CQUniversity Unit Profile.

Each week you will complete an online quiz related to the learning material for that week.

You must complete each quiz in a limited time within the quiz open period. Your attempt for each quiz will be submitted automatically, but no more questions can be answered once the time limit expires.

To prepare for this assessment you can study the learning resources for the relevant quiz - this includes lectures and relevant textbook readings.

There are a number of support and technology mechanisms of which you need to be aware.

• If you experience any technical difficulties accessing or during the quiz, please contact TASAC (Moodle assistance option) on 1300 666 620.
• Notify the unit coordinator as soon as physically possible (same day) with details of the technical issues. If you are able, take a screenshot of any error message received and include that in your email to the unit coordinator.
• If you are unable to undertake the quiz at the set time and date you will need to apply for an extension in Moodle (in the support area at the top of the page) and supply supporting documentation as per normal extension requests.
   

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 No AI

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

You will be assessed on your competence through online quizzes. Each quiz will be based on the linked content.

Self-reflection is an important practice for personal and professional development. You will be required to write daily self-reflective entries in your ePortfolio based on your work-integrated learning experiences (clinic).

Your reflections over the course of the term must cover the full range of topics.   The range of topics for your self-reflection could be:

• pre-clinical / clinical reflections, and
• communication, teamwork and professionalism reflections
   

What to include in your daily reflections

• Link to ORAS sheet/s
• ORAS score/s:
• Areas scored 0 or 1:
• Include a brief summary of procedures OR a brief summary of placement.
• Which procedures were performed well? OR Expectation of learning on the placement.
• What procedures could be improved? OR What did you learn today on placement?
• Strategies for improvement OR Strategies to enhance learning on placement.
• What did I learn today?

The completion of the personal reflective blog is a compulsory assessment, and each entry must be completed to a satisfactory standard. 

There are two places you are to enter your reflective blog. 

1. ePortfolio: Firstly, in your ePortfolio, complete a separate reflection entry for each placement day. Entries must be completed for every placement day, including DA and FTAs.

Here is an example of an entry in the ePortfolio for week 6:

2. Moodle Submission: Then at the end of the week, copy these entries into the Moodle submission for the week eg "Week 1 Reflective Blog Entry". NOTE: There is no need to copy these onto and upload a word document. You can simply copy and paste directly into the Moodle assignment. These Moodle Submissions are due by 11.59pm Sunday night each week. A reviewer will view these each week on Moodle and assign a satisfactory/unsatisfactory for each week.

At the end of the term, there will be a final check of your submissions on your ePortfolio to ensure all assessment criteria have been met. 

Please be aware that the teaching team will read your weekly reflections. This is used to triangulate data from ORAS to monitor your performance throughout the term. You will not be provided detailed feedback on your reflections as feedback is provided at the time of the student-client interaction.  Additionally, reflections are very personal, and this is why they are not given a quantitative grade, nor the level of feedback that would be expected of a quantitative grade.

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 No AI

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

Component 1 Clinical Hurdle Assessment:

The clinical hurdle assessment is an assessment of your oral hygiene education and basic hygiene clinical skills, to ensure you are safe to commence treatment on patients from the general public.

There are 2 parts to the clinical hurdle assessment.

PART A: Patient advice on preventative home care

VIDEO UPLOADS Due Date: Monday 6th April 2026, 11:59 PM 

This component will be assessed via video upload. For each of the below topics, you are to upload a video to Moodle.

• Periodontal Disease diagnosis, prevention and management
• Caries diagnosis, prevention and management
• Non-carious tooth loss diagnosis, prevention and management 

This is a pass/fail assessment. To pass, students must achieve 'Competent' or 'Proficient' in all criteria. Any 'Developing' or 'Not Yet Competent' ratings require resubmission. Only one resubmission will be allowed per topic. The student must have attempted recording of all topics, and demonstrated genuine effort. On the second attempt, all criteria must be marked as ‘Competent’ or ‘Proficient’ to pass this assessment task.

