**University of Glasgow**

**Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences**

**Annual Course Monitoring Report for Session 2003-04**

*Please complete a report for each course.*

(However, you may group together courses that are at the same level in a
given discipline where they are delivered by the same teaching team to
largely the same cohort. The report should identify where comments
relate to a specific course but must comment separately on student
results.)

**Course Title(s) and Code(s):**\
(please list all courses covered by this report)

**Level**: ............... **Credit Rating**:

**Department(s) responsible for the Course**:

**Name of Course Co-ordinator**:

**\
Deadlines for Submission**

Completed reports should be submitted no later than **31 October 2004**.

Copies of completed reports should be sent to:

-   Head of Department (for discussion at departmental level)

-   Faculty Quality Assurance Officer (for use in the compilation of a
    faculty-wide report to Education Committee and Senate)

-   Existing and, if appropriate, incoming External Examiner(s) (to
    provide a means of reporting the Department's consideration of their
    comments and any actions that have been taken in response)

**Please sign below to confirm that the report is accurate and has been
considered by a departmental meeting.**

Signature of Course Co-ordinator:

Signature of Head of Department:

Date:

**Part 1: Changes introduced during session 2003-04**

**A.** What changes were proposed in the previous session's ACMR and
were they implemented in full or in part?

**B.** Were any other changes introduced during session 2003-04? For
what reasons?

**C.** To what degree does the course team regard the changes introduced
to have been successful in enhancing the course and the student
experience?

**Part 2: Feedback on the course during session 2003-04**

*Please include positive comments as well as negative.*

**A. Feedback from Teaching staff (including part-time and hourly paid
staff such as GTAs)**

Methods used to obtain feedback from staff and groups of staff involved.

Summary of feedback:

Action taken (or proposed) in response

How were responses communicated back to the staff who provided the
comments?

**B. Feedback from students:**

Summary of methods used to obtain feedback including comment on which
methods were most effective.

Summary of feedback received on:

i\) course content

ii\) course delivery

iii\) staff contact and support

iv\) learning facilities (accommodation, library, computing access, web
materials)

v\) student documentation

vi\) other matters

Action taken (or proposed) in response

How were responses communicated back to the students who provided the
comments?

**C. Comments from External Examiners:**

Please note that this section is mainly applicable to Honours courses
that tend to be the focus of External Examiners comments but may be used
in relation to non-Honours courses if specific comment has been made.

Please indicate which external examiner(s) reported on this/these
courses.

Summary of comments

Action taken (or proposed) in response

How were responses communicated back to the external examiners?

## D. Feedback on specific issues

Please explain any problems you encountered, making it clear to which
rooms/facilities these refer.

Accommodation:

Equipment:

Library:

Other:

**Part 3: Quality Enhancement**

This section seeks to confirm that the enhancement of quality of
teaching provision is given significant priority, in accordance with the
current approach to quality assurance adopted by the University.
Responses will make an important contribution to the Departmental Review
of Programmes of Teaching Learning and Assessment (DPTLA) and external
Institutional Review.

The questions below each heading do not require to be answered
individually but are intended to trigger relevant consideration of
aspects of the course(s).

**NB. Comments on aspects of the course that are working well and
activities that might be disseminated as good practice are as valuable
as those relating to aspects where there is potential for enhancement.**

###  A. Learning and Teaching Activities and Key Learning and Teaching Developments

What aspects of course delivery and students' actual engagement in
learning could be enhanced? How might these enhancements be achieved?
What constraints stand in the way? How might constraints be minimised or
avoided?

### B. Course Content

What steps would staff take to adjust the content (or aims) and balance
of the syllabus with a view to enhancing, for example:

-   *the development of students' intellectual abilities?*

-   *preparation for progression in the curriculum?*

-   *alignment with the relevant subject benchmark statements and
    programme specifications?*

-   *the development of a 'research-led' approach?*

*What constraints stand in the way? How might constraints be minimised
or avoided?*

## C. Guidance and Support

What improvements could the department make to the delivery and
effectiveness of the guidance and support that it offers, e.g. course
handbooks, taking proper account of the diversity of students'
circumstances, needs, abilities, performance and motivation? Do staff
think that the Faculty/University should do more? What constraints stand
in the way? How might constraints be minimised or avoided?

