You Said, We Did
How your voice has made a difference
This page provides an opportunity to see the valuable feedback received from students across a wide range of communication channels, and to see what the OU has done in response.
Please note this video is now a couple of years old so some people no longer have the same title. The current Students Association leadership can be seen on their website.
Choose a topic from the drop-down list below to see how students can have an impact on their university experience and be empowered to help shape the University. Next time you are asked to give your opinion, you know that the OU is taking this feedback seriously and will respond.
You said...
The online start of Investigating the social world (DD103) is hard to get to grips with.
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There will be online induction sessions for new students and a new hard-copy book to accompany the module start.
Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Development, Geography
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You said...
Qualification websites are not fit for purpose.
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New and revamped qualification sites will be ready for use from Autumn 2018.
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You said...
The workload on International development: making sense of a changing world (TD223) is too high and we don’t feel fully prepared for the exam.
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TMA06 has been replaced with formative examination preparation and the number of exam questions have been reduced in the exam paper. A welcome video has been produced and there are new audios to better guide students through the workload on the module.
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You said...
You wanted more and earlier tutorial support.
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We have added more tutorial events to support particular activities
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You said...
You wanted more support for completing new kinds of assessment tasks.
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We have developed new resources explaining how to approach unfamiliar assessment tasks.
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You said...
Investigating psychology (DE300) had specialist markers for different assignments, reflecting their areas of expertise but, you told us that you preferred having one tutor throughout the module allowing you to build a relationship and ensuring a consistent approach to the feedback you receive.
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We have rearranged the assessment strategy so that each student’s allocated tutor marks and feeds back on their TMAs.
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Investigating psychology (DE300) offered day schools but no other face-to-face tutorials and you told us that you missed face-to-face tutorials.
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We have added face-to-face tutorials in venues across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Each tutorial also has an alternative one hour online tutorial for students who cannot attend the face to face event.
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You said...
The purpose of the forums on Investigating psychology (DE300) was not clearly defined.
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We have rearranged the forums so that issues relating to the experimental projects that students conduct are dealt with in one forum, and issues concerning survey projects are dealt with in another.
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You said...
The workload on Investigating psychology (DE300) was too high compared to other modules.
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Investigating psychology (DE300) is the final module on our British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited modules and as such it is supposed to be challenging. However, we agree that although the DE300 workload meets OU guidelines, it contains a very broad curriculum span with all of the BPS core domains of psychology taught and assessed. We are exploring possible changes to the coverage in DE300 to help balance the content in combination with other Stage 3 options.
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You said...
That the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) materials for learning about statistics in research methods were distributed across several weeks making it difficult to find and access specific items.
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We have converted the six weeks of quantitative methods materials into pdf files so that the methods teaching can be viewed as a whole and/or printed out more easily.
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