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Using the VLE for a programme wide community

Using the VLE for a programme wide community.

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Using the VLE for a programme wide community

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  1. Using the VLE for a programme wide community

  2. The postgraduate technology and computing programme covers several qualifications. In FirstClass we created a programme wide presence, so that students could read and participate in the whole cohort forums for all modules within the programme and this facilitated wider student to student interaction, especially to discuss module choice.  In moving to the VLE we have preserved this programme wide access, now as a PTC student website rather than to a FirstClass desktop. This PTC student website enables us to provide cross-qualification support to students using Elluminate and to those preparing for their MSc research modules. We have also created a PTC tutor website and extended this to include staff development resources. The PTC office, based in R05, supports students and tutors nationally, and internationally. In the discussions about student support teams and curriculum teams, a programme presence on the VLE is important in presenting a focal point for students and staff. Kay Bromley, one of the PTC staff tutors, will talk about the practicalities of setting up the PTC VLE websites, and suggest ways in which such a site might be useful for student support teams and curriculum teams.

  3. Contents • What we had before • Why we wanted to keep ‘something’ • What we have been able to do in the VLE • A short tour of the PTC student and tutor sites • What we have done that is new for PTC • Issues • Future possibilities

  4. PTC • Postgraduate technology and computing • Qualifications in • EDM • TM • CCI, Managing software projects, Software development • STiP • DM • AN • IS • Three programme boards,

  5. What we had before • FirstClass • All whole-cohort forums open to all students and tutors on PTC modules • Desktop structured to give prominence to current module • Qualification level forums • Module specific forums related to e-tutorials • Tutor forums, persistent • PTC office forum

  6. Why keep ‘something’ • A community of students and tutors • PTC qualifications are interlinked • Awareness across PTC, if wanted • Sharing of information and expertise • One place to look at • Also some admin functions for PTC • BUT, VLE is tutorgroup, module and presentation driven.

  7. In the VLE • Use standard website format, with ‘topics’ rather than calendar in the centre • Easier to integrate information relating to Elluminate and other VLE tools • More choices, eg forum, wiki, glossary, resource pages • Opening dates

  8. Tour • Access to student site from StudentHome • One month before first module then continuing • Access to student site from Module website • Access to tutor site from Dashboard • Access to tutor forums from module website • Module team members added automatically

  9. New for PTC • Student site • Elluminate information • News forum • Links to other resources • Common forums/information, but targeted • Tutor site • Staff development resources • Additional information • Visibility of key student-tutor interactions • Support for ‘novel’ presentation patterns

  10. Issues - technical • Some access issues • Updating of service, not visible to staff tutors • Checking new tutors included • Keeping up to date with changes • ‘Generic messages’ • ‘No forums/wikis… • ‘Students can post from… • Deleting posts/manage permissions • Time consuming • Unsubscribe • Elluminate defaults don’t suit our structures • Easy to create ‘things’ but structuring is fiddly and slow

  11. Issues - management • Good relationship with LTS and CMs • Ownership • Recognition, support, skills • Costs • Modules outside the Faculty • For students and tutors, • Consistency, especially navigation • Knowing who to asked

  12. Future possibilities • Presenting a consistent and persistent view of the qualification/programme • An interactive ‘presence’ between modules • News and information in a more rapidly changing world. • A portal/host site for distributed staff • Dashboard, subscribe to forum/topic, RSS • Easy/easier to respond to a new need

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