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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Operate show control systems

  • Unit Code

    CUASTA411

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Nominal Hours

    45

  • Full Year Unit

     Y

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew CROSS

Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to program and operate show control systems that store, play back and control audio, video, digital images and other inputs in a programmed sequence. Individuals who apply these skills work autonomously in a team environment as they take responsibility for ensuring that technical elements of shows, presentations or installations deliver the desired effect. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Elements

  • 1. Prepare for show control operations
  • 2. Input sources
  • 3. Undertake show control activities
  • 4. Complete post-show operations

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to: program and operate a show control system to create the sound, vision and movement effects required in a show, presentation or installation on at least two occasions work collaboratively.

Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements the individual must: explain features of, and process for selecting, files in standard show control systems describe issues and challenges that typically arise when setting up and operating show control systems, along with solutions to address them explain musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) and show-based protocols and control mediums.

Assessment

Assessment must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities experienced in creative arts industry environments. The assessment environment must include access to show control systems used for performances, presentations or installations. Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational educational and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Assessment

GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA VET only

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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