We have been working hard to find ways to teach your courses without disruption, while keeping our staff and students safe and making sure we follow government guidance on Covid-19. We won’t be making any significant changes to the content of our programmes, but there will be some changes to the way they are delivered. Please see below for further details of how this may affect this course.
If government advice changes, we may need to update our plans. If we do so, we will update this information, and will keep current students and offer holders informed by email.
We will also continue to update our frequently asked questions page for applicants and offer holders as more information becomes available.
Course content
From September to December 2020 all teaching will be delivered online, except for skills based teaching, which will be conducted on campus with appropriate distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE), and with controls on the number of people in each location. This will apply for students in all years during term-time.
Teaching will be delivered via both ‘synchronous’ sessions (involving real-time interaction with lecturers) and ‘asynchronous’ sessions (recorded materials). For full details, see our Framework for Online Education. Real time interaction with students remains essential to foster and maintain a sense of belonging and to check learning and progress.
Personal tutor support and all other student support will also be remote for this period. This has worked well since March 2020, when we moved to remote learning and teaching. Various methods have been used: telephone, online (using web conferencing systems like BigBlueButton and Microsoft Teams), emails and videos. All of the learning outcomes in our modules and courses will still be delivered.
Placements will resume from September 2020, pending Health Education England (HEE) provide approval. Therefore, we currently have no plans to change the delivery, style or timings to clinical placements. Students on placement will be expected to adopt local Trust working patterns and guidance, and areas. Students who identify themselves as vulnerable or share a home with a vulnerable person will have a risk assessment. The team will liaise with each student on an individual basis.
Simulation facilities will be used to supplement clinical education when appropriate. However, we anticipate all clinical modules will continue as planned.
Supporting vulnerable students
Students considered to be most at risk from Covid-19 should work at home wherever possible in line with government advice. Students who are going on placement will be required to complete an individual risk assessment and others may choose to do so. In addition, students from vulnerable groups, including care leavers, students estranged from their families and students with disabilities, are prioritised for help from the University’s Hardship Funds and for accommodation in Horton Halls. Priority for loans of laptops from the University will be given to those eligible to receive a hardship grant; those registered as disabled, care leavers or with caring responsibilities; and international students who may have difficulty sourcing an appropriate device on arrival in the UK.
We recognise the impact that the current circumstances may have on mental health and have expanded our counselling provision, offering remote appointments to any student. In addition, every student will be allocated a personal tutor to offer individual pastoral and academic support from the start of their studies. (Further information about health and wellbeing advice during Covid-19 is available here.)
Priority consideration has been given to support for students with disabilities when accessing teaching and learning online, through the provision of automatic live captioning and British Sign Language within our primary technologies of Panopto, MS Teams and Big Blue Button. These can benefit a range of students, especially those who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as students with an Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), memory processing issues, and for whom English is an additional language.
Human-level captioning is also available where a need has been established through the Disability Advisory team. Human-level captioning requests are processed by the Learning Technology Services (LTS) section and can be requested by email to lts@sgul.ac.uk.
How the course will be delivered
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Incoming students (starting September 2020)
The existing learning outcomes for our modules and courses will remain in place. From September to December 2020 all students will primarily access their learning, including learning materials, via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Canvas. Hands-on practical teaching and learning activities will be delivered on campus with appropriate social distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE) measures put in place, and with controls on the number of people in each location.
The online components of the course will be designed to balance interactive real-time sessions with lecturers and other students, with self-paced independent study. Students will have clear learning pathways through the activities they are expected to engage with, and there will be opportunities to check learning and progress.
Simulation facilities will be used to supplement clinical education when appropriate. However, we anticipate all clinical modules will continue as planned.
We intend to run our usual simulation sessions in the Radiography Simulation Suite to help prepare you for your placement. These will be in smaller groups due to social distancing restrictions, and PPE will be provided for students and facilitators. Using PPE will help to prepare you for the ‘new normal’ of the clinical environment. The sessions will be condensed into one day. Being part of a smaller student group will enable you to gain greater interactive experience.
Personal tutor support and all other student support, such as the Academic Success Centre, will also be online for this period, using a range of methods for staying in touch, such as telephone, email and the University’s web conferencing systems BigBlueButton and MSTeams. Real time interaction with students remains essential to foster and maintain a sense of belonging and to check learning and progress.
Pending Health Education England (HEE) approval, placements are currently expected to resume from September 2020 with minimum changes to planned delivery or timings. All students on placement will be expected to undertake a risk assessment and adhere to local Trust working patterns and guidance. Students will not normally be placed in ‘Covid-hot’ areas, and those who identify themselves as vulnerable or share a home with a vulnerable person will have a risk assessment. The team will liaise with each student on an individual basis.
To get the most from online study, hardware requirements have been established and communicated to all existing students and offer holders. Students will need their own personal computer or laptop and an internet connection in their place of accommodation. This needs to be in place at the start of the course. Once enrolled, students will have the ability to use Office 365 as part of our institutional licence, and access software required for their modules/courses via AppsAnywhere. In addition, we offer Office for Mac via Ofice365, but only the following applications are available for Mac: Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote. Web-based Office applications are available on Mac. Full details are available here. There is a provision for students who may struggle to meet the hardware requirements to contact our IT Hardship team.
Current students
The existing learning outcomes for our modules and courses will remain in place. From September to December 2020 all students will primarily access their learning, including learning materials, via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Canvas. Hands-on practical teaching and learning activities will be delivered on campus with appropriate social distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE) measures put in place, and with controls on the number of people in each location.
The online components of the course will be designed to balance interactive real-time sessions with lecturers and other students, with self-paced independent study. Students will have clear learning pathways through the activities they are expected to engage with, and there will be opportunities to check learning and progress.
Simulation facilities will be used to supplement clinical education when appropriate. However, we anticipate all clinical modules will continue as planned.
We intend to run our usual simulation sessions in the Radiography Simulation Suite to help prepare you for your placement. These will be in smaller groups due to social distancing restrictions, and PPE will be provided for students and facilitators. Using PPE will help to prepare you for the ‘new normal’ of the clinical environment. The sessions will be condensed into one day. Being part of a smaller student group will enable you to gain greater interactive experience.
Personal tutor support and all other student support, such as the Academic Success Centre, will also be online for this period, using a range of methods for staying in touch, such as telephone, email and the University’s web conferencing systems BigBlueButton and MSTeams. Real time interaction with students remains essential to foster and maintain a sense of belonging and to check learning and progress.
Pending Health Education England (HEE) approval, placements are currently expected to resume from September 2020 with minimum changes to planned delivery or timings. All students on placement will be expected to undertake a risk assessment and adhere to local Trust working patterns and guidance.
Students will not normally be placed in ‘Covid-hot’ areas, and those who identify themselves as vulnerable or share a home with a vulnerable person will have a risk assessment. The team will liaise with each student on an individual basis.
To get the most from online study, hardware requirements have been established and communicated to all existing students and offer holders. Students will need their own personal computer or laptop and an internet connection in their place of accommodation. This needs to be in place at the start of the course. Once enrolled, students will have the ability to use Office 365 as part of our institutional licence, and access software required for their modules/courses via AppsAnywhere. In addition, we offer Office for Mac via Ofice365, but only the following applications are available for Mac: Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote. Web-based Office applications are available on Mac. Full details are available here. There is a provision for students who may struggle to meet the hardware requirements to contact our IT Hardship team.