How work is submitted, how sources and tools are declared, what accessible participation means here, and how to get an extension.
Policies and support#
These are SLOP8350’s course policies. Every assessment brief links here rather than restating them.
Submitting work#
Submit through the course LMS as a ZIP of your files plus a PDF or Markdown document. Tables may be CSV or XLSX. Deadlines are noon, Canberra time, on the dates given in each brief.
Extensions and late work#
Ask for an extension before the deadline, through the course contact. Short extensions are granted routinely and you do not need to explain why at length.
Unapproved late work on The Chain, The Stemma and The Lossless Argument loses five percentage points of the available mark per calendar day, for up to seven days, after which it scores zero.
Generation Checks work differently: the best ten of twelve count, so two missed checks cost nothing and need no paperwork. For an approved absence beyond those two, you will be given an equivalent check to complete in your own time.
Substantive feedback is returned within ten working days.
Declaring your tools#
Declare the tools and transformations you used, including generative ones. This is not a restriction — it is the same requirement the course places on every specimen in the archive.
The reason is the course’s own subject. An artefact whose processing history is undocumented cannot be reasoned about, and a claim you cannot trace back to evidence is not a finding. If a generated artefact appears in your submission, its generation is a step in the chain and is documented like any other step.
Never fabricate data, sources, measurements or process records. Assistance does not substitute for evidence-based reasoning, and an argument you cannot defend from your own evidence table will not survive marking.
Sources#
Cite both the artefact and its source or processing route. Say what is known, what is inferred and what is unknown.
A URL that resolves is not proof of a claim. Check that the work you cite actually supports the specific thing you are using it for, and give a locator — a page, section or timestamp — so a reader can check too.
Accessible participation#
Every audio task has a route that does not require listening, and every image or diagram task has an equivalent structured description. Tables carry headings and units. Diagrams never rely on colour alone. Debates offer a written alternative.
This course assesses reasoning from evidence. It does not assess hearing, vision or reaction speed, and the supplied evidence is designed so that it cannot.
If something here does not work for you, say so early and it will be changed.
Data and rights#
Examples in this course are authored, public domain, or licensed with attribution. Do not submit private recordings, identifying data about other people, or unlicensed extracts. Do not upload anything you would mind being retained as a teaching example, and say so if you would rather your work were not reused.
Corrections#
Errors in course materials are corrected in the open, with the correction visible rather than the mistake quietly removed. A course that teaches why undocumented edits destroy provenance cannot make undocumented edits.
Teaching period#
Teaching runs from 22 February to 19 May 2027, with a break in the week commencing 5 April. There is no lecture, workshop or check in that week. The final assessment is due after teaching ends, on 7 June 2027.