NO PAPER COPY HAND-INS!? (early stages)

Hello everyone, hope you've all had a good summer! If there are any freshers reading this then I hope you're excited as you move in and start in only a week!

This blog contains one of the many quite exciting things that I've been working on a couple of months now! We are in the very early stages but it seems that the ball is starting to roll with this so read this blog to see what's going on and how you potentially could help!

As I'm sure you're aware, when all 5021 didn't vote for me 479 voted me into this role, one of my main 4 manifesto points was FREE PRINTING!

Now this seems to be a very ambitious manifesto point but over the summer I have been racking my brains to figure out a way that wouldn't be a financial burden to the University and would benefit students to not have to pay for printing to allow for more money to be spent on a couple more cider blacks in the bar aiding your University careers with more educational equipment and books! After a lot of research I started to look into the concept of ONLINE SUBMISSION & ONLINE FEEDBACK!

After a couple of meetings with some of the University staff, it will now be discussed in the next Learning & Teaching Committee that myself and 4 other student representatives sit on in just over a months time.

The benefits of solely online submission and online feedback means that you'd only have to hand in your assignments via Turnitin (which you do already) and won't have to come into University to hand-in a paper copy version of the assignment you've already handed in - sounds like a great solution right? I know! There is also something called Grademark that allows for assignments to be marked online, resulting in the feedback being given online which would also solve the "three week feedback turnaround" as you would receive all feedback and your marks in the three week turnaround as promised!

I'm currently working with the Business school to devise some sort of pilot study to gain as much research as possible before the next Learning & Teaching Committee! Now here's where the entire student body can help! Our University really does care what students think and if there is enough voices to be heard loud and clear through the medium of questionnaires then there is an even better chance for this to come true!

I would love to know what you think of this idea (positive or negative) so please, if you have 2 minutes spare, fill in this questionnaire www.UCSU.org/surveys/onlinesubmissions to have your voice heard and to make the ball roll with this idea even further! (Questionnaire closes on the 30th September)

Once again, there are no guarantees that this is going to happen or if it does happen, how long it will take! It's going to be a lengthy, gradual process but one that could be even more successful if students were on board!

If you have any further questions about this then please don't hesitate to contact me on facebook or email:
suvpeducation@chi.ac.uk

Sorry for the lack of pictures on this blog, to make up for this monstrosity, here is a pug dressed as the ginger bread man - you're welcome!