4. Take Home Assignments

A take home assignment is assessed coursework which is issued to students as part of the examination element of assessment. Take home assignments will be released at midnight (00:00hrs) on the first day of the relevant examination period. 

Word Limit 

Each assignment will have a word limit. The purpose of a word limit is to give all students a clear indication of the maximum length of a piece of assessed written work, the amount of work expected and therefore how much detail you should go into and how you should allocate time to one piece of assessed work in relation to others. Writing to set word limits is a skill required within most professions, as well as an academic skill. Word limits are set appropriate to the assessment outcomes. 

Word limits will be set by module organisers on a case-by-case basis. The word limits are designed to allow you to complete the assignment within the time allowed (e.g. a single essay question over an exam originally scheduled for two hours would be around 2,000 words, two questions in two hours would be around 1,000.

Submission

Students will be required to submit via QMplus within two weeks (date to be confirmed) using the submission links in the module page. Submission drop boxes will close at the advertised deadline.

If you encounter errors in the exam paper or are unable to upload the exam to the QMPlus page for this module, please contact the school office asking for advice during UK office hours 09:00 to 16:00. You can do this by logging a ticket on AskQM (https://askqm.qmul.ac.uk/s/), with the enquiry title ‘Exam Paper Upload, MODULE CODE, STUDENT NAME & ID’.