Factors effecting Student Engagement by Geoffrey Hughes https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug Please share the early experiences of your 1st year undergrad students starting at DMU. en-us 2014-10-13 12:35:31 UTC 2025-11-08 09:21:21 UTC hello@padlet.com 1st Year Woes https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398628973 1) Timetabling has been shambolic. It is an embarrassment to the university.
2) Teaching space allocation: this is probably connected to timetabling (e.g. getting ~40 students for a teaching space that can accommodate 25).
3) Increasing class size. Since the start of Wk2 people have wandered into class and said "I'm new!". This is putting a lot of pressure on physical resources (workstations). ]]> 2019-10-16 17:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398628973 My biggest concern is the time it takes students to get access to Blackboard. I have new students arriving in week 3 and they ask how to catch up. But they don’t have timely access to Blackboard thus it delays this catch up. https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398836310 2019-10-17 03:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398836310 https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398889309 Too many assumptions around what students know about assignmnents (tasks and genres), esepcially those from non UK educational backgrounds. Any uncertainty or mistakes are seen as deficiencies on the part of the student, not the approach taken by the lecturers.]]> 2019-10-17 08:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398889309 Support systems for blended learning students - both social and academic are not clearly co-ordinated and signposted. Additional capacity and tailoring of resources to follow up after induction would make this accessible and build confidence annemarlow https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398901257 2019-10-17 09:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/398901257 1. Delays in being issued IDs https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400210886 2. Not knowing who their personal tutor is
3. Delays in receiving student finance
4. Difficulty acessing their DMU computing accounts
5. TIMETABLING]]> 2019-10-21 10:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400210886 In week three, a year zero student - foundation level, attended the class for the firts time lately. from the beggining wanted to https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400211850 2019-10-21 10:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400211850 ghughes58 https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400254733 Student information not being passed through to tutors. Can we get more information from the UCas forms?
Students with learning difficulties not supported.]]> 2019-10-21 12:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400254733 ghughes58 https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400256437 Disability lists tell us nothing.]]> 2019-10-21 12:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400256437 Students not having access to Blackboard (I often have to add them manually) https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400335947 Indian students having very low language levels (they are currently not required to provide a language score for DMU like other international students) 
Students living far from Leicester (London, Birmingham etc) 
Late arriving students 
Not enough classrooms ]]> 2019-10-21 14:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400335947 1. Timetabling - access to it, last minute changes and understanding of it (i.e. knowing building codes and floors). I agree with the comment above which called this a 'shambles'! https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400354620
2. Student cards - delays in getting this and understanding of its significance (i.e. access to library and usage as part of attendance monitoring)


3. Blackboard - delays in accessing it and also understanding its significance (i.e. lecture slides and communication with/from lecturers)

4. Latecomers - students joining in weeks 3 & 4 and being asked to 'catch up' despite having missed crucial induction sessions. 

5. A misunderstanding of the lecturers ro]]> 2019-10-21 15:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400354620 https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400716429 The admissions process using the new system and clearing meant that we had no idea how many students were starting. This led to our programme being heavily oversubscribed. As a result the rooms allocated by timetabling were not big enough leading to some students sitting on the floor. This is not conducive for learning and as others have said, does not present a welcoming appearance of our university. Having said that the programme lead and timetabling were quick to respond and managed to move some of the sessions to bigger rooms. This however meant that students timetables were constantly being updated in the first few weeks when they are only just getting used to how to access them.]]> 2019-10-22 07:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400716429 Timetabling sallyhossack https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400778471 There were initial problems with timetabling that caused quite a lot of concern for our new first years, we are also teaching all over campus and while this is 'real life' changing the rooms for their sessions every week has been a little traumatic for some students. Having taken many more students than we expected, there were issues of not enough chairs in teaching rooms that also caused some concern.]]> 2019-10-22 11:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/400778471 Student accommodation - for some very intimidating and noisy https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/405412914 Naming of sessions of timetable lacking meaning students don't know what they are going to
Delay in transfer of information regarding disability and reasonable adjustments
Big range in student ability in language,maths etc. when start - would be good to capture this somehow]]> 2019-11-01 13:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ghughes58/year1ug/wish/405412914