EEVeC – ASPECTS OF INFORMATION

1. EEVeC – ASPECTS OF INFORMATION • The Timetable • Course Information • The Notice Board • Quality Enhancement EEVeC – ASPECTS OF LEARNING • The Lecture Database • Discussion Forum EEVeC – ASPECTS OF BUILDING • Editing pages • Constructing a quiz • Designing an Evaluation

2. THE TIMETABLE Either the whole timetable can be shown or a personalised version for each student and each member of staff. The timetable pages contain information about what the teaching item is (lecture, tutorial etc), when it is scheduled, in which course it resides, which member of staff is involved and which student group is involved. The timetable pages can also be annotated with a personal diary Lecture items are linked to the appropriate page of the lecture database. SEE PAGE OF TIMETABLE

3. First year has paired lecture slots between 9 and 11 am The staff member in charge The location of teaching Colour-coded by course Wednesday 29 September This leads to the lecture database There are four quarter class groups – A,B,C,D And there are subdivisions of each quarter class for tutorials. This links opens up the particular student group with photographs The type of activity SEE PERSONALISED VERSIONS

4. PERSONALISED TIMETABLES When a member of staff chooses their personal timetable rather than the whole timetable, only their own teaching shows. ‘CAL’ would see only this item. Wednesday 29 September When a student chooses their personal timetable rather than the whole timetable, only their own teaching shows. A student in the half class AB would see this, but not the half class practical involving group CD Wednesday 29 September RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

5. COURSE INFORMATION Students have course books as a hard copy but the sections of the course book are subdivided on the course book pages of EEVeC. See example of a course page

6. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Annotate My EEVeC Search Help W Cells Tissues and Development The key to every biological problem lies in the cell (EB Wilson) This course looks within the cell at the molecular machinery, and beyond the cell at the interactions that form the basic tissues and govern cellular behaviour Lecture Database : Cells, Tissues & Development Course Aims & Content Teaching and Learning Assessment Lectures Course book 2004-2005 Type=Word, size=313 kbytes Practicals Resources This down-loadable word document is also subdivided into the sections shown here Contacts Exam Papers RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

7. THE NOTICE BOARD Staff can place a notice to students on the electronic notice board. This can be directed to individuals, to groups or to the whole year. The notice can be set to appear for a fixed period of time SEE HOW TO SET UP A NOTICE

8. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies My EEVeC Help W EEVeC Notice Board Send to whole BVM&S The Notice Board allows staff to place electronic notices with defined start and end dates An example would be to flag up a rescheduled tutorial or generally to notify the class, groups or individuals of changed arrangements. Exam results may also be posted here. Send to prospective direct entry Send to whole of year 1 Send to whole of year 2 Notice Board Guide for staff Send to whole of year 3 Send to whole of year 4 Send to whole of year 5 You choose from these options for sending or reviewing messages Send to individual students Send to individual group(s) My Current notices My Non-current notices OPEN A MESSAGE WINDOW FOR YEAR 1

9. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies My EEVeC Help Submit 8000 EEVeC Notice Board Write your notice:- This page allows you to write your notice and define its start and end time. Fill in the form below. Year’s written to: 1: Choose the date your message will be displayed (your message WILL appear on this date). You set the timescale for displaying the message 31-March-2005 Choose the expiry date for your message (your message will NOT appear on this date) 31-April-2005 Choose the wording that will appear on the My EEVeC page A new CAL object You choose a title If you need to expand on the above, the text below will be attached to the notice. A new CAL object on segmentation in the embryo has been placed in the lecture database on the page of Development lecture D3 You write the message Allowed characters: You submit RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

10. Quality enhancement Each course has a staff-student liaison committee. This is chaired by an independent staff advisor who is not involved in the teaching on that course. Students are encouraged to choose representatives that cover the varied constituencies (such as graduate, Scottish Higher, overseas etc) especially in the earlier years. Meetings are held once a term and the minutes of the meetings are posted on the Quality Enhancement pages. SEE A STAFF-STUDENT LIAISON PAGE

11. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Independent Staff advisor My EEVeC Help Colin Stead Senior Lecturer, Orthopaedics, Associate Dean for Students Email – Colin.Stead@ed.ac.uk Tel. – 506080/506143 W W Mark Delaney Anna Haw Stuart Davenport Lindsay Rochford Minutes of Staff Student Liaison Meeting (yr1) on 29th October 2004 Minutes of Staff Student Liaison Meeting (yr1) on 7th February 2005 Year 1 (Veterinary Biomedical Sciences) Each course or year staff:student Liaison committee has an independent assessor who chairs the meetings. A meeting is in two parts. In the first , staff and students are present. In the second, only the independent assessor is present with the students Student reps are elected from different constituencies in year 1 (Scottish Higher, A-level, graduate, overseas) Records of meetings are posted based on student minutes RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

12. THE LECTURE DATABASE In the lecture database, each lecture in the curriculum is assigned a page. That page contains the learning outcomes for that lecture and may also contain lecture summaries, full lecture notes, powerpoint presentations and relevant CAL objects. A lecture database page is linked directly from the timetable, can be found through search, or can be visited by working down through course and section to individual lecture SHOW THE LECTURE DATABASE HOME PAGE

13. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Annotate My EEVeC Search Help Submit Lecture Database Home Page Body Systems 1 Search Lecture Database by key word(s) Cells, Tissues and Development Enter text to search Animal Husbandry Year 1 Perform search Animal Husbandry Year 2 These down-loadable players are required for different types of CAL object. Director Shockwave Require Shockwave Flash Require Authorware Shockwave Require Infection and Immunity Body Systems 2 Locating material in the lecture database can be done in any of three ways - IPC I 1. Entering a search word in the search box; this returns all lectures containing that word. IPC II 2. Locating the lecture within a particular course IPC III 3. Linking to the lecture from the timetable. Tuesday 19 October SHOW AN INDIVIDUAL LECTURE PAGE

14. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Annotate My EEVeC Search Help Lecture Database: Hormonal control in the fed and fasted state Code – 2/BS2/M/21 Lecture title – Hormonal controls in the fed and fasted state Lecturer – Graham Pettigrew Learning outcomes - 1.Explain the division of metabolic labour between the tissues and organs of the mammalian body and the role of the mobile fuel molecules carried in the blood. 2.Outline the energy content, nature and location of the different fuel reserves of the body. 3.Display graphically the changes in blood glucose and fatty acids in the fed and fasted states. 4.Explain the reciprocal control over glycogen synthesis and breakdown in the liver exerted by insulin and glucagon. 5.Describe the reciprocal control by insulin and glucagon over gluconeogenesis and glycolysis in the liver, emphasising the levels of control over existing enzyme activity and new enzyme synthesis (PFK and PEPCK as the main examples). 6.Describe the controls over fatty acid synthesis and oxidation emphasising the role of malonyl Coenzyme A 7.Describe the control of lipolysis by hormone-sensitive lipase 8. Outline the control exerted by insulin on the uptake of glucose by muscle and adipose (GLUT4 transporters) and the uptake of fatty acids by adipose (lipoprotein lipase) 9.Be able to summarise the overall pattern of control in the fed and fasted states. Lecture summary – To a degree the tissues of the body show metabolic specialisation requiring different input molecules and having different end products. The liver and adipose act as reservoirs of glucose (as glycogen) and fatty acids (as triacylglycerol) respectively and may act either to build up these stores or to make them available to other tissues. The blood stream acts as a conduit for the two way traffic of molecules between the tissues but is itself a small contributor to the total energy reserves of the body. The largest of these by far is the tracylglycerol in adipose (typically 85% of reserves) which is both extensive but also high in energy content (because it is fully reduced) and compact (because it is unhydrated). In contrast, glycogen is hydrated (and therefore bulky) and the carbon is already partially oxidised (and therefore of lower energy content),. However, it is rapidly mobilisable. An important distinction is the ‘selfish’ glycogen of muscle and the’ unselfish’ glycogen of liver……….. Full lecture notes – not available Date of preparation – August 2003 The learning outcomes are what a student should be able to do after studying the lecture. The lecture summary captures the essential ‘story’ of the lecture (This example is just part of a lecture summary) Some lectures have full lecture notes. Others have down-loadable word or powerpoint versions of the lecture LEARNING TOOLS

15. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Annotate My EEVeC Search Help v e Lecture Database: Hormonal control in the fed and fasted state Metabolic Pattern in the fed dog Lecture database pages contain learning tools relevant to that particular lecture CAL Metabolic Pattern in the fasted dog CAL These are interactive tutorials containing illustrative animations and questions. They require down-load of the Authorware ‘Webplayer’ Adrenalin and Glucagon in the control of Glycogen breakdown in the liver CAL Metabolism – whole body controls This is a multiple choice quiz Quiz Glycogen synthesis and breakdown This is a database containing the biochemical pathways and structures Pathways and Structures These are past exam questions and model answers related to this lecture. Exam Questions and Model answers RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

16. THE DISCUSSION FORUM There is an academic forum and a non-academic forum for each year. Either students or staff can initiate a discussion thread to which others respond. This model has been quite successful in generating a discussion about a set question arising from a current topic. It is also a useful tool for staff to answer class questions about a topic, for example before an exam. SEE A DISCUSSION THREAD

17. eevec At The University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Annotate My EEVeC Search Help EEVeC Discussion Students suggest possibilities A Discussion topic is posed Reply to this topic RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE There is a summing-up process

18. CONSTRUCTING A QUIZ A quiz tool called ‘EROS’ (Edinburgh Re-usable Object Sequencer) has been developed for use in EEVeC. Actually, as its name implies, it can also do the job of simply showing a sequence of objects such as images. You can request that a module be set up for you (steve.fox@ed.ac.uk). Your new module will then appear in a link on the left side of your home page called MyCAL. It is a simple job to set up the pages in order to construct a quiz. A help tool for this is available on the EEVeC entry page. The link below shows an example of a set up page and then an example of a final page. A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION SET UP PAGE

19. ...large amounts of endosomal membrane consistent with extensive endocytosis. No The stacked membranes that you see are rough ER ...large amounts of rough endoplasmic reticulum consistent with its secretory function . ...large amounts of smooth endoplasmic reticulum consistent with its secretory function. No. The smooth ER does not have ribosomes and is not involved in secretion Yes. The cytoplasm is packed with rough ER. Next Step >> Click to build up comments on this Edinburgh Reusable Object Sequencer has several options for types of CAL INFORMATION MATCHING FREE TEXT MATHS ESSAY MCQ Multiple Choice Question – Editing Mode This is the MCQ option Step1:2:3 You are now editing an MCQ question Question This transmission electron micrograph of a pancreatic acinar cell shows.... Options(Click to add more options) Correct? Specific Feedback The cell may well have extensive Golgi but that is not shown here. ..large amounts of Golgi consistent with its secretory function 1 x 2 3 x 4 x 5 Multiple options are supplied for a question and one is indicated as correct HOW DOES THE QUESTION LOOK

20. CTD EEVeC CAL Page 2 of 15 Score 1 from 1 Cell compartments This transmission electron micrograph of a pancreatic acinar cell shows… 1...large amounts of Golgi consistent with its secretory function select 2...large amounts of rough endoplasmic reticulum consistent with its secretory function select 3. ...large amounts of smooth endoplasmic reticulum consistent with its secretory function. select 4...large amounts of endosomal membrane consistent with extensive endocytosis. select An image can be added RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

21. e EDITING IN EEVeC You can ask for editing rights to pages in EEVeC. Pages that you may wish to edit include course pages (as course organiser), lecture database pages and your personal page. The right to edit is indicated by a small blue ‘e’ at the top left of a page. The editor resembles the ‘Word’ interface and a help tool explaining the editor is available on the EEVeC entry page. RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE

22. CONSTRUCTING AN EVALUATION (QUESTIONNAIRE) The item ‘EEVeC Evaluations’ on the left side of your home page allows you to create a questionnaire and subsequently view the results. There is a help tool available on the EEVeC entry page. Questionnaires can be set up for whole courses or sections of a course or on a very specific topic. The questionnaire appears as a pop-up window every time a student logs in to EEVeC. The time window of appearance of the questionnaire can be set. The results are presented in bar chart format and free text responses can be accommodated RETURN TO NAVIGATION PAGE