Important update on your T2 learning activities
While restrictions in Victoria have eased since the July lockdown, current government advice is that students should continue to study from home if they can.
To help with your planning, all classes and seminars will remain online until Friday 13 August, which is the last day of teaching before the intra-trimester break.
All scheduled learning activities will continue as per your normal timetable. The only change is that classes and seminars are currently online.
Pracs, labs, placements, field trips and other experiential learning activities resume on-campus or onsite from Monday 2 August – with some exceptions. If your unit is one of these exceptions, you’ll be notified directly or through your unit site.
Please make sure you check your unit sites regularly or ask your unit chair if you’re unsure.
We expect scheduled on-campus classes and seminars to resume after the break, but this will be subject to updated government and health advice. We’ll provide confirmation of this closer to the time.
What’s open on campus
The following Deakin facilities are now open on campus, but you can also continue to access them online:
- Deakin Medical Centre: Open for face-to-face pre-booked appointments only and telehealth consults.
- Deakin learning centres: Open with density limits.
- DeakinACTIVE Fitness Centres: Open with density limits.
- DUSA Bookshop: Open with density limits.
- Deakin cafes: A reduced number of cafes are operating across each campus.
- Childcare centres: Open.
- Prayer rooms: Open.
Remember: if you attend campus, you must:
- Wear a face mask indoors and outdoors whenever you leave your home – unless a lawful exception applies.
- Adhere to all COVIDSafe practices, including checking in via the COVIDSafe QR codes.
- Self-check and stay home if you’re unwell – use the Symptom Checker testing and quarantine guidance.
- Complete Deakin’s COVIDSafe module before attending a campus for the first time.
- Maintain good hand hygiene and use the hand sanitiser available.
Need some help or support?
We’re here if you need us – the following student support services are available:
- Student Central: If you have a question about your enrolment or course, finances or just aren’t sure where to go for help, contact Student Central by phone or submit an online enquiry.
- Study Support: Access a range of academic and study support online, including help from Language and Learning Advisers, Writing and Maths Mentors, and Smarthinking.
- IT Help: Access IT Help online or over the phone, Monday to Friday, 8am–8pm, and weekends, 11am–5pm.
- Make a free and confidential telehealth appointment with a Deakin Counselling and Psychological Support (CAPS) counsellor, or visit our Ask Counselling blog, which contains anonymous student questions answered by Deakin counsellors.
- If you feel unsafe in your home, or COVID-19 restrictions mean that your personal situation could become dangerous or unsustainable, Safer Community is here to support you. This includes assisting you with a safety plan if appropriate or providing advice. All assistance is confidential.
- Deakin’s Multifaith Chaplains offer compassionate support to everyone, whether religious or not. Our chaplains are available for phone consultations.
- For emergency, 24-hour support, contact Triple Zero (000), LifeLine or SuicideLine.