Note for students:

In the past week, we have dealt with four disciplinary actions, something that one would not expect within the Christian environment. We want to maintain a high academic standard with complete integrity. Therefore, we urge you as fellow Christians to ensure that you adhere to the rules within the student handbook and the guidelines within the introduction to each course.

Plagiarism is when you use a source without referencing the resource, as prescribed in the handbook and in the prescribed book, Academic Writing and Theological Research (Smith 2008). Direct quotations also always require quote marks (‘like this’).

Cheating is when you

• write from another student’s assignments or help another student by allowing another student to write from your assignments; supply us with false information, giving the impression that you were ‘speaking’ the truth; or
• use your forbidden materials during a quiz or exam.

False information is when you

• take an exam that requires an invigilator, while he or she is not present. The invigilator should be present while you are taking the exam;
• claim that you have done something on MySATS at a given time, when in reality you did not. (We can investigate the MySats log files to determine whether or not your claim is true.)

All these aspects are seen as a serious breach of the values that we hold dear. Depending on the severity of the case, any violation constitutes grounds for one of four kinds of disciplinary action at SATS:
1. failing the assignment,
2. failing the course,
3. suspension of studies, or
4. expulsion from SATS.

We request that all facilitators, tutors, and markers as well as students take this as a very serious warning.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Willem Semmelink
Head of the Undergraduate School

Academic changes from Term1 2013

1. 50% passing mark. 80% distinction mark remains.
2. Negative marking will be applied to all multiple choice assignments.
3. Increments of 5% in marking of written assignments.
4. The mark break down will remain on 80% for content and 20% for technicalities.
5. Students will be able to view the materials of the following term two months prior to the starting date. Students can view the materials before the term starts but not do any assignments.
6. No resubmissions.
7. No supplementary assignments.
8. Late submissions will incur a penalty of 10% per day.
9. 10% penalty = 10 marks deducted from assigned mark.
10. Late submissions will be accepted up to one week past due date.
11. Content assessment to be weighted to ensure that students have adequate knowledge of subject matter.

General Inquiries

1. All admin inquiries must be send to Lewende Woord Correspondence Administrators. Please send all requests via email.
2. Any grading inquiries must be send to Lewende Woord Correspondence Administrators.
3. Contact Lewende Woord Correspondence Administrators with any problems uploading assignments .
4. All academic inquiries please contact the facilitator on MySats.

• All course related communications require the course code plus assignment number if relevant, term number, as well as the facilitator’s name & surname.
• For example: THE 1122, Term 4, Assignments 3-5, Bert Barnes. We have different partnerships and we do not want to have to go through the lists of students to determine who this student’s facilitator is;
• Students need to communicate directly with the facilitator and/or tutor. The facilitator will determine whether the communication should be escalated to a senior Academic.

All students are requested to keep abreast of changes to the resources on their MySats Home page, which are always announced on the General Forum.

BTh students should read the pages listed under the headingTechnical Helps, especially the one containing the latest instructions for Submitting assignments.

Note that no late submissions are allowed (except for medical reasons or a death in your family, in which case approval from the registrar is required).