The teaching team value the importance of student feedback. Students are asked to submit feedback on the Communication Unit they have been taught and their comments are noted below.
What were you hoping to gain from this Unit?
To complete the Unit and improve my analytical comments.
To learn how to communicate in a professional capacity.
An opportunity to communicate in teams.
To gain confidence.
To know how to analyze and interpret reports.
Develop presentation and minuting skills.
Improve my punctuation and enhance my timekeeping.
To learn things to help me at University.
To gain more knowledge into the art of professional communication.
Development of business communication skills.
Each outcome was great as they covered different areas and I enjoyed all of them.
I wanted to improve my written work.
I wanted to pass and brush up my skills from school.
A pass in Int 2 Comms in order to pass my SVQ 2 Beauty Therapy.
I wanted to become more confident to speak in front of an audience and understand how to evaluate things better.
To enhance my skills in writing, reading and listening.
To improve my verbal and written skills.
To find out whether my communication skills are proficient enough.
I was hoping to gain more experience talking in front of people as that is not my strongest point.
I had no expectations as such, other than doing my best and doing well.
A good sustainability project that might lead onto going to Rome or Poland!
To what extent did the Unit fulfil these expectations?
I have found that I did a lot better than I first suspected.
Surpassed my expectations due to the fact that prior to the class I expected a boring course, however instead I was met with an interesting and fun experience.
Very much so. The teacher explains things and puts lots of materials on D2L.
This was the most enjoyable unit I am taking on my HNC course, thank you.
Very much so and the feedback and understanding of the teacher was a big factor in this.
I thought it would mostly be English work but I see it is different than that.
I always look forward to coming to class.
I feel more skilled in delivering presentations now.
I liked that all the assessments were something to do with sports or exercise which made the assessments a bit more relevant than I thought they were going to be.
My spelling isn't great but I have got better by taking this unit.
At first I didn't think I would have a clue but have really surprised myself at what I can manage.
Totally. You not only get great support from the teacher but from pupils in the class too, it's great!
Greatly. I can now speak in front of a class and the teacher really helped me believe in my ability.
There were enough assessments and feedback to realise that my skills are actually quite good.
This was much better than I first thought on paper. Thank you!
100%.
What is the best aspect of the Unit?
The teacher (numerous times this was mentioned).
Writing an effective report.
The report was fun as it made my research skills better.
Feedback was positive and detailed.
The teacher is helpful, friendly and teaches very well.
The motivation from the lecturer really intrigues you and makes for a pleasant place to learn in.
Presentations, meetings and writing a formal report.
This was a fun class to come to.
Me passing all the outcomes!
Writing a report I was really interested in.
The amount of information and help given.
Lots of materials were handed out and this helped me as it helps me to cross-reference to give me a starting point.
The writing experience and learning how to create minutes.
Class discussions about real life cases of debt as a theme. This helped me understand all the subjects when we discussed them as a group.
The info that is put on D2L is really helpful.
I like the group discussions.
The meeting was excellent as I learned a new skill that I will use in working life afterwards.
I like that there isn't necessarily a right or wrong answer to most of the questions as long as you give detailed explanations.
I feel our teacher is one of only a few lecturers who do all they can to help you and puts lots of work and encouraging messages on D2L for you.
I like the flexibility of the assessments in the unit.
Oral presentation delivery on a sports related topic.
I liked hearing others give presentations and was allowed to ask questions and get involved with the subjects.
The atmosphere in the class was great.
Sport Matters is fun and different and you can debate current sporting issues.
Learning about arguments in sport through our presentations was good.
The sporting and communication knowledge of the teacher was impressive.
Presentations on Beauty Therapy related subjects were great. I gained confidence from watching the other girls too.
I learned how to use PowerPoint for the first time and found it to be really helpful and easy.
I enjoyed researching things and being out my comfort zone, e.g. presentations as I don't like being in front of crowds but did really well in the end.
I enjoyed making a presentation to do with Beauty and asking questions to other members of the class. I feel I learned a great deal from this, although it was very scary when the teacher told us we were starting with talks!
The help and guidance has been very helpful throughout the teaching of the unit.
Listening to presentations where I found out stuff I didn't know before.
The lecturer gives really good feedback and gives work back quickly. Whenever he is e mailed he always gives a prompt response so my expectations have definitely been fulfilled.
That I could study energy in my project.
I liked the way the class felt relaxed and comfortable. If I was unsure I wouldn't have a problem asking my teacher.
The research proposal (sustainability). The connection with the rerport and talk is inspired!
I loved the way it was taught and it wasn't at all stressful.
It was taken very seriously but there is no doubt that learning can be fun and in our science class we really worked well together.
Class dicsussions about the wide range of subjects covered was really good. Everybody got a chance to have their say which I liked a lot.
Is there anything about the Unit you would like to see changed?
More teaching materials.
A break in the class.
Handouts could have been printed out rather than put on D2L.
Not all the PCs in MB 1.23 were working which meant that some people had to go and work in the Learning Centre.
I think the presentations should have been delivered in two small groups rather than the whole class.
I'd like more groupwork and the laptops in 126 aren't very good.
Please keep the same lecturer for the Science group next year.
Don't change anything. It was really well done.
