Work submitted for assessment should be the original work of the student and should not have been submitted for assessment in any other course at RMIT or elsewhere. Any piece of work for assessment submitted more than one week after the end of teaching, for which the student has not received a suitable extension, should not be accepted. Work up to one week late, without an extension granted by the lecturer or grounds for special consideration, should incur a late penalty of 5 per cent per working day of the total possible marks for the piece of work. You should seek credit only for your own work, that is, your own ideas and efforts. Moreover, under RMIT Student Discipline Regulations, cheating or attempts to cheat must be referred to the Discipline Board.
Plagiarism is treated as a form of cheating.
In all written work, including journals, assignments and projects, you should refer to your sources of information by indicating references within the body of your writing and by fully describing them in a standard form. This must be done whenever quoting another person's actual words, whenever using another person's ideas or opinions, and whenever reproducing facts, statistics or diagrams, unless the information is considered common knowledge. Although there is no minimum attendance standard, attendance at classes generally will be necessary to meet the requirements of courses taken by the internal mode. Therefore students, other than fully external ones, are expected to attend the seminars or to apply to the course coordinator for special consideration in the case of illness etc. Contribution to class activities takes place during the intensive program delivery which should be a minimum of 18 teacher guided hours.