[2003]		The Learning, Teaching and Assessment Newsletter of the Faculty of Science, LJMU
Ab		stract #8.4
1849		… to be no more than 375 words.		5^th April 2024
			Webcams in offices and classrooms A reminder that webcams, and other IT peripherals, for offices can now be ordered via the IT Helpdesk dedicated request page. All classrooms should have in-built audio-recording facilities through a webcam (in addition to a radio microphone in some cases). These enable Academic staff to use the Panopto lecture-recording software, if they wish. Please report missing Webcams in classrooms to IT Helpdesk.
Pre-conference staff development event and social This event offers colleagues the opportunity to register for Students at the Heart (SATH) Conference sessions over lunch and chat informally about the programme. There will also be presentations by Faculty colleagues and the event is scheduled for late May. Details will follow.
			Our new Faculty scheme replaces ‘Talking about Teaching’ and participating staff have been emailed with details of their observation partner. If you unable to complete your observation within the final two weeks of teaching then please let me know so that I can update my records.
Online and in-person examinations Online > The Assistant Faculty Registrar advises that it is reasonable to extend published/allowed time if we expect material to be uploaded by students. Graham Sherwood suggest that that an extra time allowance of 20 minutes would be appropriate. In-person > If you are involved in the invigilation of an exam over the next few weeks then a reminder that the University has an ‘Invigilation of Examinations’ policy available via the Policy Centre.
Teaching Insights Seminars The next event in this series takes place late this month. > Capturing Perspectives: harnessing the power of Photovoice for transformative assessment. Monday 22 April, 2.30pm – 3.30pm This seminar will be led by Dr Lindsey Gaston, Liverpool Business School, Faculty of Business and Law. Further detail about this session and booking information is available in the Staff Development Calendar.
Teaching-related snippets
>	The Biochemical Society hosted a timely webinar in February entitled, “Process over product: Incorporating AI into assessment”. A video of this event is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyA6hh0tb28
Faculty of Science Student Experience Awards 2024 This event took place on Friday 1^st March and over twenty staff from the Faculty’s administrative, technical and academic teams were honoured. Congratulations again to all our winners!
BES Winners L-R Jon Bielby, Kostas Kiriakoulakis, Sally Williamson, [Laura Bishop], [Jason Kirby], Sarah Dalrymple, Alun Hughes. Apologies: Kirstie Scott PBS Winners L-R BMS Programme Team (Jo Foulkes, Adrian O'Hara, Rasha Swadi), Ryan Jones, [Laura Bishop], [Satya Sarker], BMSPT (Kenny Ritchie), Garry McDowell, Kate Phillips, Nick Bryan, BMSPT (Gordon Lowe). Apologies: Giles Watts, Sidgi Hasson SCS Winners L-R Neil Jones, PLSU Team (David Woods, Charlotte Fowles), Nicola Smith, PLSUT (Carmel McSorley, Elizabeth Cunningham), [Aly Leigh], [Laura Bishop], PLSUT (Paul Gilhooley), Natasha Bowness SPS Winners L-R Lee Graves, Emma Ball, Gemma Miller, [Laura Bishop], Theo Bampouras, [Craig Twist for Becky Murphy]
Phil Denton, Faculty of Science Associate Dean (Education and Student Experience) Maintained by SCSADE@ljmu.ac.uk. Last Update: 06/04/2024.