Applied Data Analysis for Civil and Natural Systems

Ki te mea he taumahatanga āu - Special Considerations

Students may apply for special consideration if their performance in an assessment is affected by extenuating circumstances beyond their control. The applicability and academic remedy/action associated with the special consideration process is listed for each assessment item below. Applications for special consideration should be submitted via the Examinations Office website http://www. canter bury.ac.nz/exams/ within 5 days of the assessment.

GIS Lab Outputs
Special consideration is not applicable as the individual labs are worth <10%. Students will have until the end of week 5 to complete all lab output submissions. Beyond this, students will need to demonstrate significant impairment supported by medical evidence to have late submissions considered. Late submissions may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

GIS Assignment
The assignment instructions will be posted by end of week 2, and students will be expected to commence work on the assignment then. Students will need to demonstrate significant impairment supported by medical evidence to have late submissions considered. Late submissions may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Statistics and Optimisation Lab Quizzes/ self-assessment
Special consideration is not applicable as the individual LEARN quizzes are worth <10% of the course grade. No alternative arrangements will be offered for any quizzes that are missed regardless of the circumstances. Reasonable extensions may be granted by communicating with corresponding lecturers.

Final exam - Serious/Severe impact
Students will be offered an equivalent alternative exam that will replace their original exam mark. The date of this alternative exam will be released after the exam period.

Moderate Impairment - A derived mark will be applied based on the overall performance in the quiz, tutorials and the understanding of knowledge presented in the exam script.

Note: All communication associated with the arrangement of equivalent alternative tests/exams will be conducted using official UC email accounts. The offer to sit an alternative assessment will come with a specific time and date. Students will have a clearly specified amount of time to respond to the offer to sit the alternative assessment. If the offer is declined, the original assessment mark will be used to compute the course grade. Failure to respond in the specified time frame will be interpreted as a declined offer.