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Tracking and supporting students this term

LCC’s Academic Progression Tool is available to both undergraduate and postgraduate course teams this year, to help support new students to progress in their studies on-line and on-site. The Academic Progression Tool (APT) is an aide for prioritising support to students in most need. It provides relevant LCC staff with essential information about students in their cohorts in a secure online workbook, […]

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Changemakers update

LCC’s new Student Changemakers were introduced on here back in April and since then they’ve completed initial training and started working with staff to decolonise curricula across our undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In May, Design School Changemakers worked with year 1 students, course librarians and lecturers to critically review and reimagine the Contextual & Theoretical […]

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Why go to Academic Support?

From pre-degree to PhD levels, all students are welcome at Academic Support. But what is the experience like and how can it enhance their learning? Sarah Macdonald asked seven current students and alumni to tell us what they had gained from Academic Support. In their illuminating responses below they mention: motivation, structure, confidence-building, inspiration, creativity […]

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Thinking of taking the PgCert or MA Academic Practice? Applications close on the 25th September.

The PgCert and MA Academic Practice 2021 are now open for applications. The deadline for all applications is Friday 25 September 2020. Courses will begin in January 2021. The PgCert is a key qualification for those who teach or support learning in arts higher education. It is open to all student facing colleagues at UAL: teaching staff, librarians, technicians, language centre […]

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LCC Get Ready 2020 Opens Today

2020’s Get Ready programme at LCC opens today, 14 September. Academic Support designs and delivers the Get Ready programme for new undergraduate students. Part 1: Introduction to University (from 14 September) Interactive Moodle activities designed to help students prepare for their exciting university journey. They will be introduced to some of the skills that will […]

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Using Panopto for blended learning videos

We have a new digital learning platform – Panopto – making it easier to create audio, video &/or screen recordings and publish them to your Moodle sites. Video recordings are going to play an important role in facilitating blended learning this term. In particular: Pre-recording short presentations / lectures / summaries / explanations as part […]