To start this sixth newsletter "Study", discover the new exam modalities. You will also read about the mobilization of UNIL medical students. This is followed by the interview of the Director of the IT Centre who gives his point of view on the technological issues raised by the crisis and the one of the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences sharing her vision about the question of confinement. Also on the menu: tips for remote collaboration and a new workshop organized by the UNIL HUB. Finally, if your teachers request it, you will be asked to evaluate your courses and suggest improvements.
Updating of examination procedures
The Rectorate has decided to extend to first-year bachelor students the possibility of not counting a failure in examinations. Indeed, the latest announcements from the political authorities confirm that only distance examinations will be organised for the June session. The specific arrangements made by the Faculties to ensure the smooth running of the examinations during the June and September sessions will be announced by Tuesday 28 April. Find out the updated modalities.
Baptism of Fire for Medical Students
Some 340 UNIL medical students are currently working in health care facilities throughout the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The point with the conductor of this mobilization, Alexander Jucht, 5th year delegate. Discover the article.
"The university community has very quickly seized the new IT tools".
In a very short period of time thousands of people at UNIL have switched to home-working. In this context, how has the work of the UNIL IT Centre evolved? What are its current priorities? Interview with the director of this service, Adriano Barenco. Discover the interview.
Within the deaneries
Confinement as seen by Marie Santiago Delefosse, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP). Discover the interview.
Tips for working in groups at a distance
The Teaching Support Centre (Centre de soutien à l’enseignement - CSE) and the Guidance and Careers Service (Service d’orientation et carrières) offer you a new tutorial entitled Collaborating at a distance: what practical tools are available for working in a group at a distance?
Evaluate the lessons
Your teachers have worked hard to adapt their teaching to the current situation and the use of distance education technologies, sometimes with varying degrees of success. As of this week, they have the possibility to ask the Teaching Support Centre to send you an interim evaluation questionnaire in order to obtain your opinion on their course in its current form, your possible needs and suggestions for improvement.
If so, you will receive an e-mail from the Teaching Support Centre inviting you to fill in an online questionnaire anonymously. Help your teachers to help you in your learning by constructively raising your difficulties and suggesting solutions!
UNIL HUB launches UCreate2 workshops
Do you have an idea you want to launch? You want to discover its potential? Participate in UCreate2, a three-evening exploration workshop organized by the UNIL Entrepreneurship and Innovation HUB. All ideas are welcome, whether technological or not.
This programme is open to the entire UNIL community: students, researchers, professors and alumni. The next workshop will take place in May and registration is open until April 30, 2020 (free participation and limited places).