Since there are many students in the class and all the groups can not present in a day, we are going to do things a bit untraditionally. Please note the following for your paper presentations.
For each presentation, every group will upload two things to their teams channel:
- The presentation following the template. This presentation will make up the group’s presentation grade. Every presentation will be graded every week.
- The video of the one presenter presenting the presentation. This oral presentation will be graded each week. You may choose who presents each week, but every person in the class should plan to present twice once on video only and once in class.
These two items should be in the files in your team’s channel. There will be a folder for each week’s presentation. I will post the grades with the presentations.
All the groups will have to record their presentation before the class starts. You will have to use the meeting option in your team’s channel to record your meeting. Prof. Lowe-Power will grade every presentation each week.
The deadline of 3:00pm before each class is very strictly enforced. The timestamp should show a time no later than 3:00 pm. There is no late submission for your presentation. This means that you will lose all the points for that submission if you fail to submit your presentation before the deadline.
The presenter has to have their camera on during the presentation.
For every presentation sessions, only 5 of the teams will be chosen to be present during the class and there will be a Q/A session for each presentation.
Presentation template
You can find an example on the general channel in teams (link). This example is for a paper making the case against DRAM caches published by our research group.
The presentation should be no more than 10 minutes! If you go over, there will be points deducted.
The presentation should have XXX slides as described below. Note that some papers may require you to spend more or less time on certain slides.
You must have these 7 slides. You are encouraged to use figures from the paper (when appropriate). You are encouraged to be succinct, but complete. Do not use text size smaller than 24pt. If it does not fit on the slide at 24pt, it’s too much detail.
Slide 0: Title
Paper title and authors.
YOUR GROUP NUMBER and group members. Bold the presenter.
Slide 1: The problem
What is the problem the authors are addressing?
Slide 2: Prior state of the art
What was the prior state of the art solution to the problem before this paper?
Slide 3: Main insights
What is the authors’ main novel insight?
This could be the new mechanism they describe, a new discovery about a workload or a system, etc.
Hint: Most likely, you should spend the most time here.
Slide 4: Methodology
What is the methodology and experimental design the authors used to show improvement over the state of the art?
Hint: You should probably spend the least time on this slide.
Slide 5: Results
What are the results?
Hint: Spend less time here than you expect.
Slide 6: Take aways
What did you learn from the paper? Or, what knowledge can you take from this paper and apply to your research or to other parts of this class?
Grading rubric
Oral presentation
The oral presentation is broken down into 6 main components as follows. Each component is scored from 1-5 for a total out of 30 points. As a reminder, we will watch all videos and grade one presenter from each team each week.
- Nonverbal skills
- Eye Contact
- (5) Holds attention of entire audience with the use of direct eye contact, seldom looking at notes or slides.
- (4) Consistent use of direct eye contact with audience, but still returns to notes.
- (3) Displayed minimal eye contact with audience, while reading mostly from notes.
- (1) No eye contact with audience, as entire report is read from note.
- Body language
- (5) Movements seem fluid and help the audience visualize.
- (4) Made movements or gestures that enhance articulation.
- (3) Very little movement or descriptive gestures.
- (1) No movement or descriptive gestures
- Poise
- (5) Displays relaxed, self confident nature about self, with no mistakes.
- (4) Makes minor mistakes, but quickly recovers from them; displays little or no tension.
- (3) Displays mild tension; has trouble recovering from mistakes.
- (1) Tension and nervousness is obvious; has trouble recovering from mistakes.
- Eye Contact
- Verbal skills
- Enthusiasm
- (5) Demonstrates a strong, positive feeling about topic during entire presentation
- (4) Occasionally shows positive feelings about topic
- (3) Shows some negativity toward topic presented.
- (1) Shows absolutely no interest in topic presented.
- Speaking skills
- (5) Uses a clear voice and speaks at a good pace so audience members can hear presentation. Does not read off slides.
- (4) Presenter’s voice is clear. The pace is a little slow or fast at times. Most audience members can hear presentation.
- (3) Presenter’s voice is low. The pace is much too rapid/slow. Audience members have difficulty hearing presentation.
- (1) Presenter mumbles, talks very fast, and speaks too quietly for a majority of students to hear & understand.
- Enthusiasm
- Timing
- Length of presentation
- (5) Within 1 minute.
- (4) Within 2 minutes of allotted time.
- (3) Within 3 minutes of allotted time +/-
- (1) Too long or too short; 5 or more minutes above or below allotted time.
- Length of presentation
Presentation slides
Each slide (other than slide 0), will be graded from 1-5 on whether or not the group answers the question clearly and correctly. There will be an additional 10 points for following the template and making a clear/concise presentation design. The total for the presentation is out of 40 points each week.
Hints
- For figures, don’t use captions from the paper
- If including figure from the paper, be sure to copy at high resolution
- For references, use a footnote (don’t use IEEE style)
- Don’t use extremely bright or pale colors