HFL1501 ASSESSMENT PACK

Semester 1 of 2024
This document is compulsory reading for the module
HFL1501. It contains important information regarding the
assessments and final mark calculation.

Table of Contents

1. General HFL1501 assessment information 2

2. The HFL1501 Assessments 3
2.1 Assessment due dates 3
2.2 Format and scope of the assessments 4
3. Information on the assessments 6
3.1 File-upload (written) assessments 6
3.2 Online quiz assessments 8
4. Assessment submission instructions 10
4.1 Instructions for the submission of a file-upload assessment 10
4.2 Instructions for the submission of an online quiz 12
5. Calculation of your final mark 13
6. How to pass the module HFL1501 15
7. Information regarding examinations and further assessment
opportunities in this module 17

Very Important:
The module HFL1501 is offered as a continuous assessment module. This
means that there is no examination for HFL1501. To pass this module, you
must submit at least four of the six online assessments before the
respective due dates. Assessment 6 is mandatory. This means that you are
required to actively work on this module throughout the semester.

Please read all the information below very carefully to make sure you understand
the assessment policy for this module. Please register on myUnisa, activate your
myLife e-mail address and make sure that you have regular access to the
myUnisa module website, HFL1501-2024-S1.
1 GENERAL HFL1501 ASSESSMENT INFORMATION

1.1 Assessment criteria

The module HFL1501 is a continuous assessment module. This means that there
is no examination for this module. In order to pass this module, you must work
continuously throughout the semester, and submit at least four of the six assessments
before their due dates, of which Assessment 6 is mandatory. Please take note that
because there is no examination, there are no supplementary, aegrotat, special or
contingency exams in this module either. The only way to pass the module is to obtain
a final mark of 50%, based on your performance in the assessments.

How does this affect the way in which you should approach this module? To be able
to pass a continuous assessment module, you must continuously work in this module.
This means that you cannot leave this module until the last few weeks of the semester.
You should start working on this module as soon as you are registered by doing the
following:

✓ Read through your Study Guide.

✓ Do the activities and answer the self-assessment questions in your Study Guide.
✓ Visit the module site regularly (at least twice a week!) and read the
Announcements.
✓ Complete the online lessons available on the module site.
✓ View the pre-recorded lectures available on the module site.
✓ Complete the optional mock quiz assessment on the module site to familiarise
yourself with the online quiz tool.
✓ Participate in the Discussions forum on the module site.
✓ Read the frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the module site.
✓ Study and prepare in advance for each assessment.

There is no examination or a portfolio for this module. Your year mark for this
module will be your final mark and will be calculated by taking into account the
highest results your obtained for three of the elective assessments as well as
your mark for Assessment 6:

o Assessment 01: 25% Elective/optional

o Assessment 02: 25% Elective/optional
o Assessment 03: 25% Elective/optional
o Assessment 04: 25% Elective/optional
o Assessment 05: 25% Elective/optional
o Assessment 06: 25% Mandatory

When an assessment is mandatory, this means that the mark you receive for
this assessment will always contribute to your final mark. For information on the
calculation of the final mark, please see paragraph 5 on pages 13–15, below.

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 1.2 Assessment plan

• To complete this module, you will be required to submit at least four of the six
assessments, of which Assessment 6 is mandatory.
• All information about where and how to submit your assessments will be made
available to you via the HFL1501 myModules site. See, also, paragraph 4 below.
• Due dates for assessments appear below and are also available on the HFL1501-
2024-S1 module site.
• The actual assessment questions are not available in this assessment pack
document. You will receive the questions to file-upload assessments two weeks
before the assessment is due. Quiz questions are only available online once
you attempt the quiz.
• Your final mark is calculated from your result for Assessment 6 and your three
other best assessment marks, making up a total of 100%. We explain this in
more detail on pages 13–15 of this document.
• There is no examination for this module.

2 THE HFL1501 ASSESSMENTS

2.1 Assessment due dates
The due dates for all the assessments are available below. Please also take note that
any changes to the due dates will be communicated via the Announcements
forum on the HFL1501-2024-S1 module site. For this reason, you must visit the
module site at least twice a week to keep up to date with any important administrative
information regarding this module.

