Reflection journals: Each reflection journals (500 words) capture the student placement experience through honest self-reflection. While there are no wrong or right answers, it allows the student to reflect on their strengths, limitations, challenges and learning through their placement experience. Journals are meant to be submitted on a regular basis to the academic supervisor throughout the entire placement experience.

Statement of work: Statement of work covers the planning phases of the project scope during the placement. In other words, it details the ``product or service scope`` of the work the student does during the placement within the host organisation. It also details the ``project scope`` (i.e. the project management work required) to deliver the ``product or service scope``. This is due at a time (e.g. week 5) set by the academic supervisor and this is generally after the product and project scope is organised between the student and the host organisation (e.g. after three to four weeks into the placement).

Supervisor Feedback: This is a comprehensive feedback from the placement suoervisor on the performance of the student during his/her placement .  This is a hurdle task the student must pass in order to pass the unit. The overall grade of the unit must not be higher than the feedback.

Presentation: covers a summary of the placement experience, including summary of the project, its objectives, goals, intended deliverables, methodology, milestones and deliverables achieved (or not), value delivered to the client (including those not) and significant learnings and self-reflection of the entire placement experience. This is a 20 minute long presentation, due at a time set by the academic supervisor and this is generally towards the end of the placement.

Final Report: The final report captures details of the entire placement experience and reports on the progress of the entire project lifecycle. The maximum words for the final report is 15,000 words and is due at the end of the placement.

Detailed information for each assessment can be found on Canvas.

Study Commitment:
Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6-credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

*Attendance Requirements:

As per the Faculty of Engineering Coursework Awards Resolutions, students are expected to attend and actively engage in all timetabled activities of their respective units of study. For this unit of study, students are expected to attend a minimum of 90 percent of timetabled activities for a unit of study unless granted exception by the Dean or Head of School most concerned. A student may be determined to fail a unit of study because of inadequate attendance. Alternatively, at their discretion, they may set additional assessment items where attendance is lower than 90 percent.  

Text-matching software for Assignment Submission:
As part of the assessment process, text matching software such as Turnitin may be used to identify plagiarism and/or be used for providing feedback.

Confidential Peer Evaluation:
As part of the group contribution assessment process, collaborative & self-peer evaluation tools (e.g. SparkPlus, CATME, etc.) may be used, either on a confidential or non-confidential basis, to understand contributions and interactions amongst group members. Marks may be adjusted for an individual team member, following on from the peer evaluation process.

Reliability of Canvas Marks:
Canvas will be used in this unit and while key assessments may be submitted via Canvas, it cannot be used to determine/ predict a student’s final marks in this unit. Not all assessment results may be visible to students and group/team marks can change for each individual team member based on the peer-evaluations conducted at the end of the semester.

Recycling Assignments Not Allowed:
Recycling involves submitting (or resubmitting) your own work that has already been assessed without the permission of the lecturer of this unit, and for which you have already been given feedback. Recycling is a form of academic dishonesty and will be handled in line with the coursework policy.

Mark Moderation:
There may be statistically defensible moderation when combining the marks from each component to ensure consistency of marking between markers, and alignment of final grades with unit outcomes.