Four assessment records totalling 100 %: ten tutorial checkpoints, five short quizzes, a measurement programme and an investment proposal.
Assessment#
Four records, totalling 100 %.
| What | Weight | When |
|---|---|---|
| Tutorial completion checkpoints — ten outputs at 2 % each | 20 % | Friday of each week from 2 to 11 |
| Five quizzes at 4 % each | 20 % | Start of the tutorial in weeks 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12 |
| Assignment 1 — Year-long Measurement Programme | 20 % | 5 pm Friday of week 7 |
| Assignment 2 — Household Resilience Investment Proposal | 40 % | 5 pm Friday 18 June 2027, in the assessment period |
There is no oral defence and no examination.
The shape of it#
Half the marks are for work you do in and around the tutorials, week by week. That is deliberate. Both assignments are assembled out of those weekly outputs, so a student who keeps up writes the assignment from what they already have.
Checkpoints are marked on a good-faith attempt, not on being right: a legible attempt at every listed output, with assumptions and units shown. Correctness earns written feedback instead — which is worth more in week 4 than in week 12. Attendance alone is not completion, and completion does not require attendance.
The two assignments are marked on criteria published in full on their own pages. Assignment 1 is a plan for measuring, not a design. Assignment 2 is a comparison and a recommendation built from the specialist findings supplied in week 7 — those findings are the same for every student who took your home, so Assignment 2 does not depend on how Assignment 1 went.
Assignment 2 is checked first against two hard constraints: $30,000 of new spend including contingency, and 5 kWh a day of process energy with uncertain loads at their upper estimate. Assignment 1 is costed against a separate $1,500 investigation allowance.
Bands are not grades#
The reference bands place your reported indicators against your own site’s thresholds. They are evidence inside the marking criteria. A band is not a grade, and nothing on this site converts one into a mark.
This site marks nothing#
Every page here is static. It collects nothing, stores nothing and transmits nothing — including the practice questions on the quiz pages, which reveal their own answers in the page for your use only. Submission happens the way your convenor tells you in week 1.
Quiz 1: Loop thinking, water-limited yield and mycology
Week 3 — the closure definition, the monthly water balance behind every yield figure, and what mushrooms actually contribute
Due 11 March 2027 · Weight: 4%
Quiz 2: Insects, aquaponics and the limits of the loop
Week 5 — bioconversion arithmetic, the feed-rate ratio, and telling a course design rule from a legal requirement
Due 25 March 2027 · Weight: 4%
Year-long Measurement Programme
Assignment 1 — a twelve-month plan for finding out what nobody yet knows about your client's home, with every instrument tied to the decision it informs and the whole thing costed against the investigation allowance
Due 23 April 2027 · Weight: 20%
Quiz 3: Preservation scope, roof yield and treatment performance
Week 8 — what a tested recipe does and does not license, applying the runoff formula correctly, and reading log reductions
Due 29 April 2027 · Weight: 4%
Quiz 4: Storage, saturation and closing the balance
Week 10 — why annual water balances mislead, where storage stops buying performance, and what is deliberately not banded
Due 13 May 2027 · Weight: 4%
Tutorial Completion Checkpoints
Ten small outputs, one a week from week 2 to week 11, marked on a good-faith attempt rather than on being right — the work that makes the two assignments possible
Due 21 May 2027 · Weight: 20%
Household Resilience Investment Proposal
Assignment 2 — the specialist findings turned into a recommendation. The existing baseline against three feasible retrofit options, one of them argued for, with the rejected ones explained
Due 18 June 2027 · Weight: 40%
Quiz 5: Nitrogen, jurisdiction and what a band means
Week 12 — the uptake limit that caps every site, reading the rule that applies where you are, and the limits of the scoring method
Due 27 May 2027 · Weight: 4%