Task Description

There are three quiz tests.

Quiz Test 1:

30 questions

Study resources: week 1 - week 4 - Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 11

Complete this test in 60 minutes

Test opens on Friday of Week 4 at 09:00 AM AEST and closes on Friday of Week 5 at 17:00 PM AEST

There are no extensions of the test date

Quiz Test 2:

30 questions

Study resources: week 5 - week 7 - Chapters 5, 8, 9, 13

Complete this test in 60 minutes

Test opens on Friday of Week 7 at 09:00 AM AEST and closes on Friday of Week 8 at 17:00 PM AEST

There are no extensions of the test date

Quiz Test 3:

30 questions

Study resources: week 8 - week 11 - Chapters 14, 15, 16 and 17

Complete this test in 60 minutes

Test opens on Friday of Week 11 at 09:00 AM AEST and closes on Friday of Week 12 at 17:00 PM AEST

There are no extensions of the test date

Notes & Important Advice:

• The system keeps records of your tests' scores.
• All times shown are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) – you may need to adjust for your own time zones if completing the online tests.
• Each test has a time limit of 60 minutes and can only be taken once.
• Please do not open the test until you are ready to complete the entire test.
• Only 1 attempt at each test is allowed.
• You must aim to have the quiz tests completed by the closing date.
• There is no penalty for a wrong answer.
• You need to study the textbook, PowerPoint slides, and this course profile carefully;
• There will be no sample quizzes.
• You do not have the option of multiple attempts in this piece of assessment.
• Responsibility for access, ISP, browsers, connection and the computer you use (irrespective of who owns it) remains with the student. Failure of equipment is not grounds for special consideration, extensions of tests or special arrangements. Use of computers/computer labs on university campuses does not absolve students of their responsibility for having reliable and continued access to the worldwide web;
• Do not wait until the last minute. The unit coordinator will not open quizzes again for problems related to LAST MINUTE ATTEMPTS. Special consideration or arrangements will not be granted where the student attempts to complete the online test WITHIN THE LAST 48 HOURS of the test and encounters problems that cannot be resolved before the expiry of the online test.
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Multiple Choice Questions and Answers, where students will find and select the best possible answer out of the given choices.

Task Description – On-campus students Team PPT oral presentation and Word written assessment, Distance students PPT presentation with voice-over

Students must upload their PPT slides (including voice-over for Distance students) and Word Script by Monday Week 11 (17:00pm AEST).

Maximum length:

· 10 Powerpoint slides: maximum with oral presentation or voice-over of not more than 10 mins in duration.

· Word script: maximum 1500 words (BE CONCISE)

All assignments should be submitted online through the MRKT20057 Moodle site. All reports will be checked by Turnitin to compare the report to other sources and will provide students and lecturers with a similarity score for the report. Reports with a similarity score index of more than 20% will be checked for plagiarism (although it may not necessarily mean that the student has plagiarised).

REMEMBER: Assessment 2 and 3 are related.

Organise yourself into teams of 2 or 3 people through signing up for groups allocated in Moodle. (See information in Moodle for further guidance.)

In your group undertake the following activities:

For Assessment 3, you and your team mates are expected to choose ONE of the countries that you worked on in Assessment 2:

· India,

· United Kindgom, or

· China.

where you will market Ugg Australia™.

You will then provide the following:

- Explain the rationale for your choice

- Market selection and entry strategy

- Competitive strategy

- Pricing strategy

- Promotion strategy

- Distribution strategy

- Concluding recommendations

You are expected to read widely to support your analysis and justify your recommendations. You must include at least 15 references to support your ideas. I suggest you use the CQUniversity library database and Google Scholar to find journal articles. Remember to reference them in-text as you use them and add them immediately to your reference list. You must use APA Referencing and if using Endnote, you need to download and use the latest version.

Note that this is a team assessment business report.

Why is a group work important?

The success of international venture creation, investment, management and marketing activities is often reliant upon national and international network building, firm's capabilities in communication and teamwork, cross-cultural understanding, critical and rationale thinking, and processing and managing information and technology. This group assessment is aiming to practice and develop the above stated critical skills and abilities.

What would you do to build a team?

This is a team-based assessment, where you have to allocate yourself to any of the teams through the course Moodle site. I would suggest you to make a team whom you can communicate with on a regular basis. The link, "build your team for group work", is available in Week 1 slot. Click on this link, and then select the group and click on the "choice" button, and finally, scroll down and click on the "save my choice" button.

There should be no more than 3 members in a group. The objective of this team-based assessment is to have increased communication in English, network building, cross-cultural understanding and further strengthening your critical and rational thinking abilities. Therefore, it is expected that you, as a team player, will practise and achieve these critical skills. Exchange your communication IDs (Skype/E-mail/Facebook) and/or phone numbers etc., and start your team work. You can also download Zoom.us, which is free and allows you to call meetings and upload these meetings into your email calendar as well as giving video feeds and you can share your work on the screen so that all team members can see it.

Instructions for your written Word document with the references

- The maximum length is 1500 words excluding references
- Please use Times New Roman with font 12 and 1.5 line spacing.
- You need to upload this Word document in Moodle under the Assessment 3 link.

Instructions for the PPT slides (10 PPT slides, maximum 10 minutes oral presentation or voice-over)

- You are to produce a maximum of 10 Powerpoint slides.

- Oncampus (internal) students will be presenting their PPT presentations in class time during weeks 11 and 12 of the term.

- Distance students are required to provide a voice-over on your slides.

- The oral presentation or voice-over should be a maximum of 10 minutes to discuss the above.
- Use the marking criteria for this assessment as a guide to include what is needed in the slides.
- You do not need to read the in text referencing or references at the end of the slides when presenting your oral or recording your voice-over for the PPT presentation.
- As far as possible, as this is a team effort, we would like to hear all voices of the students involved in the group especially on the metro campuses. For distance education students, we would understand if this is not possible.

For Distance students:

To record your voiceover, you should use a headset with microphone preferably or speak loudly if you use the inbuilt microphone on your laptop/computer. Please make sure your voice is clear, can be heard and understood when playing the Powerpoint slides BEFORE you upload your work into Moodle.

The Powerpoint slides will need to be uploaded in Moodle under the “Assessment 3” link.

Do NOT insert your audio as a wav.file into the slides because we will not be able to hear you if it is not embedded in the file. To check if it works, you could send your PPT file to a friend and see if they can hear it. Please do not send to the Lecturer or Unit Co-ordinator to check.

For hints on how to convert a PowerPoint slide to a presentation with voice over, please view the link below. Adding Voice Over to PowerPoint Presentations in 5 Easy Steps: http://www.emergingedtech.com/2012/12/add-voice-over-to-powerpoint-presentations-in-5-easy-steps/

Final instructions
- Do NOT click on ‘Final submission’ of files in Moodle unless ALL FILES (PPT file,Word Script) have been uploaded.
- All assignments are to be uploaded into Moodle and not sent to the Unit Co-ordinator’s email address for marking.
- You need to start working on this assessment as soon as Week 6 as it involves lots of research, preparation and team effort and do not wait until the last minute to do this assessment.