The due dates for the HFL1501 assessments are as follows:

Compulsory
Type Opening date Due date
or optional
File
A01 Optional 08h00 on 6 March 2024 13h00 on Wednesday, 20 March 2024
upload
A02 Optional Quiz 08h00 on 6 March 2024 13h00 on Wednesday, 10 April 2024
A03 Optional Quiz 08h00 on 6 March 2024 13h00 on Wednesday, 17 April 2024
A04 Optional Quiz 08h00 on 6 March 2024 13h00 on Wednesday, 24 April 2024
A05 Optional Quiz 08h00 on 6 March 2024 13h00 on Thursday, 2 May 2024
File
A06 Mandatory 08h00 on 25 April 2024 13h00 on Thursday, 9 May 2024
upload

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 Very important:

Please note that no extension for any assessment is possible for whatever
reason. Please ensure that you submit your assessments before their respective
due dates. Please diarise the above dates and plan ahead.

We strongly advise that you submit your assessments early and that you don’t wait
until the last day or hour to submit. We also advise you to submit all or as many
assessments as you can. Because there are multiple assessments opportunities and
only four of your assessment marks make up your final mark, no extensions are
allowed. In terms of the Unisa Assessment Policy, excuses, such as loadshedding,
power outages, your busy work schedule, laptop crashes, confusion about the due date
or time, or bad planning on your part, are not valid reasons for extension of due dates.
As a prospective lawyer, it is crucial that you learn time management skills and that you
are able to meet due dates and deadlines.

2.2 Format and scope of the HFL1501 assessments

Please read the following information on each assessment very carefully:

Assessment 1
This is a written (file upload) assessment. This assessment covers the content of Part
1 of the Study Guide and counts out of 25 marks. The assessment dates are provided
on page 3 of this document and submission instructions on pages 10–12. This
assessment is an elective assessment.

Assessment 2
This is a quiz assessment, consisting of ten randomised MCQs. This assessment
covers the content of Part 1 of the Study Guide and counts out of 25 marks. The
assessment dates are provided on page 3 of this document and submission
instructions on pages 12–13. This assessment is an elective assessment.

Assessment 3
This is a quiz assessment, consisting of ten randomised MCQs. This assessment
covers the content of Learning units 1 and 2 of Part 2 of the Study Guide. Please
note that you will be tested on your knowledge of Latin terminology in this
assessment. The assessment dates are provided on page 3 of this document and
submission instructions on pages 12–13. This assessment is an elective assessment.

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Assessment 4
This is a quiz assessment, consisting of ten randomised MCQs. This assessment
covers the content of Learning unit 3 of Part 2 of the Study Guide. Please note that
you will be tested on your knowledge of Latin terminology in this assessment.
Also, since the contents of Learning unit 3 builds on your understanding of Learning
unit 2, we strongly advise you to work through both Learning units 2 and 3 of Part 2 of
the Study Guide before attempting this quiz. The assessment dates are provided on
page 3 of this document and submission instructions on pages 12–13. This is an
elective assessment.

Assessment 5
This is a quiz assessment, consisting of ten randomised MCQs. This assessment
covers the content of Learning unit 4 of Part 2 of the Study Guide. Please note that
you will be tested on your knowledge of Latin terminology in this assessment.
Also, since the contents of Learning unit 4 builds on your understanding of Learning
unit 3, we strongly advise you to work through both Learning units 3 and 4 of Part 2 of
the Study Guide before attempting this quiz. The submission dates are provided on
page 3 of this document and submission instructions on pages 12–13. This
assessment is an elective assessment.

Assessment 6

This assessment is mandatory. The mark you achieve in this assessment will
automatically contribute to your final mark. This means that if you do not submit
Assessment 6 before the due date, you will score zero for this assessment,
which will severely impact on your final mark.

This is a written (file upload) assessment. This assessment covers the content of the
entire Study Guide and counts out of 25 marks. Since this assessment tests your
understanding of the entire module’s content, we strongly advise you to work
continuously on this module throughout the semester in preparation for this
assessment. The assessment dates are provided on page 3 of this document and
submission instructions on pages 10–12.

