your physical presence though.

We have tried to make the hands-on activities self-explanatory, so that you can do them on your own time and come to consultation labs only if needed. So for students affected by the travel resections if you are confident you can do the activities on your own time and rely on the remote support we provide through WebCMS, then the decision is yours to continue in the course. We will do our best to provide suport for all stduents on and off campus.

Hope this make things more clear...

best of luck to all,

Morty

Lab Activities

Posted by Mehmet Rad Monday 24 February 2020, 10:33:07 AM.

Dear Students,

While it is not obligatory to attend labs, you are highly recommend to follow the instruction is the Lab Activities each week posted on :
https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/resources/41983

During the labs you can get further help from the tutor and ask for more clarifications if you need additional help. You can find the allocated labs (running everyday) from the following link:
https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/20T1/timetable