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• Unsatisfactory Progress
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    • Table 1A - At Risk (AR)
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    • Notes on Identification and Categorisation of Students
    • Return to 'good standing'
    • Notification to Students, Student Adviser Appointment
    • The Course Unsatisfactory Progress Committee (CUPC)
    • Conditions, Recommendations
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• Breadth Study
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    • Pre Melbourne Model Degrees
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• Defence Reservists & Emergency Volunteers
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    • Application for Assistance
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• Elite Athletes & Performers
  • Definitions
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  • Procedure and Practice
    • Application for Assistance
    • Assistance Provided
    • Discretion & Appeals
• Remission Or Refund In Special Circumstances
  • Definitions
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    • Process overview & responsibility, Special Circumstances, Supporting documentation
  • Procedure and Practice
    • Non-award courses
    • All award courses & all fee types
      • Special Circumstances requirements, Application deadlines, Supporting documentation
      • Remission or refund cannot occur for units successfully completed, Subject Grade for successful applications
      • Applications by a student whose enrolment has been terminated or suspended for academic reasons
      • International students in their first year of study, Timeframe for response to student
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    • Appendix 1 University Statutes
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• Student Workload
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• Special Arrangements for Polytechnic Students
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• Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage
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    • Application for assistance
      • Timing of requests, The first request
      • Documentation
      • Development of an impact statement
      • Negotiation of requests, Management of expectations, Ongoing management of the student
    • Short-term disadvantage
    • Assistance/adjustments to be considered
    • Student Adviser, The Student Equity Officer (SEO), The Disability Liaison Unit (DLU)
    • Discretion & Appeals
• Support for Commencing Students at Risk
  • Definitions
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    • Early Intervention in Undergraduate Degrees
  • Procedure and Practice
    • Interim Assessment in subjects taken in a student's first teaching period of their enrolment
    • Identification based on membership of a cohort
    • Commencement Questionnaire - Recommended for First Year Students in New Generation Degrees
    • Providing support to students 'potentially at risk'
    • Identification by teaching staff
    • Support and training of staff
    • Discretion
    • Review & Reporting
    • Responsibilities of students, Appeals
• Assessment
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    • The purposes of assessment and grading
    • What is assessed? Subject Study level
    • Responsibility for the conduct of assessment
    • Explaining assessment criteria to students
    • Marking guidelines for Examiners and assistant markers
    • Forms of assessment
    • Alternative & Weighting of assessment components
    • Prescribed (hurdle) requirements
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    • Assessment in intensive subjects
    • Parameters of assessment requirements
    • Late submission of work
    • Standard penalties for New Generation undergraduate degrees
    • Timing of assessment tasks
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    • Changes to assessment details
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    • Consideration for special circumstances
    • Consideration for shorter assignments & tests
    • Grading structure and policy
    • Distribution of grades, Re-scaling/Standardisation of marks
    • Preparation of assignments
    • Assignment submission and collection
    • Extension of time to complete assignments
    • Feedback to Students, Return of work (assignments)
    • Following the release of final results
    • Review of assessment details, Responsibilities of students, Appeals

Elite Athletes & Performers

Procedure and Practice

All coursework degrees in the Melbourne Model

1. Application for Assistance
2. Assistance Provided
3. Discretion
4. Appeals

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