The Agility Exercise, the Capstone Report, and Capstone Presentation are all connected to the project you work on as a team from Week 03 and onwards.

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You have to work on these as a team.

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The Agility Exercise and Capstone Presentation will be assessed solely based on your individual submission.

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The Capstone Report will be based 50% on a group component and 50% on an individual component.

Sometimes unavoidable circumstances occur that might prevent you from submitting an assignment on time and, in that case, you may be eligible to lodge a Special Consideration request.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, please note that no extensions to assignment deadlines will be granted.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty (written assessments) 

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 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. 

For any late submissions 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. 

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.

Learning and Teaching Activities - 3 hours weekly

You are expected to attend the 1-hour seminar on Mondays each week, as well as your weekly 2-hour seminar that is later in the week.

The 1-hour seminar appears as a "lecture" in e-Student - this will be an industry panel event with Q&A from the audience and networking. All students attend the same 1-hour seminar (face-to-face and online cohorts at separate times).

The 2-hour seminar is for a smaller group of 45-55 students. Here you will meet your team members weekly, and work on a project.

For the online streams - seminars will be conducted on Zoom.

For the in-person streams - seminars will be conducted face-to-face on campus.

You cannot mix and match seminar groups as you will be placed in teams according to your registered seminar.

Registering in a seminar in your timetable is your commitment to attend every week:

You will need to commit to your timetable for the entire session (semester). 80% of your grade will depend on work done during seminars in teams. Your timetabled seminar slot is where you will be actively learning during class with your lecturer and your peers.

This unit cannot be completed asynchronously given that we are assessing the learning outcomes of Teamwork, Employability, and Global Issues.

If you are unable to commit to your weekly timetable - you are strongly advised to un-enroll from this unit.

You will be placed in teams, where scaffolded team tasks will be worked through during each week's seminar. These scaffolded tasks ultimately work towards your Capstone Project which is a highly-weighted assessment component.

In other words, non-attendance at seminars will jeopardise both your individual component and the group component of the Capstone Project.

You may have 1 or 2 absences from seminars during the session, which is fine so long as you let your team know about it, and commit to catching up with the team as soon as possible within a reasonable amount of time, and constantly communicate with your team to keep up-to-date.

Communicating and keeping up with your team during class and at least twice during the week is an expectation of this unit.

Team members will keep a record of your attendance and participation during seminars, and rate your participation during seminars. This will directly impact your own marks - as Teamwork is part of the marking rubrics used in this unit.

Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Resources uploaded on iLearn.

Technology Used and Required

Students will need to use online tools for collaboration with their team members.

Unit Web Page

The web page for this unit can be found at: iLearn http://ilearn.mq.edu.au

Teaching and Learning Strategy

The unit is designed as a capstone unit. A capstone unit is designed to bring all your knowledge together to solve a problem.

There is no new content in the unit - rather a presentation of frameworks to consolidate all your content learned in your degree so far.

This is a final year unit of study that integrates the material and skills presented across the degree.

Students will be placed in mixed-major teams to solve real-world problems.

These real-world problems will revolve around the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Students will address how commerce and business can play their part in achieving these goals.

Students will construct an artefact that integrates all their learning, as well as demonstrate empathy & appreciation for other disciplines.

Students will write a reflective report about how their own major is an integral part of the puzzle in the diverse world of commerce.

Students will demonstrate agility by dealing with shocks that occur to the economy and responding to these effectively.

Students will demonstrate excellence by presenting their projects online, ready to be showcased to the job market

Please see iLearn.

Added a note:

Change from 2024: We will be introducing an 'Accelerate Your Career' week towards the end of the session. You will get the chance to meet several industry guests in a small round-table setting, to glean career acceleration insights from seasoned industry professionals.

Collaboration with all of the other 3 faculties:

Changes from 2024:

We will be continuing with our collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, where PACE media interns will produce media artefacts for the unit. In 2024, PACE media interns will also be available to support capstone project media artefacts as well.

We will be continuing with your collaboration with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, where students from the BCom and BSc cohorts get to work with each other. In 2024, we will continue this collaboration, with further enhancements and more extensive cross-consultation.

We will be collaborating with the Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Human Sciences, on a research project focused on Team Resilience. Students can opt to participate in this project. By choosing to participate, students will complete several online questionnaires throughout the semester and share some of their team data with the research team, which will be analysed. Participation will require minimal time and effort commitment from students as activities are mostly incorporated into the unit. Participating students will furthermore receive high-level insights and lessons from Organisational Psychology researchers who have an expertise in team dynamics, resilience, and systems thinking - to help students enhance their Employability Skills. This will be a great opportunity for you to extend your portfolio and update your LinkedIn profile. Participating students will also be in the running to win one of ten $100 vouchers.