ChatGPT: What should assessment look like now?
2023-04-18 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | QAA Weblink
ChatGPT Online Events: Exploring Responses to AI in Higher Education
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various aspects of our lives, including education. AI-powered technologies such as ChatGPT are becoming more popular in higher education, providing students and educators with new ways to engage with course material, collaborate, and evaluate learning outcomes. However, the increasing use of AI in education also raises important questions and concerns about its impact on teaching and learning.

How can we ensure that AI is used ethically and effectively in higher education?
What is the appropriate response to the use of AI in assessments?

About this event
How do you design assessments now that students can use ChatGPT? What does ‘innovative authentic assessment’ even mean? Do I have to re-write all my modules? This online webinar will unearth the true meaning of authentic assessment and give attendees real life examples of assessment design that account for ChatGPT but still offer an accurate way to assess what a student has learned.
Speakers confirmed:

Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK
Matthew Glanville, Head of Assessment Principles and Practice at The International Bacalaureate
Dr Thomas Lancaster, Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London and Chair of QAA’s Academic Integrity Advisory Group
Libby Farrier-Williams, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Higher Education researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University

To book a place please click here.

Assessment Regulations and Assessment Boards (Open Sessions)
2023-04-18 14:30 - 16:00, 2023-05-03 14:00 - 15:30 | MS Teams
These Workshops are available to academic and professional staff who are involved in the progression and award of students through the Assessment Board process. The workshops will provide a summary of the role of Assessment Boards and External Examiners, a summary of the Assessment Regulations, including the revised assessment regulations introduced in the 2022-23 academic year (focus on undergraduate but with reference to other assessment regulations) and consideration of some case studies through sample Assessment Board reports. There will also be an opportunity to bring anonymised examples for discussion, subject to sufficient notice.
To book a place please click here.

Designing Learning Experiences on Blackboard Ultra
2023-04-18 15:00 - 16:00 | M3.04
Blackboard Ultra is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a modern, responsive platform, designed to function on all devices (including mobile), and is used for all our campus taught courses.
A series of monthly institution-wide sessions aimed at colleagues in Schools understand the basics of Blackboard Ultra and get to grips with the features they will be expected to use when setting up and delivering modules and assessing learning. A key feature of these sessions will be to help colleagues design impactful learning experiences on the VLE, ensuring that the VLE becomes an expansion of the learning ecosystem.
To book a place on this session please click here.
In addition to these monthly sessions, we encourage you to reach out to us for one-to-one coaching on course design on the VLE via elearning@tees.ac.uk.
We have prepared for all staff a self-study CPD package of learning here: https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/lteonline/2021/10/05/blackboard-ultra-self-study-cpd-2/

Introduction to Academic Workload at TU
2023-04-19 12:00 - 13:00 | MS Teams
Introduction to the Academic Workload Management Framework and Academic Workload System for Academic staff at Teesside University
Wednesday 19th April 2023
12-1pm
SLAR Lead: Simon Hood
Delivery: MS Teams, 1 hour
Workload Management in Teesside University comprises two key elements – the Academic Workload Management Framework (AWMF) and the Academic Workload System (AWS). The Academic Workload Framework provides a comprehensive, common and clear set of arrangements to recognise academic work activities and responsibilities with appropriate tariff allocations. The Academic Workload System provides a fully integrated University systems infrastructure which ensures University management information is located and accessible in real-time to all stakeholders as appropriate throughout the year.
This session will introduce academic staff to the AWMF along with discussing the process of workload planning, publication and acceptance of workload allocations.
To book, click here.

