These assessment tasks are summarised below. Please note that these are subject to change so please refer to iLearn for latest details including: the task, marking rubrics and due dates.

This course will involve a number of group activities and public speaking. Please use the first few weeks of these activities as an indicator of whether you are progressing satisfactorily in the unit. If you are having difficulties, please see the Unit Convenor and consider withdrawing before the census date on Friday of week four.

Group participation in activities are an essential part of the learning process. The Lecturer has the discretion to adjust the mark allocated, where the lecturer determines the participation of a group member is not equal. Non-participation means a mark of zero for some or all assessment tasks. In determining participation the Lecturer will consider factors including: peer review and attendance at seminars.

Assessment criteria for all assessment tasks will be provided on the unit iLearn site. 

Late assessment submission

• Tasks 10% or less – No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for disruptions to studies is made and approved.
• Tasks above 10% - No extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission – 20% penalty). This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for disruption of studies is made and approved. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted. 

A number of tasks require you to complete tasks on iLearn and through Turnitin. Please make sure you allow time in case you have technical problems. Late submission or non completion of tasks due to technical problems are not an acceptable excuse.

If your submission is successful you should receive a conformation certificate. It is a good idea to take a screenshot of this. Also just to make sure that the technology has worked you can refresh the screen and be able to open your submission.

After completing an online quiz, you must click "submit" before exiting the online quiz to ensure that the answers are processed and marked by iLearn. Otherwise, you will not receive any marks. In the past, some students have claimed to have submitted quizzes but that the system has lost them, most likely confused different quizzes. If you think you lost a quiz the IT staff will look into it, but if they cannot find  anything in the system we cannot give you any marks. You are encouraged to take a screen shot of your submitted quiz if you don’t have faith in iLearn.

It is the responsibility of students to view their marks for each within session assessment on iLearn within 20 working days of posting. If there are any discrepancies, students must contact the unit convenor immediately. Failure to do so will mean that queries received after the release of final results regarding assessment marks (not including the final exam mark) will not be addressed.

Learning and teaching strategy

This Unit has a number of seminars that are held on campus. These seminars are typically two hours in duration though some are three hours. Group participation in activities are an essential part of the learning process. Attendance at the seminars is compulsory and participation is assessed. Peer review will be an aspect of this assessment. You are required to get involved in seminar discussion and debate.

You will be assigned to groups of around four students during week one and a group leader will be selected. You are required to be an active member of your group. Where group members feel a group member is not making a sufficient contribution, they must contact that student directly via MQ email outlining the group’s concern. Reply must be via MQ email. These emails are to be included as evidence if somebody is not contributing to the group’s work and this will be taken into account when I consider what action to take. Other factors that will be taken into account include the situation where:

• a student has been contacted by members of their group and that student fails to respond despite repeated attempts
• a student frequently does not attend class. Attendance give groups the opportunity to discuss their case

If a student is having problems which prevent their contributing to their group they should discuss this at the earliest opportunity with their group and if this is not possible discuss it with me. The UC reserves the right to award a zero mark if a student is deemed to not be making a sufficient contribution.

Where there is a seminar there is also often an online study which usually takes around one hour to complete. Each week's online material on iLearn will show what tasks are to be completed before the seminar and which are to be completed after the seminar. You must complete assigned tasks before coming to class so that you can participate in group discussions.

The Unit has a few weeks that are delivered online and the elapsed time for these weeks is around three hours. You must complete these activities and the associated quizzes during the scheduled week.

The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials​

There are no prescribed texts for this unit however materials will be provided under each of the week headings in iLearn.

Unit Web Page 

You are required to access a computer and the internet at various times in completing this unit, to download course material available on the learning management system (iLearn) and to complete assessment tasks.

Additional resources

These will be provided on iLearn.

Please note that these are subject to change so please refer to iLearn for the latest details including: the task, marking rubrics and due dates.