## D. Staff Development in relation to Teaching

What steps do staff believe should be taken at Departmental, Faculty and
University level to enhance the effectiveness of staff as teachers? What
constraints stand in the way? How might constraints be minimised or
avoided?

## E. Learning Resources and Environment 

What issues relating to the learning resources and environment (both in
terms of staffing and infrastructure) would staff prioritise for
attention?

## F. Employability

What should be done to promote students' acquisition of key skills
through their engagement with the course(s)? Could particular employers
have a greater role in this process? Have you or your Department taken
any particular initiatives in this area?

**Part 4: Student results for session 2003-04**

Results statistics for each course will be published on the web at
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Planning/Local/sspis/hm.html> (June
diet results are normally available from August with the September diet
being added in November).

**A. Key Statistics**

*To assist those reading this report could you please provide the key
statistics listed below. You are welcome to give the information in the
form of a copy from your own records (if available) or of a printout of
the Planning Office statistics if those are ready in time.*

If this form covers several courses, please comment on the results [for
each course]{.underline} separately.

  ---------------------------------------- --------------- --------------
                                           **Session       **Session
                                           2002-03\        2003-04**
                                           **(from         
                                           previous acmr)  

  Number of A grades[^1]                                   

  Number of B grades                                       

  Number of C grades                                       

  Number of D grades                                       

  Number of E grades                                       

  Number of F&G grades                                     

  Other No Credits\                                        
  (*you may wish to provide an indication                  
  of the cause of the no credits i.e.                      
  medical reasons, withdrawal, etc.*)                      
  ---------------------------------------- --------------- --------------

**B. Grade Distribution/Profile**

Please comment on the grade distribution/profile described above
indicating whether or not you are satisfied with the results.

You may also wish to mention any significant changes in grade profiles
from previous years and possible reasons for the change (e.g were
results typically poorer for identifiable components of the syllabus or
for particular methods of assessment?), proposals to improve the
profile, issues associated with entrance qualifications, gender
(performance of male v female students), background, etc. Particular
comment would be welcomed on the success or otherwise of the first year
of any new courses and whether the results fulfilled expectations.

**Part 5: Proposed changes**

New course approval procedures introduced in 2001 require **all** course
changes to be submitted through the new Central Course Information
Management System (CCIMS). **The UGS Office will complete all on‑line
CCIMS forms using information supplied by course proposers; please
contact the UGS Office as detailed below.**

There are three categories of change:

1\. **Changes which do not require Faculty approval.** These changes can
be implemented immediately but should be recorded through CCIMS to
ensure that all information in the course database is correct. Such
changes comprise: intended student numbers; whether the course appears
in the Undergraduate Catalogue; Course Co-ordinator; and Course Texts.
Please notify the UGS Office of any such changes as soon as possible.

2\. **Minor changes for introduction in the coming session.** Please
submit to the UGS Office **by the first week in September** any
**minor** changes which you hope to introduce in the coming session. The
UGS Office will liaise with you to submit the proposal via CCIMS. These
proposals will be referred to the Convenor of the Science Faculties
Board of Studies for consideration and approval, then reported to the
Faculties of Science Board of Studies.

3\. **All other proposals for introduction in October 2005.** Please
contact the UGS Office **by the first week in October** if you intend to
submit proposals for any other changes to existing courses or proposals
for new courses. The UGS Office will liaise with you to submit the
proposal via CCIMS. Minor changes will be referred to the Convenor of
the Science Faculties Board of Studies for consideration and approval.
Major changes and proposals for new courses will be scrutinised by the
Faculties of Science Board of Studies.

Please summarise below all changes you will propose to the course(s)
covered by this Report (bullet points will suffice):

[^1]: Where the course(s) in question do not yet fit with the A-G scale,
    these categories may be changed as required, e.g. no. of passes, no.
    of distinctions. However, this should only apply to certain
    postgraduate courses.