A few guidelines:

• Use terminology relevant to ADULT patients
• Keep it brief and to the point. Remember a patient’s attention span is only 2-3 minutes long
• Have a peer check it!
• You do not need to go into detail about actual biofilm disruption (toothbrushing/interdental cleaning) techniques
• NOTE: Please upload 3 SEPARATE VIDEOS 

Discussions will be held during your regular tutorial sessions, to provide an opportunity for students to explore the topics listed above, ask questions and seek guidance for this assessment task.

Feedback will be provided in Break Week. If needed, you will have the opportunity for a resubmission, within a week.

Students are graded against criterion-referenced rubrics. Please review the rubrics below, when preparing for your assessments. 

Periodontitis

Dental Caries

Non-Carious Tooth Structure Loss

PART B: Clinical Hurdle Assessment

This clinical hurdle assessment will occur during your clinical session in Week 5.

The clinical hurdle assessment is an assessment of your basic hygiene clinical skills to ensure you are safe to commence treatment on patients from the general public.

There will be 2 periodontal typodont stations set up. At these stations, we will be assessing:

• Periodontal probing technique
• Use of powered and hand debridement instruments.

There will be a third station where you will be assessed on your clinical changeover procedure. REMEMBER: you must complete the changeover task with no prompting from the Supervisor.

Feedback will be provided by the end of the next day. If needed, you will have the opportunity for a resit during Break Week.  

Students are graded against criterion-referenced rubrics. Please review the rubrics when preparing for your assessments. 

STUDENTS MUST ACHIEVE A SATISFACTORY SCORE IN ALL CRITERIA TO PASS THE CLINICAL HURDLE ASSESSMENT

Re-attempt for Clinical Hurdle Assessment:

Re-attempt is where you are given a second opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes before you can progress to new learning or participate in subsequent learning activities.

If you do not pass the Clinical Hurdle Assessment, you will be given an opportunity to re-attempt. Note that only one opportunity to do a re-attempt will be given during Break Week. If you do not pass the re-attempt, you will be unable to continue clinical practice in ORAL12003.

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 No AI

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

Component 2 Clinical Performance:

 There are two 3-hour clinical sessions per week.

Weeks 1-5 consist of peer learning activities designed to consolidate, apply and extend the theory learnt in years 1 and 2 into clinical practice.

Weeks 6-12 consist of seeing patients for dental hygiene treatments.

Attendance at all clinical sessions is compulsory. Failure to provide a medical certificate to the unit coordinator for missed sessions will result in failure of this unit component.

All clinical sessions are graded by the supervisor on the Online Realtime Assessment System (ORAS).

A criterion-referenced analytical assessment rubric for evaluation of student performance of procedures is provided in the Online Real-time Assessment System (ORAS). ORAS records all work-integrated learning experiences, including a number of assessed student-client interactions and performance of procedures. Placement supervisors are required to complete an entry into ORAS for each student-client interaction assessed.

Each student-client interaction is graded on a rubric, which will reflect a grade of Not Yet Competent (0), Approaching Competent (1), Competent (2), and Highly Competent (3) for each procedure part (see example below). An average grade is given at the end of each student-client interaction assessment for all procedures completed.

In each student-client interaction assessment, there are also Critical Competencies. A Not Yet Competent (NYC) in one or more of the Critical Competencies results in a mark of 0 overall for that student-client interaction.
 

The data is collated over the term to monitor performance and as a “log” of the procedures and student-client assessments completed by the student. The unit teaching team will assess the data aggregated in ORAS over the period of the term to form a longitudinal comprehensive picture of the achievement and development of competence by the student.

Summative assessment for this component commences Monday of Week 4. Prior to that, clinical performance is completed on a formative basis.

In order to achieve a grade of pass in this component, you are required to achieve a minimum average score of Competent (2).

Re-attempt:

Re-attempt is where you are given a second opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes.

