ASSIGNMENT TOP SHEET

Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies & Science

Department of Computer Science and Technology

Student Ref. No Unit Code

CIS016-6
Unit Name Deadline for Submission
Network Systems See the CIS Referrals BREO
site for submission deadline
Student's Surname Student's Forename

Unit Leader's Name

Dr Ali Mansour

Assignment Details: Assignment 1 - Presentation

See next few pages

Instructions to Student:

Please note: Work presented in an assessment must be the student's own. Plagiarism is where a student copies work from
another source, published or unpublished (including the work of a fellow student) and fails to acknowledge the influence of
another's work or to attribute quotes to the author. Plagiarism is an academic offence.

Work presented in an assessment must be your own. Plagiarism is where a student copies work from another source,
published or unpublished (including the work of another student) and fails to acknowledge the influence of another’s work or
to attribute quotes to the author. Plagiarism is an academic offence and the penalty can be serious. The University’s policies
relating to Plagiarism can be found in the regulations at http://www.luton.ac.uk/livingandstudying/qa/documents. To detect
possible plagiarism we may submit your work to the national plagiarism detection facility. This searches the Internet and an
extensive database of reference material including other students’ work to identify. Once your work has been submitted to
the detection service it will be stored electronically in a database and compared against work submitted from this and other
universities. It will therefore be necessary to take electronic copies of your materials for transmission, storage and
comparison purposes and for the operational back-up process. This material will be stored in this manner indefinitely.

I have read the above information and I confirm that this work is my own and that it may be processed and stored in
the manner described.

Signature (Print Name): ........................................................... Date: .........................................

Extension deadline
CAAS agrees that the assignment may be submitted ____ days after the deadline and should be marked without penalty.

CAAS confirmation...................................................................................................................

All assignments must be electronically submitted using Turnitin (via BREO) by 6 pm on the due date.
Please leave sufficient time to meet this deadline and do not leave the handing-in of assignments to the last minute. You
need to allow time for any system problems or other issues.

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Note this grade is provisional until agreed by the Examination Board

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 CIS016-6 Network Systems
Assignment 1 (Referral) – Seminar Presentation

Hand-in Date: See the CIS Referrals BREO site for submission deadline

Aim

You are required to investigate in depth, a technical area related to networking and analyse its main
functions. The topic of your research will be assigned to you by the unit leader and will be shown on
BREO under the Assignments section.

You will need to briefly state the context in which the technology exits and its use including the current
state of its development. You should then evaluate it in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. You
should continue to consider the future of the technology under review. Assume that your audience is
the rest of the MSc Network Systems group.

For the referral work, you are required to repair the assignment you submitted to a pass grade
taking into account the comments made by the staff on your submitted assignment.

Task

Produce a PowerPoint presentation, lasting 20 minutes plus or minus 10%. Additional notes,
comments and references must be entered into the Notes pages of the presentation (see diagram
below). No report format will be accepted as a deliverable.

This layout can be viewed, and edited in

Slide PowerPoint by selecting View then Notes
Page from the menus.

Use the ‘Notes area’ to add content to

Notes area discuss/expand on the slide’s content.

References’ slide(s) should also be added but they will not count towards the number of the content
slides.

What to Submit (READ THESE AND FOLLOW THEM CAREFULLY)

1. A PowerPoint presentation file must be submitted in unpackaged format on floppy disk or CD-
ROM
2. A PDF version of the file with Notes area included submitted to Turnitin. Word or PowerPoint
files must not be submitted to Turnitin.
3. A printed and properly bound version in Notes Pages format to the Assignments Office by the
above deadline.

Marks will be deducted if the submitted PowerPoint file is saved as Packaged PPS file.

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x DO NOT TAPE your CDROM to the printed slides as this will damage the data area. If you do
this, we will not be able to mark your work and your grades will get delayed.

 ALWAYS use a CDROM sleeve, or case.

Marking Scheme
Please note that this assignment must be done individually. This is not a group work, so no
collaborative or cooperative work of any kind is allowed. Although working with others is an important
part of computing, for you this particular assignment if your answers (wording) are same (or mostly
same) as someone else’s work then you and all others involved will fail the assignment and all of you
will need to attend a plagiarism hearing.

Marks will be lost for poor presentation and for the use of materials with incorrect or missing
references or late submission.

The following assessment criteria will be used when your work is marked (and thus you should check
each of them carefully before submitting your work):

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Quality level
Fail Refer Pass Average Good Excellent
F E D- / D / D+ C- / C / C+ B- / B / B+ A- / A / A+
Criterion 2 4 5/6/7 8 / 9 / 10 11 / 12 / 13 14 / 15 / 16
No introduction
No or poorly written
to the topic.
introduction. Very brief Satisfactory Excellent
No written Good introduction
Introduction No or poorly written introduction with introduction and introduction and
approach to and approach to
10% presentation
approach to no/brief approach approach to
presentation
approach to
presentation to coverage stated presentation presentation
coverage is
coverage is given
given
Presentation
Development
lacking any Presentation with Some logical Satisfactory Good coherent Excellent
(Logical structure in
logical structure poor logical structure and presentation and logically presentation
terms of technical
and coherence. structure and coherence to logical structure structured coherence and
contents)
Not relevant to coherence. presentation. and coherence. presentation. logical structure.
15% allocated topic.
Poor use of the Some English Satisfactory
Some English Good written Excellent written
English language English.
Communication language problems. English with clear English with all the
language. No problems. Very Satisfactory
10% Essential points coverage of the essential points
essential points brief coverage of coverage of
poorly covered. essential points. covered.
covered. essential points. essential points.
Vaguely defined Briefly defined Satisfactory
Technical Poorly defined Clearly defined
presentation presentation topic. attempt at defining Excellent definition
presentation topic. presentation topic
content topic. Associated
Associated areas
Associated areas the presentation
and associated
of topic and
20% areas not briefly defined and topic and associated areas.
not or poorly defined areas.
defined. lack depth. associated areas.

Technical No or
No or inappropriate
authority inappropriate
references. Not Good content Excellent content
(All references references. Not Some references Some references
using or reliant on coverage coverage fully
must strictly follow using the used. Briefly used. Satisfactory
single source of supported with supported by
the Harvard Harvard covered or level of supported
information (e.g. appropriate relevant
Referencing Referencing supported content. content.
Internet websites) references. references.
System) System. Lacks
Lacks depth.
15% any depth.
Presentation
Presentation Well written
Presentation poorly structure needs Content &
Style poorly structured Satisfactory presentation.
structured & improving. structure of
& compiled. presentation & Carefully
(Structure means compiled. Diagrams of low presentation are
Inappropriate structure. structured. Clear,
sectioning, format, Inappropriate quality. good.
content. Some discussion effective diagrams
etc.) content. Presentation has Clear diagrams &
Messy with original ideas, produced.
15% appearance of
Messy appearance omissions/
but rather brief.
good detail
Original ideas well
of work. unnecessary extra discussion.
work. documented.
content.
No conclusions No or poorly stated Brief conclusions. Satisfactory Good conclusions Excellent
Conclusions
or summary conclusions or No conclusions and and conclusions &
15% stated. summary. recommendations. recommendations. recommendations. recommendations.

Other comments:

Overall Grade

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