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3 INFORMATION ON THE ASSESSMENTS
In this module you are required to submit two types of assessments, namely file-
upload and quiz assessments. Please read the following information carefully for
details on each assessment type, as well as on how to complete them:

3.1 File-upload (or written) assessments

• What is a file-upload assessment?

The HFL1501 Assessments 1 and 6 are file-upload or written assessments. To
complete such an assessment, you must access the assessment questions on the
module site. The questions will be made available to you once each assessment
opens. You will have two weeks to complete each written assessment. You must
access the questions and download them by opening the specific assessment on the
module home page. The questions will also be posted in an announcement on
myUnisa on the day the assessment opens. Each written assessment counts out of
25 marks, which makes up 25% of your final mark.

For these written assessments, you will not be typing your answers onscreen on the
myUnisa system. You will complete these assessments by answering the questions
offline in your own time. You will answer these questions by typing or writing out your
answers, saving your work as a PDF file, and uploading this file with your answers to
the module site. You may only submit online on myUnisa, on the HFL1501 module
site. Submissions cannot be accepted on any other platform. For example, no e-
mailed submissions may be accepted. Your answers will be marked onscreen, and
you will receive feedback, as well as your results, once the marking process is
complete. This process usually takes several weeks, as we have to mark thousands
of assessments. As soon as you have received your marked assessment, please
compare your answers to our general and specific feedback. Doing an assessment,
and then carefully studying the commentary on it, constitute an important part of your
learning and should help you to be better understand the content of the study material.

The written assessments will cover the sections of the contents of the Study Guide, as
indicated on pages 4–5, above. The questions count between one and five marks. The
length of and amount of information to be included in your answer should be guided
by the number of marks allocated to each question. It is therefore not advisable to
provide a one-sentence answer to a five-mark question.

When answering the written questions, please do not type or write out the questions
again, but only provide the answers. Make sure to number your answers according to
the numbering provided in the assessment. Always make sure to answer all the
questions. Do not start each question on a new page.

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• Preparing your file for upload
Once you have answered all the questions, it is important that you follow all the steps
to create a valid file that will be accepted for upload by the myUnisa system. You may
write your answers out on paper, but we prefer typed submissions. We should also
add that, in our experience, handwritten or scanned files are much more prone to
cause system errors, resulting in your file not being able to open. We therefore strongly
advise you, if at all possible, to rather type your answers. Please also note that this file
should not be password-protected or purposefully corrupted.

If you type out your answers: Please save your electronic file as a .pdf file. You can
do this by using the Save As function in Microsoft Word and changing the file type to
PDF. The myUnisa system will not accept any other file types. Only .pdf files may be
submitted. If you wish to scan printed pages, please see the instructions in the next
paragraph.

If you write out your answers: Please make use of a black pen and write clearly and
neatly. If we cannot read your submission, we cannot mark it. Please visit the
Additional Resources section on the HFL1501 module site and open the file on
Assessment Information. Here you will find information on how to convert written
pages to a PDF file with the help of your electronic device. It is absolutely crucial that
you take clear photos of each page. Each photo should be of one page of your written
work. Your photos must be taken in a well-lit area and should not be blurry. Check
your photos before converting them to PDF. If you cannot read the wording, we cannot
read your answers and we will not be able to award any marks. Make very sure to
include each page in the one file you submit. Please follow all the instructions provided
in the documentation available on the module site (see the Assessment Information
folder under Additional Resources).

• Referencing and plagiarism in Assessments 1 and 6

All written assessments submitted to Unisa require that you should reference the
sources used to complete the assessment. This means that you should include
references (also known as citations) in your document, in the form of footnotes. The
HFL1501 Study Guide is an example of a source used for this module. If you do not
include references in your assessment, you will be guilty of plagiarism. It is, however,
also important to note that you may also be guilty of plagiarism (even if you have
included references in your assessment) if you have copied word-for-word from a
source. To safeguard yourself against being found guilty of academic dishonesty (such
as plagiarism), you need to paraphrase the information you have obtained from a
source used when completing an assessment. For more information on plagiarism and
paraphrasing, please see the Assessment Information folder, under Additional

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Resources on the module’s myUnisa site. Please read the policies and Frequently
Asked Questions document provided in that folder.

