Presentation and Opposition Instructions for ICT Innovation Students except HCID track

After you have sufficiently advanced in your thesis project and can estimate the time of completing your work, it is advisable to send your examiner an e-mail and ask about availability for checking the report and scheduling the presentation. Please observe that July is a traditional holiday month in Sweden and many professors will be away. It is a good idea to clarify the examiner’s availability well in advance.

Please observe that there are no predefined date or a deadline for presenting your work and everything is arranged on the individual basis.

 

Preparing your presentation-ready version of the thesis

  • Complete your report to the “presentation ready version”. It means that the report contains all the required parts, the experimental work is completed and the results are described. Send it to your supervisor, receive the comments from the supervisor and incorporate them into your report.
  • When your supervisor has approved your report, submit it to your examiner for approval for presentation. Submit it in Canvas, but you should also send an e-mail to notify your examiner. Attaching report to this e-mail is also advisable. Allow some time for the examiner to read your report and give comments. An examiner can decide that the report is not ready for the presentation and ask for revisions. Plan ahead for this option.
  • At the time of submitting the report to the examiner, fill in your self-evaluation form using the template that can be found here, send it to your supervisor who will add comments and send to the examiner.
  • Upload your thesis  as the corresponding assignment in Canvas.
  • When the examiner has approved the report for the presentation, you should agree on the presentation time and can start the presentation booking process.

Scheduling Presentation

  • Together with your examiner and supervisor (your supervisor's presence is recommended but not mandatory) you should decide on a date and time for the presentation, and create a zoom link to the online presentation. It should be at least 8 days ahead of the presentation time.
  • Immediately make a post in Canvas discussion section that you are looking for an opponent. In the post include the thesis title, date and time of the presentation and some keywords about the thesis. When you decide on who is going to be your opponent,  fill in the following Presentation form   with complete details. It should be done 6 days ahead of the presentation. If you cannot find an opponent, please contact the course coordinator asking to help with assigning the opponent at least 7 days before planned presentation.  
  • The opponent will contact you, supervisor and examiner to confirm.
  • Presentations are given online only.
  • The presentation seminar is advertised by the course coordinator.

To be assigned as the opponent of another student's presentation, please follow these instructions

  • Regularly check the discussions in Canvas and react promptly if you want to serve as an opponent. You can serve as an opponent of a student with different course code. Agree with the presenter and notify also the supervisor and examiner.  If you struggle with finding an opposition opportunity for a long time, please contact course  coordinator.
  • Detailed instructions for the opposition can be found  here (Links to an external site.).

Active listening

The currently scheduled presentations are announce in the course calendar. You do not need to register for the presentations, you can simply attend the zoom meeting.
Please prepare so that you can participate actively in the discussion, i.e., ask at least one question. You should notify the session chair that you are for the active listening, so s/he can mark it in Canvas. 

The purpose of attending other presentations
is that you get an opportunity to reflect on what creates a good presentation, so make sure to do this well ahead
of your own presentation.

If you have any questions please e-mail elenatro@kth.se