All submission should be electronic. You will be required to submit the following:
- A PDF version of the dissertation by the 12 noon submission deadline
- Source code
- Supervisor's Report Form
Further details are given below.
A PDF version of the dissertation must be submitted electronically on Moodle by the 12 noon deadline
The penalty for late submission is extremely severe.
Electronic submission of source code
In addition, all students are required to submit their source code electronically on Moodle by 5pm on the same day.
For this, you should use the
The Student Administrator will let you know when the Moodle upload site is live. It requires a login using your Raven password, is very easy to use and should be self-explanatory, but you are strongly advised to try some test uploads in advance of the deadline; you can delete and replace any file that you upload any time before the deadline.
As mentioned in the Briefing Document, the required format for the dissertation is PDF. If you are using the MCS you may find useful the Computing Service hints on using the MCS for producing PDF files.
You should upload your source code by means of the above site, in the form of a zip or tar.gz file.
The deadline for uploading the source code package is 17:00 on the day of the deadline for submission of the dissertation PDF.
Note: Examiners can access the uploaded files on Moodle Part II Project upload page.
Supervisor's Report Form
Finally, a completed Supervisor's Report Form is needed from each student. Section A should be completed by the student, and Sections B and C by the Supervisor and Director of Studies. The absolute deadline for submission of the form is 16:00 on the Wednesday following the main deadline.
Frequently asked questions
- Why am I being asked to submit an electronic copy of my dissertation?
- This is mainly to help the Examiners who may need to read the dissertation from outside Cambridge.
- Why am I being asked to submit my source code?
- The Examiners may need to refer to it for clarification of statements made in the dissertation, or they may wish to study it in advance of a viva voce examination.
- Who will have access to my dissertation and source code?
- While your work is being marked, access is restricted to those with a need-to-know: the Examiners and directly involved support staff. Afterwards, you can request to have your files deleted. Any files that you do not request we delete may be archived by the department eventually and looked up by members of the deparment; in particular project supervisors might be interested in refering to them in future. You are also welcome to replace any of your uploaded files with a corrected archival version.
- Does the submitted source code have to include all the extra stuff used to build the programs (e.g., makefiles, support files) or just the source code itself?
- Examiners need to have access to source code you have created or substantially modified and this would tend to include makefiles created by hand, but not automatically generated files, or files available elsewhere. The same consideration applies to other supporting files that embody important functions, but not to files containing just data. Given that files are created in all sorts of ways, such as binary files created using a GUI, it is hard to be more precise. Certainly, it is not expected that you provide everything needed to replicate fully a working instance of the work.
- What if the code is covered by NDA?
- Uploading the source code is the default, but we recognise that a very few students may have difficulties with this because of an NDA. In this case, please provide your source code on a CD, which will be returned to you or destroyed after the examination.
- What if the PDF of my dissertation is too big for uploading?
- Excessive PDF file size is often the result of inappropriate handling of included images. Please check whether their resolution, compression levels and file formats are all reasonable for A4 laser printing.
