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Academic Systems

Strong disciplinary identities and excellence will be strengthened by reform of core processes and continued investment in digital innovations and evolving facilities for teaching and learning

Our goals:

Academic Governance

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

Timetable Improvement Programme (TIP)

Academic Governance

We will …

Implement the Academic Governance Review to enable effective, collaborative, and agile decision-making on teaching and learning

We will achieve this by …

  • Fully implementing our new Academic Governance structures and undertaking a review of their implementation and effective operation
  • Developing the Education Executive to plan and co-ordinate Education Strategy, agree operational priorities, co-ordinate Education activity, report on progress of Education initiatives, and prioritise team resources in support of Education projects
  • Ensuring Departmental Education Committees are established to support Education Strategy implementation
  • Developing Faculty Education Committees to assist in driving Education Strategy within Faculties and across all levels of study
  • Establishing a Student Success Programme Board to enable professional services departments to support the operationalisation of the Education Strategy
  • Developing a diverse and representative pipeline of committee chairs, members and secretaries to secure expertise in the longer term
  • Enhancing reporting of Education Strategy developments to the University Council
  • Reviewing University Regulations to address issues of clarity and accessibility

 

 

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

We will …

Continue to develop and embed Moodle as the University’s common VLE platform, supported by Tabula and other aspects of the Extended Classroom suite

We will achieve this by …

  • Developing and actively supporting good practice in the use of Moodle for modules, programmes, and departments
  • Increasing the effective use of Lecture Capture in academic departments

 

Timetable Improvement Programme (TIP)

We will …

Construct an efficient and effective central timetable to facilitate teaching excellence and the student and staff experience

We will achieve this by …

  • Delivering personalised timetables for students and staff, containing lectures, practicals and group activity, and accessible via the internet and on a PC, phone or tablet
  • Allocating rooms across the normal teaching week based on agreed priorities and principles so that students and staff have an efficient, equitable, user-friendly timetable
  • Incorporating returning student module choices into the construction of the timetable to minimise clashes
  • Implementing a new Module Selection system