School Policy

Assessment - Submissions

• Submission: hardcopy
• Submissions: electronic (e.g. Vista, email)

Assignments are in most instances required to be submitted in hardcopy/paper form. In some instances they may be required to be submitted electronically.

Whenever submitting material for assessment, the student must comply with the following conditions.

Submissions: hardcopy/paper

1. Unless otherwise stated all hardcopy assignments are to be submitted via the School Office Assignment submission box adjacent to Rm 158, First Floor, Old Main Building.
2. All material must be submitted no later than on the date specified for submission and before 4:00pm, the default final submission time, unless an earlier time has been specified. Submissions made before 4:00pm will be date stamped according to the date submitted. Any submission made after 4:00pm will be date stamped according to the next working day. The date stamp will be the official record of the submission date.
3. Each submission should be suitably bound and have an appropriate cover sheet. The cover sheet should state the student's name, student number, name of assignment, course code, lecturer, submission due date and total number of pages including the cover sheet. There are separate cover sheets for individual and team-based assignments.
4. It is recommended that students retain a copy of the material for their own records.
5. If a CD is included in the submission then the student should ensure that it is firmly attached to the submission.
6. Whenever appropriate, material that is submitted in the form of a report should be prepared to a suitable professional standard including that it be typed and appropriately formatted. Reports must conform to the Report Writing for Mining Engineers as well as the Guide to Authors by the AusIMM. All references should be cited using the Harvard convention detailed in the Guide to Authors.

Submissions: electronic

1. In some instances an Assignment submission tool will be available within the appropriate course folder in Vista.
2. The submission tool will automatically date stamp each submission.
3. Refer to items 5 and 6 in the previous section.

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