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.
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You welcome opportunities to gain practical experience but would like more information on laboratory schools and field trips to be more up front. You also asked whether some sort of ‘badging’ might be possible.
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We will try to ensure that schools are advertised as early as possible together with dates, timing and costs as well as providing module tutors with information on the schools so that they can answer queries. While the schools will appear in your academic transcripts we are also working with the OU Knowledge Media Institute (KMI) to see whether some sort of ‘badging’ for laboratory skills is possible.
Life, Health and Chemical Sciences
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You would like more help in planning your study and module choices.
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We have launched a new Open qualifications website which includes around 40 subject advisory routes, a forum to discuss modules, and signposting to taster material. We are also involved in discussions around possibilities for introducing a qualification planning tool for all students.
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You are finding it difficult to navigate the new qualification website and in particular, access your Open qualifications forum.
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We have fed back your concerns to the team responsible for making changes to the website to help inform any future changes or developments. We are also looking at ways to help students navigate the Open qualifications site better, including the inclusion of a ‘quick start’ guide and specific advice around finding and saving forums to the student dashboard. We are discussing this with the team responsible for the design of the website and are looking at ways to try and make this link more prominent on the home page.
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You are not all aware of the resources available from the careers service.
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We have hosted an Adobe Connect session specifically for Open degree students around how to describe an Open degree to an employer. The recording and transcript for this session are now available on the Open qualifications website and we plan to repeat a similar session in 2018it as an annual event. Other resources relating to careers and employability, specifically for students on Open qualifications, are also available on the Open qualifications website and we will explore ways of promoting these resources to students via StudentHome.
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You said...
The way modules are assessed is too complicated.
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We introduced simpler assessment strategies where possible, allowing you to more easily monitor your marks in order to enable you to keep an eye on your final module result.
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During our first student consultation forum in 2017 we asked about the information you need to help you choose modules and the preparation you make for your next module. We received some well thought through and helpful responses.
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Based on your suggestions, we identified and gathered together a selection of data on our modules which was then put onto the qualifications forums to help module choice.
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We gave students in the consultative forum access to the pilot preparation website created for the new module S309 Earth Processes. You responded that preparation websites would be useful on other modules.
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Module teams in EEES created three additional preparation websites for our Stage 1 and 2 modules starting in 17J. Over the next year, we plan to introduce preparation websites for all our modules.
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In our second consultative forum we asked you about what you’d like to see on the new subject websites planned to replace the current qualification websites.
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You gave us lots of great ideas which we are using as we build the subject websites in 2018.
Thank you so much to everyone who took part in these forums and I encourage you all to take part in our future consultations.
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This year our new Stage 3 Earth science module started, S309 Earth processes. Several students took part in piloting sections of the material ahead of the first presentation.
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The module team incorporated your suggestions into the study material for Earth processes (S309) and we were pleased to see the excellent student feedback for this module.
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Thank you to those students who take the time to give us feedback on our modules and qualifications via the Student Experience on a Module (SEaM) survey and the National Student Statistics (NSS) survey.
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We are using your comments to plan significant changes to our current Stage 2 modules (S206 and S209) for 2018 and to inform the production of the two new Stage 3 environmental science modules starting in 2018 (SDT306 and S397).
Please keep talking to us via the surveys but also on our qualification forums. We really value your ideas and creativity thoughts.
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