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Watch the video below on how to submit a written assignment:

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Follow the steps below to complete an Written Assignment assessment:

• Open the Assignment  assessment.

• Complete the Take-Home assessment in MS Word or on paper. Note: MS Word documents needs to be saved as a PDF document and paper based answers needs to be scanned in to a combined PDF document.

• Note the file requirements such as:
• File size limit.
• Number of files that can be submitted.
• File formats allowed.

Watch the video below on drafts vs submission for grading:

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Watch the video below on editing or replacing an assignment submission:

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Watch the video below on improving on an attempt:

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Watch the video below on checking your grades and feedback:

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Watch the video below on the assignment submission status page:

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Complete the  Assignment Activity  next before continuing to the next section.

How to Submit a UNISA Written Assignment on MyUNISA

At Together We Pass we are always looking for ways to help UNISA students. You can find a tutorial below on “How to Submit a UNISA written assignment on MyUNISA”. We explain the process in a simple, step by step manner that is easy to follow.

Find out how to submit a multiple choice assignment on MyUNISA here .

• Click on the module tab you would like to submit an assignment for.

If you cannot see your module in the tabs; use the drop down box

Once you have selected your module; Click on assignments in the menu to the left

You will be taken to a page that looks similar to the one below

You can use the key below to make sense of the table above

• If your assignment is not listed you should click on the link below

Read the instructions and follow the prompts

• If you need help; click on the link for step-by-step instructions such as the ones below

How to submit a UNISA written assignment on myUNISA

Find the module code.

1. Find the module code of the assignment you want to submit in the Course column

2. Find the corresponding number of the assignment, e.g. 2 in the Ass.No. column

3. Click on the Submit link in the Action column next to the assignment number

Step 1: Load assignment file from your PC to myUnisa

4. Click on the Choose File button next to File Name

5. In the Choose File dialog box, select the file you want to upload, and then click Open

6. Select the correct program format from the File Format drop-down list (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PDF etc.)

7. Click on the Continue button.

Step 2: Verify the file details for final submission of your written assignment

Use this step to verify that you are uploading the correct file to the correct course and assignment number.

8. Click on the Continue button to submit your assignment file. If you do not click Continue, no submission action will take place.

9. Large files will take longer to upload than small files. Please be patient after you have clicked Continue.

10. If the wrong details, e.g. file name, appear on the screen, click Back to restart the file upload process.

Step 3: Assignment submission report

This is your proof that your assignment was submitted. It is advisable to print this page for your record purposes.

11. Click on the Return to Assignment List button to go back to the Assignment overview screen.

Watch the video below which shows you how to prepare, format, complete & submit your assignments.

Watch the video tutorial below on H ow to Submit a UNISA Written Assignment on MyUNISA

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Hi My ENN1504 Assignment 1 I resubimit the above assignment on a wrong format , when I want to resubmit again the column was written closed. What must I do to open the resubmit again. Please I need help. Thank you

Unfortunately if it’s closed, then you are unable to resubmit your assignment.

Same here.Yes I agree its been closed ,but the assignment is not due yet.

please help my assignments are not due yet, but there is no submit options they all closed… why is that?

My assignment has been returned as it is a read only pdf document. Please assist on how it should be changed so that it can be marked. Thank you.

Right-click on your PDF assignment and head onto Properties. Once there, make sure that the Read-only box is cleared. Once done, click on apply and your assignment should be marked.

What can I do after I convert my assignment to PDF which page can I send on or I good on email My

Once you’ve completed converting your assignment to PDF, there are prompts on your myUnisa portal which will direct you on where to upload your assignment.

Remember to name your assignment properly so that it can be easily identifiable.

I’m trying to submit my assignment it says error it can’t find the name

Did you receive help ..I have the same issue

Me too have got a problem I submitted the wrong assignment in assignment ,tpn2601 n if I want to resubmit the correct one ,there in the assignment section ,it says it is closed while the due has not yet arrived.there is only the view button .pls help

What do I do, if I want to submit an assignment but it keeps telling my file is too big to upload?

Assignments 5 and 7 I can’t find them

I submitted my written assignment and I got an email confirming my submission but when I click the view button it says blank😭.. Can so help me

I’ve trying to submit my assignment but when i press “choose file” it does not refer me to my files what could be the problem?

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Identify the key concepts (main ideas) in your assignment. Terminology used will vary, so be sure to consider alternative terms for each. These will be your search keywords.

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Peer reviewed resources

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You can search for information using a range of tools, including the Library Collection and databases, Google Scholar, and internet search engines. Choose the sources that are best suited to your needs.

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Basic search This is the default option when searching in the Library Collection.

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How to cite ChatGPT

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We, the APA Style team, are not robots. We can all pass a CAPTCHA test , and we know our roles in a Turing test . And, like so many nonrobot human beings this year, we’ve spent a fair amount of time reading, learning, and thinking about issues related to large language models, artificial intelligence (AI), AI-generated text, and specifically ChatGPT . We’ve also been gathering opinions and feedback about the use and citation of ChatGPT. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and shared ideas, opinions, research, and feedback.

In this post, I discuss situations where students and researchers use ChatGPT to create text and to facilitate their research, not to write the full text of their paper or manuscript. We know instructors have differing opinions about how or even whether students should use ChatGPT, and we’ll be continuing to collect feedback about instructor and student questions. As always, defer to instructor guidelines when writing student papers. For more about guidelines and policies about student and author use of ChatGPT, see the last section of this post.

