Semester 2, 2008

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Important information about assignment submissions to cssubmit

GENG2140 assignments consist of two components:

the hardcopy/report/analysis part, which you should submit to an appropriate assignment box provided by your School. If you are a Mechanical Engineering student, then all of your assignments for the unit should be submitted to the Mechanical Engineering GENG2140 assignment box. Similarly, if you are an Electrical and Electronic Engineering student or a Mechanical Engineering student, then you should submit your assignments to the EE or Mech. Engineering GENG2140 assignment box. If you are not sure where the GENG2140 assignment box for your School is located, then please ask your School Secretary or the GENG2140 Unit Coordinator of your School.
the softcopy part. This part contains the programming part of the assignment, i.e., the Matlab code, which you should submit to cssubmit. In the past, many students submitted only the hardcopy/report/analysis part of their assignments and forgot to submit their Matlab code. The result is that they got zero mark for the programming part of their assignments. To avoid this happening to you, please pay attention to the following submission steps:
1. Ensure that your submission was done successfully and correctly.
  - First, check that you have logged on to cssubmit (can be via csentry, csmarks, or csforum).
  - Next, ensure that you click the correct link for your submission. For instance, if you intend to submit GENG2140 Assignment 2, then you shouldn't click the link for GENG2140 Assignment 1.
  - After that, the new page should display information about your previous submission (if any). Click the Submit files link to upload your files.
  - Ensure that you enter the correct files for uploading. If, for instance, you were asked to submit two files named goldensection.m and trapezoidal.m, then do not submit goldensection.asv and trapezoidal.asv. Please note that Matlab creates these .asv files as backup copies of your Matlab .m files. While these .asv files would also run under Matlab, they are unlikely the correct working version that you want us to assess. Please ensure that you name your Matlab files correctly (as specified in the assignment sheet). Please note that both file names and Matlab functions are case-sensitive.
  - After you have checked the appropriate box(es) in the DECLARATION section, proceed with your submission by clicking the button Make declaration and submit file(s). You would then see an acknowledgement page stating the date/time of your submission and the file names and sizes that you have submitted. On the top of the acknowledgement page, it should say, for example, Successfully submitted 2 files (108 bytes). Ensure that you see this page before logging out. Otherwise, it means that you have not submitted your files correctly. You should inspect the bottom of that page to make sure that the files that you have submitted are not 0 bytes in size.
  - You should print out this acknowledgement page. This is the evident of your submission. You will need to show us this acknowledgement page if you want to claim that you have submitted your assignment.
2. Always submit your assignments a couple of days before the deadline.
  By doing so, you would have sufficient time to logon to cssubmit again (before the deadline) to double check that your previous submission was done successfully.
3. Submit your assignments incrementally. You can use cssubmit as a backup system of your assignments. Suppose that you have a nearly-working version of an assignment 3 days before the deadline. You can submit it to cssubmit. When you have the fully-working version ready before the deadline, you can simply upload the same file onto cssubmit. There is no need to delete your previous submission as cssubmit will automatically replace the old submitted files of the same names by the new ones.
4. Take into account penalty on late submissions.
  If you have already submitted, say, an 80% working version of an assignment before the deadline, then you probably shouldn't resubmit your assignment 5 days after the deadline, even if you think that the new version of your assignment is 100% correct. Please note that late submissions incur a certain percentage of marks to be deducted from your submitted work. If you resubmit another version of your assignment too many days after the deadline, then the penalty on late submissions is probably too much to be worthwhile. You might be better off leaving the previous version untouched on cssubmit.

If you forgot to submit either the hardcopy of softcopy part of your assignment, then you would simply get zero mark for that part of your assignment. Below are claims from some past years' students:
"I did submit my assignment to cssubmit but somehow my files just disappear...",
"I have a good record in my past assignment submissions so it is not possible that I didn't submit or forgot to submit my assignment this time..."
"I have printed my code and submitted together with my hardcopy/report/analysis part of my assignment, so my Matlab code should be assessed based on the hardcopy of my submission..."
"I am sure that I did submit my assignment. I have friends witnessing me doing the submission..."

None of the above excuses is acceptable.

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