Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The morning of the assessment you wake with a massive hangover. OPTION 1 Phone in sick and hope someone else can deal with it OPTION 2 Turn up and get on with it
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence At the last minute, the external assessor becomes ill and can't make the panel meeting. OPTION 1 Draft in a recently retired ex- colleague from a nearby institution OPTION 2 Postpone the panel for three months until everyone is available
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence You realise the night before the panel that there is a complete unit descriptor missing from the documentation. OPTION 1 Don't mention it and hope no one notices OPTION 2 Bring it up at the meeting
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The latest trend is to involve students in approval panels. OPTION 1 Include them as proper partners, inviting them to planning meetings and explaining what's happening OPTION 2 Ask them at committee what they think of the documentation, which was tabled at the meeting as it was all a bit last minute
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence Your documents are filled with typographical errors. OPTION 1 Leave them OPTION 2 Fix them
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence Your Equalities Impact Assessment is missing. OPTION 1 Write a thoughtful, measured Equalities Impact Assessment OPTION 2 Copy an equalities impact assessment from another programme
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence Your documents are checked before the panel and have significant omissions; you have forgotten the Equalities Impact Assessment and one of your External Examiners’ reports is missing.. OPTION 1 Postpone the panel for a month until the correct documentation can be produced OPTION 2 Cobble something together in an evening
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence It is suggested that you use student feedback on an existing course to enhance the proposed course. OPTION 1 Analyse the feedback and make changes as appropriate OPTION 2 Use the feedback to justify changes you were going to make anyway
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The panel is not happy that your learning outcomes contain multiple uses of ‘understand’. OPTION 1 Take advice on rewording the learning outcomes and revisit all of them, and check alignment with assessment tasks OPTION 2 Quickly replace 'understand' with a variety of synonyms
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The assessment consists of four essays and four unseen exams. The approval panel suggests using a greater variety of assessment. OPTION 1 Take advice on the use of varied assessment to support your programme learning outcomes OPTION 2 Swap two of the essays for group work presentations, and leave the exams as they are
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence You have been asked to develop a strategy for employer engagement. OPTION 1 Design in a relationship with the relevant skills council that involves guest speakers, sector case studies and work placements OPTION 2 Write a one-page strategy document listing ideas for employer engagement
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence You have been told that the course needs to engage with the community. OPTION 1 Design an assignment that lets students gather community data and involves community groups without increasing your workload OPTION 2 Write a standard letter to a few community groups asking for input, and act surprised when you get no response
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence Your assessment strategy is complimented by the external examiner as transparent, coherent and progressive, providing a scaffold for successful completion of the programme learning outcomes. OPTION 1 Pat yourself on the back OPTION 2 Decide that you can improve them still further and spend a weekend rewriting the documentation
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The Professional Body says how impressed they are with your proposals and that they will contribute greatly to the national provision and to thinking about teaching in the discipline. OPTION 1 Congratulate your team OPTION 2 Review the documentation to check they are actually talking about your course
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The Professional Body is more critical of the programme than the internal members of the panel and demands major conditions before they can accredit the programme. OPTION 1 Refuse the conditions and tell the Professional Body that you are not interested in their accreditation. OPTION 2 Make all of the changes requested
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The panel is not happy that your learning outcomes contain multiple uses of ‘know’. OPTION 1 Take advice on rewording the learning outcomes and revisit all of them, and check alignment with assessment tasks OPTION 2 Quickly replace 'know' with a variety of synonyms
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence Each unit in your course has three or four different methods of assessment. You are told this is too much. OPTION 1 Drop one or two methods of assessment from each unit OPTION 2 Redesign the assessment so that the learning outcomes are still covered with fewer pieces
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence You need a strategy for supporting international students and those for whom English is not a first language. OPTION 1 Copy-and-paste a strategy from the web OPTION 2 Take advice from the international office and the languages department to create a strategy that meets learner needs
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The panel ask for more detail on your proposals for offering your course in blended mode. OPTION 1 Ask a learning technologist for advice OPTION 2 Consult the learning technologist who is a full member of the programme team
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence FINAL APPROVAL
Accreditation! The responsive curriculum game is made available through JISC under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence The external assessor does not think that your unit learning outcomes are written at the appropriate academic level. OPTION 1 In consultation with the team, revisit the learning outcomes for each unit OPTION 2 Quickly replace the verb on each outcome with one of a higher level