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course tools My first day at Cambridge - will it be okay? So what course are you studying? Later that day, in the bar... It’s really cool, a totally new field, it didn’t even exist 10 years ago, I’m so excited... ... this is the only place you can study it. The researchers here are leaders in their field, the best in the world... ... I could get a great job when I leave - or maybe I’ll become a researcher here myself! That would be amazing... zz z zz zzz zz z zz zzz ... I’m so excited to be here! Would you like another drink? COURSETOOLS will make it easier and smoother to create cutting-edge courses, blending world leading research with pedagogical strategy At the course organiser’s office, the next day Can I check the teaching hours and assessment criteria for the literature review, please? Sure! You can check on the course VLE site ... on the course booklet ... ... or on our course website ... or the central repository of programme specifications... ... but wherever you look, I guarantee it’s all the same! COURSETOOLS stores information about courses which can be re-used in different formats across the University and beyond It’s all very well organised! I hope so! It means I can spend more time teaching you, and doing my research. See you in the first seminar! Our hero heads back to college I’d better pick up my timetable for the week - and fit in time for research & writing essays. ... and pick up my lecture handouts at the same time so I can look them over in advance. Great! No clashes in my timetable, and plenty of time to get to each lecture. And my supervisor’s already put my first supervision in my timetable! University life is EASY! COURSETOOLS supports flexible timetabling, to meet the needs of new courses and an expanding campus I hear there are some great lectures on over in the Music Faculty. Why don’t we go? COURSETOOLS allows students and lecturers easily to find and attend lectures across the University Lets check online ... search for ‘jazz’ ... This looks great - I’ll subscribe to it straight away! I’d better bookmark the map, too. WOW! Student life is GREAT! A punt on the river Cam Cambridge University, October 2015
