LPS template changes 2021/22
There are some small changes in the LPS template for 2022/23. If you are rolling over a module site that already used the 20/21 template, then these are the things that you can change without having to start afresh with the new template. If you are rolling over from the 21/22 template you just need to add the Data Collection paragraph to the Assessments and guidance page
1. Module information page
Add the following text to the Teaching Methods section:
You can access the University’s Dignity and Respect policy as well as information about the University’s Respect, Equality, Diversity and Safety (REDS) programme here.
2. Assessments and guidance
Add the following sections:
A3 Sits and Resits
[Information about resit modes and instructions to be added here]
Data collection
Before collecting any new data from human participants for research purposes (including social media data and auto ethnographic research), ethics approval from a School Research Ethics Officer (SREO) or the Social Science and Arts Cross-Schools Research Ethics Committee must first be granted. For more information on how to submit an ethics application and what this process entails, please see the UoS ethics pages online.
3. Assessments and guidance
Add the following section and text:
Word Limits
When writing your assessments, please pay attention to the maximum word limits that have been set for the assignment, as shown in your assessment deadlines timetable in Sussex Direct.
University regulations state, "Where a student has marginally (within 10%) exceeded the word length the Marker should penalise the work where the student would gain an unfair advantage by exceeding the word limit. In excessive cases (>10%) the Marker need only consider work up to the designated word count, and discount any excessive word length beyond that to ensure equity across the cohort. Where an assessment is submitted and falls significantly short (>10%) of the word length, the Marker must consider in assigning a mark, if the argument has been sufficiently developed and is sufficiently supported and not assign the full marks allocation where this is not the case".
Word limits as stated include quotations in the text, but do not include the bibliography, footnotes/endnotes, appendices, abstracts, maps, illustrations or tables. For more information please check the University regulations.
4. Assessments and guidance
Update the second paragraph of the last plagiarism section to:
Unless specifically allowed in module documentation, the use of the same material in more than one assessment will be subject to penalties. If there is substantial overlap or repetition in your assessments within a single module or across modules, you will have marks deducted.
