Questions & Answers About The New TMA Platform

1. Can students print out their TMAs at cyber café’s? 

Ans: No. Students can only read and do their TMAs. No print-out

2. Can students attempt TMA 1-3 at once?

Ans: Only a TMA will be available to a student at a time following the time lines provided. This means that no TMA is open-ended. You must do your TMA within that period or risk a zero mark for that TMA.

3. How about students who are not able to do their TMAs but their exams?

Ans: You must attempt TMA and exams to receive an end of semester grade for every course registered. This is a standard rule University education.

4. Why not upgrade TMAs to 100% where a student is not able to sit and pass examination?

Ans: Ideally, a student should pass both TMA and exams to receive a pass mark for the course. Therefore, students should endeavor to do their TMAs themselves as TMAs prepare students for final examinations

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5. How are the TMAs going to be administered? 

Ans: A student is expected to study the course materials, do TMAs and assignments in the course materials before attempting the online TMAs. Therefore, one (1) question will pop-up at a time for student to attempt before the next question will pop-up. Where the student is not able to attempt for example, question 1, he/she could click next to move to question 2 and so on.

6. How many TMAs can a student attempt per course?

Ans: There are 3 TMAs per each course registered by a student. A student is expected to attempt all. Each TMA has 10 test items (1-10).