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Some learning and teaching resources

They are learning resources tailored for students and staff in the Psychology Department of Glasgow University, but possibly useful elsewhere if adapted. Copying is allowed, comments welcome. Feel free to use them, but they have not been extensively checked and tested, and are not the last word on their topics.

List for students and staff

• "Reach out": the new front end for students to services

• Library reading lists

• "Let's talk about X" (GU initiative):
  Giving a talk for a general audience on your final year project / dissertation. Bound to be useful in all future jobs except being an academic researcher (when specialist audiences will be your main focus).
  • http://www.talkaboutx.net
  • https://twitter.com/talkaboutx
  • Applicants' info video
  • General promo video
  • Andrew Struan, Effective Learning Adviser, College of Social Sciences.
  • Scott Ramsay, Effective Learning Advisor.

• (Here is a complete but unformatted list of pages for courses I teach / have taught.)
• Induction for arriving students

• PAL (Peer Assisted Learning) in the psychology department
• Year abroad / foreign students studying here     email aliases to foreign students
• Critical reviews     Reciprocal critiquing     Examples of CRs     CR plan     E.g.s of topics, possibly for microCT exercise
• miniprojects
• Punctuation help   (N.B. considerable advice on writing essays, reviews etc. is included within the "Critical reviews" document above.)
• My resources for postgraduate students
• Slides from level 4 exam prep. workshop 21 April 09
• Slides from level 3 exam prep. workshop 22 April 09
• Department handbooks and timetables: I have collected links here

• Transfer INTO SciEng college     SocSci college (page leading to forms: open bottom tab)     SocSci college (the form itself)
• Student withdrawal / dropout / leaving
• Readmission (which is to a college, not School): SciEng college   SocSci college (page leading to forms: open bottom tab)   Arts college: Email: arts-advising@glasgow.ac.uk

• Chief advisers: (more in my email addresses)
  • Arts college: Arts-Chief-Adviser@glasgow.ac.uk
  • SocSci college: socsci-ma@glasgow.ac.uk
  • SciEng college: science-chief-adviser@glasgow.ac.uk

• Student carer policy

• Student enrolment (on courses using Mycampus)

• Dates for student enrolment (on courses using Mycampus): see here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/registry/support/registration/#tabs=1

• Student graduation / enrolment / registration / ceremony ...

• Graduation. Look at this web page, then at the LH sidebar, where 'Graduation' is open/ highlighted. Read in turn ALL the sub-bits of it. The process is badly described. There is a pervasive lack of clarity about the distinctions between: enrolment, registration, getting the parchment certificate, the ceremony. These terms are used differently from elsewhere (differently in the context of graduation than their meaning in the same LH sidebar menu, where "registration" is used to mean something different); the terms are never, ever defined; and apparent synonyms sometimes have contrasting meanings e.g. 'enrolment' vs. 'registration', etc. There is no mention at the top level of anything about avoiding the ceremony: it is only buried in the 2nd subsection and only if you open a tab marked 'campus', or at the bottom of the 1st subsection on "before graduation" but not on the sections about either the ceremony or the parchment certificates. To avoid going to the ceremony you must first enrol for it, then fill in a second form to un-enrol for it. In one place it says if you don't turn up for the ceremony you may not graduate; then that you will automatically get the certificate by post: i.e. the pages contradict themselves. Among the worst problems is that staff cannot see how it is done, since it is done only from Myglasgow for students; and even that information is buried obscurely in a subsection, inside a tab labelled "campus" (not "instructions" or "enrolment" or anything useful), and then followng a link about "graduation enrolment instructions". Why on earth is there not a direct link from the top of the web pages about enrolment to the place e.g. in Myglasgow which lets students enrol?

