Late Assessment Submission Penalty 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day one of the two written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7^th day (including weekends). After the 7^th day, a grade of '0' will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern. 

The weekly tasks should be completed before the following workshop. If they are submitted after the workshop, they will receive at most a passing grade.

For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.  

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted 

• Assignment 1 – YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 
• Assignment 2 – YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 
• Weekly problem – YES, Late submissions will receive at most a passing grade.
• Workshop participation - NO, unless Special Consideration is granted 

Hurdle Assessment

• Assignment 1 (10%): The assignment has 3 components: A report, a prepared presentation and a viva. The first two components are goup exercises. The last is a an individual assessment. The viva for assignment 1 is a hurdle tasks, to ensure engagement of all student in the group project. Student need at least a passing mark for this assigment to clear the hurdle.
• Weekly Problem (20%): To meet the hurdle requirement students must complete at least 8 of 12 weekly problems before the weekly deadline and participate in the workshop of that week.

  Students who fail the hurdle requirement - by missing deadlines, or absence from workshops - are required to complete at least 8 of 12 weekly problems at a satisfactory level, followed by a viva on the content of the weekly problems at the end of the session.

Requirements to pass the unit

To pass this unit you must:

• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%, and
• Pass the hurdle requirement for the weekly tasks.
• Participate in the viva for Assignment 1. 

Special Considerations

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment. 

Written Assessments: If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the written assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through ask.mq.edu.au.

Weekly Tasks: To pass the unit you need to complete at least 8 of 12 weekly problems before the weekly deadline and participate in the workshop of that week.  If you miss a weekly practical class due to a serious, unavoidable and significant disruption, contact th eteaching staff of your registered class ASAP and catch up with your team.

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment. Note that a Special Consideration should only be applied for if you miss more than three of the weekly practical classes.

Week 1 classes

In week 1 here wil be a lecture. Workshops start in week 2.

Textbook

This unit will be aligned with content from Software Engineering (Tenth Edition) by Ian Sommerville, Pearson, 2015, and Software Engineering:  A practitioner's approach (Nineth Edition) by Roger S. Pressman and Bruce Maxim, McGraw Hill, 2020.

Lectures and related weekly practical questions

Lectures are used to motivate engagement with and reinforcement of the unit's subject matter. Lectures will of course include a significant amount of learning material, but even more importantly they include contextual material and learning activities that "make meaning" of the subject matter.

Workshops (Starting in week 2)

Workshops are smaller group classes which give you the opportunity to interact with your peers and with a teacher who has sound knowledge of the subject. Workshops will require working in small groups and sometimes involve reporting back to the class. The classes will focus on reinforcing understanding of the concepts and their practical applications to problems. It is important that you participate in the activities and make some notes from them to assist you with revision of the material. Contribution to the weekly workshop and completion of the weekly task is a hurdle requirement, to ensure continued engagement throughout the unit.

Assignments

Assignments will play a key role in providing evaluation so that students and the teachers can gauge levels of understanding. Assignments will be related to the lecture material, workshop activities and weekly practical material and require students to bring together what they have been learning, and to think creatively and rigorously.  The assignments are group assignment combined with individual reflection and individual vivas. The viva for assignment 1 is a hurdle tasks, to ensure engagement of all student in the group project.

Exam

A written exam (held within the university examination period) is designed to test your understanding of the course content and your application of the concepts to a number of scenarios or problem statements.

Methods of Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email and through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to the unit convenor via the contact email on iLearn.

COVID Information

For the latest information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please refer to the Coronavirus infection page on the Macquarie website: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/coronavirus-faqs. Remember to check this page regularly in case the information and requirements change during semester. If there are any changes to this unit in relation to COVID, these will be communicated via iLearn.

We value student feedback to be able to continually improve the way we offer our units. As such we encourage students to provide constructive feedback via student surveys, to the teaching staff directly, or via the FSE Student Experience & Feedback link in the iLearn page.

In response to feedback by students, and the advent of generative AI the assignments and weekly taks have be changed. The assignments are group assignment with an individual component, instead of fully individual assignments. Written reports will be accompanied by presentations and vivas.