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This page will serve as a
noticeboard for students on the programme. It also contains links to
relevant documentation.
General Information
Academic calendar
The DIT academic year is divided into two semesters.
A semester consists of 15 weeks - 12 teaching weeks, 1 review week and
2 examination weeks. The
structure of the academic year is laid out in more detail at
DIT Academic calendar.
Class Timetable
The full class timetable for all stages of the
programme is available
here.
Registrations
The Registrations Office at DIT Kevin Street
handle all matters relating to registrations, fees, visas etc. Your lecturers have no jurisdiction or influence over this
process. A list of contact
information for the registrations office can be found
here.
Examinations
The Examinations Office at DIT Kevin Street handle
all matters relating to exam scheduling, exam registration and
communication of results. As with the registration process your
lecturers have no jurisdiction or influence over this either. This
office is run by Joan Cummins. A list of contact information for the
examinations office can be found
here.
Technical Support
When you register you are automatically issued with
a DIT e-mail account. This is the medium by which most personal
communication between you and your lecturers will take place. Your
addess is in the format of <student_number>@student.dit.ie which
should be aliased to <firstname.lastname>@student.dit.ie. Access is
provided via webmail. Your default login id is your student number and
your default password is your date of birth in DDMMYYYY format. You
should change your password to something known only to you. Further
help is available
here.
Some lecturers use the WebCT virtual learning
environment to manage their courses and distribute material.
Technical support issues relating to student email
and WebCT should be directed to
ICT Support.
To support your coursework access is provided to
various IT services in the School of Computing such as access to
computer labs and servers. Technical support issues relating to
locally provided services should be directed to the technicians in the
School of Computing. Contact details are at
http://www.comp.dit.ie/techsupport/.
Class Mailing List
Email communication with the class group is via a
mailing list which is automatically updated when students register.
The address for the groups are
- DT2491-list<AT symbol>student...
- DT2492-list<AT symbol>student...
- DT2493-list<AT symbol>student...
- DT2494-list<AT symbol>student...
These aren't "proper" adresses - they're
deliberately obscured to inhibit address harvesting by SPAMBOTS. It
should be obvious to a human, however.
Stage Mentors
Each stage of the programme has a stage mentor.
The mentors for the academic year 2009/2010 are:
Ciarán
O'Leary is the programme coordinator, so you should contact him
with all queries relating to admission, exemptions etc.
Noticeboard
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Please remember to
regularly check your DIT e-mail account.
Please read the
programme document and/or
rules summary.
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28th
September 2009 |
There
will be no labs this week. Labs will start next Monday, 5th October
2009. |
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22nd
September 2009 |
This
evening's induction
presentation is now available online. |
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16th
September 2009 |
The
presentations given this evening for the options and final year
projects, are available below:
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3rd
September 2009 |
Please
note that due to a new student policy at the Institute, fees can no
longer be recovered following withdrawal from any modules, under any
circumstances. However, if it is not your
intention to complete a module once you've commenced that module, you
must withdraw formally by informing me and the registrations office.
Failure to do so will result in your being recorded as a fail at the
examination board.
A meeting is being held for all final year students
on Wednesday, 16th September 2009 in K108 at 19:00. If you intend to
register for the Project module this year, you are strongly advised to
attend. We will also discuss the option modules available in semester
2 at stage 4.
Please note the advice given to potential project
students in the earlier meeting. There is a substantial workload
involved in completing the Project module, so you are advised to only
take it with the full set of final stage modules if you are confident
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19th June 2009 |
Registration for continuing students on DT249 will take place online
in September. In order for you to register online, you will need to
inform me of your module choices by completing the
ms249 form and sending it to me before
4th September 2009. The
earlier you send it to me the earlier you will be able to register.
Once you've submitted the form by e-mail I will confirm receipt -
thereafter all queries regarding registration should be directed to
the registrations office at kevin.registrations@dit.ie or on (01)
402 4687. If you do not wish to register
online you can make a payment via telephone using credit card, laser
card or mastercard or by sending a cheque, postal order or bank
draft to the registrations office. Please note that laser card
payments cannot exceed €1,500.
As always, you can elect to register and pay for
both semester 1 and 2 modules in September. If however you only wish
to register and pay for semester 1 modules at this stage, you should
only select semester 1 modules on your ms249 form. You can then
submit a second ms249 form in December / January updating your
module selections.
The fees for the coming year are €190 for 5 ECTS
modules, €390 for 10 ECTS modules and €580 for 15 ECTS modules plus
a capitation fee of €135.
All students sitting supplemental examinations in
August / September should receive contact from the
examinations office over the summer. If you have not, you should
contact them on (01) 402 4600.
Classes will begin in the week beginning 21st
September, as per the
academic calendar.
As always, the
timetable is
available online. Please note that this timetable remains
provisional and is subject to change before classes start. Slots
highlighted in grey are lab and tutorial sessions. Labs and
tutorials will NOT take place in the first week. Your lecturer
will inform you in your lectures about arrangements for labs. |
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