Release Dates

• Proficiency Assessment: information and sample questions are to be released no later than week 4
• Professional Report - Preliminary Engagement: to be released no later than week 6
• Professional Report - Supplementary Engagement: to be released no later than week 10

Requirements to Pass this Unit

To pass this unit, you must 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 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th 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 technical concerns. For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, please apply for Special Consideration. For example, if the assignment is worth 8 marks (of the entire unit) and your submission is late by 19 hours (or 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds), 0.4 marks (5% of 8 marks) will be deducted. If your submission is late by 24 hours (or 47 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds), 0.8 marks (10% of 8 marks) will be deducted, and so on.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted

• Proficiency Assessment - NO, this is an invigilated in-class assessment.

• Professional Report - Preliminary Engagement - YES, Standard Late Penalty applies.

• Professional Report - Supplementary Engagement - YES, Standard Late Penalty applies.

Short extensions

Short Extensions are not available for any assessments in this unit.

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 http://connect.mq.edu.au/.

Generative AI Usage

The university has taken a ‘two lane’ approach with GenAI: assessments can be AI Open (meaning students complete the assessment in their own time and may use GenAI) and Observed (students complete assessments in supervised environments, where use of AI is controlled or not permitted). More information on the use of GenAI in Assessment can be found here.

In this unit the assessments fall into the two lanes as follows: 

• Proficiency Assessment - AI Observed (this is an invigilated in-class assessment).

• Professional Report - AI Open.

• Professional Report - AI Open.

Week 1

Each week you should participate in your scheduled two hour practical workshop. For details of scheduled classes consult the timetables webpage.

Note that lectures commence in week 1, and workshops commence in week 2. The week-by-week details of the workshop activities will be available from iLearn.

Textbook and Reading Materials

COMP3330 is a practice-oriented unit and as such the practical exercises and lecture notes make up the bulk of the learning material. Additional reading materials will be provided on iLearn as required.

Unit Websites

COMP3330 is administered via iLearn (http://ilearn.mq.edu.au/).

Lecture Recordings

Digital recordings of lectures may be available. They will be linked from iLearn.

Technologies Used and Required

COMP3330 is a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) unit. You will be expected to bring your own laptop computer (Windows or Mac) to the workshop, install and configure the required software, and incorporate secure practices into your daily work (and play!) routines. The laptop must be capable of running a Kali virtual machine. At a minimum your laptop should have 120GB of free disk space, 8GB of memory, and 4 CPU cores.

General Notes

In this unit, you should do the following:

• Review recorded lecture materials.
• Participate your weekly workshop session.
  • Many activities in the unit are group based and you will be expected to collaborate effectively with your group members.
• Work on any assignments that have been released.

Note that Workshops commence in week 2.

Communication Methods in COMP3330 

All announcements about unit-related matters will be communicated through iLearn. It is the student's responsibility to ensure they check iLearn announcements, forums and FAQ sections regularly.

Students are encouraged to use the iLearn forums for asking questions about unit content and concepts. Where questions are about specific details in an assessment submission, this may need to be sent via the dedicated unit email address so as not to be at risk of breaching the university academic integrity policy.

Students should use the appropriate iLearn forms for contacting staff. There may be occasions where unit staff will email a student directly to their @students.mq.edu.au email address. It is the student's responsibility to ensure they check their official university email regularly for communications from the university staff.

This is the first offering of this unit, however 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.