The Teaching Office offers a central ‘post-box’ service for students to hand in coursework and collect it after marking, for E and I group modules. The default hand-in time in Engineering is by 4pm on the date of the deadline – please adhere to this timing (any other arrangement must be explicitly stated in the coursework instructions).

Deadlines for Part IIA coursework submission must fall within full term (either 15 term days inclusive after the work is set, or Friday of week 1 at the start of the following term if fewer than 15 term days remain).  Part IIB deadlines may fall out of term, but in this case provision must be made for students to submit their work electronically by the deadline, with hard copy to follow at the start of the following term. Please avoid setting deadlines on the Monday immediately before the start of term, as students are not obliged to be in Cambridge until the Tuesday.

For Part IIB, students complete coversheets using their Coursework Candidate Number rather than their name, with the mapping to student names being retained by the Teaching Office. Coversheets can be downloaded from the web, and hard copy is available outside the Teaching Office. Module leaders who make their own arrangements for taking in IIB coursework (e.g. electronic submission via Moodle) must follow the standard processes as follows.  All work should be date-stamped to enable late submission penalties to be applied consistently. Colleges should be notified via CamCORS of any student submitting coursework more than one week late (i.e. a zero-hours-taught report, as no payment is involved). The penalty for late submission of coursework is 20% of the maximum achievable marks per week or part week late.  Module leaders may not give discretionary extensions to deadlines.  Students who miss a deadline due to illness or other grave cause may apply for an extension and removal of penalties using the Coursework Allowances procedure.

Individual feedback comments on coursework should always be provided. Students value this, and it is particularly important in IIB where they receive limited feedback on other activities to help them to monitor their progress. The coversheet makes it easy for markers to provide helpful feedback. Markers may also submit comments on CamCORS (again with zero hours taught), or write comments on the report itself, giving as much detail as possible.  Note that in Part IIB, marks are not disclosed to students; the work is graded A* to D with an A grade corresponding to 'meets all standard expectations'.

Coursework should be returned according to the following schedules:

IIA: within 15 term-time days (inclusive) of the hand-in deadline

IIB: (i) for work submitted before the end of week 5, return by end of Full Term;

       (ii) for work submitted in weeks 6-10, return by end of week 2 in the following term;

       (iii) for work submitted at the start of the following term, return by end of week 4 (Lent), or week 3 (Easter).

NB. staff are asked to let students know if they fall behind with marking in order to manage students' expectations.

Third year coursework marks should be entered via COMET.  Fourth year marks should be sent to the relevant Chairman of Examiners (as indicated on the marksheet that will be circulated to you by the Teaching Office).

See: coursework feedback sheets