Request for Assessment Adjustment
For assignment extension requests, or to complete an Extenuating Circumstances Application( ECA) please go to Request for Assessment Adjustment.
For ALL extension requests you MUST:
1. Apply before the due date for the assignment
2. Include documentary evidence for the reason for the request.
- ANU Education Access Plan (EAP)
- medical certificate from GP or health professional including a pharmacist
- an email from an employer attesting to unplanned workload
- death certificate or similar
- police report
- an email from a cultural or religious leader attesting to an event that conflicts with an assessment due
- a letter of support from a residential college
- a letter of support from the ANU Student Safety and Wellbeing Team.
Extensions cannot be given longer than the return date for the assignment.
Extenuating Circumstances Application (ECA)
Accepted grounds for an Extenuating Circumstances Application (ECA) will in most instances be previously unknown and unavoidable incidents that have a demonstrable and significant impact on a student's ability to study or undertake an assessment item.
To apply for an ECA the assessment task must be worth 20% or more of the overall course mark.
Word Limit and Penalty
Where specified in the assessment task description in the class summary as applying to that assignment, Crawford School operates a single approach to word limits and the application of penalties for exceeding that penalty. It is the student’s responsibility to, where indicated, acquaint themselves with this approach. Any questions should be directed in first order to your course convenor through the contact details provided to you.
Where a limit on the word or character length of your assessment has been prescribed, penalties apply to any assignment that is returned with a count greater than 110% of the limit specified for that assignment.
The penalty is 2% for every 5% (or part thereof) by which the assignment exceeds 110% of the specified limit. For example: if the word limit is 3,000 words, then 110% = 3,300 words (x 5% = 165 words), so a 3,400-word essay — which exceeds this number by 100 words — will incur a penalty of 2%, while a 3,500-word essay — which exceeds this number by 200 words — will incur a penalty of 4%, etcetera.
The limit includes all main text, headings, tables, text boxes and footnotes with substantive text. It does not include the cover sheet, bibliography, and bibliographic content in footnotes.