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Teaching Tools

There is an ever-increasing range of digital tools at your disposal to deliver and enhance your Teaching; here is a summary of the tools we support.

Improving our student experience

Despite positive teaching feedback, the 2024 National Student Survey shows no significant improvement in overall student experience. The University has identified 15 actions to enhance performance, particularly in Assessment & Feedback and Student Voice, to be implemented across all levels.

Cadmus is now available for 2024/25

We are happy to announce that a new assessment tool called Cadmus will be available to use in Blackboard across the University from Monday, 30th September 2024.  What is Cadmus? Cadmus is a secure online assessment platform accessed through the University’s Central Learning Environment (Blackboard). It facilitates the whole assessment cycle from assessment design through […]

Assessment and Progression – where are we now?

Lorna Dawson is the Interim Head of Teaching, Learning and Student Experience for the School of Natural Sciences. Here she provides an update on the developments in assessment and progression following the review in the summer of 2023. I think many colleagues will be familiar with the challenges we encountered regarding Assessment and Progression (A&P), […]

Team News – Foundation Studies 

We are delighted to announce that Professor Colin Steele has been appointed as the new Discipline Head of Education (DHoE) for the Foundation Studies Programme from 1st August 2024 for a period of three years. Colin takes over from Dr Jonathan Sly, who has held the DHoE role for the past 5 years.  

Dr Jo Cartwright has also been appointed as Head of Foundation Studies from 1st August 2024. Jo takes over from Professor Andy Weightman. 

But do you know who the Foundation Studies Team are..?