Student Handbook 2024/25

Saving your work 

Students are strongly advised to save all their work to QMUL One Drive, the university's cloud storage service, for secure storage and backup. Please refer to the One Drive Guide for instructions on how to access and use it.  

Electronic Submission via QMplus Noticeboard (Turnitin) Final Assessment Exercise, Essay or Dissertation 

Students should submit their assignments to the relevant QMplus module page on the specified dates no later than 10:00 am (UK time). 

Online Examination  

Students must submit their assignments to the relevant QMplus module page by the specified dates, no later than 10:00 am (UK time). 

Turnitin 

When you submit your Essay/FAE/Online Examination or Dissertation via QMplus, it will automatically be submitted to the plagiarism software service 'Turnitin'. 

Please see the Turnitin section for an overview of how the QMplus/Turnitin process works. 

Draft Submission 

To help screen Course Essays, FAEs, or Dissertations for possible plagiarism, students may submit a draft version via the link here Draft Submission Page. This allows students to receive a Turnitin similarity score and report, which can indicate inadequately referenced or paraphrased text. 

Submitting work to the Draft Submission point does not affect your final submission to the relevant QMplus page, and the draft submission is not entered into the Turnitin student database repository. Please note that generating a similarity report may take time, especially during busy periods, so it is not advisable to expect a report within 24 hours. 

Students can submit drafts to the Draft Submission page as many times as needed to reduce the similarity score. 

It is not advisable to use other online checking services.  

Please note: any submissions made to the Draft Submission point are NOT linked to a module, and you MUST submit your final copy on the module page. Draft submissions are NOT considered final submissions. Any work uploaded to the Draft Submission area but not submitted to the final submission portal will be counted as a non-submission and will NOT be marked. It is the student's responsibility to ensure their work is submitted to the correct submission point. 

Final Submission 

A specific submission point will be added to the relevant QMplus page before the deadline. Your final submission will be submitted into the Turnitin student database repository. 

You may make unlimited submissions to the Final Submission point until the deadline date and time. 

You MUST submit your work at least 30 minutes before the final deadline to ensure safe receipt.  This will avoid last-minute technical issues that may affect your submission. 

An Essay or Dissertation submitted up to 7 calendar days after the deadline will be accepted, but a late penalty will be applied. For every period of 24 hours, or part thereof, that an assignment is late, 5% of the total marks available will be deducted (for example, -5 marks for an assessment marked out of 100). After seven calendar days (168 hours or more late) the mark will be reduced to zero and recorded as 0FL (zero, fail, late).