Quoting or reproducing the text created by ChatGPT in your paper

If you’ve used ChatGPT or other AI tools in your research, describe how you used the tool in your Method section or in a comparable section of your paper. For literature reviews or other types of essays or response or reaction papers, you might describe how you used the tool in your introduction. In your text, provide the prompt you used and then any portion of the relevant text that was generated in response.

Unfortunately, the results of a ChatGPT “chat” are not retrievable by other readers, and although nonretrievable data or quotations in APA Style papers are usually cited as personal communications , with ChatGPT-generated text there is no person communicating. Quoting ChatGPT’s text from a chat session is therefore more like sharing an algorithm’s output; thus, credit the author of the algorithm with a reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation.

When prompted with “Is the left brain right brain divide real or a metaphor?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that although the two brain hemispheres are somewhat specialized, “the notation that people can be characterized as ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’ is considered to be an oversimplification and a popular myth” (OpenAI, 2023).

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

You may also put the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix of your paper or in online supplemental materials, so readers have access to the exact text that was generated. It is particularly important to document the exact text created because ChatGPT will generate a unique response in each chat session, even if given the same prompt. If you create appendices or supplemental materials, remember that each should be called out at least once in the body of your APA Style paper.

When given a follow-up prompt of “What is a more accurate representation?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that “different brain regions work together to support various cognitive processes” and “the functional specialization of different regions can change in response to experience and environmental factors” (OpenAI, 2023; see Appendix A for the full transcript).

Creating a reference to ChatGPT or other AI models and software

The in-text citations and references above are adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10). Although here we focus on ChatGPT, because these guidelines are based on the software template, they can be adapted to note the use of other large language models (e.g., Bard), algorithms, and similar software.

The reference and in-text citations for ChatGPT are formatted as follows:

• Parenthetical citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
• Narrative citation: OpenAI (2023)

Let’s break that reference down and look at the four elements (author, date, title, and source):

Author: The author of the model is OpenAI.

Date: The date is the year of the version you used. Following the template in Section 10.10, you need to include only the year, not the exact date. The version number provides the specific date information a reader might need.

Title: The name of the model is “ChatGPT,” so that serves as the title and is italicized in your reference, as shown in the template. Although OpenAI labels unique iterations (i.e., ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-4), they are using “ChatGPT” as the general name of the model, with updates identified with version numbers.

The version number is included after the title in parentheses. The format for the version number in ChatGPT references includes the date because that is how OpenAI is labeling the versions. Different large language models or software might use different version numbering; use the version number in the format the author or publisher provides, which may be a numbering system (e.g., Version 2.0) or other methods.

Bracketed text is used in references for additional descriptions when they are needed to help a reader understand what’s being cited. References for a number of common sources, such as journal articles and books, do not include bracketed descriptions, but things outside of the typical peer-reviewed system often do. In the case of a reference for ChatGPT, provide the descriptor “Large language model” in square brackets. OpenAI describes ChatGPT-4 as a “large multimodal model,” so that description may be provided instead if you are using ChatGPT-4. Later versions and software or models from other companies may need different descriptions, based on how the publishers describe the model. The goal of the bracketed text is to briefly describe the kind of model to your reader.

Source: When the publisher name and the author name are the same, do not repeat the publisher name in the source element of the reference, and move directly to the URL. This is the case for ChatGPT. The URL for ChatGPT is https://chat.openai.com/chat . For other models or products for which you may create a reference, use the URL that links as directly as possible to the source (i.e., the page where you can access the model, not the publisher’s homepage).

Other questions about citing ChatGPT

You may have noticed the confidence with which ChatGPT described the ideas of brain lateralization and how the brain operates, without citing any sources. I asked for a list of sources to support those claims and ChatGPT provided five references—four of which I was able to find online. The fifth does not seem to be a real article; the digital object identifier given for that reference belongs to a different article, and I was not able to find any article with the authors, date, title, and source details that ChatGPT provided. Authors using ChatGPT or similar AI tools for research should consider making this scrutiny of the primary sources a standard process. If the sources are real, accurate, and relevant, it may be better to read those original sources to learn from that research and paraphrase or quote from those articles, as applicable, than to use the model’s interpretation of them.

We’ve also received a number of other questions about ChatGPT. Should students be allowed to use it? What guidelines should instructors create for students using AI? Does using AI-generated text constitute plagiarism? Should authors who use ChatGPT credit ChatGPT or OpenAI in their byline? What are the copyright implications ?

On these questions, researchers, editors, instructors, and others are actively debating and creating parameters and guidelines. Many of you have sent us feedback, and we encourage you to continue to do so in the comments below. We will also study the policies and procedures being established by instructors, publishers, and academic institutions, with a goal of creating guidelines that reflect the many real-world applications of AI-generated text.

For questions about manuscript byline credit, plagiarism, and related ChatGPT and AI topics, the APA Style team is seeking the recommendations of APA Journals editors. APA Style guidelines based on those recommendations will be posted on this blog and on the APA Style site later this year.

Update: APA Journals has published policies on the use of generative AI in scholarly materials .

We, the APA Style team humans, appreciate your patience as we navigate these unique challenges and new ways of thinking about how authors, researchers, and students learn, write, and work with new technologies.

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

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