Led by:

• Catherine Murray (Learning Support Manager) and Clelia Tundo Cano (Implementation Manager), Catherine is responsible for onboarding educator users to the platform, and offering continuous support throughout the year, while Clelia coordinates the implementation of the platform across the institution. If you have any questions about the platform, please don't hesitate to reach out to the Cadmus team at catherine@cadmus.io. 

The session will cover everything you need to start using Cadmus for your assessments, from assessment set up, class management to academic insights. The session is designed for both academic and Professional Services colleagues.

The first part of each workshop will guide you through the process of setting up your first Cadmus assessment and releasing it to students. We encourage you to come along with task details for your assessment, including due dates, marking rubric and key resources (these can always be added later if you don't have them ready!).

The second part of the workshop focuses on class management and marking: you will learn how to contact students, manage extensions, and use Cadmus reports to gain valuable insight into academic integrity.

We will also offer guidance and resources to introduce Cadmus to your students. These sessions are interactive, and we will reserve the final 30 minutes of the session for any questions you may have. Please note: if you do not have any questions, you are welcome to leave once the substantive training is concluded.

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You can also view a demonstration of the Cadmus platform and its capabilities here [vimeo.com].

Led by:

• Jenni Rose FCA SFHEA - Alliance Manchester Business School, Lecturer, A&F Accounting & Finance

Join us online for the second University of Manchester T&S Network event of the year. This year the University has launched revised T&S promotions criteria, including a section on scholarship for the first time. In this session we will explore the scholarship section of the criteria, with members of the network drawing from their own scholarship to provide examples of what this means in practice. We will also talk about and share tips for network members about how to develop your own scholarship. This is an informal and friendly session and all are welcome.

Attendees will:

Led by:

• Frances Hooley, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health Ed, SFHEA

This one-on-one session will focus on developing your evaluation plan. You will be given templates and case studies to ensure you plan effectively and sustainably. Additionally, you will gain insights from lessons learned, curated by the Evaluation Advocates Network, based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.

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Led by:

• Frances Hooley, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health Ed, SFHEA

This one-on-one session will focus on addressing your evaluation needs. You will be guided on how to apply the Theory of Change framework, and provided with links to resources and case studies to assist in completing your evaluation. Additionally, you will gain insights from lessons learned, curated by the Evaluation Advocates Network, based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.

• Book to attend

Led by:

• Frances Hooley, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health Ed, SFHEA

This one-on-one session will focus on developing your evaluation plan. You will be given templates and case studies to ensure you plan effectively and sustainably. Additionally, you will gain insights from lessons learned, curated by the Evaluation Advocates Network, based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.

• Book to attend

Led by:

• Frances Hooley, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health Ed, SFHEA

This one-on-one session will focus on addressing your evaluation needs. You will be guided on how to apply the Theory of Change framework, and provided with links to resources and case studies to assist in completing your evaluation. Additionally, you will gain insights from lessons learned, curated by the Evaluation Advocates Network, based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.

• Book to attend

Led by Hamza Badenjiki, Learning Technologist, Humanities

Wednesday 13th November 2024, 14:00-15:30, online 

This introductory session is aimed at teaching staff who are considering exploring new methods to further enhance students’ communication, collaboration, engagement, and social learning in the Microsoft Teams environment.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session, participants will gain an overview of:

• What were the academic staff and students' experiences with MS Teams based on a few sector showcases?
• How do the outcomes of showcases connect to well-known learning theories?
• What potential pedagogic advantages may the MS Teams platform provide?
• What is the current best practice for planning, designing, and constructing an MS Teams environment to facilitate communication, collaboration and social learning, along with examples of existing Teams spaces?
• How to get started structuring the MS Teams space with simple hands-on activities.
• Advantages and current restrictions with MS Teams.

Book onto this course at the training catalogue: Click here to book

Led by Lisa McDonagh SFHEA, Teaching and Learning Officer, Institute of Teaching and Learning and Professor Hannah Cobb NTF SFHEA, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy, School of Arts, Langauges and Cultures and Academic Lead for Academic Development, Institute of Teaching and Learning

Not sure what reflective writing is, or how to do it effectively? Need to reflect for LEAP or your NAP portfolio, but not sure if you're doing it right? Feel like you knew about this in the past, but could do with a refresher?

All UoM staff were welcome to attend this session, which served as an introduction or refresher on reflection and reflective practice. We discussed the purpose of reflection and how it's different to 'just thinking' or ruminating, and explored a few models that can help you to structure and deepen your reflection (and might help you if you find you're getting stuck). Attendees could ask any questions they had on reflective thinking or reflective writing, and discuss any difficulties they may be having with these. 

This session was a friendly and informal space to explore reflection. It was facilitated by colleagues who believe in the developmental potential of reflection, but also understand that not everybody likes reflection or feels confident in it. Please come along with your questions and concerns, and we'll hopefully support you in finding a way forward that helps reflection work for you.

