Student onboarding modules

Currently, the re-enrolment block applies to HE undergraduate and postgraduate by coursework, and associate degree students who commenced studying at Australian campuses in 2024.

Exemptions include RMIT Online, RMIT UP, RMIT Vietnam, Aviation Academy, TAFE, Open University, research (HDR candidates), study abroad or exchange and cross-institutional study students who commenced studying at Australian campuses in 2024.

Students who commenced their program in 2023 or earlier will not have their re-enrolment restricted and will not see the modules in their Canvas dashboard.

For eligible students, the Academic Integrity Awareness and Sex and Consent modules are located on the Dashboard page within your Canvas environment.

There are two ways to find these courses:

Standard dashboard view: In the standard dashboard view, students can see all the Canvas courses they’re enrolled in. The modules will appear here.

Canvas Dashboard - Courses Menu Item: If students are using an alternative dashboard view, they can navigate to their enrolled modules by clicking the “Courses” item in the left-hand navigation menu and selecting the relevant module from the subsequent pop-out menu.

If you commenced your studies before 2024, you won't see the modules in your Canvas dashboard, you will not be blocked from enrolling in future classes if you have not completed them and you don't need to take any action.

If you're an associate degree, undergraduate and postgraduate by coursework student who commenced their studies at an Australian campus in 2024 and you can't see the modules in your Canvas dashboard, contact Student Connect.

The Academic Integrity Awareness and Sex and Consent modules each have different completion requirements.

Academic Integrity Awareness

This module includes compulsory ‘activities’ that test your knowledge of the content. To complete the module, you must complete each activity and select the “mark as done” option before you click ‘next’ to progress to the next stage of the module.

You must also receive a score of 15 on the module's final assessment.

Sex and Consent

To complete Sex and Consent, you must achieve a passing score of 90. To achieve this score and complete the module you must engage with the content, complete the knowledge check scenarios throughout and exit the course.

You won’t receive a confirmation email or message once you’ve successfully completed the modules.

Instead, check that you’ve met the completion criteria for each module and return to enrolment online - you’ve successfully completed the modules if the re-enrolment block has been lifted and you can progress with your re-enrolment.

Please note: it may take up to 2 hours after you complete the modules for the re-enrolment block to clear from your enrolment online account.

You don’t have to notify anyone at the University that you’ve completed your modules.

You should attempt to complete your modules as soon as possible. If you don’t complete your modules, you won’t be able to re-enrol or add future classes.

All students are required to complete the modules as part of their university journey. The modules have been embedded into the commencing student orientation and onboarding process to introduce the clear expectation and practice that students complete the modules.

The Sex and Consent module is mandatory at RMIT. It provides learning content associated with sex, consent, porn use, sexual harm, assault and gender-based violence. 

RMIT acknowledges that some students may find the content in this module distressing.

The module begins with a short survey where you can choose whether to start the course, or not to proceed with it.

When you choose to opt-out from completing Sex and Consent, the re-enrolment block will be lifted for this module however, the block will remain in place until you complete the Academic Integrity Awareness module.