Heads Up for the End of Week One
Congratulations everyone on surviving the first week. A huge thank you to staff for working so hard to get the new year off and running. In particular thanks to our amazing Student Support Coordinators for helping students sort out their timetables this week.
Here’s
this week’s quick round up of information that might be useful as we go into Week 2 – short points with links to detail where possible. Please use comments section at the end if you want to
follow up.
First, a couple of reminders:
- Please remember to have your DROP IN time visible on your google calendar so students can see it. If your default calendar setting is to show Busy, then you need to make sure the DROP IN events are public to Brookes.
- Check your assessment for your modules is recorded correctly for SI/Banner on this spreadsheet. Any corrections to your Programme Lead ASAP. This information will go into the Student Information system/Banner shortly.
Student Information System (aka Banner)
There have been issues for a variety of reasons but the
focus is now on getting the registration of modules on students’ timetables
correct.
As the deadline for registration of modules has passed, the process being adopted for this week is to allow "students who still have genuine reasons for making a change to their programme of study for this year e.g. because it would affect their completion or progression. These students should be directed back to the Banner module registration facility, which will be open this week for those students. If a student encounters difficulties making changes within the Banner system then a Moodle form (M99/F99) should be the next option but only if there is a problem in the self-service".
As the deadline for registration of modules has passed, the process being adopted for this week is to allow "students who still have genuine reasons for making a change to their programme of study for this year e.g. because it would affect their completion or progression. These students should be directed back to the Banner module registration facility, which will be open this week for those students. If a student encounters difficulties making changes within the Banner system then a Moodle form (M99/F99) should be the next option but only if there is a problem in the self-service".
The new SI does not recognise part-time students and so there
are errors as students have been allocated or have chosen the wrong
modules. I have requested that the video support for students needs to include a
version especially for online/part-time/distance students.
Moodle
If you cannot see your module in Moodle, it probably means
you have not been allocated as the Module Leader. Please ask Verity Harris
(verityharris@brookes.ac.uk), Curriculum and Student Information Manager in
Student Central to register you as Module Leader and you will get access as SI
syncs with Moodle overnight. In urgent cases, Patrick Cheeseman (pcheeseman@brookes.ac.uk), Faculty
TDE DMELD can give you temporary access.
Subject Coordinators - Using the listing below, Subject Coordinators can now see and
check all their Moodle sites are turned on and have the correct
Module Leaders (click on the ‘i’ next to each listing. If there is no ‘i’ then
there is no Module Leader allocated. Do not try and allocate or correct
Module Leaders on Moodle sites yourself – please use the process above.
ARTD (44)
BENV (7)
COMP (65)
CONM (30)
DALT (18)
DESN (7)
DEVC (3)
DEVP (42)
DIGP (50)
EAAM (2)
EIAM (7)
ENGR (83)
ESTM (39)
FILM (41)
GDES (7)
HCON (12)
MATH (23)
MCEL (6)
MJPB (7)
MUSC (58)
NETW (8)
PHOT (7)
PLAN (61)
PMAN (44)
PUBL (63)
REST (38)
ROBO (8)
SOFT (8)
STAT (10)
Supportive Student Attendance Pilot
Following the evaluation of the first pilot of DigiReg last
year, the Faculty is running a second pilot focusing on key larger programmes and
implementing a follow-up process to the attendance monitoring. These are in
Engineering, Computing, Real Estate and Foundation Art and Design. DigiReg can
be used in an ad hoc manner by any TDE academic staff who want to take a register of a teaching or
extra-curricula session. More information about this Faculty project is here.
NOTE: any new staff including ALs needing to be added
to the system, please email Faculty ADSE Gina Dalton, gdalton@brookes.ac.uk
NSS/BSS Action Plans and PTES Results
All NSS/BSS and PTES data and information, including plan
template is available from the Faculty google site https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/tde-student-experience/home
Undergraduate NSS/BSS Action Plans for all programmes are
due ASAP.
Postgraduate PTES results by programme are out. Note that
PTES student comments are not ready yet but are on rush.
