Victoria University
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Special Consideration VU asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my VU consultVU's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through ASKVU online form (MyVU).
Within three working days of the assessment due date for higher education; at least one day before the scheduled assessment for VET. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
VU's short extensions and special consideration page does not address consultation modality. It asks your treating professional to complete the relevant section of the Treating Professional Supporting Document or to supply a medical certificate, without stating how the consultation must occur.
The severity of the impact: severe, moderate or minor. Which activities were affected, ticked against exam, class attendance and assessment.
A counsellor or other treating professional can complete the supporting document, not only a medical practitioner, so the evidence matches the circumstance. Where you cannot obtain any supporting documentation within three days of the due date, VU accepts a statutory declaration outlining your circumstances instead.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at VU, from its published policy.
Start my VU consultVU's published policy does not address consultation modality. It asks your treating professional to complete the supporting document or to supply a medical certificate. Since the page neither permits nor excludes telehealth, a certificate backed by a real consultation is the safer choice.
Higher education students apply within three working days of the assessment due date. VET students apply at least one day before the scheduled assessment. A late higher education application needs a short letter describing the exceptional circumstances that prevented a timely lodgement.
It is VU's practitioner form. The treating professional rates the impact as severe, moderate or minor, ticks which activities were affected, notes whether the condition is ongoing, and signs with their registration details. A medical certificate carrying the same detail is accepted in its place.
A short extension moves a submission date by up to three, five or ten days depending on your course structure, and is requested at least one working day before the due date. Special consideration covers unexpected circumstances that affected the assessment itself, or delays longer than an extension allows.
VU accepts a statutory declaration of half a page to one page outlining your circumstances, where you could not obtain supporting documentation from your practitioner within three days of the due date. Lodge it with the application rather than waiting.
VU's process, in the order it happens.
A real-time special consideration consult. Tell the doctor the exam or due date; the certificate covers those dates.
Within three working days of the assessment due date for higher education; at least one day before the scheduled assessment for VET.
Special Consideration completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
VU may contact the practice to confirm the consultation. The link on each document answers that.
What the certificate must state, and what gets it refused.
The severity of the impact: severe, moderate or minor. Which activities were affected, ticked against exam, class attendance and assessment. Whether the condition is ongoing. The dates of consultation and the period the impact covers. The treating professional's name, registration number, practice details and signature.
A counsellor or other treating professional can complete the supporting document, not only a medical practitioner, so the evidence matches the circumstance. Where you cannot obtain any supporting documentation within three days of the due date, VU accepts a statutory declaration outlining your circumstances instead. VU asks you not to upload sensitive images. Photos of test results, including COVID-19 tests, are named as unacceptable evidence. Short extensions are a separate, lighter process with their own window: apply at least one working day before the due date.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
A short extension buys up to three days on a four week block, five days on an eight week block or VU Online course, and ten days for VET and TAFE. You apply at least one working day before the due date.
This is the full application for unexpected circumstances that affected an assessment, or where you need longer than a short extension allows. Higher education students lodge it within three working days of the due date through ASKVU, with the Treating Professional Supporting Document or a medical certificate attached.
Where illness kept you from an exam, special consideration can result in a deferred sitting. The Treating Professional Supporting Document has a tick for exam impact specifically, so ask your practitioner to mark it and to cover the exam date.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Special Consideration VU asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
