Feedback to students is provided when work is demonstrated to staff during the sessions or via email after the coursework has been assessed. An on-line system is used for students to check their own progress. Students can access their own performance record featuring marks and comments. The course is currently nearing the end of its second year. 3.1 Course Content and Delivery Figure 1 Figure 1 shows a screenshot of a typical page from the Visual Basic module.
Sessions usually feature taught material and exercises.
The taught material tends to be delivered early to allow the more capable students to complete more advanced optional exercises later in the session. The exercises are such that most students can complete them within the two hour session. We have occasionally run additional workshops to help students with the more demanding work. These can be printed out and taken away to act as an aide memoire . They are also used by some students to help overcome the problems of having to keep switching between windows on the screen.