The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
Policies and support#
Late work#
The rule: work submitted up to five working days after its deadline is accepted with no penalty and no form. Past five days, email to arrange a new date before the original deadline passes, not after.
Amendments to this policy#
v1 (2019). Late work is accepted within five working days, no questions asked.
v2 (2021). Late work is accepted within five working days, no questions asked. Students seeking an extension beyond five days should email the convenor with a reason before the original deadline.
v3 (2023). Late work is accepted within five working days without penalty, subject to the standard grace-period provision (§2.1). Extension requests beyond the grace period require a written request, submitted before the original deadline, stating the reason and the requested new date, to be assessed against the university’s extension criteria.
v4 (2025, current). Late work falls within the standard grace-period allowance of five (5) working days from the published deadline, applied automatically and without academic-integrity implication, per the grace-period provision (§2.1, as amended). Requests for an extension beyond the grace-period allowance must be submitted in writing prior to the expiry of the original deadline, must specify the substantive reason for the request and the proposed revised date, and will be assessed against the university’s standard extension criteria (see §2.1.4) by the convenor or their delegate.
Read v1 and v4 side by side. The rule is the same five days it was in 2019. Only the number of words required to say so changed.
Extensions#
If you need more than the five-day grace period above, email the convenor before the deadline with a reason and a proposed new date. Extensions are granted on the strength of the reason, not the length of the email.
Academic integrity#
Cite what isn’t yours, including material another student’s tools produced with them. The course’s own repeated re-wording of one idea (see above) is a demonstration, not a licence — your submissions still need to be your own analysis, stated once, correctly.
Getting help#
Ask in session first; it is the fastest feedback loop the course has. Email the address on your teacher’s People page for anything that cannot wait for the next one.
A note on this page#
If you read all four amendments above expecting the fifth to finally add something, that expectation is the whole course, condensed onto one page. Nothing in this document escalated except the document. If you noticed that on your own before this paragraph said so, that noticing is the course objective; everything else has been the syllabus for it. Go back and reread “What you will do” with that in mind.