TEU Update November 28 2024
Next semester, DCU Teaching Enhancement Unit (TEU) are offering staff the opportunity to join a Supported Journey towards achieving Fellowship of AdvanceHE. With support from TEU staff, peers, and colleagues who have previously been awarded Fellowship, the Supported Journey will guide participants through the application process.
This cohort will run from January to March 2025, with draft deadlines in March, and final submission to Advance HE in April.
If you’d like to know more about Fellowship, register your place on our upcoming online information session, taking place Wednesday 4th December, 12-13.00.
All are welcome, including those who may have engaged with the process previously and want to restart or else apply for a different category. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to gain formal recognition of your teaching and learning practice!
Email maeve.odwyer@dcu.ie with queries.
Reminder - the deadline for submissions for the DCU Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE) Funding call is 5 p.m. on December 2nd. The DCU SATLE Funding Call is an open call for proposals from both academic and professional support areas across the University aligned with the SATLE themes of Education for Sustainable Development, Digital Transformation and Academic Integrity.
Information on the process, including the application form and guidelines to help your application, can be found at the links provided.
Focus on assessment and feedback
Enrolling external examiners to Loop module pages
You may wish to enrol your external examiner to your module page so that they can peruse students’ submitted coursework. If they already hold a non-DCU Loop account, you should be able to enrol them with the role of “External examiner” through the usual method - by selecting “Participants” and then “Enrol users” and searching for and selecting them.
Newly appointed external examiners will have their non-DCU Loop accounts created in advance by the TEU (with thanks to the Guru team for supplying the details). Therefore they should appear in the enrolment screen when you search for them.
Please note that all holders of non-DCU Loop accounts need to authenticate into Loop via multi-factor authentication.
Go, go - Loop Gradebook & Grades Transfer!
Monday 9 December, 12:00
Online via Zoom
This session is aimed at DCU module co-ordinators/lecturers and will show them how to set up their Loop Gradebook to ensure the correct grade visibility, weighting, and overall calculation of student coursework grades. It will also demonstrate the Grades Transfer process to transfer student's Loop grades as their coursework total to the student information system, Banner.
Registration is essential. Session will be recorded and circulated afterwards.
Upcoming drop-in clinic
The next Loop Reflect clinic will take place as follows:
Monday 2 December, 11am
Join via Zoom
Note that this is the final Reflect clinic of the semester, so you are strongly encouraged to attend if you have any outstanding questions or need assistance, as the end-of-semester approaches.
The drop-in clinic is an informal, unstructured space where any student or staff member who has a question about Loop Reflect can come and get guidance. Please circulate the details of this clinic to your students if they are using Loop Reflect this semester.
Clinic details are also in the TEU Events Calendar.
The final ESD Ideas Exchange of the year will take place on Monday 2nd December at 1pm.
The venue will be DG10 in the Bea Orpen building.
For this session we'll be joined by Emma Coyle from the School of Chemical Sciences, who will discuss how she has integrated sustainability into her practice through innovative assessments.
We’ll also hear an update from the Government's ESD Forum and discuss the next round of SATLE funding for ESD related projects.
There will be tea and coffee and, given the 1pm start, feel free to bring some lunch.
If you require assistance or guidance with teaching and learning or Loop related matters, avail of the below methods.
Support for technical issues
For Loop technical queries, go to help.dcu.ie. You can also attend one of our regular online Loop drop in clinics, details in the TEU calendar. The drop in clinics are particularly useful for more complex queries. The Loop Staff Support Page also provides a comprehensive range of resources on Loop and Zoom. For new users, the enrolment key for this page is ‘staff’.
Advice on using technology for Teaching and Learning
If you are looking for advice on developing your teaching practice, including but not limited to the application of technology, please contact the TEU team teaching.enhancement@dcu.ie. We will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.
Consultancy request form
Interested in requesting a workshop or more extended consultation on a specific topic? Use this consultancy request form.
