General Assessment Information

1. On Line Quizzes.  Each quiz must be completed between 6am Tuesday and 9am Wednesday of the relevant week. There is a set time limit for each quiz and you can only access the quiz ONCE on the specified date. If you miss a quiz you will be awarded zero for that task.

It is important to complete the Practice Quiz early in the session to check your internet browser and to familiarise yourself with the quiz format.

2. Research Report.  You must complete the 1-hour academic integrity training module before commencing your assignment. It is available through the iLearn site.  Your assignment is submitted through Turnitin as a Word document.  Your consent form should be uploaded  as a PDF to a separate assignment dropbox.

3.  Final examination. There is significant preparation given for the final examination in the last few tutorials.

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 https://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, see:

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

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 Considerations

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

Requesting a remark of an assignment

If you have evidence that your task has been incorrectly assessed against the grade descriptors you can request a re-mark.  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 of your script against the task criteria. Evidence from your assignment must be provided to support your judgements.

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

There are two hours of lectures and a weekly tutorial. Attendance is expected and tutorial rolls will be taken. 

There is an iLearn site  that you are expected to check regularly.  All announcements will be made through iLearn.  Lectures will be recorded through echo360 and available  on the iLearn site shortly after the live lecture.

There are two short online quizzes (see above) as part of the assessment regime so it is important that you check your browser to ensure you have no difficulty in access - there is a practice quiz to help you with this.