Special Consideration:

If you experience serious and unavoidable difficulties when assessment tasks are due, you can consider applying for Special Consideration. Please read the information available here and, if you are eligible, apply via ask.mq.edu.au.

Late 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 written reports and recordings only. Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs will be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. For more information please see: https://teche.mq.edu.au/2022/07/standardised-late-submission-rules-come-into-force-for-s2-2022-onwards/

Grades:

In line with the Macquarie University Assessment Policy, grades align with the descriptors available here. 

Important Academic Dates:

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates

Please refere to MQ timetables https://timetables.mq.edu.au/2024  for further details on face to face and online class times and locations.

Readings will be available on Leganto. Please see ilearn https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/ for further details 

Unit Delivery:

• Seminars start in week two.
• In this unit, seminars will be live in-person and streamed via echo and available as recordings through echo on ilearn. For external students, an online class may be delivered as a hybrid class with the in person seminar if numbers are small. Semiars are 1.5 hours and it is strongly recommended that students attend on time and for the duration of the semiar, in order to engage with unit concepts fully, discuss upcoming assessments, workshop their writing and share questions. This is also a respect to your fellow students, so there are less interruptions in the class.
• Participation rolls will be marked by the convenor. This unit requires engagement with key course concepts and is not suitable for self-directed study. Please engage actively in your semiars, as students who do engage and workshop their creative projects with their teacher and peers, regularly perform well in this unit, as well as reporting greater satisfaction with their experience!
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• ilearn: Students can find all relevant materials and communications from convenors such as lecture notes, echo recordings, announcements, discussion forums and Q & A's for assessments on ilearn. Please engage and familiarise yourself with ilearn, as students who do engage regularly perform better in this unit!
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• Study and Wellbeing support. For students requiring any study or wellbeing support, for instance if you are unsure how to reference and use Harvard in text referencing and bibliography etc, or require support with grammar or English expression, or if you are struggling with your physical or mental health during semester, we suggest you take up some of the studywise and student support options that MQU offers. Please see the listings below in Student Support and Student Services segments of this unit guide.

Unit Resources:

• Readings: In this unit, students are required to complete the weekly readings. The first assessment also requires reflections on content contained in both the weekly readings and seminar discussions. The readings will be available via Leganto links in ilearn.
• Assessments: In this unit, students will be required to create a final storytelling project. If the story project involves media such as sound, visuals or design, students will be required to use their own equipment (including phones, computers) or equipment that can be borrowed from the library (such as laptops). Students also have access to the adobe design suite via the MQ Okta Apps.
• If you have any questions, please contact Catherine via email.

Please note that seminars in this subject begin in Week 2. However there will be an introductory lecture as well as a schedule of weekly topics, readings, assessments and rubrics, tutorial  activities, lectures slides as well as echo recordings will be available in the ilearn page.

Please familiarise yourself with the ilearn page for this Unit https://ilearn.mq.edu.au