SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Please follow these guidelines when you submit each assignment:

• Allow a left and right-hand margin of at least 2cm in all assignments.

• Please type all assignments using 12-point font and 1.5 line spacing.

• All assessments must be submitted through Turnitin on the unit’s iLearn website in .doc or .pdf format for submission.

• It is the onus of the student to ensure that all assessments are successfully submitted through Turnitin.

• Faculty assignment cover sheets and reiterating the task are NOT required.

Draft Submissions & Turnitin Originality Reports

• Students may use Turnitin’s Originality Report as a learning tool to improve their academic writing.

• Students are strongly encouraged to upload a draft copy of each assessment to Turnitin at least one week prior to the due date to obtain an Originality Report.

• The Originality Report provides students with a similarity index that may indicate if plagiarism has occurred. Students will be able to make amendments to their drafts prior to their final submission on the due date.

• Generally, one Originality Report is generated every 24 hours up to the due date.

When preparing your assignments, it is essential that:

• Students should regularly save a copy of all assignments before submission.

• Unless there are exceptional circumstances, or an approved extension (see section below), no assessment will be accepted after the date that the assessment has been returned to other students.

• If an assessment is considered to be below passing standard, another staff member on the unit will provide a second opinion. No failed assessment may be re-submitted.

Final Submissions

• Students are responsible for checking that their submission has been successful, and has been submitted by the due date and time.

• Late submissions due to last minute technical difficulties may incur a lateness penalty.
• The digital receipt issued by Turnitin may be requested as evidence of your submission of the assignment.

EXTENSION REQUESTS AND LATE PENALTIES

Applications for extensions must be made via AskMQ at https://ask.mq.edu.au/ as a "Disruption to Studies" request before the submission date. Students who experience a disruption to their studies through ill-health or misadventure are able to apply for this request. Extensions can only be granted if they meet the Disruption to Studies policy and are submitted via ask.mq.edu.au. This will ensure consistency in the consideration of such requests is maintained.

In general, there should be no need for extensions except through illness or misadventure that would be categorised as unavoidable disruption according to the University definition of same, and currently available at:

https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration/disruption-to-studies

Late submissions without extension will receive a penalty of 5% reduction of the total possible mark for each day late (including weekends and public holidays). You are reminded that submitting even just 1 day late could be the difference between passing and failing a unit. Late penalties are applied by Unit Convenors after tasks are assessed.

No assessable work will be accepted after the return/release of marked work on the same topic. If a student is still permitted to submit on the basis of unavoidable disruption, an alternative topic may be set. 

Students should keep an electronic file of all assessments. Claims regarding "lost" assessments cannot be made if the file cannot be produced. It is also advisable to keep an electronic file of all drafts and the final submission on a USB untouched/unopened after submission. This can be used to demonstrate easily that the assessment has not been amended after the submission date.

FEEDBACK ON ASSIGNMENTS, REASSESSMENTS AND RE-SUBMISSIONS

Written feedback is given to students via rubrics when assignments are returned through Turnitin. If you wish to have these comments explained please contact the marker in the first instance. Students can seek to have work remarked only if they consider there has been a procedural error: a disagreement with academic judgement is not sufficient grounds for a remark. This is similar to the grounds for appealing a grade.

If you wish to have your work reassessed please advise the Unit Convenors, in writing, outlining your reasons for requesting the reassessment within seven days of the result being released. The Convenor will then access the version submitted to Turnitin.

Re-submission of assignments is not available. Students are advised to clarify requirements for assignments in tutorials, during on-campus days or with the Unit Convenors.

UNIT REQUIREMENTS

Expectations in order to pass the unit

• Students are expected to read weekly readings before completing tasks and attending tutorials.
• Students are expected to listen/attend weekly lectures before completing tasks and attending tutorials.
• All assessment tasks must be submitted. In order to receive a passing grade in this unit, you need to meet the following criteria:
  • Receive an adequate total mark for the unit (i.e. your combined marks for all assessment tasks);
  • Have made a serious attempt at passing all pieces of work in order to pass the unit; and 
  • In order to receive a grade of Pass, your total mark must be at least 50/100.

Note: It is not the responsibility of the unit convenor or teaching staff to contact students who have failed to submit assignments.  If you have any missing items of assessment, it is your responsibility to make contact with the unit convenor.

Attendance requirements

All classes for this unit begin in week 1. This includes lectures, and internal tutorials.

Activities completed during weekly tutorials (internal) or on campus days (external) are essential for building the core knowledge and/or skills required to demonstrate the learning outcomes of this unit and to meet the AITSL Graduate Teacher Standards and/or the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) requirements.

Attendance at all tutorials or on campus days is expected and the roll will be taken. Students are required to attend the tutorial in which they are enrolled. Any changes to tutorial enrolments must be completed officially through e-student. Please do not contact the unit convenors requesting a change.

There are two different lectures provided each week that you need to attend or listen -

• Lecture 1 is first given at 12.00 pm am Tuesday in the X5BT1 Theatre and repeated at 3:00 pm on Tuesday in the X5BT1 Theatre.
• Lecture 2 is first given 11.00 am Thursday in the X5BT1 Theatre and repeated at 3.00 pm on Thursday in X5BT1 Theatre.

Tutorials are conducted on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and internal students are expected to attend.

On Campus Days for External Students

External students are expected to attend, for the full day, the 2 on-campus sessions:

• Saturday, 19^th  August; and
• Friday, 29^th September.

Electronic communication

During semester time, communication between staff and students will be through the following ways:

• Dialogue function on iLearn
• Other iLearn communication functions, such as Announcements and Forums
• Official MQ Student Email Address

It is the student’s responsibility to check all electronic communication on a regular weekly basis. 

Technology required

Use of information and computer technology for the production of assignments, research and communication is a requirement of this unit.

Effective use of information technologies is essential for all students and teachers. To ensure that all EDUC106 students begin to develop or extend these skills students must have regular access to a computer and the Internet. This unit has an iLearn webpage and uses Turnitin.  You will need access to a computer and the internet.  There are a number of computers in the Computer Labs (C5C Rooms 211, 213 and 217). Most local libraries are also now linked to the Internet.

Please DO NOT contact the Unit Co-convenors or other teaching staff regarding iLearn technical issues.  Please contact Student IT Help Desk (Ph: 9850 4357) or email IT support.

Required Text

Tait, G. (2016). Making Sense of Mass Education, 2^nd edn. Port Melbourne, Vic.: Cambridge University Press

Readings available electronically

The readings listed in the unit outline and on iLearn are available electronically from the Macquarie University library collection of electronic journals and can be accessed via the catalogue, journal finder or databases links.

Changes from the 2016 version

A number of changes have been made for the 2017 version of this unit.  The weighting of assessments was changed to reflect the breath of the topics addressed and effort required, including the following enhancements:

• The task formerly called Academic Critical Review has been replaced with a Reflective Response as an early low risk assessment;
• The individual component of the group task has been increased to constitute 50% of the mark for this assessment;
• The final exam paper of forty multiple choice questions has been replaced with eight short answer questions; and
• Assessment rubrics and marking descriptors have been revised to reflect the new assessment structure.