Course Title: Monitor in-store visual merchandising display
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2017
Course Code: MKTG7978C
Course Title: Monitor in-store visual merchandising display
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4375 - Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing
Course Contact: Timothy Haigh / Jade Cusworth
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4846 / +61 3 9925 4846
Course Contact Email: timothy.haigh@rmit.edu.au / jade.cusworth@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 35
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to interpret
organisational visual merchandising plans and manuals and monitor in-store displays to
ensure that they reflect and maintain current organisational visual merchandising directions.
It involves applying fundamental design principles, making decisions with regard to
merchandise for display, and ensuring that displays contribute to the visual merchandising
standards of the organisation and are constructed and located to ensure customer and staff
safety.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
SIRXMER406 Monitor in-store visual merchandising display |
Element: |
1. Interpret a visual merchandising plan. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1.Identify design requirements of visual merchandising plan or manual. 1.2.Source resources required to implement plan. 1.3.Identify factors that may affect the plan. 1.4.Apply organisation’s visual merchandising standards to the plan. |
Element: |
2. Monitor display requirements. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1.Regularly monitor display to ensure it meets the requirements of the visual merchandising plan. 2.2.Identify damage or changes to the display. 2.3.Take action to rectify unwanted changes to the display. |
Element: |
3. Maintain displays in line with organisational requirements and plan |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1.Maintain display so that it is clean and tidy. 3.2.Make additions or changes to display to ensure it consistently adheres to the visual merchandising plan. 3.3.Maintain organisation’s requirements for visual merchandising in the display. |
Element: |
4. Contribute to the visual merchandising standards of the organisation. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1.Interpret visual merchandising standards of the organisation. 4.2.Identify opportunities for improving visual merchandising standards. 4.3.Make contributions to the visual merchandising standards as appropriate. |
Learning Outcomes
- Interpret a visual merchandising plan
- Monitor display requirements
- Maintain displays in line with organisational requirements and plan
- Contribute to the visual merchandising standards of the organisation
Details of Learning Activities
RPL (Recognition of prior learning)
The student is required to gather workplace evidence in the form of a RPL Evidence Log Book to support their RPL application
Teaching Schedule
Specsavers groups
The attendance dates will vary for the individual Specsavers groups. Groups will be advised of their session dates by Specsavers Head Office.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
You must demonstrate Performance and Knowledge Evidence of the unit in order to be deemed competent.
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
You may be assessed by:
• Oral or written questioning
• Oral presentations
• Assignments and projects
• Direct observation of actual work practice
• Presentation of a portfolio of evidence which may comprise documents, and/or photographs and/or video and/or audio files
• Work-based activities
• Third-party feedback from a work supervisor/employer
Primary assessment involves on-going practical and applied assessment in a clinical workplace or simulated environment such as a supervised student clinic or at a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placement activity.
Competency based training requires you to be in attendance in order for assessment to be undertaken.
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions, through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.
All Assessment tasks should be performed or submitted by their due dates.
If due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance, you are unable to attend on the due date of an assessment (e.g. test, examination, oral, etc.) OR you do attend, but your performance has been affected, you may submit an APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION within 2 working days of the due date. If Special Consideration is granted, you will be given the opportunity to complete/repeat the assessment task at a later date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration or speak to your Program Coordinator.
If due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance, you are unable to submit by the due date (e.g. assignment, report, project etc.):
• you may submit an APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ASSESSABLE WORK for an extension of time of up to seven (7) calendar days or less. This must be lodged with the Program Coordinator 1 working day before the original due date. If granted, you will have the opportunity to submit up to 7 days later than the original due date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment/extension or speak to your Program Coordinator.
Or:
• you may submit an APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION within 2 working days of the due date. If Special Consideration is granted, you will be given the opportunity to submit the assessment task more than 7 days after the original due date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration or speak to your Program Coordinator.
You are expected to prepare all assignments and other written work in a professional manner. More information on general academic study and writing skills can be found on the “Learning Lab”http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab/ . All work submitted for assessment must be submitted electronically unless otherwise advised.
Students must keep a copy of all submitted assessments including electronic copies.
Harvard style is used for all referencing and for bibliography.
RMIT University has a strict policy on academic integrity and plagiarism and. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy. www.rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.
Your rights and responsibilities as a student can be found at http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students/rights-and-responsibilities
This course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced at www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment
Assessment Tasks
1. RPL Evidence Log
Specsavers groups Due Dates:
The Due Dates for assessments will vary for the individual Specsavers groups. These dates will be posted in the "Assessment Dates" section of Blackboard.
Assessment Matrix
ASSESSMENT METHODS/TYPES OF EVIDENCE:
Interview/ Verbal Questioning |
Self-Reflections |
Assignment/ Project |
Case Study or Role Play |
Third Party Verification |
Workplace Performance |
Research or Report |
Portfolio of Evidence |
Written Tasks
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