UCL LANGUAGE CENTRE
Course Units 2009‐2010 Course Unit Teaching Committee Minutes Wednesday 23 June 2010 11.00‐11:45 (16) Taviton room 432 Staff present: David Albury Yoko Aldous Marie‐Laure Aris Anja Boeing Sara Bragadina Siqin Brown Madeleine du Vivier Juan Fernandez Diego Flores‐Jaime Maria‐Teresa Forteza‐Rey Apologies: Petra Garcia‐Rodriguez Luay Hasan Fabrice Lamotte Li‐Yun Liao Mireille Michel Marc‐Georges Nowicki Catherine Plant Carmen Requena Jenny Rodgers Karine Roumetz Adam Salisbury Fabio Sastre‐Alonso Dr Julia Schoeke Pierre Scordia Chizuko Seki‐Zdralka Anne‐Sophie Vandamme Antonella Veccia Selina Zheng. Roberto D’Onofrio, Dr So Hiranuma and Dr Christine Hoffmann 1.
WELCOME AND APOLOGIES 2. UCL MOODLE REQUIREMENTS 2.1 AS explained the UCL minimum requirements for Moodle courses; all taught modules at UCL should aim to have a Moodle presence by September 2011. Information Services guidelines were distributed. 2.2 Moodle will not replace the Course Units intranet (CMS) pages, it is specifically aimed to assist students on a particular course. 2.3 Learning resources on the Course Units intranet pages will be removed, if tutors wish to keep these e.g. to transfer onto a Moodle site they must let AS know, as resources will not be automatically transferred. Official course resources such as the Student Handbook and past exam papers will remain on the intranet. 2.4 For English course units this year Projects were submitted electronically, the possibility of using Moodle in order for all Foreign Language course unit projects to also be submitted electronically was Course Units Teaching Committee Meeting 2010‐06‐23 – Minutes 1 discussed. For the Delta course work, including sources, which can be scanned is used regularly and for one module, students can only upload their work onto a site.  Turnitin may not work with Foreign Languages;  Although students can scan work, this could prove difficult for Japanese and Mandarin (where work is handwritten) as tutors also give handwritten feedback to assist with character learning and recognition;  It is useful to have a hard copy and an electronic copy. Agreed that we will make no change at present to current guidelines regarding submitting Projects, which states, “your tutor may ask you o submit your work via Turnatin”. 2.5 There are different ways of enrolling students onto Moodle, the main one is automatic registration whereby students will be registered once their module choice is confirmed on Portico. 2.6 The material/course on Moodle stays the same, but the students enrolled onto it change each year . 2.7 There are UCL training courses for Moodle but courses for July are full, however there are also online tools at www.moodle.ucl.ac.uk where you can train yourself. 2.8 We need to look at the best way of enrolling students; we will arrange for a training session in September; the TEFL/DELTA team who use Moodle as a part of these courses will give enrolment keys for tutors to log and see how it works; one training session should be sufficient. Jon but might be able to set this up in the Language space. 3.
EVENTS/LANGUAGE EXCHANGE 3.1 The Language Centre Events Officer, Tina Dickson spoke to tutors about potential cultural activities that could be arranged for students of Course Units during 2009‐2010, such as visits and tours of relevant Museums and Libraries conversation exchanges with native speakers. Such events proved very popular during 2008‐2009 with positive feedback on this from the Student Evaluation Questionnaires and also from the Staff‐Students Consultative meeting of 11/02/10. 3.2 Moodle could be used to promote these events, which would be a better way of engaging students. 4.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS 4.1 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) forms will be distributed to all tutors this week by Liyun Liao and Edward de Chazel. The deadline for completing and returning these is the end of July. Meeting closed at 11:45.
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