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  1. Jan 2025
    1. How would students do this? This also feels like a bit of a trick question, because technically you can copy and paste sections of previous work, so long as you use these as quotations and reference them correctly. We should also advise why using yourself as a citation is a bad idea (i.e. that part of what you're assessed on is your knowledge of the scholarship on a topic - it'd makes more sense to devote that space in your essay to engaging with the ideas of others than points you may have made in previous assignments)

    2. Do we need to clarify here that having a fellow student read through your essay to check your spelling or that your ideas make sense is allowed? I.e. the collusion is only if that fellow student then copies your work

    3. It's not really clear to me what this means in this context - can we provide examples of the "advantages" that you might give yourself? I imagine some students might think of using some plagiarism tools/AI etc. as merely levelling the playing field or just enabling you to keep up if you're struggling. It's a little bit like the distinction between "privilege" in the sense of white people not having to experience racist microagressions and "privilege" in the sense of having extreme wealth and high-profile connections.

  2. Sep 2024
    1. On the Presentation trio, there's a slight whisker of the purple circle visible Also, the hover state seems to be glitching a bit when I move my mouse over the circles

    2. Make the buttons on "The process" slide more consistent. Also is the title on this slide the right font style? I think should be Open Sans Semibold?

    3. On the activity, can we do something other than change the outline on the buttons from yellow to purple? e.g. invert colours? And is the red/orange/green box outline for the answers accessible for those with colour blindness?

    4. On "Audience and purpose", the instructions say to select your scenario and click submit, but when you click the scenario, it just takes you there anyway (no need to click submit!). It would be good if a tick animation could appear in the box need to the selected scenario, and if that tick could stay there when users return to the page (i.e. if they try another scenario, they can see which one they've done already)

    5. On Key stages timeline, I'm not sure I like the highlighted yellow on the text - should we follow the button format you suggested in the style guide meeting?

  3. Aug 2024
    1. Interactive guides

      Do check about the placement of the UoM logo - I think the distance between the top of the page and the start of the logo should be a bit wider?

    2. Image & Icon credits Credits Hand writing image credit - Photo by Ylanite Koppens Icons recycled icon by Icons8 Writing strategies Photo by Mikhail Nilov Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram

      I thought the library Twitter had been deactivated? If not, then shouldn't this be the new "X" logo?

    3. Academic Phrasebank The Academic Phrasebank provides lists of example phrases you can use and adapt for use in your own writing. https://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/

      do we need to have the URL included here? Just wondering if it's annoying for screen readers?

    4. Library Workshops and Drop-ins Here you will find a a list of library workshops you can attend

      The link works fine. Again, should this be centred?

    5. Group Work This resource will introduce you to some tools and techniques to get your group working collaboratively from the start of your projects and to stay on task throughout it.

      The image isn't showing for me. Should this text be in the centre as well?