Assignment Submission

For all assessments, you are expected to bring a completed first draft of the relevant part of the assignment to your tutorial, usually one week before the final submission is due. The draft will be peer-reviewed and edited in the tutorial, following which you will have time to re-write the assignment and produce a final copy for submission and marking.

Peer review will take place in groups, so you MUST bring a printed copy of your draft for each member of your group. Please note that it is not sufficient to bring an electronic copy of your draft, nor is it appropriate to bring an incomplete version. Peer review is a requirement of ACSC100. If you do not bring a draft copy of your assignment to the appropriate tutorial, your mark for that assignment may be reduced by 10%. If you are unable to attend a tutorial in which peer-review is carried out, you MUST submit a formal request for Special Consideration through the ask.mq.edu.au web portal.  Supporting documentation (e.g. a medical certificate) must be provided.

All assignments (including PDF versions of the oral presentation PowerPoint slides) need to be submitted to Turnitin using the links available on the ACSC100 iLearn website.

Late Assignment Submission

Any request for an extension must be provided with associated documentation via a special consideration request on ask.mq.edu.au before the assignment deadline.

Unless you have been granted an extension based on documented evidence of significant disruption to your studies, the following late penalties apply:

• Late submissions without an extension will receive a penalty of 3% of the total mark available for the assessment task per day including weekend days (i.e. this is 3% of the total marks possible for the task – NOT 3% of the marks the student received. For example, if the assessment task is worth 100 marks and the student is two days late their mark for the task is reduced by 6 marks.)
• Late submission of an assessment task without an extension will not be accepted at all after the date on which marked assessment tasks have been released to the rest of the class. Any student with unsubmitted work at this date will receive a mark of 0 for the assessment task.
• Extensions will only be given in special circumstances, and can be requested by completing the Special Consideration request at ask.mq.edu.au and providing the requisite supporting documentation.
• Extensions that will result in submissions after the assessment task has been returned to the class will require a separate assessment task to be completed at the unit convenor's discretion.
• For more information on Special Consideration, see the university website https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration\
• If a student fails the unit due to non-submission of an assignment or non-attendance at an exam, an FA grade will be applied in accordance with the University's Assessment Policy.
• Unit convenors have the discretion to determine whether or not students should fail a unit on the basis of lateness penalties alone if other learning outcomes of the unit have been met.

Please keep a copy of your assessments in case of misadventure to ensure that you are able to produce proof of your work.

Presentation of Assignments

Add a footer to each page of the assignment, with page numbering, student name and student number, and the unit code in the footer, for example:

Matt Smith              40112333                    ACSC100

All assignments should be word-processed, using a 12 point font with 1.5 to 2x line spacing. Turnitin will mark the assignment with submission time and date.

Please keep a copy of all assignments in case of misadventure.

Please note that tutorials begin in Week 1.

Attendance

ACSC100 incorporates lectures that are pre-recorded and posted the the ACSC100 iLearn on a weekly basis, and a weekly face-to-face, 2 hour tutorial. Students are expected to attend all tutorials, as failure to do so is likely to impact on assignment marks. In particular, students must attend all draft submission tutorials, which will involve peer review of draft assignments, and student group oral presentations dates.

Expectations

Students are expected to submit all assignments. They are also expected carry out extensive reading and to bring draft copies of assignments to tutorials for evaluation, editing and feedback. Failure to bring a draft copy of each assignment to the relevant tutorial for peer review may result in a 10% reduction in the final mark for the assignment.

Text book

ACSC100 has a set text book: Brick, J, Herke, M & Wong, D  2016, Academic Culture: A student's guide to studying at university, 3rd edn, Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan.

Please visit the ACSC100 iLearn for the full lecture schedule.