Assessment

Assessment for professional development courses depends on (a) the type of course you are undertaking and (b) how you enrolled in it.

Where the professional development course is a unit of study routinely offered through the Sydney School of Public Health, your assessment will depend on the way in which you enrolled:

• If you enrolled formally, that is as a non-award student, through the Sydney Medical School, you must complete all attendance and assessment requirements. If you fail the unit, for example by not submitting compulsory assessment tasks or by failing them, an AF (Absent Fail) will be recorded on your academic transcript. The benefit of enrolling formally is that you can count this unit towards a degree with us, as long as this you start your degree and claim credit within two years.
• If you enrolled through the Sydney School of Public Health, you MAY be expected to complete assessment tasks and you may even be given a ‘mark’. You should check with your unit coordinator whether you are expected to do any form of assessment. However, if you do complete assessment task(s), your results will not be recorded by the School, nor will any grade for this unit appear on your academic transcript. You will not be able to claim credit for this unit towards one of our degrees, now or in the future.

Where the professional development course is a stand-alone short course which is NOT offered as a unit of study by the Sydney School of Public Health, you will not be required to undertake any assessment.