1. p1 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 School of Systems Engineering Teaching Report for School Meeting 21/06/06 Dr Richard Mitchell Director of Teaching & Learning Thanks Entrance Scholarships and Freshers’ Week Fees, Retention Deadlines, Extensions, Plagiarism Blackboard and Lecture notes On going matters The above reflect decisions at recent STALC meetings

2. p2 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 Thank You Thanks to all for your hard work Lecturers; Technical Staff and Admin Support Thanks in particular to those involved with admissions including Open days DON’T FORGET THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY those with duties re Examinations Glennys and Helen for their support of Students those looking into new degrees or agreements where students come to Reading to finish off their degree

3. p3 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 On Results for Parts 1 and 2 Part 1 results are on the Web Portal next Monday at 4.00 Part 2 results are on the Web Portal next Wednesday at 4.00 For those needing resits or who wish to change any aspects of their registration (change degree/module) Session on Tuesday at 3:30 (after RJMc’s event on Software Eng) for Part 1 Session on Thursday at 11:00 for Part 2 If any tutee contacts you, please refer them to these sessions or to their relevant Programme Adviser.

4. p4 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 Entrance Scholarships The University is awarding us Entrance Scholarships £2000 to all undergraduates entering in 2007/8/9 who get AAA or equivalent have Reading as first choice I hope this increases applications Freshers Week There will be the general intro and registration on Tuesday The second event on Thursday will have welcomes by each subject group, a lecture on what we expect of students and a e-portfolio session (thanks to Shirley and team) to help students identify those with similar interests

5. p5 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 On Fees and Retention The new Fees system means that a student who leaves before Dec 1 st pays no fee a student who leaves after pays the fee for a whole year To be fair to students, we need to let them know this and give appropriate advice Therefore we will improve on the system we trialled this year re checking the progress of Part 1 students By week 5, all Part 1 modules will have a means of assessing the extent to which each student is engaging So by week 7 we will have relevant information for all tutors, who will have a second PAR meeting, which will specifically be for checking on progress ….

6. p6 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 On Coursework Deadlines To help both the Student Information Centre and Students we will have a better system for setting coursework deadlines. All deadlines for 2007/8 will be agreed BEFORE Oct 2007 Andrew Adams will look at this year’s deadlines and discuss with colleagues their requirements If you have new coursework, talk to Andrew For new courses we will allow some flexibility

7. p7 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 On Extensions, Plagiarism, etc Students wanting an extension on coursework should discuss with the relevant lecturer a provisional extension length – please respond if they contact you – and if possible initial the form to say you agree. The form comes to me to decide if an extension is warranted I want to develop a system where such requests are stored searchable to find who has an extension (not reasons) and potentially to identify problematic cases The system will also record Extenuating Circumstances And instances of plagiarism – which you should report And probably record student progress during year

8. p8 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 On Blackboard and Lecture Notes All School modules should have presence on Blackboard – we will be reviewing its use All lecture notes should be available through Blackboard A master copy of your notes should be in G44 Please provide these early enough so that Glennys/Helen can have them photocopied by the Print Unit It is a waste of your time to do your own copying Glennys/Helen know how many copies are needed Spare copies should be returned to G44 So students don’t bother you when they miss a lecture

9. p9 RJM 20/06/06Teaching & Learning Report – June 06 Meeting © Dr Richard Mitchell 2006 On Going Review of MSc degrees Review of Industrial Year Possible new degrees New publicity … partly awaiting rebranding project Further standardisation across School re projects a BlackBoard module for all Part 2 students was set up with information needed to allow students to choose their Part 3 project Now we need to work out how to get the so-and-so’s to read email regularly and watch BB …..