{"id":7576,"date":"2020-09-18T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2020-09-20T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T17:24:58","slug":"teaching-on-campus-support-for-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/2020\/09\/18\/teaching-on-campus-support-for-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching on Campus – support for staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Roger Eccleston (DVC Academic) has recorded a video update<\/a> explaining some of the measures taken to enable us to confidently offer students safe access to the best learning experience while Covid restrictions are in place, ensuring a safe return to campus for all.\u00a0The video\u00a0highlights\u00a0many of the safety precautions put in place on campus as well as some of the guidelines mentioned below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/u>Teaching space guidelines<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching guidelines for classroom and specialist facilities are now available in the\u00a0Course Delivery<\/a>\u00a0section of Academic Essentials.\u00a0These cover, in detail, classroom and specialist\/technical spaces set-up, safety mitigations and what\u2019s expected of staff and students, managing your teaching space, and information on risk assessments and fire safety.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Within the guidelines,\u00a0staff are asked not to move furniture around,<\/strong> as this has all been planned and set up to manage social distancing requirements and changes affect the safety of staff and students coming into spaces for later sessions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Practice teaching spaces<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Practice teaching spaces are now available to book in the Cantor building, for academic colleagues can practice your teaching delivery in the new settings. 25 rooms on floors 0, 1 and 2 in Cantor are bookable until 25 September, from 9.00am to 5.00pm.<\/strong> Book your space via\u00a0resource booker<\/a>\u00a0by choosing the\u00a0model classrooms option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This will enable staff to see how teaching rooms will be set up, understand the control measures in place, familiarise with any new technology, and to practice delivery of the mixed model of face to face and online. Working together in teaching teams, if required. Support in sessions will be offered remotely by Digital Learning and DTS. Links to relevant guidance, return to campus working information and support links will be provided on booking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching reorientation seminars<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition,\u00a0teaching reorientation seminars,\u00a0facilitated by Digital Learning and Health and Safety colleagues with support from the Teaching and Learning Leadership team,\u00a0are running from 14 September to 25 September \u2013 with 40 sessions in total.\u00a0<\/strong>They will focus on the practicalities of teaching delivery, the technology to use, and teaching approaches to help you manage simultaneous face to face and online teaching. They will also cover support arrangements and some of the safety-related changes in place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The seminars will take place in Cantor 9132<\/strong> and can be attended in person or live online. One of the sessions will be recorded so there will also be the chance to watch it later if staff are unable to attend live. Each session can accommodate a maximum of 18 people in the room and 30 people online at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Booking is now open \u2013 please select according to whether you want to attend in person<\/a> or attend online<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Office space and meeting rooms
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\nAny room being used for timetabled teaching delivery from 28 September does not need to be booked.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Office space to use before, between and after teaching sessions does need to be booked \u2013 whether this is desk space in the building in which you were previously based which is now open again (departmental space), or \u2018open office space\u2019 within another building. Meeting rooms also need to be booked. This is so that we can manage building occupancy levels and maintain social distancing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently there are meeting rooms, classrooms, and departmental and open-desk spaces available for booking in Charles Street. From 21 September, these will be extended to include a range of buildings on both campuses.\u00a0 All bookings should be made via Resource Booker. Detailed information about how to book different types of spaces, and what is available in which buildings is on the Estates intranet<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Staggered start and finish times<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/span>A simple approach for staggering the start and finish of timetabled teaching sessions has now been agreed, which is based on room numbers as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n