We are pleased to announce that the latest release of new features for the KentVision Project has gone smoothly. These are now ready to help staff deliver improved processes and better services for students.

My Marks (Student and Staff View)

New enhancements to the view for both students and staff to enable module adjustments from Board of Examiners. This is especially relevant to our students who have raised an end-of-year extenuating circumstance claim – they can now view any adjustments that have been made regarding their claim which was previously all off-system.

As module results are agreed by the central teams and the reassessment records generated (where a reassessment adjustment has been raised at a board) these can now be immediately viewed by staff. However, it has been adapted to ensure this view is not available to students until their formal result is released.

Modules that are trailed (repeat and reassessment) now appear in the relevant stage of the My Marks view.

Board of Examiner Functionality

Functionality is now available for staff to view a read-only version of the Board of Examiner secretary screen which provides a snapshot for the student to view all module adjustments, notes, and alternative progression outcomes from the various boards and post-boards.

On the secretary screens the total credit and stage average values are now displayed to two decimal points.

Enhanced functionality has been released to the central teams to ensure the boards processing report now defaults to the process of the current progression records and ignores any other adjustments from previous boards in the same academic – this is particularly relevant for PGT activity.

Post-Marks Release Functionality

Functionality has been released which will enable Divisions to capture any post-board changes for student outcomes once results have been formally released.  This allows staff to record such actions in the system to give a full audit trail of board stages and allows incorporation of any subsequent post-board changes.

Functionality has also been released to the Central teams to process these requests from a dashboard view within KentVision in a structured and managed way – reducing administration burdens on staff.

Results Letters

Result letters improvements issued as part of the finalist results release are now available to our students via the Results Server.

Module Component Reassessment Report

Improvements to the report will now provide a means to extract re-assessment details by module or students as required for those undertaking re-assessments in August.

This release is the culmination of work behind the scenes, and we commend everyone involved for their hard work – especially the users of the system dedicating time to ensure improvements are realised.

For further information about what features and functionality we are delivering by August 2022 please see our previous KentVision Project Update.

In hopefully the first of many celebrations to come, the inaugural Diversity Mark Awards took place at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference.

Diversity Mark is an institution wide initiative run by Student Success, celebrating modules that offer an inclusive learning experience and diverse range of resources for their students. It was created by Dr Barbara Adewumi to address the lack of diversity and persistent dominance of Global North knowledge in reading lists and the curriculum.

The Diversity Mark Award is granted to modules that undergo a process of reflection and change, with the support of Student Diversity Mark Officers who review whether modules consider authors of varying race, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality and socio-economic context.

The first successful convenors to achieve Diversity Mark status were presented with Diversity Mark Awards by Professor Richard Reece, in recognition of their incredible achievement. These convenors were as follows:

Angela Harrison for her modules JOUR3010 ‘Reporting and Writing’, JOUR6070 ‘Specialist Journalism (UG)’ and JOUR8210 ‘Specialist Journalism (PG)’. Angela was highly commended for her celebration of student voice and use of diverse learning materials.

Dr Margherita Laera for her module DRAM6850 ‘Theatre and Adaptation’. Dr Laera was highly commended for her discussion of diverse reading material and incorporation of anti-racist values.

Dr Ben Turner for his module POLI3140 ‘Introduction to Political Thought’. Dr Turner was highly commended for his use of focus groups, inclusive and diverse reading list and the opportunities his module provides for students to co-produce knowledge.

These Diversity Mark Awards wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and commitment to diversifying the curriculum displayed by Senior Diversity Mark Officer Rachel Gefferie and Diversity Mark Officers Tamika Adamson, Irene Binil and Lily Gibbs.

Student participation in focus groups and module contributions were also an invaluable part of the Diversity Mark process, and the Student Success team would like to thank the below students for the integral part they played:

• Johan Mappumchery Babu
• Tarini Tiwari
• Kush Pattni
• Dilara Ali-Osman
• Rianne Okungbowa
• Iona Singh
• Victoria Adeyemi
• Rai-Anna Ellis-Brereton
• Daniel Anenou
• Anesu Muzanechita
• Stephany Bempong
• Renee Washington
• Chris Thomsett
• Ayo Adekaiyero
• Ka Yee (Ellie) Mak
• Tiara English
• Gnebe-Awa Diofu
• Alexander Bharma
• Members of the ‘Reflective Diary’ focus group on module PSYC5890.

If you would like to find out more about Diversity Mark, visit the Student Success website for further information.

Diversity Mark presentations will be taking place across Schools after Welcome Week, however any convenors interested in participating are warmly encouraged to register their interest with the relevant Student Success team member for their Division:

Division of Arts and Humanities & Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice: Kerry Shelton on K.Shelton@kent.ac.uk

Kent Business School & Division of Human and Social Sciences: Tolga Duygun on T.Duygun@kent.ac.uk

Division of Natural Sciences & Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences: Hollie Sanigar-Relf on H.Sanigar-Relf@kent.ac.uk

We’re pleased to announce our brand new children’s sports camp, CricketZone coming this August!

In partnership with Kent Cricket, CricketZone provides a week of professionally-led softball cricket coaching, delivered by qualified and DBS-checked coaches.

This new camp is aimed at children 5 to 12 years old who are new to cricket or keen to gain experience through our inclusive camp. Children will have daily skills sessions based on introductory level softball cricket.

Dates and times

• CricketZone 2022 runs from Monday 22 to Friday 26 August.
• You can drop your children off from 8.30 and pick up at 15.00.
• We also offer a late pick-up option from 15.00 to 17.00.

How to book

• Online booking for CricketZone 2022 is now open.
• Please ensure you complete a form for each child you wish to book on CricketZone.
• Booking and payment can be completed online.

Prices

For University of Kent staff:

• One day £30 per child
• One week (five days) £125 per child

For members of the public:

• One day £35 per child
• One week (five days) £150 per child

Late pick-up (15.00 to 17.00)

• Our late pick-up option includes fun and engaging activities tailored to the location, such as table tennis, table football, new age kurling, bowls, speed stacks, twister, board games, and creative drawing.
• £10 per child per day

More information

If you have any questions about our holiday camps, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list for future camps, please email sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk or call 01227 816391.