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UALSC Tutor update
Tutor Newsletter May 2024
Summer School is near
Preparations are underway as we welcome in our Summer School students on 24th June. The UAL Short Courses Team are working hard to ensure that students across all campuses have an enriching experience during their time with us.
Week after week, our tutors open the minds of their students, creating safe spaces and inspiring them to keep on creating. This is what we hear from many of our students, so let us keep up the momentum this summer.
Read on as we uncover the latest news, events and updates this May.
Summer School starts in... ⌛
Request for new weeknight evening short course
UAL Short Courses are launching a new term time, evening course format and are requesting new course submissions and new course ideas.
We are seeking to develop a range of new courses to be delivered at Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion, London College of Communication and Chelsea College of Arts for term time evenings. They are to be delivered in this format:
Hours: 12.5
Length: 5 weeks evening (term time)
Times: 6:30-9pm
Click the button below to download the new course template from the tutor hub and fill in with your new course idea.
We are hoping this new format will appeal to customers wanting a shorter and cheaper course option for evening short courses during the week.
Plus, we will be doing lots of marketing to support the launch of this new evening school format.
We welcome all ideas – but specifically hobby and workshop creative skills. If you are interested, please fill in the attached form and submit it to UALSC Planning ualscplanning@arts.ac.uk by Friday 31st May 2024.
Onsite Summer School briefings
This year we are having a meet up in advance of the summer for tutors to have the opportunity to meet SC staff, as well as each other and have a review of important information before it all kicks off on the 24th of June!
There will be several different ways that you can attend:
17th June 3:00 - 4.30pm at CSM - D119
An in-person briefing for ALL ONSITE TUTORS to review important information and an opportunity to ask questions.
17th June 4.30 - 5.30pm at CSM – D119 or Platform bar (TBC)
An opportunity for ALL TUTORS (online and onsite) to have a drink on us and meet SC staff and other SC Tutors. If you cant make this then there will be an Online version.
18th June 5pm - 6pm ONLINE (Via Teams)
An in-person briefing for ALL ONSITE TUTORS to review important information and an opportunity to ask questions. This will be made available as a recording afterwards.
20/21st June at LCF and Chelsea (times TBC)
An opportunity to meet SC staff at these sites and have a tour of the building and teaching rooms. Please note: this is not a full briefing, just an opportunity to look round the site, so please attend the events on the 17th or 18th for full summer school info.
You will receive more information about these events via email and please accept the appropriate Outlook Calendar invite if you plan to attend so we can have an idea of attendees. (the meeting on the 18th will be online and via teams).
Information about an ONLINE TUTORS event coming soon.
Onsite risk assessments
We have recently reviewed the Risk Assessment processes across all UAL sites and will now be sending out RA documents with each course confirmation.
Please read these though and add information when requested to ensure this is a suitable and sufficient Risk Assessment of the material, equipment and activities you have planned for the course.
By receiving and returning these risk assessments, you are agreeing to follow their guidance and ensure the necessary information is given to learners as part of their course induction.
Onsite course planning
To ensure that we have full information about courses available to our learners and to increase enrolment, we are seeking some more information about the content of each course. This will be used to inform the course description online, but can also be accessed if there are more specific learner enquiries or if we need to find cover for a session or course.
If you already have a document that outlines the course content (this may well be something that you give to learners on the first day) please send us a copy. This could be a PDF, Word, Doc, PPT, or Padlet, there is no need to reformat. If you do not already have a document that shows this information you may want to use one of the templates available on the tutor hub.
A scheme of work (SOW) is a more detailed version that can support more detailed planning, but a basic plan of what is covered in each session is sufficient. We will request this when your course is confirmed, but as you prepare for summer school please feel free to send these through in advance.
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
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