In the field of law, references are inserted in footnotes.1 The School of Law makes use
of a specific prescribed referencing style, namely OSCOLA. Tutorial Letter 302
provides the requirements for and examples of how to apply this style. Although you
will not be penalised if you don’t follow the referencing style, we encourage you
to start doing so from your first year of studying law. Learning how to include
references and footnotes is a skill that takes practice and requires attention to detail.
The sooner you master this skill, the better it will serve you later on in your studies.
Please visit the Additional Resources folder on the HFL1501 module site where we
have conveniently uploaded various documents containing helpful information, such
as guidelines on how to create footnotes and tips on the OSCOLA referencing style
guidelines.

When completing the written assessments, it is not necessary to include a written

academic honesty declaration with your submission. The online submission
process requires that you accept an online acknowledgement of the Unisa plagiarism
policy before your submission may be completed.

Please visit the HFL1501-2024-S1 module site, where you will find various other
helpful documents available under “Additional Resources” to assist you when
completing your written assessments. These documents include information on how
to convert a document to PDF; the College of Law’s policy on plagiarism; the formal
requirements for written submissions; the referencing style of the College of Law and
other relevant matters.

3.2 Online quiz assessments

• What is an online quiz assessment?

The HFL1501 Assessments 2, 3, 4 and 5 are all quiz assessments to be completed
online. Each quiz consists of ten randomised multiple-choice questions (MCQs). An
MCQ (or “monkey puzzle” question) provides you with a question and four possible
answers, and then requires you to select only one correct answer. “Randomised”
means that the system will randomly select different questions for different students.
There are more than a hundred questions uploaded to the system for each quiz, but
each student will receive only ten randomly selected questions of these for
answering. In other words, no two students will receive the same questions. This
means that you cannot work with a friend or your fellow students when answering
your own questions, because each student will be required to complete different
questions. When completing an online quiz, you will only see the questions once you

1 This is an example of what a footnote looks like. Please visit the Additional Resources tool on
the HFL1501 module site, where we have uploaded guidelines on how to create footnotes.

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start the quiz. Therefore, you will not have access to the questions beforehand.
This further means that you have to prepare for this assessment in advance and
that you are familiar with the study material before the assessment commences if you
want to pass or do well in this assessment.

• How does the quiz submission work?

We strongly advise you to complete the mock (practice) quiz available on the
HFL1501 module site. Completing this mock quiz will allow you to familiarise yourself
with the online quiz submission system. Your score for this practice quiz does not
contribute to your final mark. The purpose of the mock quiz is simply to allow you to
practice using the quiz tool.

Once you have prepared sufficiently for a specific quiz, you may access it on the
module site and complete it online. More detailed instructions in this regard are
provided on pages 12–13 of this document.

Please note that you will only have two hours to complete each quiz assessment
attempt. For example, you may choose when you want to submit your Assessment 3
(anytime between 08h00 AM on 6 March 2024 and 13h00 on 17 April 2024), but once
you start answering your assessment questions online, you will only have 2 hours to
submit your answers. If you do not manage to submit all ten your answers before the
portal closes, the system will mark those answers that you have submitted and
calculate your result accordingly.

REMEMBER: Once you have started an attempt, do not close your

browser or app. You must finish the attempt in one sitting.

You will be granted three attempts to submit each quiz assessment successfully. If
you are able to submit the assessment successfully more than once, your highest
mark will count as your mark for that particular quiz assessment. The purpose of
providing multiple attempts is to support students who experience technical
challenges during their submission. All students are not entitled to three successful
submissions. If you have used all three your allocated attempts and you were able to
submit successfully at least once, you will not be granted another attempt to try to
improve your marks.

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4 ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All assessments must be submitted online on myUnisa via the link to each
assessment on the HFL1501-24-S1 module site. The links to the assessments
are available under the Welcome message.

4.1 Instructions for the submission of a file-upload assessment

For written assessments (Assessments 1 and 6), please note the due date by which
the assessment must be submitted (see page 4). No submissions will be accepted
after the due date.

To submit a file-upload assessment, please follow these instructions:

1. Login to the myUnisa site (https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/myunisa/default/) with

your student details.

2. At the top of the page, click on Login to myModules:

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3. Select the HFL1501-24-S1 module site from the dropdown list.

