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The morning of the assessment you wake with a massive hangover.

OPTION 1Phone in sick and hope someone else can deal with it

OPTION 2Turn up and get on with it + 20

-1 0

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At the last minute, the external assessor becomes ill and can't make the panel meeting.

OPTION 1Draft in a recently retired ex-colleague from a nearby institution

OPTION 2Postpone the panel for three months until everyone is available

- 2+ 4

0 1

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You realise the night before the panel that there is a complete unit descriptor missing from the documentation.

OPTION 1Don't mention it and hope no one notices

OPTION 2Bring it up at the meeting 0+ 2

0 1

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The latest trend is to involve students in approval panels.

OPTION 1Include them as proper partners, inviting them to planning meetings and explaining what's happening

OPTION 2Ask them at committee what they think of the documentation, which was tabled at the meeting as it was all a bit last minute

+ 8+ 4

1 0

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Your documents are filled with typographical errors.

OPTION 1Leave them

OPTION 2Fix them

- 2+ 2

0 0

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Your Equalities Impact Assessment is missing.

OPTION 1Write a thoughtful, measured Equalities Impact Assessment

OPTION 2Copy an equalities impact assessment from another programme

+ 8+ 2

1 0

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Your documents are checked before the panel and have significant omissions; you have forgotten the Equalities Impact Assessment and one of your External Examiners’ reports is missing..OPTION 1Postpone the panel for a month until the correct documentation can be produced

OPTION 2Cobble something together in an evening + 4 - 4

1 0

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It is suggested that you use student feedback on an existing course to enhance the proposed course.

OPTION 1Analyse the feedback and make changes as appropriate

OPTION 2Use the feedback to justify changes you were going to make anyway.

+ 4+ 2

1 0

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The panel is not happy that your learning outcomes contain multiple uses of ‘understand’.

OPTION 1Take advice on rewording the learning outcomes and revisit all of them, and check alignment with assessment tasks

OPTION 2Quickly replace 'understand' with a variety of synonyms

+ 4 0

1 0

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The assessment consists of four essays and four unseen exams. The approval panel suggests using a greater variety of assessment.

OPTION 1Take advice on the use of varied assessment to support your programme learning outcomes

OPTION 2Swap two of the essays for group work presentations, and leave the exams as they are

+ 6 0

1 0

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You have been asked to develop a strategy for employer engagement.

OPTION 1Design in a relationship with the relevant skills council that involves guest speakers, sector case studies and work placements

OPTION 2Write a one-page strategy document listing ideas for employer engagement

+ 2 0

1 0

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You have been told that the course needs to engage with the community.

OPTION 1Design an assignment that lets students gather community data and involves community groups without increasing your workload

OPTION 2Write a standard letter to a few community groups asking for input, and act surprised when you get no response

+ 2+ 4

1 0

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Your assessment strategy is complimented by the external examiner as transparent, coherent and progressive, providing a scaffold for successful completion of the programme learning outcomes.OPTION 1Pat yourself on the back

OPTION 2Decide that you can improve them still further and spend a weekend rewriting the documentation

0+ 8

1 1

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The Professional Body says how impressed they are with your proposals and that they will contribute greatly to the national provision and to thinking about teaching in the discipline.

OPTION 1Congratulate your team

OPTION 2Review the documentation to check they are actually talking about your course

+ 4+ 8

1 1

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The Professional Body is more critical of the programme than the internal members of the panel and demands major conditions before they can accredit the programme.

OPTION 1Refuse the conditions and tell the Professional Body that you are not interested in their accreditation.

OPTION 2Make all of the changes requested - 8 0

-1 0

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The panel is not happy that your learning outcomes contain multiple uses of ‘know’.

OPTION 1Take advice on rewording the learning outcomes and revisit all of them, and check alignment with assessment tasks

OPTION 2Quickly replace 'know' with a variety of synonyms

+ 4 0

1 0

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Each unit in your course has three or four different methods of assessment. You are told this is too much.

OPTION 1Drop one or two methods of assessment from each unit

OPTION 2Redesign the assessment so that the learning outcomes are still covered with fewer pieces

- 4+ 2

0 1

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You need a strategy for supporting international students and those for whom English is not a first language.

OPTION 1Copy-and-paste a strategy from the web

OPTION 2Take advice from the international office and the languages department to create a strategy that meets learner needs

0+ 6

0 1

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The panel ask for more detail on your proposals for offering your course in blended mode.

OPTION 1Ask a learning technologist for advice

OPTION 2Consult the learning technologist who is a full member of the programme team

+ 6+ 4

0 1

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The external assessor does not think that your unit learning outcomes are written at the appropriate academic level.

OPTION 1In consultation with the team, revisit the learning outcomes for each unit

OPTION 2Quickly replace the verb on each outcome with one of a higher level

+ 4 0

1 0