• Exams

  • Exam times in May 2013 (the official source) when decided (see also this entry page;   2;   deadlines for staff)
  • Level 3 exams for psychology department students
  • Examination halls: Where are they?  
    • a map with only exam halls (but missing some new ones)     Standard campus map shows all the buildings
    • (You can also try my written directions to some of them.)
    • Registry page on exam venues
    • Some other campus maps
    • Library room 735 (special facility for some students using a computer for exams)
  • Exam results: MyCampus is the official and only source (apart from getting a letter).
  • Getting a transcript etc.   Getting a transcript   HEAR at Senate Office   HEAR at SRC  
  • How to interpret your (level 3) exam results http://www.glasgowstudent.net/advice/academic/appeals/
  • Best place to start looking up the way to appeal is here: http://www.glasgowstudent.net/advice/academic/appeals/
  • Registering for resit exams. Note that the August diet is almost always called a "resit" even though some of the students are sitting the exam for the first time, and not resitting at all. You have to register for them, and it is your responsibility to make sure this happens, even though it generally is done for you automatically for L1,L2 exams. The key page is: /services/registry/exams/resultsandresits/#/resitenrolment
  • Student absence policy
  • policy direct
  • Guidance on the reporting system What this may mean is that claiming weeks or months later that you missed academic work but didn't tell the university, will not be accepted.
  • Students: Reporting an absence
  • University calendar:     Entry page     2015-16     Contents     2015-6 "University Fees and General Information for Students"
  • University calendar rules on illness and exams, called "incomplete assessment and good cause":
    PDF document (see esp. section 16.45 - 16.53 pages "Gen.13-15")
    Deadlines, penalties, extensions: see esp. section 16.25 - 16.28 pages "Gen.10-11".
  • Assessment policy, guide, code, ....     Entry
  • Guide to the Code of assessment
  • Advice for students in 2014 by Clerk of Senate on exams and "good cause"     (and to staff).
  • Invigilation rules: part of the same PDF document.
  • For result return codes, see below in "Staff and student" section.
• Past class exam papers are on our dept. portal under: Home >> Level 3 Course Documentation and Resources >> Course Info
• Past exam papers are available from the library
  • Do Merlin login to your personal library record, if it works.
  • Then try this
  • Else:
  • go to http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/search~S3
  • Search on (e.g.) "psychology honours"
  • Pick the year you want, and click on the "Full list of Digital Images"
  • Pick the paper you want to view (these are physical exam papers, not modules)
  • N.B. you may find some on our portal under "course information": particularly recent ones missing from the library
• Turnitin

• Student access to online Registry stuff: WebSURF   SURF   ExamSURF
• Dates of academic sessions, semesters, etc.   Foreign exchange dates   Teaching week numbers (see bottom of page)
• University information for current students: Registry and Newsdesk
• Finding places and rooms in the university

• Ethics matters: ethics committee applications etc.

  • Student ethics committee applications form: (All maxi project students need to submit one of these.)   Portal copy   Simon's copy
    BPS ethics guidelines (local copy)   BPS ethics guidelines (BPS website)
  • ESRC ethics guidebook

  • New online ethics submissions
    • My applications
    • General start
    • more general
    • Template documents (inadequate for SciEng)
    • Models/templates for psych postgrads in a Moodle.
    • models for ethics, InfoSheets, Consent forms,...
      • My own old example consent form
      • My own old example information sheet
      • A pretty good example information sheet
      • Old page: Online psychology ethics submissions (Press "Submit proposal" to start filling in an online form. Students can do this. You may need to have ready word documents ready to upload with the proposal, consent forms, etc.)
• How to report stats in psychology: 7 page PDF handout   One copy   another copy
• Stats consultation proforma for maxi project students: (copied from the portal 9 Feb 09)
• International Personality Item Pool: Free personality questionnaires See also:
  Lewis R. Goldberg (2006) "The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures" Journal of Research in Personality vol.40 no.1 pp.84-96 www.elsevier.com/locate/jrp
  Also http://www.personal.psu.edu/j5j/IPIP/

• Individual psychology staff (find their emails)
• Launchpad for literature searches
• The value of the degree
• A test of graduate preparedness (skills) for work. This is an Australian sample test for graduates of employable skills, called GSA = Graduate Skills Assessment, mentioned in THES (Times Higher Education Supplement) 18 June 2004 p.11. (local PDF copy taken 28 June 2004.)
• A teach-yourself tutorial on internet information skills for psychologists
• A database of psy. papers. Both citations, user notes/comments, and pointer to free copies of papers.
• Using the internet as a search tool
• How to cite web documents in bibliographies
      Australian document on APA/Harvard style for citing web docs in bibliography     in line
      Australian document on APA/Harvard style
      APA ref style

• Phil Agre's guide (for postgrads) on human networking on the internet     (and this?)
• Guide on human networking on the internet. Intended for business people, but recommended by a student teacher
• PhDs by publication: a personal view
• Print off a blank timetable to help plan your weekly activities
• Classics in the History of Psychology
• Being interviewed: an animation by Darran Dunsmore   direct link (for Macs, Quicktime, 18 Mbytes)
    for Macs, Quicktime, 18 Mbytes
    for PCs, MPEG, 35 Mbytes
    for PCs, MPEG, 22 Mbytes
    for PCs, MPEG, 20 Mbytes
    for PCs, SWF, 8 Mbytes

Counselling and support for students

• Support info / contacts
• List of different kinds of support for students
  • A General list of student facilities,

