Graduate Project and Class Presentation

Graduate students will be required to prepare a graduate project. Your project is to be completed individually. 

The project should be an demonstration of an advanced topic relative to one of the operating systems studied during the semester. You are to install and configure some advanced component and prepare a presentation of your project to the entire class.
Your class presentation should describe the project goals, the steps used to install and configure the selected topic, and what problems were encountered during the installation and setup. You will install and configure the component on a virtual machine. You should prepare a report on the project as well as PowerPoint Slides to be used in the presentation to the class.

The first page of the report should be a cover sheet with the following information: paper topic, name of student, course number and title.

Please review the University Plagerism Policy.  I will strictly adhere to this policy when grading your papers/graduate projects.

Each presentation and report submitted will be evaluated by both the instructor and the class on the basis of organization, grammar and spelling, completeness, and logic. Poorly organized papers, or those with several spelling, typographical, or grammatical errors will receive failing grades, regardless of content.

Grading forms will be submitted by each class member on the presentation and will be used to create some exam questions.

You should:

1. Organize your Presentation and paper carefully.
2. Present your ideas clearly and logically.
3. Present your slides in correct grammatical form. The slides and paper should be free of typographical, spelling, and grammatical errors.
4. If you attach charts, graphs, or printouts to your paper, or if you include tables and charts in your paper, refer to the charts in the narrative. Explain the main points in each chart or table in the narrative.
5. Consider your fellow students. Your presentation should be understandable by those for whom it is prepared.
6. Make certain that you reference your sources properly, including quoted or paraphrased material. If you need to, read the University's plagiarism policy in the catalog. I will apply the policy to your work.
7. I will apply the SIUE School of Business fatal error policy in grading the reports. This policy is:

FATAL ERROR POLICY. Everyone must practice minimal writing standards for documents to be acceptable and readable. These standards address spelling, punctuation, format, and basic grammar. Many writing errors can be avoided by using a spellchecker and grammar analysis software. These packages will identify errors such that steps may be taken to alleviate the errors. If you are not sure how to correct the noted errors, you should seek advice from the Campus Writing Lab. Fatal errors are defined as: misspelled words; sentence fragments or run-on sentences; lack of capitalization especially at the beginning of a sentence; serious errors in punctuation that inhibits understanding; subject and verb disagreement or verb tense errors; lack of conformity with assignment format; improper or lack of citation on content given; and other serious grammatical errors. According to business school policy, papers with more than three fatal errors marked on any one page are unacceptable and will be returned to the student without a grade. If a paper is returned because of fatal errors, you must correct and return the paper to the instructor within business two days. The first set of fatal errors will result in an automatic 10 percent grade reduction. A second round of fatal errors will result in an additional 20 percent reduction. If an assignment is returned due to a third set of fatal errors, a grade of "F" will be automatically assigned.