Assessment brief
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Module code & title
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SOEE2650: GIS for Geoscientists
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Assignment title
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Locating a wind farm
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Assignment type
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Computer exercise
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Learning outcomes assessed
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We are assessing:
· That you can add data to GIS successfully: preparing and projecting it to appear on one map.
· That you can carry out basic analysis tasks, e.g. generating viewsheds.
· That you can apply techniques from the workbook to new tasks and data.
· That you can use GIS layout tools to present your data on a map layout in a professional manner.
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Assignment length/Time limit guidance
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Your submission should be contained on a single A3 page.
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Use of GenAI in this assessment
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AMBER: AI tools can be used in an assistive role You are permitted to use AI tools for specific defined processes within the assessment. See below for further details.
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Weighting
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40% of the final module mark.
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Deadline or date of assessment
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14:00, Thursday 13th March 2025
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Submission method
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Work should be submitted to the submission point in Minerva as a PDF document.
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Feedback provision
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Usually, you will receive your feedback before your next assessment for the module is due. Where it is appropriate to do so, and feedback can be released without invalidating the integrity of ongoing assessments, this will typically be no later than 15 working days post submission.
Feedback will be provided via Minerva – find it by logging back into the submission point once you have been told it is available.
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Module manager
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Clare Gordon
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Assignment summary guidance
The UK is highly populous and siting wind farms can be a challenge. This exercise produces a series of maps with possible supporting data. The exercise is highly simplified and only considers topography and mean windspeed.
You will submit a layout containing a series of six maps. The first three will show average windspeed across the whole UK. The second three will show viewshed maps of an area centred on Boston Spa in Yorkshire.
More detailed information will be provided as a presentation during one of the lectures for this module and uploaded to the Assessment and Feedback folder in Minerva.
Recommendations for data to use will be given in the Assessment and Feedback folder in Minerva.
Use of GenAI
Under this category, AI tools can be used in this assessment in an assistive role for the specifically defined processes:
· acting as a support tutor to aid in the research of a topic.
· providing assistance in the use of specific tools within QGIS and aiding with troubleshooting.
In this assessment, AI tools cannot be used to:
· produce the entirety of, or sections of, a piece of work that you submit for assessment beyond that which is outlined above.
The use of Gen AI must be acknowledged in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section of any piece of academic work where it has been used as a functional tool to assist in the process of creating academic work. If it is suspected that you have used a Gen AI tool to produce part of your work, but you have not acknowledged this use, this could be investigated under the Academic Misconduct procedure.
The minimum requirement to include in acknowledgement:
· Name and version of the generative AI system used eg ChatGPT-4.0
· Publisher (company that made the AI system) eg OpenAI
· URL of the AI system
· Brief description (single sentence) of context in which the tool was used.
For example: “I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT-3.5 (Open AI, https://chat.openai.com/) to summarise my initial notes and to proofread my final draft.”
For further information on Gen AI and University policy on its use in assignments, see the guidance document for taught students: https://generative-ai.leeds.ac.uk/uol-genai-guidance-for-taught-students/
General guidance
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Assessment criteria and process
The approximate weighting of marks for this assessment will be as follows:
· Importing of data = 25%
· Processing of data = 30%
· Understanding and description of data = 20%
· Presentation = 25%
The assessment processes for the School of Earth and Environment can be found in the Code of Practice on Assessment (CoPA) at this link. Any criteria specific to this assessment that differ from those presented in the CoPA are detailed below and will always overrule the information published in the CoPA.
The detailed assessment criteria for this assessment are provided in Minerva under Assessment and Feedback.
This assignment does not assess your written English although feedback will be given.
Resits: Resits will be a very similar format but applied to a different geographic location.
Presentation/Formatting and referencing
Please submit your work as a PDF document basing your presentation on the principles of cartography discussed in the lectures for this module.
You must appropriately cite all supporting evidence using the Leeds Harvard referencing style. - https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1402/referencing/50/leeds-harvard-introduction