• Students enrolled through Flexible Learning must participate in Student Discussion Forums. Each Distance student will be assigned to a Student Discussion Forum if the numbers dictate this end.

• All assessment (Assignments 1, 2, 3) must be submitted electronically via the Online Assignment Submission system. An overview of which can be found at the Students Help Page.

• Submit a Faculty of Informatics and Communication assignment cover sheet with all assignments, when you submit your assignments. This cover sheet has a student declaration on originality, which you must sign. Assignments which are not accompanied by this signed declaration will not be assessed. Cover Sheets are available from your School or Faculty Office.

• You must follow any submission instructions specific to your campus. Your Lecturer, Tutor or Counsellor will provide these instructions. Unless instructed otherwise, assignments submitted after 4.45 pm on the due date will be stamped with the date of the next working day, and will be considered to have been submitted on that day.

• If you submit an assignment on disk you must follow the procedure outlined in the general outline above.

• You must keep a backup copy of your assignment, whether submitted as print or electronic media. This will protect you in the unlikely event that any material gets lost in the system. Be aware that, while this is a rare event, floppy disks that are readable on your computer sometimes cannot be read on markers computers.

• Assessment is linked to and dependent upon tutorial attendance and participation. Tutorial attendance for internal students and electronic tutorial participation for Flex and HK students is compulsory. Participation in tutorials is assessed from week three onwards for this course.

• Follow the Guidelines for the Presentation of Assignments in the School of Contemporary Communication for submission of all assignments. Copies of the Guidelines for the Presentation of Assignments are available from lecturers and tutors in the school and from the Secretary, School of Contemporary Communication, Building 19 Level 2, Telephone (07) 4930 9665. Alternatively, follow the links from the URL http://www.infocom.cqu.edu.au/Students/.

• The University has a Just Language Policy, which is located in the CQU Policies and Procedures Manual at the following address:
  

  http://www.cqu.edu.au/ppmanual/academic/inclusivelanguage.pdf. Ensure your assignments are free of gender bias or discriminatory language.

• The lecturer and/or tutor will provide reasonable advice and assistance to you in relation to your assignment work. However, you are ultimately responsible for your own learning. It is your responsibility to contact the lecturer and/or tutor for help and your responsibility to fulfil course requirements.

• You will be expected to use a level of English language expression that is appropriate for University work.

• less than one week's extension: you have to complete a Request for Extension on Assignment form and email to the school administration officer saocc@cqu.edu.au If awarded an extension note the details including who it was awarded by on your assignment.

• up to two weeks' extension Contact your lecturer by phone before the due date. You must outline the reason for the requested extension and the amount of time required. A letter must follow up your request to your lecturer stating the above information. This letter must be posted on the day that you make the request for an extension by phone.

• more that two weeks' extension Extension beyond two weeks may be obtained only by a phone call and letter to the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Communication. Approval is contingent on the circumstances.

• Extensions are only granted where the student clearly indicates evidence (in writing) of illness or misadventure to the coordinator through the tutor at the latest by the due date. If evidence is not given, 5 percent will be deducted from the mark awarded for every day after the due date (this includes weekends). (So for 5 days, the penalty is 25% of the allotted mark.) Students should refer to the definition of misadventure in the CQU Undergraduate Handbook 2002 at http://handbook.cqu.edu.au/ and familiarise themselves completely with the general information section of the Handbook overall.

Assignments

All assignments are available on the Course Profile.

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