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UALSC Tutor update - February 2025
This month we've been putting together a series of resources to help support you in class, including top tips and important information to enhance the UALSC teaching and learning experience.
Tutors whose courses ended over the Term 1 and Winter School period can expect an update soon on their student feedback performance.
Read on to discover the latest news, events and updates this February.
UALSC Tutor Survey results
Thank you to everyone that completed the tutor survey. We have taken all of your feedback onboard.
You can now see the results of the tutor survey on the Tutor Hub homepage.
UALSC Tutor Meetup Event
Thank you to all those who attended our recent tutor meetup event.
The full event recording is now available to watch and can be accessed on tutor hub homepage, accompanied by some extra video resources (linked below).
Top Tips
We have a new Top Tips document available on the tutor hub with information about how to make your resources (word docs and PPTs) accessible to learners with additional needs or who use a screen reader.
In addition we have a document on how to manage learner work with concerning content.
You can find this document in our Tutor Hub on the 'Teaching Resources' webpage under Teaching Top Tips.
Marketing your short course
We have updated the information about how we market our courses on the tutor hub, with information and guidance on steps you can take support this.
You can find this document in our Tutor Hub on the 'General information' webpage under 'Marketing your course'.
Student work sharing
We encourage you to remind students to tag #UALShortCourses in posts, reels, stories or TikToks sharing their work and their experiences on your course! This is a great way to ensure we are sharing the success of your students and the brilliant work they produce.
The marketing team will often repost student tags and, in some cases, reach out to students for interviews so we can share the positive outcomes while studying with you and UAL Short Courses.
If you have any students that have gone on to do anything interesting, then we would love to reach out and share their story to promote your course!
The induction slides contain a prompt about this, along with completing the feedback survey towards the end of the deck. Please do reiterate this messaging where possible and appropriate to students.
Legacy reports
The 2023/24 UAL Short Courses Annual Report is now available to read on canvas.
Tutor Hub
As ever, please do send suggestions for new content for the tutor hub to a.marlensummers@arts.ac.uk or your coordinator.
Check back for updates on the Tutor Hub available online at: https://digitaltutorhub.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
This is your one stop shop for short course tutor information, with links to relevant information on Canvas.
Get in touch with the short courses team
Useful contacts for queries:
- For all Online Short Courses: onlineshortcourses@arts.ac.uk
- For On-site CSM Short Courses: csmonsite@arts.ac.uk
- For On-site CCW, LCC and LCF Short Courses: CCW-LCC-LCF@arts.ac.uk
- For On-site Under 18 Short Courses: UALSCU18s@arts.ac.uk
- For On-site Portfolio Preparation Courses: portfolioprep@arts.ac.uk
Who should you contact for anything else?
- Course dates; ualscplanning@arts.ac.uk
- Changing your short course webpage banner image; UALSCMarketing@arts.ac.uk - please note that this email is an internal distribution list, which means that recipients can only use their arts email to contact us
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