4. On the module’s home page, scroll to the assessment links below the welcome
message and click on the link to the assessment you wish to submit:

5. Follow the onscreen instructions and upload your file.

6. Very important: Once you have uploaded your document, please click on the
document, download and open it, and confirm that you have in fact
submitted the correct document. Please also confirm that the document you
have uploaded opens normally and is legible. If a corrupt file is submitted or if you
submit the wrong document, you will be awarded a mark of ZERO (0%).
Remember, if you cannot open or read your file, we cannot open or read it either,
and we are obliged to award zero for the file.

7. Please note that if you see the words “Submitted for grading” after you have
uploaded your submission, your submission has been successful:

Please read the following carefully:

• Written assessments must contain all the relevant pages in one PDF
document, which will be uploaded as your submission. We will only mark what
we receive – make sure that you submit a complete document.
• Make sure that you submit the correct document (that is, the correct assessment,
for the correct assessment number, for the correct module). We will only mark

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 what we receive, and no changes may be made to a submission after the due
date. If you submit any document that does not contain your answers to a specific
assessment, a mark of zero will be awarded.

IMPORTANT

Once you have uploaded a document as your assessment submission, please

click on the document, download and open it, and confirm that you have in
fact submitted the correct document. Please also confirm that the document
you have uploaded opens normally and is legible. If a corrupt, incorrect or
illegible file is submitted, you will be awarded a mark of ZERO (0%).

Resubmissions
You are allowed to resubmit your answers by deleting your existing submission and
uploading another file in its place any time before the due date. This means that you
may replace your submission with the correct document if you see that you have
submitted an incorrect file. Please note that resubmitting a file replaces any previous
submissions entirely. The file submitted at the time of the deadline will be the file
accepted for marking. No changes may be made to submissions once the deadline
has passed. If you delete a submission to resubmit another, please make sure that
your second submission is also successful. If you do not resubmit a new file after
deleting the original one, the system will only indicate that there is no file available for
marking and you will be awarded a mark of zero. If is your responsibility to ensure that
you have submitted the correct file successfully. Open the file again to check that
the file opens correctly.

4.2 Instructions for the submission of an online quiz

No documentation can be uploaded for this assessment type, as the answers are
selected and submitted onscreen only. Remember, you will have two hours to
complete each quiz attempt, and you have three attempts to ensure that you submit
successfully at least once.

REMEMBER: Once you have started an attempt, do not close your browser or app.
You must finish the attempt in one sitting.

To submit a quiz assessment, please follow these instructions:

1. Login to the myUnisa site (https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/myunisa/default/) with
your student details.
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2. At the top of the page, click on Login to myModules:

3. Select the HFL1501-24-S1 module site from the dropdown list.

4. On the module’s home page, scroll to the assessment links below the welcome
message and click on the link to the assessment you wish to submit:

5. Follow the onscreen instructions to answer the questions. You have to complete
the ten questions randomly selected for you by clicking the correct options on the
screen. Read the questions carefully.

6. Complete the submission process by following the onscreen instructions after

answering all the questions to finalise your submissions.

5 CALCULATION OF YOUR FINAL MARK

Please read the following information carefully to ensure that you understand how your
final mark will be calculated for this module.

5.1 How are my assessment marks converted to contribute to my final mark?

Quiz assessments
Each quiz assessment counts a total of 10 marks. This mark out of 10 is converted to
a mark out of 25. To convert you mark, you have to multiply it by 2.5. For example:
Jane scores 6/10 for Assessment 2. Her converted mark out of 25 is (6 x 2.5=) 15/25.
This mark out of 25 is the mark that will contribute to her final mark.

File-upload assessments
Each written assessment counts a total of 25 marks. This means that this mark does
not need to be converted. So, if Emily scores 18/25 for Assessment 1, this mark of 18
will contribute to her final mark.

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5.2 Which marks make up my final mark?

