UALSC Tutor update - December 2024🎄

Dear all Short Course Tutors,

As we approach the end of 2024, we reflect on what has been a fantastic year.

This year has been full of highlights for UAL Short Courses not limited to the introduction of Self-paced courses, the opening of London College of Fashion East Bank campus as well as receiving up to a 15% increase in student satisfaction.

Our tutors are truly a beacon of knowledge and creativity, allowing students to get inspired and learn new skills. We look forward to students and tutors joining us again in the Spring.

But for now, however you choose to spend the festive season, we hope your days are filled with joy and relaxation.

Happy holidays from the UAL Short Courses Team!

Read on to discover the latest news, events and updates this December.

Key Dates

Please be aware that UAL will close from Wednesday 25 December 2024 and re-open on Thursday 2 January 2025

For more information, please visit the winter break opening hours and key dates article on canvas

Tutor meetup

Dear Onsite Short Course tutors, After the success of the pre summer school tutor briefings we are planning to make this a twice-yearly event with another event in February.

When: 12 February 2025 at 5:30pm – 6.30 pm with drinks afterwards

Where: This event will be at Central Saint Martins. Room TBC 

We will try out a hybrid meeting model, so joining online will be possible. Please contact your coordinator for the Microsoft Teams link.  

As well as an overview of short courses; we will have tutors speaking about their experience of using Padlet and working with learners with low English skills and additional needs, offering their insight and top tips.   

This is a great opportunity to meet other short course tutors and staff, so please join us!

Tutor Guidance on Marketing Activity for Short Courses

There is a new document that outlines tips and guidance on marketing activity you can explore to support your short course. It contains useful information on ways you can work with the marketing team to promote your course using editorial, imagery and content, social media and the requirements for this.

You can find it on the tutor hub under the 'Marketing and development of current courses' section of the General information page.

Tutor survey 📝

Thank you all for taking the time to complete our Tutor Survey!

Your valuable feedback will go towards raising the quality of the Short Course tutor experience. We plan to share the results and actions resulting from them in early 2025.

Open roaming

UAL have recently introduced Open Roaming, a service that allows you to connect to Wi-Fi networks seamlessly without needing passwords or additional credentials, using secure authentication via Google or Apple. This acts as a public Wi-Fi service and may benefit you and your students if other networks fail. To set this up, you just need to download the following app: 

Download the app for Apple iOS

Download the app for Android/Google iOS

For further details, please refer to this article 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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