Most technical courses have coursework, which usually accounts for 25% of the assessment for the course.
Coursework will usually be submitted either electronically, or in paper form to the ITO.
Coursework deadlines will be announced at the beginning of each course, to help you plan.
Work will normally be handed back within two weeks (four in the case of the two major projects).
Coursework will be annotated with a grade and/or a mark. Please note that these are provisional and may be revised by the Board of Examiners (for example, this might happen if it became clear that coursework had been much more harshly marked on one course than another).
All course work must be handed back to the ITO (AT4.02) late in Semester 2 so that it is available for the examiners to inspect during the assessment process. The ITO will notify you of the deadline nearer the time.
Normally, you will not be allowed to submit coursework late.
If you have a good reason to need to submit late, you must fill in the ITO support form as soon as possible. Your request is sent on to the course organiser (and recorded by the ITO); the course organiser will decide whether the request can be granted. (Only in exceptional circumstances, e.g. illness that stopped you getting to email, would an extension be granted after a deadline has passed.) Here is a description of what constitutes "good reason" to submit late.You must read and follow both the University's Student
Guidance on the Avoidance of Plagiarism
http://www.aaps.ed.ac.uk/regulations/Plagiarism/Guidance/StudentGuidance.pdf
and the School of Informatics Guidelines on Plagiarism:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/admin/ITO/DivisionalGuidelinesPlagiarism.html.