YOUR PRE-ARRIVAL COURSE INFORMATION

Pre-arrival checklist

Your tick list of things to do before you start your course. Once you have started the enrolment process, and whilst you finalise accommodation and travel arrangements, your next step is to attend the Prearrival and Kickstarter events online and view your course pre-arrival pages.

Finalise accommodation (if needed) and travel arrangements.

Obtain and set up equipment required for course and Technology Enhanced Active Learning (see section on TEAL).

Attend the Kickstarter and Pre-arrival online events (see Key activities).

Engage with the course pre-arrival page and key University information.

Key information and advice is provided to help you personalise your unique study journey. The information we provide at this stage is designed to help reduce your worries and concerns.

Track My Future is the University’s internal website for students where you can access your course pre-arrival pages. This contains a welcome from your course leader and team, and important information about your in-person course welcome and orientation week, your pre-arrival reading/work and links to other useful information. It is also where you will access resources and information relating to your academic studies and our services, such as the Career Zone. You do not need to have completed enrolment to access these pages but you must have started it and have a UEL email ID and password.

Accessing my Pre-arrival Course pages

The first steps are similar to the enrolment process:

1. Log in to our online system, Track My Future - uel.ac.uk/trackmyfuture a. Log in using your username (eg, u1234567@uel.ac.uk) and the pass word you created during the enrolment process. b. You will be asked to authenticate your login.

2. Once logged in, select ‘Click on New students - preparing to start, then visit Launchpad. Look for your school and course to click on the link to find your course specific pages.

3. Once on your course-specific pages, you will find a welcome from your course leader and key information to help you make the transition to university.

This includes:

– Your course handbook and instructions for accessing course materials.

– An electronic copy of this - Welcome and Orientation Guide.

– Key course contact details (eg, course leader email address).

Information about your Welcome Week schedule.

Required pre-arrival work to undertake in preparation for your studies.

Information on success in learning at university.

– Support and Wellbeing information.

– Introduction to Teaching Enhanced Active Learning.

– Introduction to Track My Future.

Teaching Enhanced Active Learning - TEAL - A quick guide

What is TEAL?

Our teaching focuses on the complete person. We offer a personalised approach to education that takes account of your career readiness, soft skills and wellbeing. Powerful learning happens when students are actively involved in doing, making, sharing, collaborating and problem solving - so we use an approach called Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) which combines traditional face-to-face, on campus tuition with cutting-edge technology.

Welcome to the New World of Careers First Eduction

Your career is our priority. We’ve made a lot of innovations to our curriculum and delivery modes in the past few years. Working closely with industry, we redesigned our entire curriculum to better prepare you for the future world of work – adding a Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth https://www.uel.ac.uk/about/mentalwealth module into every course, and embedding superb careers support into our holistic approach to education.

The pandemic also forced us to re-think our approach to teaching delivery to ensure our students were supported and thrived whilst learning remotely. Now we are back on campus, we’ve worked with industry partners like Amazon to ensure the best use of technology is implemented alongside face to face, on-campus delivery.

Our approach sees lecturers and professional services using our technology-rich campus and facilities to teach and scaffold learning, for example by using the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), MS Teams and a variety of other tools – including simulations, AR/VR, online quizzes and the provision of virtual learning materials such as e-books.

What are the benefits of Teaching Enhanced Active Learning?

We encourage an educational experience that is active, social, collaborative, engaging and student owned, supported by the use of learning technologies. This enables:

– Increased face-to-face learning and teaching - you will spend your timetabled contact hours on campus and have access to a wide range of additional learning and career development opportunities.

– Where possible, timetabled contact hours will be scheduled in blocks (for example 2.5 days at the start or end of the week) to give you the most out of your time on campus.

– Access to recorded lectures, notes, readings and e-resources through the VLE, so that your engagement in learning takes place beyond timetabled hours.

– Access to industry standard technology and specialist spaces that help prepare you for your future career.

– Dedicated time, every Wednesday afternoon, for most students to engage in activities and development programmes such as sport and physical activity, volunteering and student-led clubs and societies.

– A holistic approach to learning and teaching, providing a range of opportunities to actively develop academically, personally and professionally.

– Access to our on-campus and virtual Career Zones: places to receive advice and guidance, meet employers, practice interviews and engage with opportunities for internships and jobs.

– Personalised support throughout the learner journey, with access to academic advisers, skills tutors, career coaches and wellbeing advisers.

– A dedicated portal – “Track My Future (TMF)” – which provides access to all learning and support services and your own student engagement dashboard.

Education can do more

Our programme of co-curricular experiences is designed to go beyond academic skills.

We invest in your professional and personal development through a range of initiatives, including our enrichment programme which includes the following opportunities:

Sport, physical activity and health

– Student societies and groups

– Industry speakers, events and visits

– Cultural and social events

– Volunteering

Student enterprise

Internships

– Events for students living in on-campus accommodation

– Academic enrichment activities, including personalised support opportunities.

Gain the edge with our Careers first focus

Our Careers first focus means we want to help our students reach their full potential, in and outside of the classroom, and make everything you achieve count towards your future career success. The East London Edge Programme gives you opportunities to complete online learning to help you boost your skills and get career ready. You can complete a range of learning pathways, and gain digital badges, in areas including:

– Work-based Learning

Professional Development

Student Life

– Volunteering and Community Engagement

– Entrepreneurship & Innovation

– Students develop core competencies in these areas, keep a record of this valuable learning within the Career Passport, and learn to articulate this to future employers.

– If you have any questions about how your course will be taught, or how to get involved in any of the co-curricular experiences or East London Edge Programme, please get in contact with your course leader or school.