Your final mark is made up of your result for Assessment 6

and the three other highest scores you obtained for
Assessments 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Look at the following examples to better understand how this calculation works in
practice:

• Lucy submits only Assessment 3 and Assessment 4 and then loses interest in the
module HFL1501. Her assessment marks out of 25 are 13/25 and 21/25
respectively. Because Lucy didn’t submit at least four assessments, she fails the
module. Her final mark is 13 + 21 + 0 + 0 = 36% Lucy will have to register for
HFL1501 again in future.
• Jane submits Assessments 1, 2, 4 and 5, but not Assessment 6. Jane scores zero
for Assessment 6 because she didn’t submit the mandatory assessment. Jane
could still pass this module if she obtained good results for her other assessments.
For example, if Jane scored 20 out of 25 for each of the Assessments 1, 2, 4 and
5, her final mark will be 60% (20 + 20 + 20 + 0). In this case, Jane passes the
module. However, if, for example, Jane scored 7 out of 25 for each of the
Assessments 1, 2, 4 and 5, her final mark will be 21% (7 + 7+ 7 + 0). In this case,
Jane fails the module and she will have to register for HFL1501 again in future.
• Mathapelo submits Assessments 1, 2, 3 and 6 and receives very good results for
all four of them. Matt will pass the module if his year mark is 50% or higher.
• Thandi starts working on the module HFL1501 very late in the semester, and
submits only Assessments 3, 4, 5 and 6. However, because she didn’t sufficiently
prepare for the assessments, she obtains very low results for all four the
assessments. If Thandi’s year mark is lower than 50%, she will fail this module and
will have to register for the module again in future.
• S’bu submits Assessments 1, 2 and 3. His marks out of 25 are 20, 10, and 22
respectively. After this, he falls ill and is not able to submit the last three
assessments. His three best marks and Assessment 6 marks are thus 20 + 10 + 22
+ 0 = 52%. Because his final mark is higher than 50%, S’bu passes the module, in
spite of not submitting the mandatory assessment.
• Pholani submits all six assessments and she scores 11/25 for all six assessments.
Her three best results and her Assessment 6 mark are considered and her final
mark is 11 + 11 + 11 + 11 = 44%. Her final mark is not 66%, because only her four
best marks are considered. There are no additional assessment opportunities for
this module (such as aegrotat or supplementary exams). Pholani fails the module,
because her final mark is lower than 50%.

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• Charles submits all six the assessments. The system calculates his year mark by
taking into account the result for Assessment 6, as well as the three highest
results for the other assessments. Let’s look at the calculation of Charles’ final
mark:

Mark awarded Converted mark

Assessment 1 Elective 13/25 13
Assessment 2 Elective 20/25 20
Assessment 3 Elective 2/10 5
Assessment 4 Elective 4/10 10
Assessment 5 Elective 7/10 17.5
Assessment 6 Mandatory 5/25 5
Final mark: 13 + 20 + 17.5 + 5 (mandatory) = 55.5 = 56%

Charles will pass HFL1501 with a final mark of 56%. Notice how his final mark is
negatively impacted by the fact that he obtained a low score for the mandatory
Assessment 6.

To summarise:

• If, for whatever reason, you don’t submit Assessment 6, you will not necessarily
fail the module. However, this may severely affect your final mark.
• If your year mark is less than 50%, you will fail this module and you will have to
register for the module again in future. There are no additional assessment
opportunities or examinations in this module.

6 HOW TO PASS THE MODULE HFL1501

Please read the following information carefully. We want each of our students to
perform well in this module. It is easy to pass this module if you are willing to put in the
necessary effort and if you plan ahead. Please also read the following information,
and take it to heart:

• Please note that no late submissions may be accepted. This means that it is
your duty to ensure that you submit your assessments on time. There are many
assessments in this module; make sure that you do not confuse the due dates.
Record the due dates in your calender and plan ahead to make sure that you have
enough time to prepare for each one and that you complete and submit them all
in time.
• Complete all the assessments! Yes, your final mark will only be calculated with
four of your assessment marks, but three of your best marks will count towards
your final mark. So, if you have six assessment marks, your best three and your

