Assignment Submission

Assignment 1, 2 & 3 must be submitted initially via Turnitin and then in hardcopy to your tutor in your workshop/tutorial the week it is due (internal students only). Your Turnitin summary must be attached as a coversheet and task must not be placed in plastic sleeves or folders. Please ensure you staple your document together prior to submission and your name is on all tasks submitted. 

When preparing your assignments, it is essential that:

• Students regularly save a copy of all assignments before submission,
• Unless there are exceptional circumstances, 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.

Please follow these guidelines when you submit each assignment:

• Assessment 1: must be submitted using 12 point font (Arial) with a 1.5 spacing
• Assessment 2: lesson plan template to be used can be found on iLearn. Font can be a minimum of 10 point with single line spacing.  
  • Justification statement  must be submitted using 12 point font (Arial) with a 1.5 spacing
• Assessment 3: Letters and statements must be submitted using 12 point font (Arial) with a 1.5 spacing
  • Risk Assessment design: font can be a minimum of 10 point with single line spacing.  
• All assessments must be formatted to an A4 page
• Allow a left and right-hand margin of at least 1cm in all assignments.
• Your assignment will be marked based on what is received – any omissions will not be accepted after your submission.
• All assessments must be submitted through Turnitin in .doc or .pdf format.
• It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that all assessments are successfully submitted.
• Faculty assignment cover sheets are NOT required.

Draft Submissions & Turnitin Originality Reports

• Students may use Turnitin’s Originality Report as a learning tool to improve their academic writing if this option is made available in the unit.
• 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.

  Final Submissions

• Students are responsible for checking that their submission has been successful and has been submitted by the due date and time.
• Do not contact staff asking them to check your submission.
• Late submissions due to last minute technical difficulties may incur a lateness penalty.

Assignment extensions and late penalties

Applications for extensions must be made via AskMQ at https://ask.mq.edu.au as a "Special Consideration" 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 Special Considerations 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 or their delegates 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.

Special Consideration

The Special Consideration provision is to support students who have been impacted by circumstances that are unexpected, unavoidable, significantly disruptive and beyond the student’s control, and which may affect their performance in assessment.

The University classifies a circumstance as serious and unavoidable if it:

• could not have reasonably been anticipated, avoided or guarded against by the student; and
• was beyond the student's control; and
• caused substantial disruption to the student's capacity for effective study and/or completion of required work; and
• occurred during an event critical study period and was at least three (3) consecutive days duration, and/or
• prevented completion of an assessment task scheduled for a specific date (e.g. final examination, in class test/quiz, in class presentation).

The following link takes you to the Special Considerations policy, which makes clear the ways in which you can apply for special consideration in times of difficulty.

https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration

Academic Honesty

The nature of scholarly endeavour, dependent as it is on the work of others, binds all members of the University community to abide by the principles of academic honesty.

Plagiarism is a matter of particular importance. Plagiarism is defined as using the work or ideas of another person and presenting this as your own without clear acknowledgement of the source of the work or ideas. This includes, but is not limited to, any of the following acts:

• copying out part(s) of any document or audio-visual material or computer code or website content without indicating their origins;
• using or extracting another person's concepts, experimental results, or conclusions;
• summarising another person's work;
• submitting substantially the same final version of any material as another student in an assignment where there was collaborative preparatory work;
• use of others (paid or otherwise) to conceive, research or write material submitted for assessment; and
• submitting the same or substantially the same piece of work for two different tasks (self-plagiarism).

The University’s Academic Honesty Policy can be found on the Policy Central website: http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html

Turnitin is used to assist students with appropriate referencing and paraphrasing, and to detect plagiarism. The system also serves as a digital repository if anything should happen to your hard copy submission or personal backup. Please ensure you have stated your Turnitin receipt number on your coversheet. A link to Turnitin is embedded in iLearn.

Appeals against grades

University regulations allow for students to appeal a unit grade if they feel they have been disadvantaged.

Grading appeals can be lodged on the following grounds:

• a clerical error occurred in the determination of a final grade
• the Unit Guide was not in accordance with the Unit Guide Policy
• due regard was not paid to an illness or misadventure that had been found to be eligible for special consideration
• the student had been disadvantaged in some way due to the conduct of an assessment task
• the student had been disadvantaged by variation of the assessment requirements or feedback provisions laid out in the Unit Guide
• the assessor’s judgement was not objectively applied.

If you have evidence that your task has been incorrectly assessed against the grade descriptors you can request a remark.  To request a re-mark, you need to contact the unit convenor within 7 days of the date of return of the assignment and provide a detailed assessment your script against the task criteria. Evidence from your assignment must be provided to support your judgements.

Please note: The outcome of a remark may be a higher/lower or unchanged grade. Grades are standards referenced and effort is NOT a criterion.

Further information regarding the relevant policy and procedures can be found on the University's Policy Central website: http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html

Withdrawing from this UG Unit If you are considering withdrawing from this unit, please seek academic advice by writing to https://ask.mq.edu.au before doing so as this unit may be a co-requisite or prerequisite for units in the following semesters and may impact on your progression through the degree.

This subject requires students to be physically active. For PE workshops, students are required to wear sunscreen and athletic attire (i.e. polo shirt, athletic shorts/pants, and athletic footwear) for practical lessons and swimwear and towels for practical lessons conducted in the pool. Students who do not present at the beginning of workshops appropriately attired will not be eligible to participate and will be marked as absent for the respective workshop. Failure to attend all of the practical workshops may result in a Fail grade being awarded.

Pregnancy, Injury and Practical Sessions

PDHPE is a physically demanding unit of study. ECHE330 tutorials will require you to run, jump, throw and catch balls, participate in activities that may require physical contact with another person and you will be expected to stand for extended periods of time. Your fitness to undertake it must be considered.  If you are pregnant, please be realistic and responsible in relation to both your health and the health of your developing child. If you are pregnant, a medical certificate stating that you are able to undertake physical activity will need to be provided prior to the commencement of practical sessions.

Students unable to participate for medical reasons must present to the Unit Coordinator with a Macquarie University sanctioned medical exemption prior to the commencement of the tutorial. Refer to www.ask.mq.edu.au for more details.

Electronic Communication

Students enrolled in ECHE330 will need regular access to a computer and the Internet. There are a number of university computers in C5C (Rooms 211, 213 and 217) as well as in C5A204 and 210 that can be accessed at specified times.

The iLearn web page for this unit can be found at iLearn.mq.edu.au

The ECHE330 iLearn facility provides students with access to:

• Lecture PowerPoint presentations
• A soft copy of the ECHE330 Unit Outline, assignment cover sheets and marking criteria
• Selected policy documents

Please do NOT contact the Unit Convener regarding iLearn technical support.  Instead, contact the Macquarie University Library Student IT Help Desk (Phone: 9850 4357; Email: support@mq.edu.au)

Change to Assessment 2 to include Pedestal as part of assessment requirements.