Assessments — overview

How you’re graded across the year

This page summarises the assessment structure for COMP06003. Each item links to its own detailed handout. Full per-assessment briefs are drafted in Phase 7 of the build.

At a glance

Item	Weight	When	Format	LOs
MCQ Quiz track	30%	End of W6 and W12 each semester · optional 5th end of S2 W13 · best 4 of 5 count	Multiple-choice, Moodle, Safe Exam Browser	1–5
Lab Exam 1	10%	Sem 1 Week 7 (week of Mon 2 Nov 2026)	Practical, in-lab, individual	1–5
Lab Exam 2	10%	Sem 1 Week 13 (week of Mon 14 Dec 2026)	Practical, in-lab, individual	1–5
Lab Exam 3	20%	Sem 2 Week 7 (week of Mon 1 Mar 2027)	Practical, in-lab, individual	1–5
Lab Exam 4	20%	Sem 2 Week 13 (week of Mon 26 Apr 2027)	Practical, in-lab, individual	1–5
Micro-assessments	10%	Sem 2 only — 10 weekly micro-assessments × 1% each	Short in-week task, auto-graded by the sdpd-grader extension	3, 4, 5

Total: 100 % continuous assessment. No terminal written exam.

Why the Sem 1 and Sem 2 lab exams carry different weights. The Sem 1 exams (10 % each) are deliberately lower-stakes — you’re early in the year, still finding your feet with the language and the IDE. The Sem 2 exams (20 % each) carry more weight because by then you’ve had a full semester and a half to build the skill, and the Sem 2 material (classes, files, exceptions, testing) is what employers and the next-year modules will assume you know. The total weight of the practical track is unchanged at 60 %.

Repeat strategy

Per the module descriptor: a single repeat exam replaces all four lab exams. MCQ or coursework elements may be separately reassessed if a student’s individual situation requires it; this is communicated in advance of registration for the repeat sitting.

AI use

No AI is permitted on any assessment in this module. Every assessment — every lab exam, every MCQ sitting, every micro-assessment — is Level 1 (No AI) on the AI Assessment Scale (Furze et al., 2024). Using AI tools to generate, complete, plan or assist any submission is an academic-integrity breach under AQAE022.

This is a deliberate first-year choice: you can’t tell whether code you didn’t write does what you think it does, and that judgement is exactly what this module teaches.

Assessment	AI level
Lab Exams 1–4	Level 1 — No AI
MCQ Quiz (all 5 sittings)	Level 1 — No AI
Micro-assessments (all 10)	Level 1 — No AI

Questions

michael.duignan@atu.ie · 48-hour turnaround on email during teaching weeks. For lab-specific questions, prefer the Moodle forum so the answer reaches everyone.