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 Assessment 6 mark will count, which gives you a much better chance of
performing well in this module.
• Prepare for each assessment in advance. We have been teaching this module
for several years, and when marking submissions, we can easily identify the
students who just paged around in the Study Guide, trying to find the answers.
You will perform much better in the written assessments if you read the study
material on the relevant section before starting the assessment. Naturally, you
must prepare for a quiz assessment before attempting it. It is stressful to complete
a timed online assessment. If you are familiar with the material before attempting
the questions, you will perform very well. We suggest reading through the learning
units covered in each quiz at least twice before attempting that quiz.
• Preparing for an assessment in advance includes completing the relevant online
lessons and watching the pre-recorded lectures available on the module site. The
myUnisa online lessons in this module discuss the contents of the learning units
in the Study Guide in a different way. We provide videos, images and infographics
that explain the content in an easy-to-understand way. By working through a
learning unit in the Study Guide and then completing the corresponding lesson
and watching the pre-recorded lecture, you ensure that you are familiar with the
content of the course. However, do not only study the lessons or ignore the Study
Guide. By doing so, you will not have enough information to complete a specific
assessment.
• Carefully read and follow the instructions for each assessment. Many
students lose marks in assessments, because they do not ensure that they
understand what the question asks them to do. When completing a quiz, make
sure that you know exactly how to finalise and complete your submission. When
completing a file-upload assessment, make sure that you know how to prepare
your file for upload, and also how to complete this process successfully.
• Read every question very carefully. It is crucial that you answer exactly what a
question asks, not what you think or assume the question is asking. It is advisable
that you read each question (both in a quiz or written assessment) twice before
answering it. Remember that one word or phrase in a question may change the
entire meaning of that question. It is therefore important that you critically read a
question before you start answering.
• Start early! We cannot stress this enough. We strongly advise you to submit your
assessments as early as possible. Every semester we have students who wait
until the last day, hour or minute to submit their answers and then miss the due
date. Remember, if you don’t submit your answers before the due date, you will
be marked as absent from that assessment, and this will impact on your final mark.
As indicated above, no late submissions may/will be accepted. Remember that
nobody is able to foresee the future. You do not know what could happen tomorrow
/ next week / next month / one week or day before the due date of Assessment 6
that might prevent you from completing an assessment. The current reality in

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 South Africa is that loadshedding could be announced at any time. You may fall ill
or have a work or personal emergency. By completing each assessment as soon
as possible, you are ensuring that you submit it on time. Remember, you may
submit an assessment at any time during the window that the submission portal is
open for submission. You do not have to (and should not!) wait for the last hour
before an assessment is due to submit it.
• Base all your answers on the HFL1501 study material. The study material
consists of the HFL1501 Study Guide, online lessons, lecture recordings and
additional resources. No question asked in any assessment in this module is
based on information not provided on the HFL1501 module site. Please work only
from the prescribed material.
• Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Where it is identified that students
copied from each other, the study guide, other textbooks, internet sources or any
AI language model-generated sources (such as ChatGPT or Bard), no marks will
be awarded. Please understand that, when marking thousands of scripts, it is easy
for your lecturers and markers to notice when a student plagiarises from another
student or makes use of an AI language model to assist with the formulation of
answers. All plagiarised answers are awarded zero. In the previous semesters,
many students failed assessments for including AI-generated answers or for
copying from fellow students who did. The only way to ensure that your answers
are based on the prescribed study material is to complete your assessments on
your own. The only way to pass this module is to work through the study material
and to do your own work. Please heed this warning.
• Lastly, enjoy the module. Many students dislike studying history. We can assure
you that you will find the course content of this module interesting. We take you
on a legal historical journey, stretching over thousands of years to explain where
our legal rules come from, why we have different legal influences in our legal
system, and why and how law develops over time. This is crucial background
information any legal practitioner needs to be able to understand the South African
legal system and its role in our society.

7 INFORMATION REGARDING EXAMINATIONS AND FURTHER

ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THIS MODULE

There are only six assessments for this module. There is no examination for the
module HFL1501. To pass this module, you must submit at least four assessments,
of which one must be the mandatory assessment, Assessment 6.

Because there are no examinations, continuous assessment modules do not have

opportunities for aegrotat, supplementary, special or FI concession examinations.

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If you fail the module HFL1501 by scoring a final mark of less than 50%, you will
not have any further opportunities to complete assessment for this module. You
will have to register for this module again in future.

Any questions?

Please read through the Frequently Asked Questions and the Announcements
forum on the HFL1501 module site. Most of your questions have already been
answered there. If, however, you have any further questions, please post it in the
Discussions forum where your lecturers will respond to you.

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