Learning and Teaching

Assessment

This document sets out the framework (assessment principles and plan for assessment) that underpins the University’s approach to supporting student success through assessment, regardless of the discipline or type of assessment.

Group Work

These guidelines are built around a set of general principles governing the design, delivery and assessment of group work. The guidelines apply to all modules, including those delivered via online / blended learning, involving group work as defined in Section 4 of the guidelines. 

Learning Platforms Data Retention and Access Control Policy

The purpose of this policy is to set out the duration for which data is retained on UCC learning platforms and the rules dictating who has access to this data.

Over-capacity of teaching rooms

This guidance proposes some approaches for staff in dealing with occasional and unexpected instances of teaching room over-capacity issues.

Reasonable Accommodations

This policy is intended to ensure that students with disabilities/learning differences/significant ongoing health conditions may access a holistic learning experience on an equal footing to all members of the UCC community. This policy provides a framework for the provision of Reasonable Accommodations for students with disabilities/ learning differences/significant ongoing health conditions who have registered with Disability Support in UCC.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a process that allows students to gain admission to a programme of study or to gain exemptions/credit from some parts of a programme, based on demonstrated learning achieved prior to admission. UCC recognises that knowledge and skills can be acquired from a range of learning experiences. The policy provides opportunities for access, transfer and progression to education and training at third level.

Recording teaching

This policy seeks to facilitate the practical and responsible recording of teaching sessions by clarifying the circumstances in which such recordings take place, the respective roles and responsibilities of those involved, and the implications of breaches of this policy.

UCC Learning Taxonomy

Update of UCC’s taxonomy of learning in line with QQI Statutory Quality Assurance Guidelines for Providers of Blended and Fully Online Programmes.

Online Assessment