Deadlines, assessment & parking

Always consult The Brief documents to keep track of your deadlines.

These deadlines are in place so that your work can be marked quickly and your work can be entered into The Pappies.

If you can not make a deadline due to:

• serious reasons or medical reasons, these are grounds for an extension. You must provide a letter from your caregivers and a medical certificate. Your teacher will decide on an appropriate extension time period

• bereavement, this is grounds for an extension. You must provide a letter from your caregivers and a medical certificate. Your teacher will decide on an appropriate extension time period.

• Holidays, sports trips, jobs, and assessments in other subjects...these are not grounds for extensions.

• because you are struggling to meet the required standard before final assessment....an alternative to being assessed too soon, is having your work parked. This means you are not on track to achieving at that stage and can continue to work on it at a later stage.

Media teachers follow the latest NZQA advice: Students should be assessed when they are ready.

All Media courses can allow students to be assessed when they are ready.

However, Media teachers need to know (via in person or email) as soon as you know you can not meet the deadline. We ask that teachers receive this information either from the dean, form teacher, students themselves, or parents/caregivers.

Resubmissions

Updated 2021

A student has access to an Achieved grade only from a resubmission. A resubmission can occur if the student has made minor errors.

A resubmission: can be offered to correct a minor error and gain the grade of Achieved, not Merit or Excellence.

A resubmission:

• does not allow students to gain Merit or Excellence grades

• should take place as soon as possible after the assessment has been completed

• can be offered where the teacher judges the student should be capable of discovering and correcting the minor error by themselves.

This will mostly occur in writing assessments (grammar, syntax, punctuation, etc.).

For Media production assessments, mistakes regarding graphics e.g. titles spelling mistakes, minor sound control issues can be cause to grant a resubmission.

It can also be for errors in close viewing assessments when students have misnamed aspects of film, text titles, directors/authors/sources.

For all resubmissions, a time soon after the original assessment must be organised to carry this out (under two weeks following the original assessment would be acceptable).

Checkpoints

Checkpoints are work that is set within a two week period. Checkpoints help you ultimately meet your final deadlines. Checkpoints are connected to your fortnightly engagement reports.

How do I know what the engagement numbers are for?

3. - meets expectations for ALL the tasks in the checkpoint

2. - meets expectations for only SOME of the tasks in the checkpoint

1. - does not meet expectations for most of the tasks in the checkpoint

When teachers decide on a grade for your engagement report, we also consider:

• Have I needed to talk to the student about their lack of engagement?

• Have I needed to move the student to another place in the classroom?

• Have I needed to contact home because of student disengagement?

Further Assessment Opportunities

There are no further assessment opportunities (FAO) in Media due to the portfolio, practical, and project learning assessment style to the Media courses. No further assessment opportunities are available.

Level 1 NCEA literacy

The literacy for the Level 1 NCEA qualification is a minimum of 10 credits through your subjects. Literacy credits can be gained from successful completion of English 1.11 and English 1.2.

University Entrance (Year 13s only)

If you intend on using Media as ONE of your approved University Entrance subjects, you need to achieve Media Studies 3.5, 3.8, 3.6 internal assessments.

UE Literacy requirements (Yr 12+13s only)

Ten credits from standards (5 credits in reading and 5 credits in writing) across your subjects in Year 12 or 13 are required to meet the University Entrance literacy requirements.

The following standards in Media meet the UE literacy requirement:

• Media 2.8 W

• Media 2.1 or 2.4 R + W

• Media 3.8 W

• Media 3.1 R + W

Plagiarism

The Media department values and promotes originality of ideas. You need to take the time to come up with your own ideas. We also encourage you to research, find evidence to support your ideas, and cite your research appropriately.

When you use other sources of information, e.g. articles, blogs, videos, you must acknowledge the source of information. You may use an in text citation, like the explore tool in Google Docs, or a provide reference list at the end of your writing. At the very least you need to cite the name of the source and the title within your work. For example, according to Bex Roberts, “Plagiarism is something to avoid at all costs!”

If you do not acknowledge the source and you directly copy or use ideas and words created by someone else, you could be guilty of plagiarism.

What are the consequences of plagiarism?

When a teacher suspects plagiarism in your work the teacher discusses this with the HOD. The HOD then passes the information to your Dean and the NZQA representative in the school. Your whanau would then be notified. Finally, your name and details would be added to the school wide Plagiarism list.

• You will be graded Not Achieved the assessment.

Footnotes:

1. Google Docs Blog: Explore in Docs, Sheets and Slides makes work a ...." 29 Sep. 2016, https://docs.googleblog.com/2016/09/ExploreinDocsSheetsSlides.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2016.

2. "APA Style - Library - University of Canterbury." http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/ref/apa/. Accessed 12 Dec. 2016.

3. "Turnitin: Results: Plagiarism Spectrum." http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_spectrum.php. Accessed 12 Dec. 2016.

Special Assessment Conditions

SAC does not apply for Media .5, .8, or .6. This is because the portfolio, practical and project type of assessment work.

SAC does apply for Media externals and English 1.11. It’s up to you to organise SAC for formative assessment week and the externals. Please see Mrs Mathias in the Library to organise this yourself.

Getting your device ready

If you have a new device, go to the IT dept during morning break or lunchtime to get it registered to the school Wi-Fi network.

Download these apps at home so you are ready for school. (Apple users, go to the App Store. Android users, go to Google Play.)

* Papanui High School app * Google Classroom * Google Drive * Google Docs * Google Slides

* Google Calendar * Google Sheets * Kahoot! * EdPuzzle * QR Reader or QRBot * Celtx