Author: Cyrus Wong (黃俊彥) — Google Developer Expert - Cloud (AI), Senior Lecturer at HKIIT

1. The Capstone Supervision Bottleneck: ChatGPT Logbooks, Free-Riders & Multi-Device Consultation Friction

Supervising 15 final-year engineering capstone project groups (60+ students) across a 16-week semester is one of the most rewarding yet administratively exhausting responsibilities in higher education. In our Software Engineering and Cloud Computing Higher Diploma programmes, three recurring pain points threatened both pedagogical quality and assessment fairness:

The "ChatGPT Logbook" Epidemic ( suspected_ai_fake ) & 1-Word Filler ( vague_useless ) : Students are required to submit weekly progress logbooks via Google Forms before their consultation meeting.…