Understand Your Assessment
Your Subject Outline includes information about assessment tasks, weightings, due dates and requirements for successfully completing the subject.
Assessment
Assignment Extensions and Supplementary Exams
Understand assessment due dates, late submission requirements, assignment extensions, deferred examinations and supplementary assessment arrangements at Adelaide Institute of Higher Education.
Assessment Requirements
Know your assessment requirements from the beginning
Each subject offered as part of the Bachelor of Business or MBA has its own specially designed assessment configuration.
A Subject Outline, which contains assessment details and other subject information, is made available to students at the beginning of each Study Period.
The Subject Coordinator will discuss the content of the Subject Outline in the first class of the Study Period and explain the submission details of each assessment task.
The Subject Outline and Assessment Briefs specify assessment requirements, including due dates and how assessment tasks are to be submitted.
Subject Information
Check your Subject Outline and Assessment Brief
Students receive important information about each assessment task before undertaking it. Always review the information provided for your subject carefully.
Review Task Requirements
Assessment Briefs provide the task requirements, submission information, due dates, marking criteria, referencing expectations and other relevant conditions.
Submit Correctly and On Time
Follow the submission instructions provided for the assessment and ensure your work is submitted by the specified due date and time.
Late Submission
Submit your assessment by the due date
Students are expected to submit assessment tasks by the specified due date and time unless an approved variation has been granted.
If circumstances outside your control may prevent you from submitting on time, do not simply wait until after the due date. Review the Assessment Procedure and apply for an appropriate assessment variation with supporting evidence.
Current Assessment Procedure
Late submission requirements
5% per calendar day
Late assessment submissions incur a penalty of 5% of the available marks for each calendar day, or part of a calendar day, that the assessment is late.
More than seven calendar days late
Assessment submitted more than seven calendar days after the due date will normally receive a mark of zero.
Approved variations
An approved assessment variation may change the normal submission arrangements where the requirements of the Assessment Procedure are met.
Modified Assessment Arrangements
When unexpected circumstances affect your assessment
Students may be eligible for modified assessment arrangements when unexpected or extenuating circumstances impact their performance or ability to complete an assessment by the specified date.
Extension of Submission Date
An approved extension may provide additional time to complete and submit an assessment task when eligible circumstances affect your ability to meet the original due date.
Deferred Examination
An alternative examination arrangement, including a deferred examination, may be considered when eligible circumstances prevent a student from undertaking an examination as scheduled.
Alternative Assessment Arrangement
Other approved assessment variations may be available where unexpected or extenuating circumstances affect a student's ability to undertake assessment as originally scheduled.
Eligibility
Unexpected or extenuating circumstances
Unexpected or extenuating circumstances are circumstances beyond the student's control that affect their ability to complete or undertake assessment. Applications must be supported by appropriate evidence and are considered on their individual merits.
Illness or Injury
Illness or injury affecting the student, or serious illness involving a close family member.
Significant Personal Circumstances
Unanticipated and significant personal circumstances beyond the student's control may support an application.
Significant Work Circumstances
Significant employment or professional obligations that could not reasonably have been anticipated may be considered.
Supporting Evidence
Applications for assessment variations must include appropriate verifiable evidence supporting the circumstances described.
How to Apply
Apply to vary your assessment
To be considered for an assessment variation, students must complete the Application to Vary Assessment Form and provide the required supporting evidence.
Applications are considered fairly, consistently and on their individual merits while maintaining the academic integrity and learning outcomes of the subject and course.
Students should submit requests as early as possible and follow the application requirements and timeframes set out in the current Assessment Procedure.
Application to Vary Assessment
Use this form when unexpected or extenuating circumstances impact your performance or your ability to complete an assessment task by the required date.
Supplementary Assessment
An additional opportunity for eligible students
Supplementary assessment may be granted to eligible students in accordance with the AIHE Assessment Procedure.
It provides an additional opportunity for an eligible student to demonstrate achievement of the learning outcomes required to pass a subject while maintaining AIHE's academic standards.
Supplementary assessment is not a re-mark of assessment results, a review of grades or a deferred assessment.
Supplementary assessment eligibility
A final result of 45% to 49% in the subject.
All required assessment tasks have been completed.
Applicable attendance or participation requirements have been met.
Any mandatory assessment requirements specified for the subject have been satisfied.
Policies and Resources
Assessment documents
Read the current AIHE Assessment Policy and Assessment Procedure for detailed requirements relating to assessment, variations, late submission and supplementary assessment.
Assessment Policy
The Assessment Policy establishes the principles governing the design, conduct, quality assurance and oversight of assessment at AIHE.
View Assessment Policy
Assessment Procedure
The Assessment Procedure explains assessment requirements including submission, late assessment, variations to assessment and supplementary assessment.
View Assessment Procedure
Need an Assessment Variation?
Submit your request with supporting evidence
If unexpected or extenuating circumstances affect your assessment, review the Assessment Procedure and submit the Application to Vary Assessment with appropriate supporting evidence as soon as possible.
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