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

When your report is ready for presentation, fill out the self-evaluation.
When your supervisor has agreed that the report is ready to be presented, send an e-mail to your examiner for approval for presentation, and submit the form to join the queue to serve as opponent (see below) if you have not done so earlier.
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.
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