General guidelines for assessment tasks

• Details of submissions dates etc for all assessment tasks are available on the iLearn site under the ‘Assessments’ tab.

• All tasks are individual submissions. You may form a study group but you must submit your own original work via the Turnitin link which will check for both plagiarism and similarity with other students’ work. 

• All assignments submitted to Turnitin are considered to comply with the University’s academic integrity requirements.

• Use appropriate referencing for any external material, such as market commentary, analytical methods or data that you use. For guidelines for referencing go to http://libguides.mq.edu.au/Referencing. The preferred method in business papers is Harvard. Note that a web link (on its own) is not a sufficient reference. The author, date and title are always essential.

Avoid using extensive quotes from source documents (even if referenced); try to put ideas in your own words as much as possible. Do not use footnotes for your references. Turnitin states no submission should have greater than one third quotes (or paraphrasing) as a guide to what “extensive” is. Use in-text citation with a reference list at the end of your assignment (Harvard method);

Late submissions of assessments  

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, no extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available assessment-task marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24-hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. Late submissions will only be accepted up to 96 hours after the due date and time.

No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g., quizzes, online tests.

Table 1: Penalty calculation based on submission time

Special Consideration  

To request an extension on the due date/time for a timed or non-timed assessment task, you must submit a Special Consideration application. An application for Special Consideration does not guarantee approval.

The approved extension date for a student becomes the new due date for that student. The late submission penalties above then apply as of the new due date.

• You may post any questions on the relevant Forum section of iLearn.
• A marking rubric is provided for each assessment task.
• A copy of each submission must be retained by the student.
• You must follow the submission guidelines, including in document type. For example, if a Word submission is requested, then submit in Word. Do not submit photos of submissions.

All times listed refer to the time in Sydney (Australia) on the date specified.

Learning and Teaching Activities Strategy:

Programs in the Applied Finance Centre adopt a deep teaching and learning strategy. Students acquire and retain knowledge and can make sense of the issues and concepts and apply them in the “real world”. The program relies heavily on student engagement and participation by: (a) Continuous learning throughout the term. This is encouraged through a combination of students undertaking prescribed reading throughout the units and/or completion of practice problems, online activities, case studies, assignments, class discussions, etc and interaction via forums; and (b) Assessments, which enable the student to demonstrate his/her understanding of the learning objectives achieved through the continuous learning. There are no large-scale or formal lectures.

Student Participation:

This is a blended unit where students need to complete assigned activities before live Zoom sessions and weekend sessions. Students participate in this unit by: (a) Actively engaging with the videos and required readings of this unit; (b) Working systematically through and completing online activities; (c) Interacting in forums and face-to-face/ online sessions, and (d) Completing all assessment tasks.