New Assignment booklet to be sent out A.S.A.P. for AA100

Hello,

I am not sure if any of you have received this email as I have just received it today, but I think we can be rest assured the corrected mistakes are not going to change any prep work that we have all seemed have been doing.

Dear AA100 Students

On Friday, you received a message explaining that we will need to send you a new Assignment Booklet for the 2011J presentation. I am sorry that the message was rather brief: we were trying to inform everyone that there was a problem with the booklet as quickly as possible. I am writing to you now with more information about how the situation has arisen and what we are doing to remedy it.

When we set the Assignment Booklet, we also write marking notes for tutors. Because AA100 is an interdisciplinary module, tutors often need to mark assignments outside their discipline. As a result, some of those notes contain quite specific information about the kinds of point we hope students will make in answer to the questions. On Friday, we were told that, due to a clerical error, a student (we do not know who) has been sent a pack of module materials containing set of marking notes. In consultation with the Head of Examinations and Assessment, we have decided that we will have to set a new Assignment Booklet. We need to do this in order to ensure fairness for all the students on the presentation and in order to maintain the integrity of our assessment.

Unfortunately, this does mean that the questions (with the exceptions of Assignment 02, 07 and the EMA questions) will be different from those in the booklet that you were sent. The new questions will be on the same chapters and will be in a similar form to those in the assignment booklet you were sent. For example, for Assignment 01 you will still be asked to comment on a piece of text about Cleopatra and to do a piece of visual analysis in relation to Cézanne.

We are working as quickly as we can to create the new Assignment Booklet. I am afraid that I cannot now tell you exactly when it will be ready, as it needs approval from a number of people, including our external examiner. We should be able to put the new Assignment Booklet on the module website before it is printed to ensure that it is available to you as quickly as possible.

I am also very sorry that this situation has arisen: I do understand that it will cause real difficulties and anxieties for some of you. We are trying to manage the situation as fairly and as quickly as we can.

Best wishes
 (Above email sent to myself via OU.)

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Is it available here on the OU website? 

Hi Ed

I've just replied to you in the other forum. You won't find materials directly linked to your course on this website but you should have access to everything you need for your studies on StudentHome - www.open.ac.uk/student

Hope that helps

Robyn