• The virtual platform for communication with students is the UAB Virtual Campus.
• The subject is organized into four main blocks. The materials offered through the Virtual Campus include a series of videos that students must watch before attending class and that contain the theoretical-practical knowledge needed for the design of digital systems and practical exercises.
• The subject is taught in "classroom problems" mode. All face-to-face classes are treated as problem-based sessions. The classes are dedicated to solving questions and doubts in the videos, and cases proposed by the teacher. Students must actively participate in these classes; these are not conventional "theory" classes. They take place in small groups (around 30-40 students), an indispensable condition to reach the necessary degree of interactivity in a subject of eminently practical character.
• The course is completed with laboratory practices where the students implement the circuits (they have generaly been limited to be designed "on paper"). Each session accommodates 20-25 students working in groups of 2 and lasts 2 hours.
• Tutoring sessions may be individual or in small groups and will be done on demand and in coordination between each teacher and the related students. There may also be open tutoring sessions for all interested students that may be proposed by the teaching staff; but these will require prior submission to the corresponding forum of the Virtual Campus (CV) those specific questions about concepts or exercises that must be addressed in order for the teachers to plan and carry out that tutoring properly.
• Note: 15 minutes of a class will be reserved, within the calendar established by the center/degree, for students to complete the surveys to assess both the performance of the teaching staff and the subject.

This course does not include single assessment.

a) Assessment activities

Student assessment includes the following activities:

1. Two individual partial test carried out face-to-face, in a controlled environment, and in written format. These tests assess the student's acquired knowledge and his/her skills solving problems.
2. Exercises resolution: a set of on-line exercises, with automatic grading process, must be delivered on previously scheduled dates. Individual activity.
3. The viewing of videos before attending the class, necessary to be able to follow the face-to-face sessions. Individual activity.
4. Activities in which students must demonstrate the skills acquired during the development of the practices. Team activity.

The mark of the course by continued assessment (CA) is obtained from:

1. (activity 1) the mark obtained in the 2 partial test (PT1 and PT2),
2. (activities 2 and 3) turn in exercises and video viewing (Pb),
3. (activity 4) the mark of the grading activities of practices (LT)

following this formula: CA = PT · 0,5 + Pb · 0,2 + LT · 0,3

where: PT = (PT1+PT2)/2

To pass the course by continuous assessment (CA) the following conditions must be met:

1. CA ≥ 5,
2. PT1 and PT2 must be ≥ 4, and CA must be ≥ 5; and
3. LT must be ≥ 5

b) Assessment activities: scheduling

Dates of the assessment tests and the submission of exercises are published in the Virtual Campus (VC) and may be subject to changes due to unforeseen eventualities. Any modification will be reported through this platform.

It is important to bear in mind that no assessment activitieswill bepermitted for any student at a different date or time to that established, unlessfor justified causes duly advised before the activity and with the lecturer’s previous consent.

c) Retake process

The evaluation activity 1 corresponding to the theory can be retaken in the final test.

1. If the grade obtained in one of the PP1 or PP2 tests is < 4, this grade must be passed by taking a retake exam for the corresponding test. In order to apply the formula (which takes into account the partial tests, the exercises and the practice activities), the grade obtained in this retake exam must be ≥ 5
2. If the grade obtained in both partial test is < 4, the student must take a new exam that will include the entire subject. The grade obtained will be the new PP grade, which must be ≥ 5 in order to apply the formula (which takes into account partial tests, exercises and practices).

Activities 2 and 3 (turning in exercises and video viewing) corresponding to 20% of the final grade cannot be retaken. Activity 4 cannnot be retaken either.

If after retaking these new tests PT < 5 or LT < 5, the final grade of the course will be the lowest value between CA and 4.5.

A student who has passed a partial exam or even passed through continuous assessment can take the retake exam. The final grade will be the one obtained in this retake, whether better or worse than the previous one.

d) Grades review

The review procedure will be informed once the grades have been published and it usually consists of establishing a deadline for students to request the revision and, depending on the requests received, the student will be informed about the specific date and deadline for the review. If the student does not follow the procedure established in the review or does not attend the review, this activity will not be reviewed later.

The review of any test may deal to an improvement and a worsening of the corresponding grade, depending on the revised interpretation of the test.

e)Special grades

• A "non-assessable" grade cannot be assigned to students who have participated in any of the individual partial tests or practices.
• In order to reach the qualification “with Honours”, the final grade must be ≥ 9.0. Since the number of students with this distinction cannot exceed 5% of the number of students enrolled in the course, this distinction will be awarded to whoever has the highest final grade.

f) Irregularities committed by the student, copy and plagiarism

Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the current academic regulations, assessment activities will receive a zero grade whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded using this procedure will not be re-assessable. If it is necessary to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject, the grading as zero for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess it in the same academic year.

Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others:

• the total or partial copying of a test, practical exercise, report, or any other evaluation activity;
• allowing others to copy;
• presenting group work that has not been done entirely by the members of the group;
• unauthorized use of AI (eg Copilot, ChatGPT or equivalent) to solve exercises, practices and/or any other evaluable activity
• presenting any materials prepared by a third party as one’s own work, even if these materials are translations or adaptations, including work that is not original or exclusively from the student;
• having communication devices such as mobile phones, smart watches, etc., accessible during theoretical-practical in-class assessment tests (individual exams).
• talk to peers during individual theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams);
• copy or attempt to copy from other students during theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams); - use or attempt to use writings related to the subject during the performance of the theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly allowed.

Restricted use of AI: For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency in the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.

In future editions of this subject, students who have committed irregularities in a grading activity will not have any of the evaluation activities already carried out set as validated.

In short: copying, allowing copying or plagiarizing (or the attempt to) in any of the grading activities is equivalent to a FAIL, not compensable and with no validations of any of the parts of the subject in subsequent years.

g) Assessment of students who enrolled the subject in previous academic years but did not successfully passed the subject

In the evaluation process described, there will be no differentiated treatment for students who enrolled the subject in previous academic years and did not successfully passed the subject.