Conference Update – ALT-C 2024
The Association for Learning Technology’s annual conference (ALT-C) was held in Manchester this year, from 3-5 September. It was a privilege to attend in person with my TEL Team colleagues, with others joining us…
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Moodle update: Hot question activity
A new release of the hot question activity plugin has been made available by the third-party developer. Testing has been undertaken and the updated plugin has now been installed on our Moodle sites to ensure we’re…
Academic Calendar proposal endorsed by Senate for implementation in AY2024-25
On 6 December 2023, Senate endorsed the academic calendar paper. This means that effective from Academic Year 2024-25 (i.e. from January 2025) Semester 2 will: Start one week later after the winter break Include an…
Academic Calendar Review – the results are in
The results are in… Having reviewed the survey responses and other feedback from the consultation period, it is apparent that model 2a meets the requirements of most, whilst all other models include components that…
Update on progress with the Academic Calendar consultation
The survey closed on Saturday 30 September with 4187 respondents – thank you for your efforts in encouraging engagement with this. We have also invited Heads of Schools and Heads of Service Units to provide their…
Podcast discussing the academic calendar review.
This podcast is a discussion between the VP Education/Proctor, The Director of Student Experience and the Director of Education which sets out the rationale behind the academic calendar review, details how to get…
Updates from the Academic Calendar project – 20 September
Over the course of week 1, the project team has continued to speak with various committees and groups about the ongoing consultation on the academic calendar, including speaking to Service Directors and joining a…
Keeping you updated on the Academic Calendar consultation project
In Welcome Week, the project team attended a number of committee meetings and briefing sessions to raise awareness of the Academic Calendar consultation project. We presented variously to Directors of Teaching,…
Changes to Moodle roles
Since the Moodle upgrade there have been some changes made to roles within Moodle. In the majority of cases Staff and students should be added to modules in MMS. This will sync to Moodle (If the MMS role has been set…
Academic calendar review – consultation opportunity – survey closes 30 Sept.
When the current academic calendar was approved in 2019, we committed to reviewing the changes which have been in place since AY2021-22. We know that staff and students have already provided feedback on some of the…