Delivery of Learning Activities

Lectures: All lectures will be delivered online, starting in Week 1. The officially scheduled lecture time is Monday 9:00 - 11:00 AM. Depending on the lecturer, lectures will either be pre-recorded and uploaded through Echo360 prior to the officially scheduled lecture time or the lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom/Echo360 during the officially scheduled time. All lectures, regardless of initial delivery mode, will be recorded and made available for asynchronous viewing through Echo360.  

• Zoom meeting link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/98885581990?pwd=VlhCcDhOVlhWTU12eWkrd0JPbS8xdz09
• Zoom meeting password: 225308

Tutorials: To maximise flexibility for COGS1005 students, tutorials will be delivered in both on-campus and online delivery modes. Tutorials are scheduled for Weeks 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, and 12. All on-campus tutorials will take place in the Faculty PC Lab (12SW 421). Due to social distancing requirements, you will have to attend the on-campus tutorial you enrolled in through eStudent. You will not be able to attend another on-campus tutorial class instead. If you have enrolled in an online tutorial, consult iLearn for further details.  

Practicals: The practicals are an essential part of COGS1005 and cannot be delivered online. All students are therefore require to come on campus to participate in these practicals. On-campus practicals are scheduled for Weeks 4, 6, and 10. These sessions will last 2 hours. Due to social distancing requirements, you must attend the practical you enrolled in through eStudent. You will not be able to attend another practical class instead. In case you are unable to attend a practical class in person due to unavoidable reasons (immunocompromised, illness, etc.), you should apply for Special Consideration through AskMQ. If you have questions about applying for special consideration, please contact the FMHHS Student Centre. Reasonable adjustments will be made for students with approved special consideration. 

Textbook

Purves D. et al. (Eds.) (2017) NEUROSCIENCE, 6th edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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. Please allow time to familiarise yourself with how to access iLearn. ​Further information and helpful guides for using iLearn can be found here. 

Weekly online quizzes

This unit has weekly online quizzes designed to keep you on track during the fast-paced semester. Quizzes will be graded either as full credit or no credit; no partial credit will be given. To receive full credit 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 no credit for that quiz. No make-up quizzes will be permitted (with the exception of officially approved Special Consideration 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 officially scheduled lecture time (Monday 9:00 - 11:00 AM). Each quiz will be open until 12:00 midnight Sunday night, the night before the officially scheduled lecture time. Only quizzes completed before this deadline will be counted. These quizzes are open book, and you may take each quiz multiple times before the deadline, but only the first submitted attempt for each quiz will be counted. You will receive feedback as to your correct and incorrect answers at the completion of each quiz.  There are no quizzes during the week of the Mid-term Exam (Week 7), the mid-semester break, and the final week of the semester (Week 13).

The quizzes are delivered through iLearn, so you need to have access to a reliable computer with connection to the Internet. Technical difficulties will not be accepted as a reason for special consideration.

To access the online quizzes:

1. Navigate to the appropriate week in iLearn (e.g., Week 2) and click on that week’s quiz (e.g., Week 2 Quiz).
2. Read the information provided about what Chapters or page numbers that quiz will cover (it’s open book!), and note the date and time the quiz will close.
3. Click “Attempt quiz now” to begin. After answering each multiple-choice question, click “Save and review”.
4. Next, ensure you have answered each question (i.e., “Answer saved”). If you have not answered a question (i.e., “Not yet answered”), click “Return to attempt”.
5. Once you are satisfied that you have answered every question, click “Submit all and finish”. This will submit your quiz for scoring and log your grade.
6.  Finally, you can carefully review your feedback to note which questions you did and did not answer correctly. The correct answer for each question will be given.
7.  Click “Finish review” to exit. Remember, you can attempt the quiz again by selecting “Re-attempt quiz”, but only your first attempt will count towards your grade.