Autonomous types

Practical exercises: autonomous work under the responsibility of the students with mandatory partial submissions when requested by the teaching staff, following the indications of the academic calendar. These will not change regardless of whether the teaching is face-to-face or virtual.

Directed Types

Theory: lectures in the classroom, laboratory practices, and field practices. These will be adapted, if necessary, to any percentage of virtual teaching through various existing systems (Teams, narrated PowerPoints, videos, podcasts, etc.), as was done during the confinement period.

Supervised Types

Field trips: mandatory, including one half-day trip and one 3-4 day trip. The latter includes a preliminary task for the students consisting of a collective work (maximum 3 people per group) subject to evaluation, related to the place to be visited. During the field trip, each group will present its conclusions to the rest of the class and will complete an individual field notebook.

At the beginning of the course, the teaching staff will explain the protocol of measures and best practices for field trips. The Faculty's Field Trip Protocol will be applied during these trips.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

This subject/module does not incorporate single assessment.

Poster field trips. 3 day field trip work (collective poster and oral presentation)

Practice exams for each block, in total 3 exams (individual test)

Theory tests of each unit or group of units, in total 4 tests (individual test)

Comments

1. To be evaluated, all the practices must be delivered within the established deadlines.

2. In order to be entitled to the recovery exam, students must have obtained an average grade of the subject equal to or greater than 3,5. In this case, all the suspended parts must be recovered up to a maximum of 3 tests (practical) and 3 tests (theoretical) (who has suspended more than 3 partial tests will not have the right to submit to the recovery and will have a suspense of the subject). Otherwise (if an average 3,5 were not obtained), the subject will be considered suspended

3. In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject and cannot be evaluated.

4. Attendance at all field trips is essential to be evaluated, therefore non-attendance at any of them implies a non-evaluable.

5. Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 1/3 of the assessment items.

6. Any particular case will be considered by the teachers in order to ensure fair treatment and avoid harm to students.

In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.

The maximum deadline for providing feedback and communicating the grades of the assessment activities is three weeks.

On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.

Those assessment activities in which there have been irregularities are not recoverable.

Exchange students who request to take an exam earlier must provide the professor with a written document from their home university justifying their request.