The online course 'Academic Advising: An introductory online short course' supports you in understanding your role as Academic Adviser and how this fits within the University's provision of advice and guidance for students. The course will take a minimum of 1.5 hours to complete. It is structured in three chapters with a series of activities to complete on and off-line at your own pace.
Chapter 1. Contact with your advisees
- What do you do as an Academic Adviser
- Examples of effective advising
- Scenario activity
Chapter 2. Procedures and regulations
- Working within the regulations - mitigating circumstances
- Providing references for your advisees
- Scenario activity
Chapter 3. Principles of effective advising
- Advising on academic progress
- Self-evaluation of practice
- Scenario activity
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Within the course you are invited to contribute your stories into a repository of effective interventions as an Academic Adviser, and will be able to browse the effective interventions of others. You are also able to assemble a collection of annotated guides to aspects of practice, saved within your own Google Drive area. For this, you need to be logged into Brookes GoogleMail, as well as Moodle.
The course is offered in Moodle to enable monitoring of completion, which will be checked annually at the end of Semester 2. Academic Advisers and those in similar roles should be enrolled already in this course.