Important Guidance

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You should carefully read the subject information and regularly check Canvas for any changes to subject material and for announcements throughout the session.

UTS staff will only send emails to your UTS email address so you should check your UTS inbox at least once a week. Likewise, you should only send emails to staff from your UTS email address. UTS staff will not respond to emails from any other email accounts.

Assessment procedures and advice

During your studies at UTS, you may be required to complete a number of different types of assessment for each subject. Detailed assessment requirements, including the weighting of assessment items, due dates and arrangements for collection and return of assessment items, are set out where available, in each subject in Canvas.

All staff and students involved in the assessment of coursework subjects at UTS must comply with the Coursework Assessments Policy. This policy is applicable to the assessment of all coursework subjects including those undertaken by research degree students. However the policy does not apply to the thesis component of graduate research degrees. It also does not cover the academic progression through a course of study.

If you find it difficult to meet an assessment deadline or requirement, you should consult with your subject coordinator. You may be eligible to apply for an extension or special consideration in exceptional circumstances. If you're registered with the UTS Accessibility Service or have carer responsibilities, you can also contact your faculty's Academic Liason Officer (ALO) to discuss reasonable adjustments and provisions for assessment.

Read the drop-down sections on late submissions and special consideration for more information.

Late submissions and special consideration

All assessments submitted via Canvas are due at 11:59PM. You may, if you need to, apply for a short extension via Canvas any time before the deadline for submission, with some exceptions, for example, quizzes, in class assessments and exams.

Short extensions:
- do not require you to submit any supporting documentation (though you are required to provide a reason for your request);
- are automatically approved; and
- extend your submission deadline by 72 hours.
Should you require an extension longer than 72 hours, you will need to apply for Special Consideration before the submission deadline.

Short extension requests after the submission deadline will not be considered.
If you submit your assessment more than one hour after your submission deadline, the following late penalties will apply:
- 5% per day for up to seven calendar days (i.e. a maximum penalty of 35%); and
- Assessments submitted after seven calendar days (i.e. on the eight day or later) will not be marked and attract a zero (0) mark.
In addition to late penalties, if you submit your assessment more than one hour after your submission deadline, you might not receive valuable feedback on your assessment – feedback on late submissions is at the discretion of the Subject Coordinator.
Special consideration consists of the exercise of academic discretion to provide equitable treatment to students whose ability to complete an assessment item and/or performance in an assessment item is affected by illness, misadventure or work-related circumstances. You should only apply for special consideration when you have been affected by extenuating or special circumstances beyond your control.

These circumstances include:
- Serious illness or psychological condition: such as hospital admission, serious injury or illness, severe anxiety or depression
- Loss or bereavement: such as death of a close family member, family relationship breakdown
- Hardship or trauma: such as being a victim of a crime, sudden loss of income or employment, severe disruption to domestic arrangements
- Exceptional employment demands: such as active service (e.g. ADF Reserves, bushfire and SES services). Special consideration is not automatically guaranteed and may not result in a mark adjustment.
Marks for individual assessment components in a subject may be released by the Subject Coordinator before the end of the final assessment period. However, the final mark for a subject is not determined until it is endorsed by the Faculty Results Ratification Committee. Then the final subject assessment results are officially released and available to students via My Student Admin.

For more information, see:
- Coursework Assessment Procedure
- Student Rule 8: Assessment of coursework subjects

For more information on assessment policy, see:

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is central to UTS and is about demonstrating honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage in your studies.

As a student, to maintain academic integrity you must:

Do your own work from start to finish and submit only your own original work.
Acknowledge and properly reference any ideas, theories, data or materials that you use or adapt in your work.
Do group work according to the guidelines from your tutor, lecturer or supervisor and follow correct procedures whether you are being assessed as an individual or a group.

Academic integrity

A breach of academic integrity is also known as 'academic misconduct' or 'academic dishonesty'.

To avoid academic misconduct, don't:
- Copy from another student or recycle another student's work.
- Purchase an assignment or answers from another person or a website, or use services that create original materials for you, such as Chegg.
- Bring unauthorised material or equipment (e.g. mobile phones) into exams.
- Get someone else to sit your exam on your behalf.
- Forget to cite the source of information when paraphrasing.
- Forget to add quotation marks to direct quotations.
- Take credit for another group member's work or do the work for another group member.
- Help another student to cheat or act dishonestly.
For more information about academic integrity, see the Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy and the Academic Integrity Policy.

