Fully Online

Your learning, your way

A flexible and supportive online learning experience that moves with you - designed to connect you with others, immerse you in purposeful learning and prepare you for your career, wherever you are.

Course structure

  • 100% online across all course years
  • At least 90% asynchronous workload with up to 10% planned synchronous activities across the session
  • No campus attendance required for learning or assessment
  • Content, services and supports are delivered online

Assessment and feedback

  • Early low-stakes/formative tasks build confidence and calibrate expectations
  • Program-level checkpoints (twice yearly) validate competency remotely
  • Supervised assessments held synchronously online with secure authentication checks and technologies
  • Portfolios capture artefacts from online subjects, virtual simulations and locally-situated WIL or projects

Learning experience

  • Meaningful online interaction with humanised teacher presence via sequenced interactions and media-rich content
  • A networked peer community and ethical reasoning in digital contexts
  • Focus on practical skills, industry relevance, peer collaboration, and cultural safety
  • Tailored onboarding for digital confidence

Staff experience

  • PD focus on asynchronous, activity-based design, time-zone aware synchronous facilitation and maintaining teacher presence at scale
  • Appropriate staff–student ratios for online delivery and activity, including synchronous facilitation, small-group collaboration and supervised online assessments
  • Analytics from LMS activity generate formative signals to inform student progress and enable early intervention

Technology and access

  • Centrally supported, fit-for-purpose ed-tech for online delivery, with low-bandwidth/offline options
  • Minimum/recommended device and network requirements specified
  • Consistent LMS and collaboration tools
  • Browser-based tools for virtual activities and simulations
  • Portfolio capability embedded for program-level evidence
  • Inclusive design supporting diverse needs

Support and engagement

  • Online support hub and course-level community spaces
  • Dedicated online wellbeing and cultural safety program with proactive outreach
  • Para-academic support suite linked in subjects
  • Tiered SLA to student queries with AI-enhanced self-help/triage and timely human follow-up
  • Peer, course-based, and industry mentoring
  • Virtual social events to build belonging and counter isolation

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