Late Penalty

Late submission of an assignment will attract a penalty of 5% of the maximum mark for every day that the assignment is late (including weekend days). For example, if the assignment is worth 40 marks and your assignment is submitted 2 days late, a penalty of 2x5%x40 = 4 marks will be applied and subtracted from the awarded mark for the assignment. Work submitted more than 14 days after the submission deadline will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0. Please note that it is the student’s responsibility to notify the University of a disruption to their studies and that requests for extensions for assignments must be made via the University’s Ask MQ System (as outlined in the Disruption to Studies Policy). 

Delivery

• Lectures are held weekly, starting in Week 1 on Wednesdays 8-10 AM in the Macquarie Lecture Theatre (W2.4A).  Lecture recordings are available via Echo360 in iLearn.
• Tutorials are held weekly, starting in Week 1. Please check eStudent for the location of your tutorial. 

Textbook

Purves D. et al. (Eds.) (2012) NEUROSCIENCE, Fifth edition. MA, USA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.

iLearn

You will need access to the internet to access the unit's iLearn page. Through iLearn you will be able to access the lecture recordings (Echo360), additional readings, and feedback and marks for the assessment tasks. You are also required to submit two of the assessment tasks (commentary paper 1 and commentary paper 2) via iLearn, using the Turnitin submission tool. Please allow time to familiarise yourself with how to access iLearn and how to submit a Turnitin assignment. ​

Weekly online quizzes

This unit has weekly online quizzes designed to keep you on track during the fast paced semester (10 quizzes in total). Quizzes will graded on a Credit (C)/No Credit (NC) basis. To receive a Credit (C) grade on a quiz, you must correctly answer at least 50% of the multiple choice questions. If you correctly answer less than 50% of the questions, you will receive a No Credit (NC) for that quiz. No make-up quizzes will be permitted (with the exception of officially approved Disruption to Studies requests). However, your 2 lowest quizzes will be dropped at the end of the semester.

As indicated above, quizzes must be completed online each week prior to the tutorials and lecture. Each quiz will be open for the entire week prior to that week's lecture (from 11:59PM Sunday night to 11:59PM the following Sunday). Only quizzes completed during this time window will be recorded. You may take each quiz multiple times during this window. However, only the first submitted attempt for each quiz will be counted.

To access the online quizzes, you will need to set up your account here. First, enter your instructor's email address: mark.williams@mq.edu.au. Then, follow the step-by-step instructions to set up your account. IMPORTANT: You must set up your account using your official student email address. If you use a personal email address, your quiz scores cannot be recorded and you will receive no credit. Also, please write down/remember the password you set up for this account. If you happen to forget your account password, you can recover it here. Once your account is set up, you can access the online quizzes by logging in here.

Recommended resource on academic honesty

The learning skills team at Macquarie University has designed an Academic Integrity Module for you to enrol in to help you learn about:

• What "academic integrity" is and why it's important
• Acceptable and unacceptable academic behaviours at university
• What 'plagiarism' is and key strategies to avoid it
• Your responsibilities in relation to academic integrity and your rights under the Macquarie University Academic Honesty Policy.

Questions about the unit

Your tutor can answer most of the questions that you may have about the unit, including questions about the unit in general and specific questions about the tutorials. If you experience difficulty in this unit, you should approach you tutor first. You can get in touch with your tutor before or after your tutorial, via email, or via the dialogue tool on iLearn. Contact details for tutors can be found at the top of this unit guide. Please note that your tutor is your first point of contact for any of these questions. The unit convenor is to be contacted only when absolutely necessary, and is to be contacted during the specified contact hours or via email only.

Questions about uploading assignments via iLearn

You are required to submit your Lab Reports via iLearn, using the Turnitin submission tool. Please use the following step-to-step guide on how to submit a Turnitin assignment. 

Requests for extensions, medical leave and/or disruption to studies

Please note that it is the student’s responsibility to notify the University of a disruption to their studies. All requests for extensions, medical leave and/or disruption to studies should be made prior to the due date for the assignment, are to be made directly via the University’s online Ask MQ system (as outlined in the Disruption to Studies Policy). 

Requests for tutorial changes

Changes to tutorials need to be done online via eStudent only. After week 2, no further changes will be entertained unless supporting documentation about the reason for changing is provided and there is space in the tutorial you wish to enrol in. Please note that changes to tutorials cannot be made by the unit convenor or tutor.