Understand your unit description
Your unit description is your go-to guide for the semester. It outlines key details like your timetable, learning expectations, and assessment requirements. Reviewing it early will help you plan your tasks and know what’s coming.
Find your unit description in Moodle. It includes your:
- teaching team, including contact details for your unit coordinator, lecturer, and tutor
- assessment tasks, including what you need to do to pass, how much each task is worth, and due dates
- unit content, including your class schedule, weekly topics, and required readings.
How to use your unit description
This document provides information on how the unit fits into your degree structure, including:
- the credit points awarded for completion of it
- any prerequisite or corequisite courses
- the level of the unit and teaching period.
The unit content includes:
- learning outcomes you can expect
- learning activities (this may include weekly tasks, reading tasks, discussion, lecturers and / or tutorials)
- recommended hours you can expect to devote to classes, independent learning and assignments.
Your unit description will explain the assessment requirements also. This includes:
- the number of assessment tasks
- a description for each task
- information about how each task aligns with the learning outcomes for the unit.
Your unit description outlines how your tasks will be marked.
The task marking guides or rubrics are available in Moodle, but the unit description will contain the individual weightings for each task (together they'll add up to 100%).
In other words, you can find out how each task will contribute to your overall grade for the unit percentagewise.
Your unit description should also contain the lecturer or teaching team for the course. With this information, you can look for your teacher’s contact details in Microsoft Teams or Outlook.