Assessment Policy: 4. Coursework submission dates will be published to students at the start of each academic year.

Coursework submission dates are published to students via  Assessment Statement in My Student Record (MSR). The Assessment Statement is intended to help students manage their time and plan carefully to meet all assessment submission deadlines. The Assessment Statement is a short, clear and comprehensive summary of the assessment tasks and activities that the student will need to complete in the coming academic year.

Course teams are responsible for designing assessment timelines that support the student experience across a level of study, including effective use of formative assessments and providing structured support to students to help them manage their assessments.

See a larger version of the example Assessment Statement. (JPG, 288.3KB)

Further information about Assessment Statements:

• Where sub-tasks exist, they will be listed separately under the main task.
• The statement will show assessment dates for current year and previous years only.
• Staff can access any students statement via SITS online from the ‘Module Delivery and Assessment Page’ and then selecting ‘Assessment Statement’.
• If a student has an approved extension, the agreed extension date will be displayed next to the original deadline date for the task.
• Where coursework assessments are set over a date range (e.g. some group or in class work), the date of the last assessment in the range will be the one initially published in the Assessment Statement. Exact dates for each group assessment need to be confirmed by the module leader in advance of the assessment and should be provided to College Academic Administration Teams so this information can be added to Curriculum View and show in the students’ assessment statement.
• if a student is referred or deferred in a task, the date for this will be shown in the statement as soon as the students mark has progressed through the assessment boards and reassessment is confirmed. 

Assessment Scheduling

Module Leaders undertake assessment scheduling between the months of May to July each year, module leaders will need to check the summative task and sub-task assessment data for their modules to ensure information such as title of the assignment and due date/time are correct. This process is supported in the College by Academic Administration who liaise with the academic teams to help validate assessment task information. Check the Sharepoint page on assessment data collection for more details.

Find out more:

Sheffield Hallam Guidance

Policy for Assessment

SITS Online - contains information on summative assessment tasks for module