The Departmental Assessment Strategy will be made available to students via the department’s website, relevant Moodle pages and email. The Department will seek feedback from students in Staff-Student Liaison Committees (SSLCs) to ensure that the document is accessible and current.
Undergraduate students are sent a Frequently Asked Questions document, written by the programme administrator, which covers questions about examinations including: how to receive feedback on exams, how to find out results and what students should do if they failed an exam. In 2015, this will be adapted for MSc students and circulated ahead of the main examination period.
The student handbooks also contain information on assessment criteria; the difference between formative and summative assessment; policy on late submission; requests for deadline extensions; advice on uploading coursework to Moodle, plagiarism and a separate section on feedback. Handbooks are given to the students and staff and published on the website.
Lecturers inform students of course specific assessment criteria and notify them of deadlines.
The Undergraduate and MSc Administrators will also remind students of upcoming coursework deadlines via weekly newsletters.
There is additional information on Moodle explaining to students how they should upload their work. For undergraduates, once they have done this, they receive a pop-up notice informing them the process for submitting a hard copy of their work.
Communication is via email; skype, individual meetings; Moodle; Facebook and Twitter.