Using Learner Analytics impactfully for student support via StREAM
2023-04-19 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-06-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-07-11 15:00 - 16:00 | M3.04
StREAM is the University’s learner analytics platform. The use of learner analytics is designed to support all our students in maximising their chances of success and realising their potential. SLAR will be hosting a series of monthly institution-wide sessions on StREAM aimed at teaching staff to will help you understand the platform and the affordances of learner analytics for timely student support. We will cover:

Using Real time data – StREAM takes data from a wide range of digital touch points, which together represents participation in academic learning.
Understanding engagement Algorithm – An algorithm is applied to our data, tailored to reflect how engagement is represented at Teesside, which calculates an overall “engagement score” indicator for each student.
Interpreting engagement Score – A simple measure of engagement for easy-to-understand visualisation and interpretation of data.
Reviewing holistic View – Taking the engagement information en-masse, StREAM also provides a holistic view of how students are engaging at school and course level.

In the meantime, user guides, and associated materials around the Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, Information Governance and guidance from SLS can be found here: Student Learning & Academic Registry – Learner Analytics (tees.ac.uk
Please note this session is face to face.
To book a place on this session please click here.

Student Learning Conference
2023-04-25 08:30 - 17:00
Save the date…
Further details to follow.

Academic Skills and Artificial Intelligence in Education
2023-04-28 09:30 - 13:00 | Room T2.11, The Curve, Teesside University, Middlesbrough Campus
Friday 28th April 2023
Teesside University
Middlesbrough campus event
Together with Turnitin, Teesside University is hosting an institution-wide event
bringing together a wide range of academics and practitioners to discuss how we
continue to reimagine the support for the development of students’ academic skills in
light of generative AI tools. With the rise of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, this
adds another layer of complexity to the issue of academic integrity. These systems
can generate humanlike responses to a wide range of prompts, including essay
questions. The question is: If the AI is good enough to produce something that could
be a student’s work, how will we ever really know what is the student’s work and
what was done by a machine? The event will be collaborative and aims to encourage
conversations around how learning, knowledge creation, and assessments practices
can be reimaged to support the development of future-readiness in our graduates.
09:30-09:45 Coffee, Introductions and context
09:45-10:15 Academic Skills and Graduate Attributes
10:15-11:00 Artificial Intelligence in Education
11:00-11:15 Break/Coffee
11:15-12:00 Academic Integrity
12:00-12:45 Top tips on using Feedback Studio: Features and
Functionalities including its AI
12:45-13:00 Close and Next Steps
This session is now full.

Academic Learning & Teaching Induction
2023-05-03 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-06-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-07-05 13:00 - 16:00
New members of academic staff to Teesside University will be invited to attend a face to face induction session.

Developing Practice in Personal Tutoring: Personal Tutoring Code of Practice
2023-05-09 10:00 - 11:30 | MS Teams
This session will focus around the University’s Personal Tutoring Code of Practice; we will discuss its aims and rationale and the key principles that form the basic underpinning of the Code. We will explore the key responsibilities of Personal Tutoring at Teesside and the pastoral, academic and professional/career conversations that take place between tutor and tutee. Colleagues will be introduced to the Academic Enhancement Framework (AEF) and particularly the ‘Student Success’ strand which incorporates the expectations around personal tutoring and working with data to support success. Staff will be encouraged to work towards enhancement and excellence in these areas.
Personal Tutors should be proactive in their role and focus on improving student performance providing a consistent, equitable, structured and data informed approach for all students to pastoral, general academic and professional support. Providing general academic support will be focussed around assisting the student achieve their potential (drawing on analytics to facilitate the discussions). In supporting students around pastoral and professional related issues it may be appropriate to direct them to colleagues across the University who can provide more bespoke support (for example SLS and Student Learning in SLAR).
This session is relevant to all new academic colleagues who are Personal Tutors within their Schools and may also be relevant to other academic and support staff who wish to find out more about Personal Tutoring at Teesside University.
To book a place on this session please click here.

Personal Tutoring: Managing boundaries and knowing when to refer when dealing with student mental health and welfare
2023-05-10 09:30 - 11:00 | MS Teams
This session will focus on information for student facing staff who might be presented with a student in distress. The session aims to inform staff about strategies they can use to de-escalate a situation and what questions to ask to find out relevant information to refer appropriately. Boundaries will be explored so that staff feel confident about appropriate actions when managing a potential crisis situation and can identify when specialist intervention is required. The session will inform staff how to refer to appropriate services both within TU and externally.
To book please click here.

