| Cyber Security | IRMJanuary to March 2021. (Instructor – DM*) Module introduces the concepts of information risk management. | 10 students – two teams of three students and two teams of two students | A 6-week module with three assessment points. The first two assessments produce outputs from a team project (Weeks 3 and 6) and have a combined worth of 70% of the final module score. The third assessment is a reflection component, based on evaluating a key event during the module and submitted in Week 6 (worth 30% of the final module score). |
| Cyber Security | SSD March to April 2021 (Instructor – DM) Module deals with the design of code in a secure manner, accommodating aspects such as encryption of data at rest and confidentiality of data in transit | Same group of students from the preceding module (IRM) – 10 students, three teams comprising four, four, and two students, respectively. Team A was the same as in IRM and was one of the excellent groups. Team B had some excellent characteristics but was more mixed due to limited numbers. (It is worth noting that the creation of the team of two was down to the resistance of one student to participating in a team project.) | A 6-week module with three assessment points. The first two assessments produce outputs from a team project (Weeks 3 and 6) and have a combined worth of 70% of the final module score. The third assessment is a reflection component, based on evaluating a key event during the module and submitted in Week 6 (worth 30% of the final module score). |
| Computer Science (first instance) | SSDCS May to July 2021 (Instructor – CP*) | 13 students, three teams of three students and one team of four students | A 12-week module with three assessment points. The first two assessments produce outputs from a team project (Weeks 6 and 11) and have a combined worth of 60% of the final module score. The third assessment is an e-portfolio submission, capturing individual contributions to the project and reflections, submitted in Week 12 (worth 40% of the final module score). |
| Computer Science (second instance) | SSDCS August to October 2021 (Instructor – CP) | 12 students, four teams of three students | As described above |
| Computer Science and Cyber Security | NISM May to July 2021 (Instructor – DM)Module accommodates network security and introduces students to the basics of network penetration tools | NISM was the first module we ran concurrently for both Computer Science (14 students) and Cyber Security (22 students) programmes. There were eight teams in total – all had at least four members, and some had more due to the distribution of students across the cohorts. | A 12-week module with three assessment points. The first two assessments produce outputs from a team project (Weeks 6 and 11) and have a combined worth of 60% of the final module score. The third assessment is an e-portfolio submission, capturing individual contributions to the project and reflections, submitted in Week 12 (worth 40% of the final module score). |