If you achieve a minimum average score of 1.8-1.99, you will be offered a re-attempt:

• Three additional student-client interactions will be offered on a mutually agreeable day.
• This task is to be completed no later than one week before the release of grades.
• You must achieve an average minimum score of 1.8 in ALL three student-client interactions.
• These additional sessions will be offered at the CQUniversity Oral Health Clinic based in Rockhampton. It is your responsibility to arrange transport and accommodation if needed to attend these additional sessions.
• Note that only one opportunity to do a re-attempt will be given.
• If you do not pass the re-attempt, you will be unable to pass ORAL12003.

The data is collated over the term to monitor performance and as a “log” of the procedures and student-client assessments completed by the student. The unit teaching team will assess the data aggregated in ORAS over the period of the term to form a longitudinal comprehensive picture of the achievement and development of competence by the student.

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 No AI

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

Patient Safety 

If there is a breach of patient safety, a student may be removed from patient contact and be required to undertake remediation.  The student must then pass a safety audit prior to re-entering the clinical environment. 
If you do not pass the safety audit, you will be unable to return to operative clinical practice. Therefore, you will not be able to meet the learning outcomes for ORAL12003 and will receive a failing grade for the unit. There is no opportunity for a re-attempt. This will mean you will need to reattempt the unit at the next offering and that your graduation will be delayed.  

Component 3 Attendance:

Attendance at clinical placements is compulsory. You are required to attend a minimum of 90% of clinical placement days. This allows you approximately 2-3 days of absence without penalty. Absences are required to be supported with a medical certificate or negotiated with the Unit Coordinator in advance.

Note that ALL peer-on-peer tasks must be completed for the term. If you miss a session, it is your responsibility to contact the unit coordinator and make an arrangement to complete the missed tasks. Absences are to be made up at operational convenience.

The 2-week intensive requires 100% attendance.

A pass for satisfactory attendance is defined as 100% attendance at the 2-week intensive, as well as maintaining and fulfilling the 90% pre-clinical placement attendance for the days rostered during the term. Not meeting attendance requirements may result in a placement outstanding until the next available unit offering, which may delay your progress through the course and graduation.

Who to contact if you are sick: The unit coordinator (via email) and Libby Warlow (via phone).

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 No AI

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

See information in Task Description, which includes assessment criteria.

There will be TWO (2) in-class tests for ORAL12003.

These in-class tests will assess the knowledge you will develop in ORAL12003. You will be given an answer booklet in which to write your responses to the exam questions. At the end of the assessment, your answer booklet must be returned to the assessor. These in-class tests are closed book, so the only items you will be allowed to have on you are pens (black ink only) and your answer booklet. Only those answers that have been written in pen, in your answer booklet will be marked.

NOTE: You are also able to bring your own noise-cancelling head/earphones if you prefer. 

In-class Test A

This in-class test will consist of questions requiring detailed, written responses.

Topics that may be covered:

• Content of all lectures and tutorials from Intensive to Week 3  
• Management of dentine hypersensitivity
• Periodontal diagnosis NOTE: Staging and Grading clinical reference tool will be provided
• Plaque Disclosing
• In-clinic and at-home Fluoride/remineralisation therapy and other home oral hygiene products including:
  • Duraphat
  • MI Varnish
  • Neutrafluor 5000
  • Tooth Mousse
  • Tooth Mousse Plus
  • Colgate desensitising toothpastes
  • Sensodyne desensitising toothpastes
  • Oral B desensitising toothpastes
  • Savacol
  • Listerine

You may be asked to give information on the following:

• • Active ingredients and active desensitising ingredient/s
  • Mode of action of desentising ingredient/s
  • Is there fluoride in this product? If so, what type and what concentration (ppm)?
  • Indications
  • Contra-indications
  • Instructions for use
  • Side-effects

In-class Test B

This in-class test will consist of questions requiring detailed, written responses.

Topics that may be covered:

Content of all lectures and tutorials from Week 4 - Week 12.  

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 No AI

These assessments are completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

Critical thinking and application of learnt basic clinical concepts into real-life situations.