General assessment information

Requirements to Pass this Unit

To pass this unit you must:

• Attempt all assessments, and
• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%,

Late Assessment Submission Penalty 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day a written report or presentation 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. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted

Assessment Review Article - Yes, Standard Late Penalty applies

Assessment annotated bibliography - Yes, Standard Late Penalty applies

Assessment oral presentation - No, unless Special Consideration is Granted.

Special Consideration

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

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.

• Assessment Criteria - Use of rubrics for written assessments.
• Submission of Assessments - Submission of Review article and annonated references should be made via Turnitin.
• Marking of Assessments - Marks and feedback will be provided invidually within two weeks of the submission deadline

 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

• the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment

• the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment

MOLS8001 Unit structural outline

MOLS8001 is a unit of independent study. Students will be required to complete a broad literature review on a particular topic, and submit a draft of a manuscript in a format compatible to a peer-reviewed journal. There is no set timetable of activities for this offering, however, progress meetings will be scheduled during the semester.

Sudents will also be required to complete:

• A 10-min oral presentation of the key content and relevance of their review article.
• 5000 words review article (excluding bibliography)
• Submit 20 peer references selected from the article Reference Section. The selected references should explain the relevance of the paper to the subject, in no more than 200 words for each. 

Workshop sessions will be held in weeks 2-5 in collaboration with the library. These sessions will be focussed on providing training to the students on how to effectively use the different databases and writing tools available to them from MQ  and also use of some software programs to obtain, create and use figures in order to facilitate their completion of their different assessments.

In all cases, the requirements for a 10 credit point unit specify that it should be equivalent to a minimum of 150 hours of work for a student in a semester. The unit will be marked and graded. Students will receive a grade based on marking against a rubric which will be available on the unit iLearn site.

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.

There are no strictly scheduled lectures associated with the unit. However focused workshop sessions will be held in weeks 2-5 in collaboration with the library with a face to face introduction scheduled in week 1. These sessions will be focussed on providing training to the students on how to effectively use the different databases and writing tools available to them from MQ and also use of some software programs to obtain, create and use figures in order to facilitate their completion of their different assessments.

These sessions will be scheduled based on the dicussion and availablity of majority of the cohort.  In addition to these workshop sessions, regular meetings will be scheduled to review the progress made by each student.

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.