LJMU Events and Appointments

The main staff guide for Panopto is available at https://ltech.ljmu.ac.uk/?page_id=159

This session will cover how to establish appropriate boundaries and manage students’ expectations. It will also cover how and when to signpost students to other specialist services for more specialist guidance.

Led by staff from Organisational Development and Student Advice and Wellbeing this session will be delivered online.

This comprehensive session brings together best practices in online student engagement, focusing on both discussion board activities and social engagement tools within Canvas. The session aims to provide practical insights into designing engaging online activities, rooted in the experiences of LJMU staff and established distance learning practices.

Designing Interactive Discussion Boards: Learn how to create simple yet effective discussion board activities on Canvas. This includes sharing these activities with students, encouraging participation, and monitoring engagement.

Hands-On Experience: Get practical exposure by trying out various discussion board activities, enhancing your understanding of the tool's functionality and potential in engaging students.

Social Engagement in Blended Learning: Explore how to use existing Canvas tools to foster online social engagement, crucial for active blended learning environments. This segment is developed in response to the Academy's recent staff survey, highlighting the need for enhanced guidance in this area.

Practical Examples and Idea Sharing: We'll provide numerous examples of social engagement activities. There will also be opportunities to discuss and share ideas on how these can be integrated into your teaching practices.

Note: The Teaching and Learning Academy reserves the right to cancel the session if there are insufficient attendees.

• Resolving the most severe issues first 
• Reviewing any contrast issues in documents and pages 
• Fixing any image Alt Text in documents and pages 
• Ensuring documents and pages use correct headings 

The main staff guide for Panopto is available at https://ltech.ljmu.ac.uk/?page_id=159

This seminar seeks to highlight the challenges that programme teams can face in managing students’ expectations regarding the nature of their degree programme and the work opportunities that it may present. This is an outcome of a range of factors including the cost of higher education, the requirement for post-graduate study to unblock career opportunities, and even misconceptions regarding particular subjects being studied and their associated careers driven by representations of the subject in popular media. This seminar aims to highlight recent challenges in this area, using forensic psychology as a case study.  This subject seems to be particularly affected by ‘the Netflix effect’, where students are presented with glamourous and unrealistic depictions of the area, alongside a series of assumptions regarding the very notion of ‘forensic that appear to confuse students.  Current issues regarding career choices, postgraduate options, and work experience will be discussed.

Hosted by the Teaching and Learning Academy, this event is part of the Teaching Insights series and will be led by Dr Victoria Blinkhorn, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Programme Leader for MSc Forensic and Investigative Psychology, School of Psychology, LJMU.