For more information about maintaining academic integrity and avoiding misconduct:
- See the UTS guide on academic integrity
- Complete the academic integrity tutorial and quiz
- Obtain academic help with writing, research, referencing and English language skills
- Speak with your tutor, lecturer, subject coordinator or UTS help services.
Follow your subject coordinator's advice about the use of generative artificial intelligence tools (GenAI) (such as ChatGPT and DALL-E) in your assessments for a subject. For information about the ethical use of GenAI, visit the UTS Library Generative AI Study Guide and HELPS: GenAI learning resources.

Don't forget to acknowledge use of any copied or reworked materials (eg. text, images, music, video) from a GenAI tool by declaring it's use. Find out how to reference your use of GenAI from the UTS library.
Australian copyright law allows you as a student or researcher to copy and use limited amounts of other people's material in your study or research without their permission and free of charge. This applies to any sort of published or unpublished work and includes written material, tables and compilations, designs, drawings (including maps and plans), paintings, photographs, sculpture, craftwork, films (such as feature films, television programs, commercials and computer video games), software (such as computer programs and databases), sound recordings, performances and broadcasts (including podcasts and vodcasts of these) and text, including books, journals, websites, emails and other electronic messages.

It is important to remember that you can only use a limited amount of other people's material and you must correctly acknowledge the author/creator and reference their material. Incorrect or improper use of copyright protected material could result in breaking Australian copyright law, for which significant penalties apply.

For more information see:
Copyright concerning teaching materials

Teaching materials and resources provided to you at UTS are protected by copyright. While you are permitted to access and use those materials and resources for your own educational purposes, you are not permitted to sell them, give them to someone else or publish them in any way without permission of the copyright owner. Improper or illegal use of teaching materials may lead to prosecution for copyright infringement.
UTS takes any form of academic misconduct such as plagiarism very seriously. Plagiarism is defined in Student Rule 16.2.1(4) as: 'taking and using someone else's ideas or manner of expressing them and passing them off as his or her own by failing to give appropriate acknowledgement of the source to seek to gain an advantage by unfair means'.

Plagiarism where appropriate acknowledgement of the author or its source has not been given, includes:
- Copying any section of text, no matter how brief, from a book, journal, article or other written source.
- Copying any map, diagram, table or figure.
- Paraphrasing or otherwise using the ideas of another author.
- Paying someone else to do your assignment.
Plagiarism also includes re-using sections of verbatim text without using quote marks to indicate the text was copied from the source (even if you give a reference). In addition, if you support plagiarism by allowing your work to be copied, this breaches student misconduct rules.

In some subjects, referencing and citation skills form part of the marking criteria. It is important that you understand how to avoid plagiarism and know how to reference and cite all materials correctly. You can learn about referencing through the UTS library and UTS: HELPS How to avoid plagiarism. For information that is relevant to your discipline, see Avoiding plagiarism.

As well as their existing knowledge of subject literature, academic staff have access to tools that can check for student plagiarism. They may use plagiarism detection software such as Turnitin or other methods to check your work. When an academic staff member identifies a possible incident of plagiarism, they may refer the matter as an allegation of misconduct to the Subject Coordinator.
Where Turnitin is used for assignments, submitted papers will be subject to verification and analysis by Turnitin and will be included as source documents in the Turnitin reference database solely for the purpose of detecting similarity to other sources. Use of the Turnitin products and services is subject to the Acceptable Use Policy posted on www.turnitin.com/acceptable-use-policy
Normally, you own the intellectual property you create through your studies, coursework and research at UTS. Exceptions to this include where UTS exercises its right under Student Rule 3.9.2(2) or 3.9.2(8) to retain your assessment works for teaching case studies or for advertising and promotion. In this instance, UTS will ensure you are credited for your work. It is not UTS's intention to affect any copyright or other intellectual property right that may exist in your work.

Where the University wishes to exercise its right to use your work for teaching, exhibition, publication or promotions, you will be given sufficient notice and the opportunity to consent or object to the use of your work.

UTS will only retain your work until it is no longer needed for teaching, advertising and promotion, or to comply with its reporting and legal obligations.

For more information, see Student Rule 3.9.2 and the Intellectual Property Policy.

Retention of student work

UTS reserves the right to retain the original or one copy of any work carried out and/or submitted by you as part of your course. This includes but is not limited to - drawings, models, designs, plans and specifications, essays, programs, reports and theses. Retention of your work may be for any purpose defined in Student Rule 3.9.2.

Copies of your work may be retained for up to five years for course accreditation purposes.

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