This is an example of ensuring that you are able to view the most recent documents,  links to documents are enbedded in the BBS Quality, Learning & Teaching Blog. This allows the links  to remind “live” if the document itself changes.  You can find the link to the blog on the main menu of My School: Business School Staff Area on studentcentral. The blog has a search function to help you locate information.

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Placement Supervison

Academic Calendar 19-20

The BSS and NSS launch on the 4th Feb. It is vitally important that as a school we pull together to support these important surveys. The result of the NSS will feed into the subject level TEF.

The first three weeks of the NSS are critical as after that time Ipsos will then start to call our students and we know that frustrates them, however it is out of our control. The Student Engagement Champions have organised 3 NSS Pizza Nights to encourage students to come and complete the survey. These will be on 5th, 12th and 19th Feb from 5-7 in Mithras Canteen.

If you are teaching a level 6 module during this time please take a few minutes before you begin to acknowledge that the survey is happening (this is what our students tell us makes the difference). Use these slides as a guide NSS intro slides

If you can not open the link please me me know and I will send them by email.

More details about the BSS and NSS questions and university guidance can be found here

If you were unable to make the session of Developmental Feedback Made Simple please see the information here

We want to encourage all staff to engage with Professional Development therefore we have decided to rename the Learning and Teaching Conference  to the Staff Development Conference to broaden its appeal. Please hold the date 5th July 2019 – if you have any suggestions for sessions please email j.fowlie@brighton.ac.uk

Supporting this theme BBS now has a Volunteer Teaching Observation Process more details   here

Finally for now following a very successful 2018 Graduation Ball the tickets for 2019 Graduation Ball will be on sale very soon. The ball will be @The Grand Hotel on 7th June.

Below is the link to the NSS  and BSS questions. The BSS questions will be different this year.

NSS  2019 Questions

BSS 2019 Questions

Below is the link to the action plan which was distributed with some additional comments made as a result of the recent ESEC meeting.

Action plan

The link to the Action plan will take you to the most current document, so as we make changes it will be updated.

You can find all the relevant Business School documents about the NSS/BSS on SharePoint. To find the folder, go to staffcentral then click arrow to the right of your name, then click “my department”. You will see headings across the top: click on NSS and the documents for 18/19 are in subfolder.

Wider University NSS information: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/epd/Pages/NSS_implementation.asp

Wider University BSS information: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/epd/Pages/BSS.aspx

What is difficult is getting out the good news/changes to students and staff and building a sense of positivity and pride.

Reminders: what is currently available (see action plan for more idea)

• We have Your Voice Matters on studentcentral on the main menu for MySchool Brighton Business School. This includes responses to students’ stop, start and continue feedback, a link to the Good News Stories and student comms re 2018 BSS.

One  simple way to promote the survey is to add a strap-line  to the  signature area on emails (see below) as we are often solving problems and answering questions – this reinforces that we are supporting students.

Strap-line on email responses to students –

Calling all final year students please complete the National Student Survey (NSS): your reflections on your whole degree – first – final year are very important http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/ 

How to create and add a signature to messages

The NSS results  are used as part of the metrics of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

The third annual Learning and Teaching & Professional Staff Awards are open for nomination from the 5th November.

The Business School has a proud record of recognising and rewarding its teaching and professional support staff.  This year we will be presenting a total of eight £250 awards: four for Learning and Teaching and four for Professional Support.

New for 2018/19: one of the Learning and Teaching Awards has been co-sponsored by the BBS student Law Society, so if you want nominate a Law lecturer please use the separate form.

The process of entry is by anonymous nomination on-line. Please scroll down to the page to view all entry forms.

Nominations can be made by students or staff colleagues.

Learning & Teaching Awards

The nominations for Learning & Teaching Awards will be judged against each of the following criteria

• Displays an active interest in and development of approaches to teaching that influence, motivate and inspire students to learn
• Demonstrates commitment to and support for the development of students as individuals
• Uses effective communication skills that engage students in the learning experiences

Annual Learning & Teaching Award Nominations 2018/19

Annual Learning & Teaching Award Nominations 2018/19

First Name of Nominee

Last Name of Nominee

1. Displays an active interest in and development of approaches to teaching that influence, motivate and inspire students to learn

2. Demonstrates commitment to and support for the development of students as individuals

3. Uses effective communication skills that engage students in the learning experience

4. Involvement in scholarly activities that have influenced and enhanced learning both of students and colleagues

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Annual Law Learning & Teaching Award Nominations (co-sponsored by BBS student Law Society) 2018/19

Annual Law Learning & Teaching Award Nominations (co-sponsored by BBS student Law Society) 2018/19

First Name of Nominee

Last Name of Nominee

1. Displays an active interest in and development of approaches to teaching that influence, motivate and inspire students to learn

2. Demonstrates commitment to and support for the development of students as individuals

3. Uses effective communication skills that engage students in the learning experience

4. Involvement in scholarly activities that have influenced and enhanced learning both of students and colleagues

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Professional Support Staff Awards

The nominations for Professional Support Staff Awards will be judged against each of the following criteria

• Provides high quality work which either directly or indirectly supports staff, research and/or students
• Provides high quality advice, guidance and support which enhances the student and staff experience
• Regularly goes above and beyond their duties at an exceptionally high level which reflects the school and the university values of excellence

Annual Professional Support Staff Awards Nominations 2018/19

Annual Professional Support Staff Awards Nominations 2018/19

First Name of Nominee *

Last Name of Nominee *

Provides high quality work which either directly or indirectly supports staff, research and/or students: Minimum response 50 words

Provides high quality advice, guidance and support which enhances the student and staff experience: Minimum response 50 words

Regularly goes above and beyond their duties at an exceptionally high level which reflects the school and the university values of excellence: Minimum response 50 words

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Firstly – some stats!

The emojis are getting going – over 200 emojis recorded so far! 🤓 (clever) is winning – a good sign for the new term.

Photo Register is working – around 5000 students university-wide are having their attendance recorded each day!

BBS has distributed the student flyer  (see below). Ensuring the students know what this is all about is key to the project’s success

As a reminder, the full dashboard will be released by Mon Nov 5^th – for students this is via a dashboard button on the emoji widget and for Personal Academic Tutors and Course Leaders this is via the Student Lookup tab on the top right hand side on studentcentral.

Photo Register

• In BBS we are aware there has been/may still be some issues around groups -please persevere as recording attendance is critical
• Photo Register with big cohorts was not loading so has been fixed so it now displays all the groups (not just the first 20)
• Doctoral students who are teaching don’t see photo register (only ‘staff’), Katie and the team are aware of this. Once we understand the scale of this as an issue we will find a solution.

More help: https://photo-register.brighton.ac.uk/photoregister/help.php