FAQs – Final Year BSc and Year 3 MChem at UoL
What should I be doing, now that all teaching has been moved online?
You will be aware of the importance to your degree programme of the successful completion of your Semester 2 project (CHEM356 or CHEM366). This means that completing your report and preparing your presentation should be high priorities at this time. Make sure that you also complete any coursework for other modules. Don't forget to check your UoL email account regularly.
Where can I read the University's current COVID-19 advice and guidance to students?
Visit news.liverpool.ac.uk/coronavirus-advice-and-guidance/students which includes further details on assessments. There is also a detailed FAQs for the Safety Net approach for assessments.
How will it be determined whether I have passed a module that normally has a May exam?
- There should be information in VITAL for each of your CHEM modules. There should also be communication in due course about LIFE modules.
- It has been decided for many CHEM modules that the coursework components have given you, or will give you, the opportunity to demonstrate that you have both engaged with the module and achieved its learning outcomes. In these cases there will be no additional assessment to replace the formal examination in May: to pass the module you are expected to have attempted the majority of the assessments that have been set.
- For some CHEM modules (e.g. CHEM342 and CHEM452) an additional activity is being set so as to give you the opportunity to demonstrate that you have both engaged with the module and achieved its learning outcomes. It replaces the formal examination. The relevant dates are yet to be confirmed, but it is possible that you will be expected to complete the additional activity during the May examination period (11th-29th May), i.e. after you have completed your project. To pass such a module you are expected to have attempted this new activity. You should contact the Chemistry Student Support Office chemso@liverpool.ac.uk if you think that you will have difficulty completing an online activity in May.
- Given the current exceptional circumstances, the Department aims to be very flexible when it comes to coursework deadlines: requests for extensions will be treated sympathetically. Typically the first person to contact about such an extension is the relevant module coordinator but it could be useful also to send a copy of your email(s) to the Chemistry Student Support Office chemso@liverpool.ac.uk and/or your Academic Advisor and/or your Year Coordinator.
- We know that it is unfortunately likely that some students and staff will fall ill over the coming period and also that some of you will be trying to study whilst dealing with difficult family circumstances. The Department aims to work hard to support you and will deal with such circumstances, and others, flexibly and sensitively: you should contact the Chemistry Student Support Office chemso@liverpool.ac.uk for advice and guidance.
Where can I read the opinion of the National Union of Students (NUS)?
Visit: www.nus.org.uk/en/news/press-releases/nus-calls-for-non-essential-exams-to-be-cancelled-/
FAQs – Final Year BSc
How will my class of degree be determined?
Special arrangements are being put in place to classify your degree. As a Department, we have actively tried to find ways to minimise the setting of additional pieces of work for our students to complete, not least because we are aware that there are already multiple deadlines that students might find it difficult to meet. As well as further details on assessments there is a detailed FAQs for the Safety Net approach for assessments.
FAQs – Year 3 MChem at UoL
How will it be determined whether I can progress into Year 4?
Special arrangements are being put in place to decide progression into Year 4. As a Department, we have actively tried to find ways to minimise the setting of additional pieces of work for our students to complete, not least because we are aware that there are already multiple deadlines that students might find it difficult to meet. As well as further details on assessments there is a detailed FAQs for the Safety Net approach for assessments.
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