For those who don’t know me I am a back to school mom and I’m taking up a Constructing Architect or Architectural Technology course in one of the Business College in Copenhagen i. It is 3 1/2 or 7 semester education. Our Subjects are Architecture/Design, Structural Design, Construction material and processes, Communication, Business, Management, Production (Construction) and Business Law.
It is a group work based education meaning it’s a project based exam. Our assignment for example this semester is Refurbishment of a 5 Storeys Building project and a Infill or a Urban Renewal. We will form a group of 4 and establish a company where we prepare all kinds of documents and drawing just like in real life and our exam is to present our 4 months work Form Strategic Planning to Production and present it in 20-25 minutes giving each member 5 minutes to talk about each part. Then the question and answer after they will decide what grade they will give the individual. The grade depends on your group work and how you present it.

Was taken during my exam on the 3rd semester. That is the old way of presentation using boards.

Now we are using audio visual which I kind of like it because less stress and paperless (environmentally friendly) just go to the examination room with a usb key or just log in to our common drive. But it’s also takes a lot of time and effort preparing the presentation slides starting from saving the documents an drawings into pdf file or take a screenshot and hyperlink it so when you zoom the document and discuss it further. The problem with the audio visual how you can present all your works into just 20 minutes presentation. And when you are not well verse in English oh la la.

Besides the project we also have to deal with assignments but usually its still group work and below is my attempt to make the Company portfolio of my group I just made a screen shot of all the projects from first semester to the present and I made it in Publisher well at least we got praised by the business teacher.This is only the cover inside is the company’s description and the partners CV/work portfolio.

Right now we are rushing to finish our project both the drawings and the documents and we only have 2 weeks before the finals and It’s not easy working with people who are not serious but somebody in the group should take responsibility failure of one means failure for everybody .That’s the disadvantage of group work.