In person

Rules for both parts

In order to pass the course is essential to pass each part (A & B) separately. Therefore, the final mark will be calculated only if the mark of each part (A & B) is higher or equal to 5 (out of 10).

In that case, the final mark will be calculated according to this formula: 

50% Juridical infotech mark + 50% Communication skills mark.

Therefore, truancy of Continuing Education Conferences will have a direct negative impact on the overall mark for the subject. The quantity if this negative impact depends on the number of conferences that have not been attended, adding up to a point (out of 10) on the final grade. For example: if you miss a conference the impact will be 0.4 points, if you miss two conferences the impact will be 0.7 points and if you miss the three conferences the impact will be 1 point. This regulation will not apply to Erasmus or exchange students, neither to students of the double degrees.

Since truancy of continuing education conferences penalizes, it is numerically possible for a student to pass both parts of the subject and fail the course due to the aforementioned penalty.

In case of failing one or more parts, the mark will be the average of the two if it is less than 4 (out of 10) or 4 if it is more than 4 (out of 10).

In the repeat exams (and followings) the final mark will be calculated according to the following formula: 50% Juridical infotech mark, 50% Communication skills mark. Therefore, continuing education conferences will not have any repercussion on the mark in this case.

The student will have to attend the repeat exam only of the part or parts he has failed in the first call.

The final exam will take place in different days or schedules for the two parts (A &B), in both the first and the repeat exam.

Following there is a detailed description of the evaluation system for each part.

If the student fails to attend the final examination of one of the parts of this course, the mark will be "no show", independently of whether it has approved or failed the other part.

Exam reviews will be done at the scheduled time and day. Nothing will be reviewed outside of this period.

PART A: Juridical Infotech

Final Grade Composition:

The final grade will consist of the continuous assessment score (70%) and the final exam score (30%).

Specifically, it is composed of:

1. 30% Attendance and Participation.
• Mandatory attendance in person and attentiveness during explanations.
• Each absence deducts 0.2 from the final grade.
2. 40% Evaluated Practices.
• Mandatory completion of designated practices during the class period.
• Failure to complete the practices results in a score of 0 for that session.
3. 30% Final Exam.

Attendance and Participation:

• Obligatory attendance in person with attention to explanations.
• Each absence deducts 0.2 from the final grade.

Evaluated Practices:

• Three evaluated practices scheduled during the course, acting as partial exams.
• Individual completion and timely submission are crucial.
• Non-completion results in a score of 0 for that practice.
• Evaluation scale: 0 (not submitted, unacceptable, or copied) to 3 (very good).

Final Exam:

• Comprehensive assessment covering various topics addressed in class.

• Fraud, whether in the form of plagiarism of coursework, exams, or any assessment or continuous assessment activity, will result in a sanction ranging from a grade of 0 in the exercise (both for the student who copies and for the one who allows copying) to a grade of 0 in the course, leading to the loss of the examination session. The sanction will depend on the seriousness of the plagiarism, the attitude shown, the means employed, repeat offences, etc. Exercises will be randomly submitted to an anti-plagiarism tool.

In the event that any artificial intelligence tool is used in a non-ethical manner—regardless of the type of activity (classwork, assessed coursework, or final exam)—that is, without verifying sources, without proper citation, or without the necessary human contribution for the work to be considered the student’s own and not that of the machine, the student will receive an immediate grade of 0 for the course.

During the course, there will be 3 assessed coursework assignments, scheduled in the course timeline (Moodle). These assessed activities function as midterm exams and will cover the aspects addressed progressively in class.

On the days of assessed coursework, the student must complete the assignment individually, within the allotted time, and submit it within the established deadline. Attendance in class (either face-to-face or online) on assessed coursework days is especially important, as failure to complete the assignment will result in a grade of 0 for that assessment.

The coursework will be evaluated according to the following parameters:

Within a scale from 0 to 3, corresponding to:

0: not submitted, unacceptable, or plagiarised.
1: poor, with errors indicating failure to follow explanations.
2: needs improvement.
3: very good.

The final exam consists of a more comprehensive practical exercise, encompassing various aspects covered during the course.

In the second examination session, attendance will not be taken into account, and assessed coursework and the final exam will each count for 50%, provided that continuous assessment has been passed.

Grade Limit: If continuous assessment has NOT been passed, the maximum final grade that may be obtained in the second examination session will be 7.

If the student has to present himself to the THIRD call, he will have to recover the two parts of the subject, even if one has already passed it.

PART B: Communication Skills

The competencies of this part will be evaluated according to two sub-parts: continuous evaluation and final evaluation.

CONTINUOUS EVALUATION

It consists in the evaluation of student’s progression and acquisition of the competencies, and it will be implemented through the following exercises: public speeches in the classroom, exercises from the virtual campus, written exercises submitted in the classroom, class participation and short exams about the readings.

Continuous evaluation will be 50 % of the final mark, distributed in its components according to the following rule:

1) public speeches and written exercises: 25 %

2) short exams of the readings: 15 %

3) short exercises: 10 %

Written exercises

The student has to accomplish with the specified norms of presentation and she will try to achieve an excellent level of formal neatness.

If the student submits an exercise one day late, it will be scored over 50 points instead of 100, if he submits it more than 1 day late the score will be a zero.

The exercises whose grading method is “done” or “apt” are mandatory.

Additionally, the following criteria will apply when scoring written exercises: -2 points (out of 100) for each misspell and for each syntactic or lexical mistake.

The detection of partial plagiarism will imply a mark of zero for the exercise. If a student cheats in an exam, the maark will be 0.

Public speeches in the classroom

The teacher will explain in the classroom the criteria and method of evaluation.

Readings

The student will read several books along the course. In the days the teacher will indicate, the student will take a short exam consisting of short questions about the books, to verify that the student has read them. These short exams will contribute to 15% of the final mark. The same criteria as above will apply for mistakes: misspells and syntactic and lexical mistakes will imply a penalty of -2 points (out of 100) for each mistake.

 FINAL EVALUATION

It consists of a final exam which will contribute to the 50% of the final mark.

The following criteria will apply regarding mistakes: a penalty of -2 points (out of 100) for each misspell, syntactic or lexical mistake.

The final mark for the Communication skills part of the course

To sum up, the final mark will be calculated as follows:

50 % final exam

25 % continuous evaluation

15 % short exam of the reading

10 % shorts exercises

To pass the whole course the student will have to pass also the other part of the course (part A Juridical Infotech).

The student who does not appear on time for an exam and does not provide the appropriate documentation to justify the delay will be graded with a 0.

Exam reviews will be done at the scheduled time and day. Nothing will be reviewed outside of this period. 

Repeat exam

The student will repeat those parts which he has failed in the first exam.

If the student has to present himself to the THIRD call, he will have to recover the two parts of the subject, even if one has already passed it.

Truancy

Two absences are allowed. From the third and on, a penalty of -5 points (out of 100) for the final grade will apply.

The use of cell phones or similar devices is forbidden in the classroom. Laptops and tablets can be used with the explicit permission of the teacher and just for tasks related to the process of learning for the course.