  • Counselling, wellbeing, mental health for students
  • Chaplaincies
  • Childcare   University nursery
  • Student Disability Service
  • Student Enterprise
  • Student Information Points
  • Student Learning Service / Effective Learning Advisors, study skills
  • Student Network (mentoring by other students)

  • Student Counselling and Advisory Service
    65 Oakfield Avenue. 0141 330 4528
    
  • National pointers to (student) counselling services
  • "Night line": Anonymous help for students at night (7pm-7am) provided by the SRC (Glasgow University Students Representative Council: GUSRC):
    • 0141 334 9516 Phone line for students 7pm-7am.
    • Email anonymously at asknightline AT glasgowstudent.net
    • Via Instant Messaging on our website.
  • The Samaritans 08 547 90 90 90
• Counselling for staff (independent of the university): 0800 882 4102 "PAM Assist"

List for staff and students   #staff

• #GU-TV Access to TV programmes e.g. for teaching, via the University.
  Getting the university to record TV off air, and fetch past broadcasts for small fee:
  • Requests to GU to record off air; and to get past broadcasts
  • archive of recordings
  • "BoB" = Box of broadcasts.
  • More BoB

• Teaching timetables: by week or lecturer; by level: 1 2 3 4   by module nbsp; printed level3 and 4 nbsp; blank weekly
• level 3 exam subject combinations, names, and modules (plans for new arrangements)
• Some psychology course codes
• Registry exam info for staff   dates
• Result returns including change-result forms.
• Result return codes. Return codes
• Result return codes. New head page New year-specific page New booklet PDF Newer booklet PDF
• Ways to search for a student
• websurf (new): access by staff as well as students to the records of an individual student?
• SMS texting to students / classes
• Online: what rooms are booked vs. free: see what rooms are free; whether your room is free before/after yours, etc.
  There is a brilliant bit of software for this, though it takes a little practice to get the most out of it.
  • Go to your own (staff) portal, logging in as necessary
    https://sharepoint.gla.ac.uk/staff/myglasgow/Pages/MyGlasgow.aspx
  • Click on "Timetables and Room Booking"
  • In the rectangle "Quick links", click on "Whats on in your rooms"
  • You can search on:
    • A building or a room;
    • An organisation unit e.g. School of psychology
    • A course by its course code. If you know the code, you can do this without specifying the org.unit.
    • You can view things by the rooms you specified OR by month, week, day
    • If you are looking at just one course e.g. one of your lectures, then the Month view is perhaps better.
    • The Rooms view shows you whether "your" room is occupied before and after
  • You can save searches, which makes future lookups faster if only because you can modify a saved search faster than create one from scratch.
• Rooms lookup (univ.): List of new dalek/TEAL/Active rooms   Mynotes       Room equipment?   lecture VRecording   GU directions
• Room capacities (xls download)   echo360
• lecture recordings   List of all rooms, by bldg.   Bldg name index → room photos   Bldg photos index → room photos
      LT → LT Capacity: use dropdown menus to pick bldg, then open room-menu to see capacities     (Capacity bands → (all) rooms)     (Types → (all) rooms)
      Bookings lookup: shortcut     1 2 3 4 Click 2 then on <shortcut>.
• Room booking (dept.):   BoydOrr booking   HillheadSt.
• Room booking (univ.):   Booking   Equipment (Click on bldg; then click on room name)   IP addrs   wireless
• Report LT A/C faults
• CCIMS for registering (new) courses.
• Re-engineering Assessment Practices in Scottish Higher Education. E-assessment
• Ethics for staff: BPS ethics guidelines    Simon's entry     FIMs/submit     reviewApp  
  Student ethics committee applications (All maxi project students need to submit one of these.)
• A tutorial exercise in reciprocal critiquing
• A tutorial exercise in giving practice talks
• One minute papers: a simple feedback technique
• Teaching in the round
• Using handsets for interactive lectures
• Formative feedback to honours students
• Software marking assistant
• Seminars I (sometimes) find worth going to
• This is a set of techniques teachers can consider applying
• A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
• Using Acrobat readers and PDF web files
• Tips on running a video conference / tutorial
• List of support services
• My access to the teaching database
• Teaching and learning in pictures
• Teaching and learning jokes
• Plagiarism:   email aliases to foreign students   turnitin software   .   org   senate pointers
• Other ideas and initiatives to do with education tactics at this university can be found from here.
• Data Protection Act

• Help on "scholarship of teaching and learning" i.e. publishing about your teaching innovations. http://www.gla.ac.uk/sotl/

• GUprint system

Advising links

• Maureen Griffiths' guide to Biology degree options:   Outer page   Doc direct
• Biol. degree
• Applying for psychology Look in the closed "tabs" for: Psych UCAS codes and diff degrees