Category: News

Kat Lee, lead for the Core Systems Work Stream, and Emma Mayhew attended the Autumn term School of Law meeting and the Humanities School Board of Teaching and Learning. Emma ran through our new deliverables graphic, based on the JISC/Manchester Met assessment and feedback cycle. This shows how the EMA Programme is delivering at every stage of the cycle, from design through to setting, marking, recording and reflection, improving the assessment experience of both staff and students throughout. Kat outlined the timetable of key events marking our move towards improved sub modular mark availability. She demonstrated the new RISIS screens available for module convenors and personal tutors as well as some of the new assessment reporting capability, a significant step forward for the University in terms of our ability to understand the assessment landscape. Emma and Kat’s updates prompted a series of questions, as well as excitement, from both schools covering a range of topics from data access to future developments in both...

Over the past three months the EMA programme has recruited three Graduate Partners, joining the team to provide vital student insight and champion the interests of the student body within all programme activity. Working across each of the programme work-streams, the Graduate Partner team are dedicated to ensuring that EMA has an ever-present student voice, looking to gain informed perspectives from existing students at every opportunity, and contributing valuable insight from their own experiences as University of Reading students. For more information on the EMA team, go to the ‘Our Partners’ tab.  Alternatively, if you have any questions for our Graduate Partners, please contact: student.ema@reading.ac.uk...