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Faculty
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Teaching and Assessment Information and Resources |
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18/12/14 Faculty of Science Learning, Teaching and Assessment Update |
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LTA Development Day 15th December 2014 Many thanks to all those who
attended and/or contributed to the first Faculty LTA Development Day 15th
December 2014. The event was a success and feedback forms collected on the
day will be analysed and used to inform next year’s event. I have updated the
online schedule with copies of presenter’s slides, where available: http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/phcpdent/FacultyLTA/Staff%20Development%20Day%2015%2012%2014.htm |
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Exemption of Personal Tutor Tutorials from class cancellation policy The Faculty Class Cancellation
Policy may be found here.
The policy has recently been revised and no longer applies to tutorials with personal
tutees that are cancelled more than 24 hours in advance. Specifically, this
exemption applies to those tutorials that are recorded on the registers sent
to School Offices at the end of each Semester. |
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Careers zone and guides There are now a range of careers
guides available from the WOWCC at the link below: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/worldofwork/123871.htm
Career Planning Guides by School
are available under the ‘Career Planning Guide’ tab. Career Insight Guides by programme are available under the ‘Resources for Your Course tab’. Some hard copies of these guides are available from the new World of Work Student Careers Zone, off the James Parson Building foyer. |
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International Student Experience
Project The LiverpoolSU are undertaking this research project and have advertised for student volunteers to take part. They don’t currently have any funding and it has been agreed is that the project will continue as a pilot study, eventually becoming a larger, funded project. A working group will be set up to develop the findings from the pilot and LiverpoolSU would appreciate the support of academics. The working group would be composed of someone from the International Office, someone from Study Group, and a representative from each Faculty. If you are interested in being the rep for SCS, or require more information, please contact me in the first instance p.denton@ljmu.ac.uk. |
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Curriculum Enhancement Project Funding and staff costs (Thanks to Clare
Milsom) Clare Milsom has produced a short guide regarding funding for staffing that is paid for by project funding, including Curriculum Enhancement Project Funding. The guide is here: http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/phcpdent/FacultyLTA/Project
Funding Staff Resources.docx |
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The Turnitin App (thanks to Chris Gilles) During the referral process this summer a handful of EHC colleagues trialled the new iPad Turnitin app. Danny Cullinane, from the School of ELS, shared this experience below: “I used the Turnitin App on
my iPad 2 this summer for referrals in two modules. The app was
relatively straight forward to use once I had gone through the
tutorial. There is a bit of set up required at the start of the process
but once past this everything becomes very easy. The app allowed work
to be submitted through Turnitin for originality, and then for the work to be
graded which could be done by text or voice comments if you preferred.
Rubrics can be attached as well if this is set up beforehand. Having the
flexibility to mark the work from different work bases was a real boon so I
will be looking to use it again.”
Upon considering early staff trials and current online guidance there appear to be some clear boons and notable issues, see below: Why use it… · Works offline · Portable · Intuitive once setup · Supports the full range of Turnitin features e.g. rubrics, drag and drop comments, free text feedback boxes, annotation, audio feedback, text highlighting and similarity reporting Watch out for… · Initial setup (see guide here) · Security – setup a passcode on the app and also on your iPad as well, if you haven’t already. · Switching between your desktop PC and the app mid-marking (don't do it! The app currently overwrites desktop entries even if the app entry is blank) ·
Anonymous assignments with multiple markers –
you need separate submission points for each marker similar to how we used to
setup assignment handler (contact us if unsure) Please contact Chris Gillies C.G.Gillies@ljmu.ac.uk if you would
like further information. |
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. |
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Dr Philip Denton BSc PhD PGCE PGCert SFHEA Lecturer in Physical Chemistry Faculty of Science |
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Maintained by Philip Denton. Last Update: 13/10/2015.