Introduction to Academic Workload at TU
2023-05-10 13:00 - 14:00 | MS Teams
Introduction to the Academic Workload Management Framework and Academic Workload System for Academic staff at Teesside University
Wednesday 10th May 2023
1-2pm
SLAR Lead: Simon Hood
Delivery: MS Teams, 1 hour
Workload Management in Teesside University comprises two key elements – the Academic Workload Management Framework (AWMF) and the Academic Workload System (AWS). The Academic Workload Framework provides a comprehensive, common and clear set of arrangements to recognise academic work activities and responsibilities with appropriate tariff allocations. The Academic Workload System provides a fully integrated University systems infrastructure which ensures University management information is located and accessible in real-time to all stakeholders as appropriate throughout the year.
This session will introduce academic staff to the AWMF along with discussing the process of workload planning, publication and acceptance of workload allocations.
To book, click here.

Designing Learning Experiences on Blackboard Ultra
2023-05-10 15:00 - 16:00 | TBC

LTExChange Symposium Event - Mattering and Belonging in Student Engagement
2023-05-17 09:00 - 11:00 | MS Teams
To book a place please click here.
This event will critically consider what it means to meaningfully engage students and staff in increasingly digital communities of learning. Keynote speaker: Karen Gravett (University of Surrey, UK).
‘Mattering and Belonging in and for Student Engagement’
Our recent times have upended the way we think about student learning. With the shift online and now to increasingly blended teaching practices, or following increased concerns about students’ attendance, educators have focused upon questions relating to students’ engagement and sense of belonging. In this keynote presentation, I will share some of my recent research and practice examining belonging and student engagement, enabling participants to think about students’ experiences of higher education in new ways. Specifically, I consider how we might think about belonging as a process, thinking about how belonging evolves, what belonging makes possible, and why it might be that some students do not wish to belong. I will consider different perspectives on belonging and argue for the value of an approach to teaching that notices the situated, day-to-day, practices of students’ learning. I will think about how belonging plays out in the ‘micro moments’ of learning and teaching, and how relational pedagogies may be helpful in fostering engagement and connection. I also explore the concept of mattering in learning: thinking about who and what matters within these learning moments. This presentation will conclude with exploring practical approaches for supporting students, as I explore how we can draw upon evidence-based research to assist our work in maximising students’ potential and fostering belonging for a diversity of students in contemporary higher education.

Using Learner Analytics impactfully for student support via StREAM
2023-05-24 12:00 - 13:00 | M3.04
StREAM is the University’s learner analytics platform. The use of learner analytics is designed to support all our students in maximising their chances of success and realising their potential. SLAR will be hosting a series of monthly institution-wide sessions on StREAM aimed at teaching staff to will help you understand the platform and the affordances of learner analytics for timely student support. We will cover:
Using Real time data – StREAM takes data from a wide range of digital touch points, which together represents participation in academic learning.
Understanding engagement Algorithm – An algorithm is applied to our data, tailored to reflect how engagement is represented at Teesside, which calculates an overall “engagement score” indicator for each student.
Interpreting engagement Score – A simple measure of engagement for easy-to-understand visualisation and interpretation of data.
Reviewing holistic View – Taking the engagement information en-masse, StREAM also provides a holistic view of how students are engaging at school and course level.
In the meantime, user guides, and associated materials around the Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, Information Governance and guidance from SLS can be found here: Student Learning & Academic Registry – Learner Analytics (tees.ac.uk)
Please note this session is face to face.
To book a place on this session please click here.

