Advising for next year April 2016 Patricia Shaw Lynda Thomas

All students

Who and Why? Who? Why? Patricia Shaw: advisor Lynda Thomas: advisor cs-exam-advice@aber.ac.uk Why? So you can skip the madness in the Arts Centre Timetabling

The procedure: You will be advised on your student record what to do. Your record will be automatically filled in with the core modules for your scheme This week is mostly for consultation From Thursday you can pre-register on-line by filling in your other choices – MUST BE DONE BY FRIDAY APRIL 22ND It will either: Be Approved, or You will get an email with why not We will have office hours so you can get advice and immediate feedback (Physics 126 and B62)

Common Problems Possible things to note that we have found so far: CC vs CS?? People who didn’t do year 1 with us (missing pre- req) Credit balance 60:60

Remember: You can always change things up at the Arts Centre in September! Or over summer Or in first 3 weeks of semester

What if I want to change scheme? See the advisor, who will approve your change and update your record DO THIS BEFORE COMPLETING PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION Then different core modules will appear H602/3 Internet Computing and G500/1 Business IT have less programming See www.aber.ac.uk/schemes

If you are not sure Pick the most hard and restrictive modules/scheme and attend MORE things for a week or so So, not sure if CS or Internet Computing? Stay with CS pick modules for IC as far as you can Attend the extra modules that IC would need If you decide CS211 is not your thing you can easily slip into IC after 2 weeks – you have 3 weeks

What happens in September? You will access your registration once on campus and either: Confirm it is correct Decide to make changes, in which case you either: Go through the ‘Arts Centre’ process OR See advisor in first 3 weeks and fix online If you are going into year 2, group project has moved to second semester If you are going into year 3, final year project in second semester, with advice on selection process in first semester

How do I decide on my options? This talk and its handout http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Dept/Teaching/ProvReg/ http://www.aber.ac.uk/schemes http://www.aber.ac.uk/modules Talk to the advisers

Dates You will not be able to do anything with your record until Thursday (but you can see it now) You must have this all done by April 22nd Advisors (ltt in B62 AND phs in Physics 126) will be available most of the time this week and next

What if I don’t do it? You will probably get lots and lots of reminders Better to just do something and FIX at start of year You can go through the ‘Arts Centre’ process as a last resort

Foundation students

Passing the year Your marks will be on your student record Overall average of 40% remember credit weightings you need an average over 12 "marks" Must pass 100 credits of the 120 credits you take

What if I don’t pass 100 credits? If you fail between 30 and 60 credits Summer resits – next slide If you fail more than 60 credits Must resit the year – consider seriously if CS is for you

Resits Resits are last 2 weeks in August We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free We send you an email of advice about what you need to do when results come out. Wait until you get that to contact us. (But if nothing comes in a few days then email cs-exam-advice) This also tells you about resit assignments. Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

Entering Part 1 (year 1) Assuming you progress, you will join the 'first year' Core modules the same as those for G400 – Computer Science

Let’s look at the handout Late breaking suggestions for electives not in CS: PH19510 Chaos Communications and Consciousness IC10210 Academic Writing Let us know of others ……

Good Luck on your exams! Any questions email cs-exam-advice

Year 1 students

Passing the year Your marks will be on your student record Overall average of 40% remember credit weightings you need an average over 12 "marks" Must pass 100 credits of the 120 credits you take

What if I don’t pass 100 credits? If you fail between 30 and 60 credits Summer resits – next slide If you fail more than 60 credits Must resit the year – consider seriously if CS is for you

Resits Resits are last 2 weeks in August We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free We send you an email of advice about what you need to do when results come out. Wait until you get that to contact us. (But if nothing comes in a few days then email cs-exam-advice) This also tells you about resit assignments. Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

Entering Part 2 (years 2 and 3) Assuming you progress, everything from September on counts towards your degree Rules for getting a degree – must pass 220 of the 240 credits in Part 2 You cannot raise ‘F’ modules above 40% You only have one resit opportunity

Let’s look at the handout Late breaking suggestions for electives not in CS: IL32410 Management Information Systems IL33010 Business Systems Analysis IL32520 Management of Organisations MP35610 Quantum info theory ED20120 Psych of Learning and Thinking FM32420 Surveillance society (sem 2) FM25520 Digital Culture (sem 2) ED33020 Communicating Science (sem 2) Let us know of others ……

Good Luck on your exams! Any questions email cs-exam-advice

Year 2 students

A few people who may have problems People who took a year in US People who were 2nd year direct entry YOUR SUBMITTING MAY FAIL SAVE your choices Contact Lynda or Patricia (in person is best) We’ll try and push through manually

What if I am going on industrial year? You need not do anything this year because your record will automatically be filled in – but pay attention now! While you are out you will be told to pre-register for 2017 and you will be able to do it on-line or Wait until September (I don’t advise this) Better to just do something and FIX at start of year

Warning! When they ask you if you are taking a ‘YES’ placement say NO This is not the same as our industrial year – the system can tell whether you are having an industrial year from your scheme. This is mainly for people in other departments.

What about passing/failing/resits? You must pass 220 of the 240 credits in Part 2 You must take at least 120 credits at the level of the award i.e. level 3 for BSc and BEng, level M for MEng.

What does that mean for this year? If you fail nothing, great! If you fail 20 credits or less, you can go into the 3rd or industrial year but you should resit: in the summer, or possibly when you come back but I would not advise that, or Next summer – but you will have to email and organise that (it is not an automatic email from Academic office) If you fail 30-60 credits you cannot progress until you bring the number down. Probably resit in the summer, but you COULD take a year to do them. If you fail > than 60 credits you could resit the year on a clean slate We will email you – if you don’t get an email get in touch

Decisions about resits H resits should always be done – uncapped and if done during summer no charge It is possible to resit: In the summer During the next year while a student or Sandwich student Taking an extra year There are 2 forms of resit: externally (just do assessments) or internally (lectures etc. may make substitutions for non-core modules)

Resits Resits are in last 2 weeks of August We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free The email we send will tell you about resit assignments – most modules you resit just the bits you failed – but check Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

Let’s look at the handout Late breaking suggestions for electives not in CS: IL32410 Management Information Systems IL33010 Business Systems Analysis IL32520 Management of Organisations MP35610 Quantum info theory FM32420 Surveillance society (sem 2) ED33020 Communicating Science (sem 2) Let us know of others ……

Help? We (cs-exam-advice@aber.ac.uk) send all students an email in July You can also phone or email us – please use general email not specific lecturers’ ones ugfstaff@aber.ac.uk or phone (01970 623111 and ask for AQRO) is the final word on all this

Don’t forget! You cannot raise ‘F’ modules above 40% You only have one resit opportunity In theory it may be possible to throw away your second year and redo it, but that is mainly for people who have been on the ‘wrong’ scheme. If you think that you want to do this you would have to convince Chris Price.

Good Luck on your exams! Any questions email cs-exam-advice

Not even Here Yet Students Look in repos Lynda! http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~repos/Documents /Advising/first_years/