DETAILED PLANNING

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DETAILED PLANNING

You realise that your team will need to receive intensive VLE training for the programme to be effective. They aren’t keen.

OPTION 1Give in to the team, and reduce the VLE activity considerably, even though this will be less flexible for students

OPTION 2Spend time producing a persuasive demonstration for the team and show examples from your discipline

+ 6 - 2

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You need to use a lot of new technology. Your team is enthusiastic but inexperienced, and it's difficult to get everyone together.

OPTION 1Organise two days of intensive training at the end of term

OPTION 2Provide everyone with manuals so that they can get on in their own time

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The planning department tell you that your innovative plans look impossible in terms of timetabling and you’ll need to rethink.

OPTION 1Revert to a traditional one hour lecture/two hour seminar format

OPTION 2Refuse to compromise on the innovative aspects and work with the timetablers to come up with a solution

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Your student representatives provide a one page summary providing suggestions on how the new provision improve on existing provision.

OPTION 1Implement anything that is easy, or you were going to do anyway

OPTION 2Consider every suggestion and implement everything that is feasible

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Student consultation appears to be sparse and the outcomes are uninformative.

OPTION 1Decide that is good enough and get on with other things

OPTION 2Take time to get to know the student reps and develop a through consultation strategy

+ 2 - 4

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You have an early meeting with timetablers to discuss the potential impact of the programme design on the faculty and explain the outcomes in the strategic approval form.

OPTION 1Assume that everything is now agreed and will work

OPTION 2Schedule regular follow-up meetings+ 4 0

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You need to form a team to get the documentation together.

OPTION 1Form a core group, including students, schedule all meetings and set up a blog

OPTION 2Lead from the front, producing all the documentation and circulating for comment at regular intervals

+ 4 + 8

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There is no slot when all members of the course team can meet regularly during the process and yet they all want to be involved at all stages.

OPTION 1Set up a wiki and a regular weekly email newsletter to keep people in touch

OPTION 2Set up a regular monthly meeting anyway, people will come if they want to

+ 6 + 6

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The new course is going to be very different.

OPTION 1Divide the work and delegate each chunk to an individual with a deadline for completion

OPTION 2Work in small task-focused teams to ensure consistency

+ 6 + 4

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At the first planning meeting, the course outline is agreed. It’s going to be very similar to the last version.

OPTION 1Agree to write the documentation and leave each unit leader to write their own outline

OPTION 2Divide up the whole documentation+ 4 0

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There are lots of reasons why the course should be radically different from previous versions.

OPTION 1Ask everyone on the team to send in their ideas and then write a plan

OPTION 2Have an away day to agree on course structure, assessment and feedback strategy and technology use and share out tasks

+ 6 + 10

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One of your unit leaders has filled half the spaces in the online form with rubbish and forgotten to go back and sort it out before signing the unit as complete. She's now gone on study leave for six weeks.

OPTION 1Fill it in yourself

OPTION 2Wait for her to come back+ 8 - 4

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Two people on the team have missed every deadline so far and the documents need to be signed off now.

OPTION 1Write their sections yourself

OPTION 2Complain to the head of department+ 6 0

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In several units, the assessments do not align with the learning outcomes and activities.

OPTION 1Leave it and hope the reviewers don't notice

OPTION 2Rewrite all of the unit outcomes and assessments+ 6 - 4

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The team refuses to use a shared file system and, as a result, there are multiple versions of documentation.

OPTION 1Insist that all team members put the correct version onto a shared system

OPTION 2Collect all the documentation together and sort it out yourself

- 2 - 6

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The university decides that all units must be 30 credits rather than the 20 credits you had been working to.

OPTION 1Completely review the course units and create a set of coherent new units

OPTION 2Quickly shift the learning outcomes around so that it looks like a set of coherent new units

- 6 - 2

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Two unit leaders have developed units that are broadly identical in an area they both want to teach.

OPTION 1Leave both units available but make them optional

OPTION 2Insist that they work together to create a single core unit covering that area

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A team member has created a new optional unit in an area that is of little interest to anyone but them.

OPTION 1Accept the unit to keep them happy, recognising that it will probably never run

OPTION 2Point out that the new unit does not fit well within the course, and risk upsetting your colleague

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At the last minute realise that the unit credits do not add up to a complete programme.

OPTION 1Fudge it by changing the credits on some of the units so that it adds up

OPTION 2Thoroughly investigate why the problem has arisen and resolve it

+ 2 - 4

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A change in legislation means that one of the units needs to be completely revised to keep it up to date.

OPTION 1Leave it as it is and hope nobody notices

OPTION 2Completely revise the unit+ 4 - 4

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