Chairing Collaborative Partnership & Validation
2023-06-05 14:00 - 15:30 | MS Teams
This is a mandatory briefing for all Chairs and will take place via MS Teams.
Target Audience: All new and existing Chairs nominated by Schools to Chair validation/re-validation events.
The briefing session will outline the following:

The Teesside University Quality Framework and course validation process
The various types of validation events
Your role as Chair
Operational aspects of events and post-event actions
Quality assessment and external drivers
Internal drivers – Teesside’s approach
Support and resources
Example scenarios and guidance

To book a place on this please contact QAV@tees.ac.uk

Supporting Successful Validation as a Panel Member
2023-06-07 14:00 - 15:30 | MS Teams
This briefing is aimed at colleagues with a keen interest in participating as a panel member for Teesside University Collaborative Partnership and Course Validation Events. This session would also benefit experienced Panel Members as an opportunity to refresh and update recent enhancements to validation practices and processes.
The briefing session will outline the following:

Why we validate courses, the TU validation stages and types of events
Your role as a Panel Member
Operational aspects of validation events and your role during and after the event
Quality assessment and external drivers
Internal drivers – Teesside’s approach
Support and resources
Examples and scenarios and guidance

To book a place on this please contact QAV@tees.ac.uk

Excellence in Apprenticeship Delivery Conference
2023-06-14 | The Curve, Teesside University, Middlesbrough Campus
The first Excellence in Apprenticeship Delivery Conference will take place at The Curve on Wednesday 14 June 2023. The event will bring together staff from across Teesside University who are involved in designing, delivering or supporting apprenticeships. The conference will feature an array of speakers and workshops with a focus on nurturing excellence in apprenticeship delivery.
The keynote speaker will be Professor Elizabeth Cleaver, author of the OfS commissioned report Degree apprenticeships in England: current practices in design, delivery and quality management.
Further details and booking arrangements to follow.

Future Facing Learning Conference
2023-06-15 08:30 - 17:00

Introduction to Academic Workload at TU
2023-06-21 12:00 - 13:00 | MS Teams
Introduction to the Academic Workload Management Framework and Academic Workload System for Academic staff at Teesside University
Wednesday 21st June 2023
12-1pm
SLAR Lead: Simon Hood
Delivery: MS Teams, 1 hour
Workload Management in Teesside University comprises two key elements – the Academic Workload Management Framework (AWMF) and the Academic Workload System (AWS). The Academic Workload Framework provides a comprehensive, common and clear set of arrangements to recognise academic work activities and responsibilities with appropriate tariff allocations. The Academic Workload System provides a fully integrated University systems infrastructure which ensures University management information is located and accessible in real-time to all stakeholders as appropriate throughout the year.
This session will introduce academic staff to the AWMF along with discussing the process of workload planning, publication and acceptance of workload allocations.
To book, click here.

Higher Technical Qualifications: An Introduction
2023-06-22 13:00 - 14:30 | MS Teams
Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs) are level 4 and 5 qualifications recognised by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. Developed in conjunction with employers, HTQs will form a key component of the higher level skills agenda, and underpin the introduction of the Lifelong Loan Entitlement.
Chris Cherry from the Strategic Development Network will deliver a 1.5 hour introductory briefing for TU staff on HTQs with particular emphasis on principles of HTQ delivery, approval process, curriculum development and assessment strategy.
To book a place please click here.

Developing Excellence in Learning & Teaching (DELT) Briefing Session
2023-07-06 09:30 - 10:00 | MS Teams
This Student Learning and Academic Registry (SLAR) briefing session taking online Thursday July 6th (09.30 – 10.00am) will outline the university’s commitment to both enhancement and recognition within the learning and teaching space providing an illustration of how they are operationalised and aligned, alongside wider CPD, to support academic staff.
Please click here to book you place on the briefing session.

