Here you will find explanations on: Educational activities, La Meva UdG, designing and planning subjects, ECTS, Moodle, Assessments, grades and exam records, Academic calendar and timetables.
Educational activities
Educational activities consist of all actions, tasks and work that involve the dissemination of knowledge and support for students acquiring skills through educational processes. The main educational activities are as follows: - Designing and planning of subjects - Face-to-face teaching in classrooms and laboratories: theory classes, practicals and seminars. - Individual and group tutorials, orientation and assistance for students. - Tutoring, monitoring and assessing external practicals (in institutions and companies). - Preparing teaching materials and guides. - Preparing and holding exams and assessments (continuous and final). - Grades and exam records - Participation in the preparation of subject areas/materials - Participation in educational innovation. - Supervising, monitoring and assessing work - Supervising bachelor's or master’s theses - Supervising doctoral theses - Participation in continuous-education activities. - Participation in the academic coordination of the teaching. - Management and participation in joint international exchange and mobility programmes (Erasmus, Seneca etc.).
La meva UdG
All UdG teaching staff have a user account (user code and password) which constitutes your digital identity and enables you to access the La meva UdG Intranet and the University's other online services. 11 La meva UdG is the University of Girona’s Intranet. From La meva UdG you will be able to access your subjects’ Moodles, find information about your degree and your teaching centre, carry out online procedures, find out the latest news that affects you and receive electronic warnings and notifications. To access the Intranet from the UdG website you only need to follow these two simple steps:
Click on "La meva UDG" in the upper menu of any of UdG webpage.
Enter your user code and your digital identity password in the identification screen.
As you enter La meva UdG you will find news on the left and direct links to your subjects, your centre, the Library etc., on the right. You can personalise this page as you like.
You will find the following menus above:
Home (the house icon): for going to the La meva UdG home page or to the pages for your Faculty, centres or studies.
Teaching: for going to the page for your subjects and the study or studies you teach, as well as in your courses (if you are doing any course taught at the UdG, ICE or teaching-innovation group).
Research: for go to the documents on management, research, Ethics Committee, biosecurity, etc.
Staff: Here you will be able to consult important information for teaching and research staff, enter in La + Meva where you will find work data, data on education, professional career, remunerations and particular-area management.
Serveis: Here you will find the information the different University services offer members of the university community.
Govern: From the government menu you will be able to take part in the governing of the University by accessing the electronic ballot boxes and the information that the different government organs provide for the university community.
Shortcuts: The Shortcuts menu gives you direct access to search-engine apps, password-changing, your email (if you use an account provided by the UdG), the work groups you take part in and the technical-, computer- and communication-support portal, and the Occupational Health Office's support portal.
Designing and planning subjects
All subjects taught in the Faculty of Education and Psychology must have to be planned and formally designed. You can find a resource here that can help you when planning your subject. All subjects have to have their design completed before enrolment process for new students starts. The Faculty always provides advance information on the completion date for subjects (normally during the first week of July).
To finishing designing your subjects, enter via the la Meva UdG, using the teaching>subjects tab (or clicking directly on the subjects drawer), after which your teaching plan’s subjects will appear. If you click on the + sign for each subject on the left, the drop-down menus will open with the planning, teaching, evaluation and exam record drawers, which you can then edit.
Planning provides for a subject’s general data (descriptor, credits, vehicular language, curriculum and teaching staff teaching it), skills, contents and activities (and their links), assessments and grading (assessment activities, assessment criteria, whether or not activities are recoverable, the percentage on the overall grade, which the one-off assessment consists of, the grading criteria, the minimum requirements for passing and the specific criteria for “not presented” grade), tutorials and communication with students, observations and recommendations and basic bibliography. There are two further tabs, for monitoring and amending the design that were incorporated during the pandemic but which no longer need to be filled in at the Faculty of Education and Psychology.
As a member of the teaching staff you may be included at any time during which the subject has already been designed and completed, in which case you will have to adapt your teaching to the established plan; or you may be included for a period during which you will be able to make a change with regard, for example, to activities and assessments, updating bibliographies, contents etc. (there are aspects of the subjects that cannot be changed, such as descriptors and skills). If you teach a new optional subject that has never been designed before, it will have to be designed from scratch. Designing and planning any subject will always have to take account of the regulations, guidelines and agreements for the studies where it is taught. In any case, if you have any queries you can contact the coordinating committee for bachelor's or master’s degree where you do your teaching.
ECTS
All subjects have a European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) quantity assigned. The ECTS credits system is based on the students’ work load necessary for achieving a training programme’s goals (learning and skills results). Such student dedication consists of the time invested in attending face-to-face classes, personal study, work, preparation and assessment activities etc. An ECTS corresponds to 25 hours of work from students, of which around a third is dedicated to face-to-face classes. When subjects are designed, the credits assigned to each subject are specified and teaching staff are required to describe the activities that will be carried out, how many hours students will have to dedicate themselves to and whether they will be with or without a teacher.
Moodle
Moodle is the platform we use for managing teaching at the UdG and as a member of the teaching staff you will use it for interacting with students, offering educational materials, resources, creating student groups, designing tasks, giving feedback, publishing notes, for student lists, for publication and completing exam records etc. To enter a subject from your teaching plan in Moodle all you need to is click directly above on the subject, once you have entered La Meva UdG. Moodle has very extensive possibilities, here you can find more than 5o tutorial videos for using it that are very illustrative and educational on how to do various actions through this platform.
Assessments, grades and exam records
As a member of the academic staff you are a responsible for assessing and grading of the educational activity of the students taking your subjects. The assessment and grading system for the learning process for bachelor’s- and master's-degree students at the Faculty of Education and Psychology is governed by the UdG's general assessment regulations, which are themselves supplemented by the general assessment criteria and models for subjects in the Faculty’s bachelor’s- and master’s-degree studies.
Some very important aspects relating to assessments and which are clearly specified in the regulations have to do with:
- Continuous assessment: the Faculty’s assessment system is continuous, that is an ongoing, comprehensive assessment throughout the process of education-learning using significant evidence on the students’ development and progress in attaining the skills set out in the subject’s design.
- This continuous-assessment process must include more than one assessment activityand of different types, none of which it can represent more of 60% of the final grade.
- One-off assessment: this is an alternative assessment established in subject's design to the one which, for exceptional reasons, some students, who are unable to follow the continuous assessment, can resort to provided they have requested it within the established deadlines.
Other important aspects in the assessment regulations have to do with specifying all the assessments activities in the design, the grades’ scaling, A with honours, penalisation for fraud or plagiarism, communication of the grades, recoverable activities, description of the one-off assessment's method and its recovery etc.
Once students have been assessed, their final grades have to be entered in their subject exam records within the deadlines set out in the academic calendar.
Academic calendar and timetables
The Faculty of Education and Psychology’s academic calendar establishes the start and end of first- and second-semester classes, the start of bachelor's- and master’s-degree classes, reception sessions, non-teaching days, holidays, assessment days, other activity days and the closing date of the exam records of the first and second semester. You can consult the academic calendar, class timetables and the exam calendar for each bachelor's and master’s degree here.