Seminars

Important: For this course round, the seminars will take place online. Please read through Submission and Grading Process below carefully before attending your first seminar. See the schedule for zoom links.

Before each seminar session, the students may prepare and solve a set of seminar tasks. It is optional to solve these tasks, but a student must hand in solutions to these tasks to be able to participate in the seminar. During the seminar, the teaching assistant will lead the discussion about the exercises. The students will at the same time correct each other's solutions. Students may also be asked to come forward to explain solutions. The aim with the seminars is that students should prepare themselves carefully before the seminar and then to be actively involved in the discussions. If a student gets enough points for his/her solutions, he/she earns a bonus point on the fundamental part of the exam. Thus, participating in the seminars may increase your chances to pass the exam. But, more importantly, you will learn a lot, which will significantly help you in your studies!

There are in total four seminars. Thus, at most 4 bonus points can be earned for the exam. The bonus points will only be valid on the first exam occasion, and the two following retake exams. 

Note that the only way you can earn bonus points is to prepare the exercises, attend a seminar, and hand in your solutions. Note also that it is very important that you come to the seminar on time. If you are not there from the beginning, the assistants may refuse that you participate in the seminar. You are not allowed to attend the seminar if you have not handed in a solution.

All results of the seminars can be found in the menu item Grades, located in the left menu. Note that it can take a week before the results are reported by the teachers into the system. If a seminar is marked as "1" in the Score column, you have passed this seminar and received one bonus point.

Please look at the schedule for when the seminars take place. Note that this information is ONLY available in your personal schedule (KTH start menu). This information cannot be found if you use the central KTH schedule service.

Note: For each seminar, there are multiple sessions in the schedule (some may be running in parallel). You are only allowed to attend one session for each of the four seminars. You are free to choose which session to attend. Booking is not required.

Submission and Grading Process

  1. Submit your solutions to the seminar exercises. The deadline is at 16:59 the day before the first seminar session. Your solutions (and signature) must be handwritten in the exercise form, which can be downloaded below for each seminar. We suggest three approaches to fulfill this requirement:
    • The easiest approach is most likely to print the form, write your solutions on it, and take photographs of all the pages. If possible, we recommend using a scanning application on your smartphone (for instance, see these instructions) to compile all photographs into one PDF file which you then submit in Canvas (the submission links for each seminar can be found below.).
    • If you do not have a printer available at home and do not want to travel to one of our campuses, you can also write your solutions on plain paper, photograph the solution for each question, and paste them (digitally, for instance using LibreOffice Draw or another PDF editor) in the exercise PDF form.
    • Lastly, you can, if available, of course use a drawing tablet (or similar) to directly write in the exercise PDF form.
  2. Attend a seminar session of your choice (will be over Zoom). Note that some teaching assistants require you to log in into Zoom using the KTH account (follow the instructions here on how to do it). You will have been randomly assigned to grade another student's solutions in Canvas (using the "peer review" feature), which you will do throughout the seminar session. The seminar leader will provide the grading criteria for each question. Details on peer reviewing using Canvas can be found here Links to an external site.. The below video is also informative.



    Most importantly, you need to fill out the number of points collected for each question in the Canvas form (known as a "Rubric" in Canvas) attached to the assignment. We also encourage you to leave constructive comments, but this is not strictly required. Failing to complete the grading process in Canvas may result in you failing the seminar!
    NOTE: You are responsible for double-checking that you submitted the peer review. Moreover, do not save the rubric until it is completely filled in. It can, for some reason, not be edited after saving it. We have contacted IT-support about this, and this is apparently how it is supposed to work. If you accidentally saved the rubric when it was partially filled in, it is still possible to write comments on the submission; please use this instead to complete the peer review if this happens to you.

  3. Wait for the teaching assistants to complete the final grading in Canvas. This may take a couple of days. Note that the number of points awarded to you by your reviewer is preliminary, and might be changed by the teaching assistant.

Seminar Tasks and Submission Pages

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Seminar Title

Seminar Tasks

Submission

Solutions
SEM1     

C and Assembly Programming

Seminar 1 Download Seminar 1

 Submission link Solution 1 Download Solution 1
SEM2 Processor Design

Seminar 2 Download Seminar 2

 Submission link Solution 2 Download Solution 2
SEM3

Memory Hierarchy

 Seminar 3 Download Seminar 3 Submission link Solution 3 Download Solution 3
SEM4

Parallel Processors and Programs     

 Seminar 4 Download Seminar 4 Submission link Solution 4 Download Solution 4