HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics Academic Integrity Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding Academic...

HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics Academic Integrity Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding Academic Integrity, as Academic Integrity is integral to maintaining academic quality and the reputation of Holmes’ graduates. Accordingly, all assessment tasks need to comply with academic integrity guidelines. Table 1 identifies the six categories of Academic Integrity breaches. If you have any questions about Academic Integrity issues related to your assessment tasks, please consult your lecturer or tutor for relevant referencing guidelines and support resources. Many of these resources can also be found through the Study Sills link on Blackboard. Academic Integrity breaches are a serious offence punishable by penalties that may range from deduction of marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of course enrolment. Table 1: Six categories of Academic Integrity breaches Plagiarism Reproducing the work of someone else without attribution. When a student submits their own work on multiple occasions this is known as self-plagiarism. Collusion Working with one or more other individuals to complete an assignment, in a way that is not authorised. Copying Reproducing and submitting the work of another student, with or without their knowledge. If a student fails to take reasonable precautions to prevent their own original work from being copied, this may also be considered an offence. Impersonation Falsely presenting oneself, or engaging someone else to present as oneself, in an in-person examination. Contract cheating Contracting a third party to complete an assessment task, generally in exchange for money or other manner of payment. Data fabrication and falsification Manipulating or inventing data with the intent of supporting false conclusions, including manipulating images. Source: INQAAHE, 2020 HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics Assignment Description: You are expected to complete a critique and conduct a literature review to discuss the topic “Implications of Predictive Analytics & Reporting in Business Analytics” and analyse the literature and find gaps and future works of the area. You need to search in the literature and find at least ten (10) academic research papers (references) related to this topic. (Academic papers can be found in ProQuest. ProQuest instruction can be found in below. Please contact Liberian if you have further question). A draft of the research paper (key points/headings) will be submitted in session (week) 8 whereby every student can receive feedback. Then you should submit the final research paper in the Blackboard by session 13. The final submission must comply with the draft structure and draw heavily from the key references. ProQuest login: Go to: http://www.holmes.edu.au/ > Login > Proquest USERNAME: holmes2004 PASSWORD: holmes HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics The Draft and Final report submission structure is as follow: What you need to submit for final submission: 1. Assignment File: You need to submit the final version of your assignment in session 13. The final submission must comply with the draft structure and draw heavily from the key references. The structure of the final submission is headings and in discussion critically analyse each reference and discuss how these references reflecting the REPORT STRUCTURE: ➢ Introduction: State the purpose and objectives of the report. ➢ Discussion: Discuss the references, few paragraphs for each reference, and critically analyse them and discuss how they reflect the key points of the topic. ➢ Conclusion: Summarise your findings, consolidating and drawing attention to the main points of the report. ➢ Referencing: reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style (you can find the guidelines in the BB). 2. Academic References: The reference list in the assignment report should contain the HYPERLINK to the original PDF file of the references otherwise you will receive 10% penalty. 3. Assignment Coversheet: Must be uploaded as a separate file. You can find the template in the unit website in BB. PLEASE NOTE: • All assignments must be submitted electronically ONLY, uploaded to Blackboard and Submission of SafeAssign. Submission deadlines are strictly enforced and a late submission incurs penalties. • DO NOT SHARE YOUR ASSIGNMENT WITH OTHER STUDENTS under no circumstances even after the deadline and after you submitted it in the Blackboard or even after you have marked. If there will be any similarity detected by SafeAssign or the marker, it is an academic misconduct case and BOTH of the students will not be marked and reported to the institution for further investigation. • Your document should be a single word or OpenOffice document containing your report. • All submissions will be submitted through the safeAssign facility in Blackboard. HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics Submission boxes linked to SafeAssign will be set up in the Units Blackboard Shell. Assignments not submitted through these submission links will not be considered. • Submissions must be made by the due date and time (which will be in the session detailed above) and determined by your Unit coordinator. Submissions made after the due date and time will be penalized per day late (including weekend days) according to Holmes Institute policies. • The SafeAssign similarity score will be used in determining the level, if any, of plagiarism. SafeAssign will check conference web-sites, Journal articles, the Web and your own class members submissions for plagiarism. You can see your SafeAssign similarity score (or match) when you submit your assignment to the appropriate drop-box. If this is a concern you will have a chance to change your assignment and resubmit. However, resubmission is only allowed prior to the submission due date and time. After the due date and time have elapsed your assignment will be graded as late. Submitted assignments that indicate a high level of plagiarism will be penalized according to the Holmes Academic Misconduct policy, there will be no exceptions. Thus, plan early and submit early to take advantage of the resubmission feature. You can make multiple submissions, but please remember we grade only the last submission, and the date and time you submitted will be taken from that submission. HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics Marking Criteria Weighting Draft 5 marks Report structure, Layout, Grammar and spelling, Written style and expression 5 marks Quality of evaluation and critically exploring the references 25 marks Recommendations and justification 5 marks Referencing 5 marks TOTAL Weight for this assignment marking 45 marks HI6037 Fundamentals of Business Analytics