As this is a capstone unit, all assessments are all connected, as you work together on these as a team. Most teamwork is done during class time. The distribution of marks across individual submissions and group submissions is explained under each assessment above.

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Late Submission Penalties

If you submit your assessment late, 5% of the total possible marks will be deducted for each day (including weekends), up to 7 days. Submissions more than 7 days late will receive a mark of 0.

Example 1 (out of 100):

If you score 85/100 but submit 20 hours late, you will lose 5 marks and receive 80/100.

Example 2 (out of 30):

If you score 27/30 but submit 20 hours late, you will lose 1.5 marks and receive 25.5/30.

Extensions

Automatic short extension: Some assessments are eligible for automatic short extension. You can only apply for an automatic short extension before the due date.

Special Consideration: If you need more time due to serious issues and for any assessments that are not eligible for Short Extension, you must apply for Special Consideration. Need help? Review the Special Consideration page for further details.

Learning and Teaching Activities - 3 hours weekly

You are expected to be up-to-date with the 1.5-hour lecture on Mondays each week, as well as your weekly 1.5-hour tutorial.

The 1.5-hour "lecture" in e-Student - this will be an industry panel event with Q&A from the audience and networking. You are expected to attend your registered 1.5-hour tutorial. The 1.5-hour tutorial is for a smaller group students. Here you will meet your team members weekly, and work on a project.

For the online streams - tutorials will be conducted on Zoom. For the in-person streams - tutorials will be conducted face-to-face on campus.

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

Special Event in the second half of the semester - 'Accelerate Your Career Like a Boss'. 

In the second half of the semester, one of the lectures will be run as a face-to-face round-robin networking event with a host of industry partners. Due to the nature of this event, the event will be run in-person on campus at a different venue on campus (not the usual lecture theatre). The exact date will be confirmed and announced via iLearn. Historically, this has been a an opportunity where students meet industry partners in-person and secure interviews, internships, and job opportunities. Both Online and In-person students will join this event in-person, there is no online option for this event - given the nature of the event. This event will help you succeed in your final assessment of the unit - 'Showcasing Your Employability' - which in turn helps you succeed in your career after graduation.

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

All assessments in this unit are tagged as "Observed" under Macquarie University's 'AI in Assessment' guidelines.

This is because, your written submissions for your assessments in this unit will depend on your evidencing your claims based on demonstrated and observed work with your team during tutorials. Additionally, all assessments will require you to critique or apply the insights of Industry Guests who visit our Lectures. You can either follow lectures in-person or online. However, you must attend your timetabled tutorial for you to demonstrate the observed component of your skills that align with the Unit Learning Outcomes.

All rubrics for all submitted tasks will include grading based on observed components in class, where you demonstrate the skills that you claim to possess - both technical skills in your discipline as well as professional/transferrable/employability skills. These observations will be made, noted, and marked during class throughout the semester.

You will need to commit to your timetable for the entire session (semester). While most of your grade is dependent on individual submissions, most of your observed skills that you discuss in these submissions will depend on work done during tutorials in teams, where you demonstrate the skills as outlined in the Unit Learning Outcomes.

Your timetabled tutorial slot is where you will be actively learning during class with your tutor 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-enrol from this unit.

In the most exceptional cases, if you have a valid reason that prevents you from regularly attending tutorials, and you have an alternative way to demonstrate the Unit Learning Outcomes, you are required to email the Unit Convenor by the end of Week 2, and you must be prepared to accept a reasonable suggestion by the Unit Convenor of an alternative way of demonstrating the Unit Learning Outcomes. Regular commitments for work do not count as an exceptional case, as we have a variety of tutorials across the week and across the day and the evening. If you do not present your exceptional case to the Unit Convenor by the end of Week 2, you are agreeing to demonstrate the Unit Learning Outcomes through the regular pattern and expectations of this unit - that is: observation during weekly tutorials, which will then inform your assessment submissions in this unit - where you evidence your claims, via reference to your work in your team during tutorials.

This is our assurance to regulatory bodies, that we are assured of the skills that you demonstrate, as denoted by the Unit Learning Outcomes - as we have directly observed your skills and the growth of your skills through your regular participation in classes, and our regular observation of your claimed skills. While we may not directly observe you writing your final submission, from a Unit Learning Outcomes point of view, we are assuring ourselves and regulatory bodies that we have verified evidence that your claimed skills in your submissions align with what we have observed during classes.

Thus, ultimately we are guaranteeing the integrity of this unit, a capstone, and the Bachelor of Commerce, overall.

In your registered tutorial, you will be placed in teams, where scaffolded team tasks will be worked through during each week's tutorial. These scaffolded tasks ultimately work towards each of your assessments in the unit.

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

You may have 1 or 2 absences from tutorials 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.

You do not need to submit a case for Special Consideration if you miss 1 or 2 tutorials. Rather, you need to manage this absence using a protocol between you and your team.

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

Tutors and team members will keep a record of your attendance and participation during tutorials, and rate your participation during tutorials. 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 artefact/s that integrate all their learning, as well as demonstrate empathy & appreciation for other disciplines.

Students will reflect on 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 organisations and responding to these effectively.

Students will demonstrate excellence by presenting their portfolio of work, ready to be showcased to the job market

Please see iLearn.