How to reflect will be repeated monthly.

For those who want to carve out some protected quiet time to get on with reflection, ‘Shut Up and Write’ style you may wish to attend one of our 'Action on Reflection' sessions: https://app.manchester.ac.uk/UMITL2005

• Click here to sign up for How to Reflect

Led by:

• Hannah Cobb

At the University of Manchester we define scholarship as:

Evidence based systematic practice that positively impacts student outcomes or experience and is disseminated for critical review and, where appropriate adoption by others. Scholarship can include the scholarship of teaching and learning, or discipline based educational or pedagogic research, as well as the development, application and synthesis of disciplinary knowledge to inform teaching (e.g. research-informed teaching).”

In this session we explore the part of this definition which centres on dissemination and adoption, asking how you can share your scholarship, and how you can evaluate this. We will examine the different mechanisms for both sharing and evaluating, including exploring the key concepts of reach, value and impact.

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Led by Professor Hannah Cobb, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy, and Lisa McDonagh, Institute of Teaching and Learning

Need to reflect for your NAP portfolio or LEAP application, but struggling to get started? Want to see if reflection can help you build confidence and problem-solve? Know all about reflection, but finding it hard to carve out time to do it?

Come along to our monthly Friday sessions – all welcome!

During this session you will have the opportunity to: 

• Have a quick reminder on what reflection is and why we do it

• Carve out some protected quiet time to get on with reflection, ‘Shut Up and Write’ style

• Share and discuss your ideas with other interested colleagues if you wish to do so

These sessions will take place via Zoom and are not recorded, and colleagues are welcome to join us as many times as they wish to.

This session introduced what reflection is and why we do it, provided advice and support on reflective writing and carved out some quiet time to reflect.

• Click here to sign up for Action on Reflection

Led by Dr Jane Mooney SFHEA, Senior Lecturer, Academic Theme Lead for Digital Skills and Literacy, Flexible Learning Programme, Dr Sarah Shepherd, Senior Lecturer, Division of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Dr Natalie Cunningham, Lecturer in Leadership For Development, School of Environment, Education and Development and Sebbie Mudhai, Assistant Alumni And Development Officer, Division of Development and Alumni Relations

When we think about how to look after ourselves, how much do we consider the impact of the technologies around us?

Intended learning outcomes

During this `Digital Wellbeing` workshop, we will:

• Explore the impact of digital on your wellbeing
• Discover what is meant by ‘digital wellbeing’, both professionally and personally
• Explore how digital (using technology) affects our wellbeing, analysing the personal gains and challenges
• Guide you in creating priorities to support positive digital wellbeing.

This workshop is a small group session to allow opportunity for discussion. The session is scheduled to last for 75 minutes and will take place on Zoom.

• Book to attend `Digital Wellbeing Regroup and Refresh`

Led by Beth Rotherham SFHEA, TLSE Coordinator, Teaching Excellence Team and Lisa McDonagh SFHEA, Teaching and Learning Manager, Teaching Excellence Team

The University of Manchester Advance HE Fellowship Scheme, accredited by Advance HE, supports you in documenting and evidencing your teaching and supporting learning practice. The Scheme can award Associate Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow and Principal Fellow. This information session will provide an overview of the Scheme and the support available. 

The session covers:

• What is Advance HE Fellowship and the Professional Standards Framework 2023?
• Information about the Scheme and the support available to applicants
• Assessment criteria
• Next steps

Book to attend UoM Advance HE Fellowship Scheme Information Session

Led by:

• Hannah Cobb
  James Brooks

This year the University has introduced the category of Scholarship into promotions criteria for colleagues on a Teaching and Scholarship (T&S) contract, and the ITL is offering a series of workshops about how you might do scholarship in your context. But, whether you are applying for promotion, for teaching awards, or just need to explain to someone what you do, it is also helpful to be able to tell your own T&S story - or what some may refer to as a “golden thread” – that is, a clear (and usually succinct) way of articulating the big picture of what your scholarship does and what difference it makes. But this is a tricky task! And often even harder to do alone! So, in this session, we lead and support participants to begin to tell their story and draw out their golden thread. Beginning with a short consideration of what scholarship is, participants will then explore their teaching philosophy, draw out key contributions they have made to teaching and/or scholarship, and work with peers to begin to refine their story and draw out their golden thread.

This workshop is open to anyone who wants to refine how they talk about their teaching, their scholarship, or both. It is open to anyone who teaches, not just those on T&S contracts, and will be valuable whatever stage in your career and your teaching and/or scholarship journey you are. It will take place face to face and colleagues should come prepared to talk about what they do and to listen to one another. By the end of the workshop participants will have an understanding of how scholarship is defined at the University of Manchester, they will have built a clear articulation of their teaching philosophy, have identified some key contributions they make in teaching and scholarship and have a draft golden thread or summary of their T&S story.

