{"id":3543,"date":"2018-01-08T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T09:46:34","slug":"have-your-say-virtual-learning-environment-staff-focus-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2018\/01\/08\/have-your-say-virtual-learning-environment-staff-focus-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say \u2013 Virtual Learning Environment staff focus groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of key themes have emerged from the free text comments provided in the VLE Review staff survey which will be explored in a series of staff focus groups in January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>These will help us to determine what you want to be able to do on a course \/module and the functionality that you require in the VLE to meet these aims.<\/p>\n<p>All staff are welcome. An additional Professional Services staff focus group will also be held.<\/p>\n<p>The dates and themes are:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Assessment and Feedback<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Setting assignments and assessments, peer review, group assessment, providing marks and feedback and managing assessment data<\/p>\n<p>Monday 29th January 2018, 15:00-17:00 G.09, Percy Building <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.ncl.ac.uk\/view.php?id=1038337\">Book your place here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Building a course\/module <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adding, organising and updating content, availability of content, user roles and levels of access, tracking usage<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 1<sup>st<\/sup> February 2018, 13:30-15:30,\u00a0Room 1.13 NUBS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.ncl.ac.uk\/view.php?id=1041682\">Book your place here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Communication and Collaboration <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How you communicate with students and how they communicate with each other, group collaboration , real time and asynchronous tools for communicating and collaborating<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 25<sup>th<\/sup> January 2018, 14:30-16:30, Level 4 TR1 Herschel Building <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.ncl.ac.uk\/view.php?id=1039557\">Book your place here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Professional services focus group <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adding content, communicating with students, managing assessment processes, system roles<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 24<sup>th<\/sup> January 2018, 10:00-12:00, 3.41 Armstrong Building <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.ncl.ac.uk\/view.php?id=1041839\">Book your place here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of the focus groups will touch on usability\/interface design, integration with other systems and key features that you do not want to lose from the current VLE provision.<\/p>\n<p>Come and share your views, they are very important to shaping our VLE choice in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a member of staff at a branch campus your views are very important so we are currently looking at running a focus group for you in the New Year and this will be communicated at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of key themes have emerged from the free text comments provided in the VLE Review staff survey which will be explored in a series of staff focus groups in January 2018. 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