Student Consultation Meetings 2025 Response

In April of this year, staff in the Open SU, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Students' Office (PVC-S), Learning and Design Services, OU in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Equality Diveristy and Inclusion, and staff working on AI wanted to hear your thoughts.

All staff involved have written a response to your feedback, which you can read in full on the Student Consultation VLE.

Open SU Response:

• They have shared your feedback with your Student Leadership Team at the Open SU.
• They will use your insights to draft position statements on Academic Student Experience and Student Support.

PVC-S Student Charter Response:

• They have your feedback to design a new Student Charter that use themes as headings, in which the values sit beneath.
• They have ensure the use of Plain English/Cymraeg Clîr principles in writing the new Student Chater.
• The new Student Chater will launch in September 2025.

PVC-S Turnitin Response:

• They have updated guidance on Turnitin.
• They have introduced group academic integrity tutorials in WELS and FASS, and working on setting them up in STEM and FBL.
• The have signposted students to the All My Own Work academic integrity course on Open Learn and are creating a Turnitin Open Learn course.

Learning and Design Services Student Support Content Response:

• They have shared your feedback with design teams at the OU to incoporate it into their design decisions.

OU in Ireland and Northern Ireland Funding Response:

• They will utilise your feednack when engaging with the Department for Economy's upcoming review on Higher Education funding.

Race Equality Charter Response:

• They have extracted the key themes from your feedback to help inform the OU Race Equality Charter.

AI Digital Assistant (AIDA) Response:

• They have revised guidance around AI and how it can be used as an assistive technology.
• They have used your ideas and concerns for AIDA into a current project to design and test an initial AIDA on two Open Learn courses.