External Assignment Submission
The following guidelines for submitting external assignments have been developed to assist our students to avoid disappointment and ensure your assignments do not get lost or delayed.
Guidelines for submitting external assignments
- Make a copy of your assignment. Assignments occasionally get mislaid or in rare cases, lost whilst en route to the University or within the University itself. If the assignment gets lost, it is YOUR responsibility to ensure you have kept an exact copy. This also applies to assignments on audio tape or CD formats.
- Use A4 paper or US Letter
- Do not submit your assignment in a plastic sleeve or in a folder or binder unless your lecturer specifically asks for one.
- Make sure your assignment is legible, as your marker won't be able to mark it if they cannot read it. Type your assignment if possible, and if hand writing, use black ink. Never use a red pen or pencil unless specifically requested by the lecturer.
- Use only one side of the paper.
- Put your name, student number, assignment identifier and unit code on the top of each page to prevent any mixup in pages or assignments.
- Number all pages (including the cover sheet) at the bottom of the page as follows e.g. 9 of 13.
- Complete an Assignment Cover Sheet and include all relevant information. Attach the relevant barcoded sticker if you have received some.
- Attach all pages by stapling them together in the top-left corner.
- CDs and audio tapes should packed properly to ensure that they are not damaged in transit, i.e. use bubble wrap or a heavy duty cardboard mailer.
- Include the assignment and the assignment cover sheet in an envelope
- By mail: Due dates mean when the assignment must be received, not when the assignment is sent. Be aware Australia Post delivers at different speeds to different areas of the country. Next day delivery does not always mean "next day delivery". Check when sending.
- Include the assignment and the Assignment Acknowledgement Card in an envelope and mail it to:
External Student Support
Flexible Delivery Team
Teaching & Learning Quality Group
Darwin, Northern Territory 0909
Make sure you have activated your CDU student email account, as acknowledgement of receipt will be emailed to your student account.
Assignment submission
Note: we DO NOT accept assignments submitted by fax.
Electronic (online) submission
If your unit has a Learnline site, then all electronic submissions for your unit should be made using that method. You can view a video tutorial on how to submit an assignment in Learnline here.
Postal
Please ensure that you attach a cover sheet for each assignment and fill in all of the details on the sheet to allow for speedy processing.
In Person
Personally delivered to a drop-box on campus - Casuarina Campus Library or Alice Springs Info Centre. Please ensure that you attach a cover sheet for each assignment and fill in all of the details on the sheet to allow for speedy processing.
Charles Darwin University are unable to process assignments which are incomplete or are lacking the assignment cover sheet. It is the student's responsibility to ensure they have met all the requirements identified in the assignment submission checklist. Where possible we will endeavour to contact the student by email to their student email account and advise them of incomplete submission. Note: an incomplete submission does not constitute a submission due date extension.
Please check with your lecturer if you are unsure of the preferred method for submitting your assignment.
Assignment Extension Requests
Please note there has been a change to the process of requesting an extension for assignments through an online form.
All requests for an extension to assignment due dates must be submitted to your lecturer. Contact details for lecturing staff can be found on the staff contact list. Please ensure you apply for an extension before the assignment due date.
Resubmitted assignments
If you have been requested by your lecturer to resubmit an assignment please ensure that you use a new cover-sheet and indicate that the assignment is a resubmission by writing in the student comment box on the form to avoid confusion in handling
