All assignments should be submitted by the time, and in the way, given in the assessment brief. Late submission of assessment items is only acceptable in exceptional circumstances and by arrangement with the Program Coordinator before the due date of that assessment. Special consideration is only considered for serious medical reasons or when unavoidable or unforeseen circumstances have prevented you from submitting an assignment. If you wish to apply for special consideration you should make an appointment with a Study Success Adviser to discuss your case. A full copy of the Academic Policies is available to download:
Late submissions will reduce your grade by 5% per day (or part of a day) the assessment is late. For example, if the due date is midday on 10th April and you submit at 2pm on 11th April, your work is one day and two hours late. This is counted as two days late (one day and one part of a day late). So, if your mark is 58% (a pass), then 10% will be deducted and your mark will become 48% (a fail).
You may see lots of information around UTS College and UTS about ‘academic integrity’. This is because it is a very important issue. Academic integrity means that the work you submit is ALL YOUR OWN WORK. If you submit work that someone has helped you with, or someone else’s work, UTS College and UTS see this as cheating, and it’s called ‘academic misconduct’, which is the opposite of academic integrity. Examples of academic misconduct include:
- Copying from another student
- Including part of a text you’ve found on the internet or in a book into your work (short quotes, using quotation marks and giving a reference, are OK as long as they form only a small part of your piece of writing).
- Asking a friend to write part of an essay for you, or to check your grammar.
- Paying a company to write an assignment for you.
- Using ideas you’ve found on the internet or in books and included in your assignment without a reference. (even if you’ve used your own words).
- Using a graph, an image, a video, etc from another source without reference, even if for example the colours are different, you’ve created a graph from a table, etc.
- Cheating on a test, e.g. using a spellchecker, online dictionary etc when these are banned!
There are many other forms of academic misconduct. Academic misconduct may result in you being asked to leave UTS College and/or receiving other serious penalties.
To be safe, always acknowledge (reference) all the sources you have used in your assignments.
Students are only permitted to take authorised material into test or examination rooms (if you’re taking a test online, special rules apply). If academic staff members at UTS College become aware of any evidence of academic misconduct, they will report it to the Student Conduct Committee. A full copy of the Academic Misconduct Policy is available to download:
Copyright means that whoever has created a new work, owns that work. Copyright safeguards what writers, artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have created. Reproducing or making use of the entire or even part of any text, creative work and/ or audio-visual or computer-based item, without first asking permission from its creator, may be a breach of the Copyright Act (1968 amended 2000 to include Digital Works) and/ or the Privacy Act (1988). You need to take care in reproducing ANY material including books, poems, music, lyrics, film and TV footage, photographs, graphics, art works, or brand names as you could be in contravention of the Copyright or Privacy Acts. For further information on copyright in general go to: www.copyright.org.au
Two information sheets of particular value to students are “An Introduction to Copyright in Australia” and “Research or Study”
For further information on music rights go to www.apra-amcos.com.au
Australian law (the ESOS framework) and student visa conditions require that students maintain satisfactory academic progress in their course. UTS College also requires that all students maintain satisfactory academic progress in their course.
Unsatisfactory academic progress in ELT is defined by failing a level more than twice. In order to demonstrate good academic progress, UTS College also expects a minimum of eighty percent (80%) attendance at all scheduled classes unless under conditions of special consideration.
