The HUB entered for national award

The HUB, our learning resource centre, has been put forward for a national award that celebrates innovative ways to assist students during their time at College.

Part of the College’s commitment to providing state-of-the-art facilities and ever-evolving technology and ideas to help student development, The HUB’s unique coursework submission system is the focus of an entry submission for the Council for Learning Resources in Colleges (CoLRIC) Best Practice Awards 2017.

 “By taking away some of the admin associated with coursework, teachers can now use valuable lesson time to its fullest, ensuring our students receive the best experience possible.”

Helen Bullock, HUB Manager

The CoLRIC Best Practice Awards hunt for further education libraries and learning resource services with high levels of innovation and engagement that result in a positive impact for the students, teachers and the profession in general.

Praised by external standards inspectors, as well as being part of what Ofsted found to be ‘excellent and high quality learning resources’ during their recent inspection, The HUB’s coursework submission system is unique to the College and developed especially for our students.

HUB Manager, Helen Bullock, explained: “The system provides a unique service for the College’s staff and students. Through our barcode scanning procedure, coursework submissions are tracked down to the second that students submit the work. It delivers peace of mind for them because they know that when their work is handed in, the system provides a record of it that both they and their teachers can check. It also starts to prepare them for university where missing formal deadlines can have severe consequences.”

Helen continued: “Teachers have noticed a marked improvement in on-time submissions with this system. It’s also popular with the teachers because the work is stored in one place ready for collection, and they’re given a digital report of the students who have handed the coursework in on time, enabling them to keep track of who still needs to submit.”

Concluding with a crucial point, Helen said: “By taking away some of the admin associated with coursework, teachers can now use valuable lesson time to its fullest, ensuring our students receive the best experience possible.”

On inspecting the coursework submission system, the BTEC Standards Verifier wrote: “The College has striven to enhance hand in procedures and now records all submissions via a bespoke program… this is fully logged and robustly adheres to the deadline requirements of the new rules, leads to fewer late submissions and thus increases opportunities for appropriate re submissions.

“This is considered good practice as it adheres to the ethos of the new assessment guidelines requiring timely submissions, the impact so far has been fewer late submissions.”

The winners of the biennial CoLRIC Best Practice Awards 2017 are announced on the 28^th April.