One lecture (50 minutes), one tutorial (90 minutes) and a range of online activities (40 minutes) per week. 

iPad (6th-gen, 7th-gen or any Pro) with pencil and keyboard.
Education students need to own a personalised iPad. This can be procured through the subsidised purchase portal as part of the School of Education eLearning Program. Students can use existing iPads if they meet minimum requirements stated above.
Elective students can use existing iPad devices or borrow an iPad from the University library.

Course information, cover sheets, grading templates and all other course materials plus associated lecture resources are all on MyUni/Canvas. Live lectures will also be uploaded to MyUni soon after they are delivered. Much information is shared via MyUni and your uiversity email address. It is required that you check your MyUni course and uiversity eails at least once per day.

There is a Discussion Board on MyUni where you can seek information and share responses with class mates but please follow proper protocols and show respect and consideration for others in your use of this.

Attendance and pro-active participation is compulsory and is marked as an assessment. If you cannot attend then please provide evidence of sickness or other valid reason for absence, otherwise non-attendance will be counted as absence for assessment purposes.

Special Consideration

Students who wish to seek special consideration because of illness or special circumstances should apply to the lecturer in charge with relevant documentary evidence. This is usually a doctor’s certificate. For both special consideration and extensions you need to complete the Application Form – Assessment Task Extension or Replacement Examination due to Medical and Compassionate Circumstances and/or Application Form – Extenuating Circumstances Application Form. These along with relevant information and instructions can be obtained frmo the Faculty of Arts office.

Extensions and deadlines

If due to illness or other valid reasons, a student is unable to meet a deadline, please contact the lecturer before the deadline in order to seek an extension (which may or may not be granted).

Any assignment handed in late, without authorised extension, will be penalised at a rate of 10% of the assigned mark per 24-hour period late, to a maximum of 7 periods, as per university regulations.

Assignments handed in more than seven periods late, without authorised extension, will not be marked and an automatic fail grade for that piece of assessment will be recorded.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is “the reproducing of someone else's intellectual work and representing it as one's own without proper acknowledgment”. Examples of plagiarism include: direct copying or paraphrasing of someone else’s words without acknowledging the source; using facts, information and ideas directly derived from an unacknowledged source; and producing assignments which are the work of other people.

Students have a responsibility to:

· Access and use available information provided by the University to avoid plagiarism;

· Declare sources in their work submitted for assessment, from which they obtain material or ideas:

· Retain drafts, notes and copies of all assignments submitted for assessment;

· Ensure that you do not make your work available to other students in any form for the purposes of plagiarism;

· Discuss any questions you may have about plagiarism with your kindly and supportive lecturer.

Specific Requirements

Students should write their assignments independently. Students are expected to produce their own work. This might involve students choosing, analyzing, summarizing and interpreting the (often competing) ideas of others, and developing argument and drawing conclusions. Students can: discuss assignments with other students and their tutors; communicate with one another in constructive ways about the learning process; and assist each other, e.g. by discussing the approaches that might be taken to assignment topics, or helping with the availability of reading materials.

Students must acknowledge an original author/creator for the ideas and concepts used in their work by providing a reference or citation. A reference is the written detail of the original source for ideas, which may be referenced within, and at the end of the assignment in the form of a reference list.

You may use quotations: exact words of an original author in written work. The quotation (exact words) should be placed in quotation marks and be accompanied by a reference. If paraphrasing (rewrite completely another author's words or ideas with the intention of presenting the author's ideas), it is vital that the passage is fully rewritten, including the sentence structure. Any short phrases or key words that are used should be handled as quotes. The source must always be referenced

The overall mark required to pass is 50%.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation modified arrangements have been made to assessments to facilitate remote learning and teaching. Assessment details provided here reflect recent updates.

The tutorial attendance and participation assessment has been abolished. This also applied to Remote Learning Pathway students.

A new assessment has been introduced, named eLearning Theory Response (15%), due 17 April 2020. This also applied to Remote Learning Pathway students.

The Branched Scenario Assignment will go ahead, but with some minor technical modifications. This also applied to Remote Learning Pathway students.

The group Documentary Analysis Assignment is still active and students can continue to engage with their sub-group, to watch the documentary films and make progress towards their analytical video. This task will be different for Remote Learning Pathway students, who will conduct it individually rather than in groups. Weighting for the Documentary Analysis Assignment is now 30% (previously 35%).

Each week there are tutorials in which we will discuss the topic and the literature listed for that week, watch a video or some other activity associated with the topic. All students are required to read listed materials for these sessions and take part in the discussion. It is not meant to be another lecture. The success of the tutorials depends on everyone reading some relevant material and bringing notes on their reading. This will assist in group discussions. 

Participation at tutorials is assessed based on a student’s apparent preparation for tutorials and the reading of the relevant chapters in the two key texts (and the preparation of a summary), willingness to contribute to discussion, the usefulness of the contribution, the assistance given to others in the group, the quality of the ideas, etc. Passive attendance does not fulfil course requirements.