Feedback to students
All feedback on this course, until the final exam, is
formative as opposed
to summative. That is, it aims to help you improve your understanding, and
is not used in determining your final mark on the course. A major reason
for this is that software engineering is almost always a team activity, and
the most interesting problems have many solutions. In this course, you
should feel able to discuss your work with anyone, and work in groups
whenever it seems appropriate to you, without worrying about whether you
have offended against a "your own unaided work" rule.
Some of the ways in which you will be able to get feedback on how you are
doing are:
- Doing the automatically marked questions that will be available, for
example, after you've watched a course video. These questions are typically
very simple, with only one right answer, and aim to let you check whether
you have understood basic issues.
- Attending "lectures", which will actually often be interactive
sessions of discussing and problem-solving. You will have a chance to get
feedback on your ideas and solutions to problems, from your peers and from
the lecturer.
- Attending tutorials, and handing in tutorial exercises. Your tutor
will give you feedback on the written work you do and on your contributions
to discussion in tutorials. If you wish to get feedback on written attempts
at past exam questions, your tutor will provide it.
This page is maintained by
Perdita Stevens (
perdita@inf.ed.ac.uk
)