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The Learning, Teaching and Assessment Newsletter of the Faculty of
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24th Sept
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Technology-related items (quite a
few of these!) IT Services and the Teaching and Learning Academy have recently
finished a huge amount of work to get the various things in place so that
students will have access to a wide range of services when off campus, this
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Free
programs for download, including MS Office and anti-virus software. |
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Subject Software being made available
through both ‘Off Campus Find A PC’ and ‘Off Campus Applications’. The former
will connect students remotely to a PC in the library, subject software then
being accessible via the App Player as usual. |
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The
ability to book a PC in a wide range of specialist labs (e.g. GIS) and work
on them off campus. |
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A booking system for on-campus PC facilities: Avril will open
from Monday Week 2 and will offer three four-hour-long slots per day for
UG/PG students to book and use. |
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IT Services advice for students on
‘using your own device’ now on the general IT Help page |
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See My Tutor being reconfigured so that
it places invites to a MS Teams meeting in student’s and staff member’s
Outlook Calendars. Science staff should continue to offer a minimum
of four hours of online availability per week. |
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The online
calendar of training events now includes Zoom training sessions. |
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The Learning Science virtual
laboratories being available for deployment within Canvas. If you have
associated Canvas issues please report these via helpdesk. For issue with the
resources themselves, email support@learnsci.co.uk
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Auto-transcription
of recordings Recent users of Panopto and Zoom will
know that videos produced by these technologies now come with an
automatically-generated transcript of the recording. This will support any
staff or students with hearing impairment or those wishing to view the video
in a noisy environment. This change also ensures that the institution meets
its obligations to the Digital Accessibility Regulations (2018). The Teaching
and Learning Academy have published guidance on editing transcripts within Panopto
and Zoom. |
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The Faculty’s online repository of
biographic profiles of scholars from under-represented groups is now online, brief
biographies being available in PowerPoint format. We thank the Curriculum
Enhancement Interns for their work on this project: Mohammad Alalami,
Oghenefe Otobrise, Kapil Tyagi, and Anthonia Oluwatuyi Programme Teams are encouraged to
coordinate the incorporation of EDIpedia profiles within lectures so that
these pioneers are explicitly cited when allied subject content is taught in
class. Students are welcome to browse the EDIpedia pages and learn more about
these inspiring individuals. Both activities will raise awareness of the diversity
of contributors within STEM and present a wider range of role models that
both staff and students may identify with. Staff and student are welcome to submit
profiles that they have researched: please refer to the home page. The
Faculty is liaising with JMSU over how this resource might be involved in Black History Month. |
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Phil Denton, Faculty of Science Associate Dean (Education) |
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Maintained
by SCSADE@ljmu.ac.uk.
Last Update: 24/09/2020.