Higher Technical Qualifications: An Introduction
2023-07-10 15:00 - 16:30 | MS Teams
Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs) are level 4 and 5 qualifications recognised by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. Developed in conjunction with employers, HTQs will form a key component of the higher level skills agenda, and underpin the introduction of the Lifelong Loan Entitlement.
Chris Cherry from the Strategic Development Network will deliver a 1.5 hour introductory briefing for TU staff on HTQs with particular emphasis on principles of HTQ delivery, approval process, curriculum development and assessment strategy.
To book a place please click here

The TU Link Tutor Journey
2023-08-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Room TG.06, The Curve, Teesside University, Middlesbrough Campus
As a current Link Tutor at Teesside University you are invited to attend this CPD session to support you in this activity. Please note this session will take place Face to Face.
The session will look at the following:
Theme 1

Using the new LT Guidance document/task descriptor to go through responsibilities of a Link Tutor.
Looking at effective means of communication, relationship building, and risk management. Thinking about a Partners identity within TU.

Theme 2

Information and knowledge gathering as a Link Tutor.
Overview of TU processes (linked to SLAR) and resources to support this.
Discussion points and short inputs from SLAR staff around supporting Approval and Review activity, BB Ultra and Learning Systems, Assessment Regulations and Student Voice.
Looking at processes to support the Partnership experience such as registration/enrolment processes.

Theme 3

Delivering excellence as a Link Tutor and the importance of this.
Cross School support and guidance via The Link Tutor Network, Link Tutor quarterly meetings to discuss good practice and share ideas/common threads/resolving issues.
Building a community of practice amongst Link Tutors @ TU.
Schools to look at developing case studies to support good examples of QEV’s, shared working in research activity, effective communication, cross development of courses.

To book your place please click here.

The TU Link Tutor Journey
2023-08-08 14:00 - 16:00 | MS Teams
As a current Link Tutor at Teesside University you are invited to attend this CPD session to support you in this activity. Please note this session will take place online.
The session will look at the following:
Theme 1

Using the new LT Guidance document/task descriptor to go through responsibilities of a Link Tutor.
Looking at effective means of communication, relationship building, and risk management. Thinking about a Partners identity within TU.

Theme 2

Information and knowledge gathering as a Link Tutor.
Overview of TU processes (linked to SLAR) and resources to support this.
Discussion points and short inputs from SLAR staff around supporting Approval and Review activity, BB Ultra and Learning Systems, Assessment Regulations and Student Voice.
Looking at processes to support the Partnership experience such as registration/enrolment processes.

Theme 3

Delivering excellence as a Link Tutor and the importance of this.
Cross School support and guidance via The Link Tutor Network, Link Tutor quarterly meetings to discuss good practice and share ideas/common threads/resolving issues.
Building a community of practice amongst Link Tutors @ TU.
Schools to look at developing case studies to support good examples of QEV’s, shared working in research activity, effective communication, cross development of courses.

To book your place please click here.

The TU Link Tutor Journey
2023-08-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Room TG.06, The Curve, Teesside University, Middlesbrough Campus
As a current Link Tutor at Teesside University you are invited to attend this CPD session to support you in this activity. Please note this session will run face to face.
The session will look at the following:
Theme 1

Using the new LT Guidance document/task descriptor to go through responsibilities of a Link Tutor.
Looking at effective means of communication, relationship building, and risk management. Thinking about a Partners identity within TU.

Theme 2

Information and knowledge gathering as a Link Tutor.
Overview of TU processes (linked to SLAR) and resources to support this.
Discussion points and short inputs from SLAR staff around supporting Approval and Review activity, BB Ultra and Learning Systems, Assessment Regulations and Student Voice.
Looking at processes to support the Partnership experience such as registration/enrolment processes.

Theme 3

Delivering excellence as a Link Tutor and the importance of this.
Cross School support and guidance via The Link Tutor Network, Link Tutor quarterly meetings to discuss good practice and share ideas/common threads/resolving issues.
Building a community of practice amongst Link Tutors @ TU.
Schools to look at developing case studies to support good examples of QEV’s, shared working in research activity, effective communication, cross development of courses.

To book your place please click here.
