Back again with a quick round up of information that might be useful as we begin to hope that spring will actually start soon – short points with links to detail where possible. Please use comments section at the end if you want to follow up.
Well done to academic staff in the School of Engineering, Computing and Maths, 93% of whom had their DROP IN hours visible in their calendars at the last audit done by the Principal Lecturers Student Experience.
Staff Availability - Two Easy Google Calendar Hacks
1. One of our ongoing Faculty-level NSS actions is to use staff google calendars to show staff availability to students and to use the term STUDENT DROP IN (rather than office time/hours, which some students find confusing). If your staff google calendar has a default of private and all your meetings/events show as BUSY, rather than give any detail, then you need to change the setting for each of your DROP IN sessions to public, otherwise students cannot see them.
This advice shows you how to do that.
2. If you want students to be able to see your google calendar more easily and cut down on your emails, you can create a link in your email signature (the bit at the end of all your emails). Many staff already have this as they can refer students to it, rather than emailing back and forth to arrange meetings.
This advice shows you how to do this. The link is dynamic and so it always links to your google calendar for the current week.
This advice shows you how to do that.
2. If you want students to be able to see your google calendar more easily and cut down on your emails, you can create a link in your email signature (the bit at the end of all your emails). Many staff already have this as they can refer students to it, rather than emailing back and forth to arrange meetings.
This advice shows you how to do this. The link is dynamic and so it always links to your google calendar for the current week.
Well done to academic staff in the School of Engineering, Computing and Maths, 93% of whom had their DROP IN hours visible in their calendars at the last audit done by the Principal Lecturers Student Experience.
Talking Teaching
Our Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) is looking to develop a university-wide community through teaching and learning. As 'Inclusivity' and 'Employability' will remain as a key strategic themes for the University, this is an excellent way of working on, and working up, projects in these areas with others and being in a position to bid for funding from the OCSLD schemes.
The deadline for applications to join the Brookes Learning Communities are closing now so be quick and apply. The application forms (and more information about the theme is on the form) are quite short and this is a great opportunity to secure funding for projects in each of these areas from March '20 - Feb '21.
Enterprise Education application form
Leading Inclusive Teaching application form
Here are the direct links to the funding opportunities in OCSLD:
Teaching Innovation Project Funding - up to £3000 over one year
Teaching Excellence Fellowship Funding - up to £7000 over two years
Results are published in July (which seems a long way away...)
The deadline for applications to join the Brookes Learning Communities are closing now so be quick and apply. The application forms (and more information about the theme is on the form) are quite short and this is a great opportunity to secure funding for projects in each of these areas from March '20 - Feb '21.
Enterprise Education application form
Leading Inclusive Teaching application form
Here are the direct links to the funding opportunities in OCSLD:
Teaching Innovation Project Funding - up to £3000 over one year
Teaching Excellence Fellowship Funding - up to £7000 over two years
NSS 2020
The NSS2020 is open and students are completing it. Click the link to see if your undergraduate programme is over the line in terms of student response. The graph updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at about 1:30pm. Green is the response rate, Red is the number still to respond to get to 50% or at least 10 students. Please encourage your final year students to complete. There is a £3 donation to local charities by the university for every response.Results are published in July (which seems a long way away...)
Save the Date - 8-10 June 2020
The new Academic Framework starts this September for all new students. The Faculty is planning on running multiple Heads Up sessions in June so staff can discuss and ask questions about: the new compensation regulations; the change to how degrees will be calculated, that students will no longer be allowed to 'trail' modules, removal of in-year pre-requisites, the removal of the 22 rule etc etc.
More on this soon. Have a great week.
