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%
What this is#
Each tutorial from week 2 to week 11 produces one small, named output. Submit it and you have the checkpoint. Ten of them, 2 % each, 20 % of the course.
This is one assessment record with ten parts, not ten separate assessments. It exists because both assignments are assembled from these outputs, and a student who builds them week by week writes the assignment; a student who does not, writes it from nothing in the last fortnight.
The ten checkpoints#
| Week | Tutorial | What you submit | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Soil, plants and irrigation demand | A twelve-row irrigation demand curve in kilolitres, and a planted area you can defend on water rather than on ambition. | 5 March 2027 |
| 3 | Mushrooms: substrate, yield and what to measure | A substrate mass balance with both arrows drawn: substrate in, mushrooms out, spent substrate to soil and compost. | 12 March 2027 |
| 4 | Insects: waste streams and conversion limits | A larval yield derived from your household's waste stream, with the imported share of fish feed stated on the diagram. | 19 March 2027 |
| 5 | Aquaponics: feed, fish and operating conditions | A grow bed sized from the feed-rate ratio, a species choice with its temperature band, and the approval pathway named. | 26 March 2027 |
| 6 | Preservation and assembling the measurement plan | A sized preservation store, and a draft measurement plan in which every instrument answers a named decision. | 16 April 2027 |
| 7 | Water sourcing and the specialist handover | A monthly supply curve laid over week 2's demand curve, on the same axis and in the same units. | 23 April 2027 |
| 8 | Treatment, reuse and service requirements | A barrier sequence with a sourced log reduction on each barrier and its running energy costed. | 30 April 2027 |
| 9 | Storage and seasonal reliability | A sized store with its saturation point identified, re-run against the dry year with the first failure named. | 7 May 2027 |
| 10 | Waste recovery and integrated balances | A closed dry-matter balance in which every organic stream has a destination and every loss term is stated. | 14 May 2027 |
| 11 | Sanitation, nutrient limits and choosing between options | A nitrogen balance with a destination for the surplus, and an options grid with the dominated options marked. | 21 May 2027 |
Each is due 5 pm on the Friday of its own teaching week. The weekly map carries the same dates, and each tutorial page says exactly what its output looks like and how to check your own before you submit.
What counts as complete#
Completion is judged on good faith, not on being right:
- Every listed output is attempted and legible. A table with rows in it, a curve with axes, a balance with both sides written down.
- Assumptions are stated. Where you guessed, say you guessed and say what you guessed.
- Units are on every quantity. A number without a unit is not an attempt.
- Working is visible. Not polished, not typeset — visible.
An honest attempt that turns out to be wrong is complete. You get written feedback on what is wrong, and you carry the corrected version forward. That is the whole design: errors found in week 4 cost you nothing, and errors found in the assignment cost you marks.
Attendance alone is not completion, and completion does not require attendance. If you miss a tutorial, do the exercise from the tutorial page — every one lists what to open, what to do and what the output is, and every one carries a small labelled practice example so a missing earlier output does not block you — and submit it by the Friday. The extension and late policy applies to checkpoints exactly as it applies to the assignments.
Weeks 1 and 12#
Neither is graded.
Week 1 builds your client evidence workbook, which everything after it writes into. There is nothing yet to build it from, so it is practice — but if you skip it, week 2 has nowhere to put its numbers.
Week 12 is assembly for the investment proposal. It is worth doing for the obvious reason and is not worth a separate mark.
What this website does and does not do#
This is a static site. It does not collect, store, mark or transmit anything. Checkpoints are submitted the way your course convenor tells you at the start of semester; nothing on these pages is a submission point, and no page here knows who you are or what you have done.
How it is marked
Ten checkpoints at 2 % each, marked complete or not complete on a good-faith attempt. A legible attempt at every listed output, with assumptions and units shown, earns the mark. Correctness earns written feedback instead, which is the point of doing it weekly rather than at the end.