Please:

1) Sign the petition. If the signature count reaches 10, I'll write a formal email to Laurence to seriously suggest this change.

2) Copy the following text and put it in your SETU survey. Change to a tyrannical policy only occurs if many stand up to it. Your engagement will make a huge difference!

"Please make the Excel DoE Template assignment as ONE submission instead of 4, or at least make the first 3 as formative/feedback only instead of worthing TEN marks of the unit.

It is up to the students to manage the progress of an assignment, and if the final version is due in week 12, we shouldn't have to make a basic version by week 6. The current marking scheme is an unnecessary waste of students' time and enthusiasm. 

We are all 3rd-year students and should have more freedom over our homework than grade 3 students."

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The full story:

Many of Monash 3rd year Pharmaceutical Science students enrolled in BPS3051 Product Development (2022) have been unnecessarily penalised for their "incomplete" Excel DoE Template submissions in the early weeks of the semester.

The assignment is to make an Excel-based template that can help you design an experiment and worths 35% in total. 

The final version of the assignment is due on the last day of the semester, but all of us were required to submit it 3 more times in the first half of the semester just to "receive feedback and improve on it".

However, despite their purpose (to provide feedback), the first 3 submissions actually worth a significant chunk of the unit grade (10%) and have caused unnecessary loss of many students' marks just because they haven't done something 9 weeks before due date!

And once again, we are fully-grown, independent-minded 3rd-year uni students, not grade 3 pupils who needs an hourly reminder of what's coming up!

If the signature count reaches 10, I'll write a formal email to Laurence to seriously suggest this change.

And this would be of course the most appropriate ending to my humble message (La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem):

"Aux armes, citoyens
Formez vos bataillons
Marchons, marchons!
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!"