Intended learning outcomes

During this workshop participants will:

• Develop understanding of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, its approaches and methods

• Explore their practice in a safe and non-judgemental space

   

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Led by Lisa McDonagh SFHEA, Teaching and Learning Officer, Institute of Teaching and Learning and Professor Hannah Cobb NTF SFHEA, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy, School of Arts, Langauges and Cultures and Academic Lead for Academic Development, Institute of Teaching and Learning

Not sure what reflective writing is, or how to do it effectively? Need to reflect for LEAP or your NAP portfolio, but not sure if you're doing it right? Feel like you knew about this in the past, but could do with a refresher?

All UoM staff were welcome to attend this session, which served as an introduction or refresher on reflection and reflective practice. We discussed the purpose of reflection and how it's different to 'just thinking' or ruminating, and explored a few models that can help you to structure and deepen your reflection (and might help you if you find you're getting stuck). Attendees could ask any questions they had on reflective thinking or reflective writing, and discuss any difficulties they may be having with these. 

This session was a friendly and informal space to explore reflection. It was facilitated by colleagues who believe in the developmental potential of reflection, but also understand that not everybody likes reflection or feels confident in it. Please come along with your questions and concerns, and we'll hopefully support you in finding a way forward that helps reflection work for you.

How to reflect will be repeated monthly.

For those who want to carve out some protected quiet time to get on with reflection, ‘Shut Up and Write’ style you may wish to attend one of our 'Action on Reflection' sessions: https://app.manchester.ac.uk/UMITL2005

• Click here to sign up for How to Reflect

Led by:

• Professor Hannah Cobb, Professor of Archaology and Pedagogy and Associate Director for eLearning and Teaching Innovation, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Dr James Brooks, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Whether you are new to scholarship or have been doing it for some time, being able to articulate your scholarship to others is an important skill, but one that can take practice and time to refine. Speed SoTL sessions offer the opportunity to hone this skill.

Participants will be paired with another person in the room and given a short time for each in the pair to discuss their scholarship. After a given time participants will rotate, finding new partners and starting again. Repeating this process a few times should have the benefit of not only helping you to refine your own scholarship narrative, but also to learn about the work of others. Whether you are just beginning scholarship or have been doing it for some time, this session should be helpful to all. Participants should come ready to discuss and talk about their work in this highly interactive session.   

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Led by Jennie Blake

• Click here to sign up for Academic Advising Open Session

Led by Professor Hannah Cobb, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy, and Lisa McDonagh, Institute of Teaching and Learning

Need to reflect for your NAP portfolio or LEAP application, but struggling to get started? Want to see if reflection can help you build confidence and problem-solve? Know all about reflection, but finding it hard to carve out time to do it?

Come along to our monthly Friday sessions – all welcome!

During this session you will have the opportunity to: 

• Have a quick reminder on what reflection is and why we do it

• Carve out some protected quiet time to get on with reflection, ‘Shut Up and Write’ style

• Share and discuss your ideas with other interested colleagues if you wish to do so

These sessions will take place via Zoom and are not recorded, and colleagues are welcome to join us as many times as they wish to.

This session introduced what reflection is and why we do it, provided advice and support on reflective writing and carved out some quiet time to reflect.

• Click here to sign up for Action on Reflection

Led by Dr Jane Mooney SFHEA, Senior Lecturer, Academic Theme Lead for Digital Skills and Literacy, Flexible Learning Programme, Dr Sarah Shepherd, Senior Lecturer, Division of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Dr Natalie Cunningham, Lecturer in Leadership For Development, School of Environment, Education and Development and Sebbie Mudhai, Assistant Alumni And Development Officer, Division of Development and Alumni Relations

When we think about how to look after ourselves, how much do we consider the impact of the technologies around us?

Intended learning outcomes

During this `Digital Wellbeing` workshop, we will:

• Explore the impact of digital on your wellbeing
• Discover what is meant by ‘digital wellbeing’, both professionally and personally
• Explore how digital (using technology) affects our wellbeing, analysing the personal gains and challenges
• Guide you in creating priorities to support positive digital wellbeing.

This workshop is a small group session to allow opportunity for discussion. The session is scheduled to last for 75 minutes and will take place on Zoom.

• Book to attend `Digital Wellbeing`

Led by Beth Rotherham SFHEA, TLSE Coordinator, Teaching Excellence Team and Lisa McDonagh SFHEA, Teaching and Learning Manager, Teaching Excellence Team

The University of Manchester Advance HE Fellowship Scheme, accredited by Advance HE, supports you in documenting and evidencing your teaching and supporting learning practice. The Scheme can award Associate Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow and Principal Fellow. This information session will provide an overview of the Scheme and the support available. 

The session covers:

• What is Advance HE Fellowship and the Professional Standards Framework 2023?
• Information about the Scheme and the support available to applicants
• Assessment criteria
• Next steps

Book to attend UoM Advance HE Fellowship Scheme Information Session