More information on each of the assessment tasks can be found in Assessments section of the iLearn space for this unit.

You will also find - in the Assessments section of iLearn - more detailed information for each task, along with several Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guidance documents. Please refer to these documents (especially the FAQs) before emailing academic staff with questions about your assessments.

If you have questions that are not answered in the FAQs you can also post in the General Discussion Forum on iLearn in the 'Assessment Questions' forum thread. We will add your answers to an updated FAQ as appropriate.

More information on general support for your studies is listed in this unit guide, in the Policies and Procedures section. This includes general information on Study Skills, Wiritng Support, Student Services and Special Consideration.

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The main Active Participation activities for Online-Flexible students are the weekly Discussion Forum activities. Detailed weekly instructions are provided via iLearn.

The weekly Active Participation tasks have been aligned with the content of lectures and the learning outcomes of both the unit and the Criminology major. This ensures that content delivery works with your needs, better building the required key skills that you will use in each assessment. It is important that you:

1. complete all of the active participation tasks;
2. read the activity instructions before listening to the lecture
3. complete any weekly readings before listening to the lecture
4. complete any activity preparation before listening to the lecture
5. complete any activity preparation before attempting the Forum Activity (for online-flexible students).

This gives you the best chance of meeting the learning objectives of the unit as a whole. 

The main student information resources for this unit can be found in iLearn. Students should familiarise themselves with the iLearn site, particularly the Assessment section and FAQs.

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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 a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.    

This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic. 

Lectures in this unit follow the standard 2 hour format and are delivered weekly. These will be live-on campus (pending student attendance levels). Lectures are Live-streamed (when delivered live) and recordings of the lectures will be avaiable (where possible) within a few hours of the live recording.

Updates on delivery and resources during the session (e.g. on lectures, tutorials, assessments and all general study information) will be proved via the Announcements section in iLearn. Please make sure to check your MQ student email account for updates. NOTE - if you do not use your MQ student email as your primary email account you should make sure to check it regularly, or manually set up a redirect for MQ emails from there to your prefferred email account. This way you ensure you stay up-to-date with your studies and any announcements we make. 

See iLearn for the detailed unit schedule