Q-Review is expanding
The Q-Review service for digital recordings of lectures is expanding, with eight new rooms being equipped for the start of the new academic year and twenty-four more to follow during the year.
In the evaluation survey for the pilot service, 95% of students said it was useful for their studies, and 100% of lecturers who had used it said they would recommend it to others. Students said that:
“<This service> is invaluable to my current high grades”
“Recordings allow students the opportunity to go over vital material and compare <the recordings> with notes to ensure all relevant <topics> are covered”.
“The viewpoint of a tutor or lecturer is essentially what a university student pays for, if we were able to review the thoughts and words of our lecturers we would not only feel more comfortable
but more satisfied”.
“This was really useful during my revision period where I was able to make sure I had written down important points from the… lectures. I think it was one of the reasons why I obtained a first for that module”.
Q-Review offers staff the option to have their lectures recorded and distributed to their students with no additional work for the staff member. The room records automatically and the recordings are distributed to students via Blackboard or by email. You retain full control of your recordings and can edit or delete them as you wish.
It will record video, audio, and the presenters screen (e.g. PowerPoint, notations or webpages) and combine these into a user-friendly format. If you would prefer not to appear on video, it can also be set to record just audio or just audio plus screen.
Here is a sample image taken from a training session that one of the ELU recorded in the E-Learning Studio. (Click on image to enlarge).
The facility is now in the following rooms:
- The E-Learning Studio, Learning Institute, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End
- David Sizer LT, Mile End
- Draper’s LT, Mile End
- Mason’s LT, Mile End
- Math’s LT, Mile End
- G O Jones LT, Mile End
- Arts 1 LT, Mile End
- Arts 2 LT, Mile End
- Laws 2.10, Mile End
- Geography 1.26, Mile End
- Skeel LT, Mile End
- Room 209, Mile End
- Perrin LT, Whitechapel
- Milton LT, Whitechapel
- Morris LT, Charterhouse Square
- Willoughby LT, Charterhouse Square
- Clark Kennedy, Innovation Centre
If you would like to use it this coming year, please let us know so that Room Bookings can try to schedule your lectures in Q-Review ready rooms.
If you cannot gain access to an equipped room or you would like to record off-site or at home we can also give you a mobile version on a laptop or install it on yours. Angie Raymond, from the School of Law, talks about her use of this version, called Personal Capture, here: http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/reviews/angie-raymond/
If you, or your colleagues, would like us to prioritise the new installations into rooms that you make frequent use of – please let us know.
You can find out what students said here and what staff thought of the system here. Also see our series of interviews with staff who have used the system in our Case Studies series here.
You can find out more about the service and see some examples here: http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/services/q-review-lecture-capture/
The project team are happy to talk to any member of QM about this service in any context. If you are interested email elearning@qmul.ac.uk