Teaching

Teaching & Learning Office

Key TLO contacts

• Maths TLO Support Who's Who (Room 2.209)

  • *New* SNS Teaching & Student Support Resources 

• General: mathematics@manchester.ac.uk

• Assessment: maths.assessment@manchester.ac.uk

  • Guidance on approved calculators

• Timetabling & unit webpages: maths.timetable@manchester.ac.uk 

• Teaching Leads

  • Applied: Jitesh Gajjar

  • Probab & Stat: Kees Van Schaik

  • Pure: Omar Leon Sanchez 

• UG/PGT Admissions: ug-maths@manchester.ac.uk; pgt-maths@manchester.ac.uk 

• UG/PGT Student Support: sons.wellbeing@manchester.ac.uk
  0161 529 4517;  [obsolete] maths.welfare@manchester.ac.uk

• SNS Student Support Hub: sons.hub@manchester.ac.uk

  • UoM Resources: Student Support | Learning Essentials

    •  Careers [general]  |  Job Assessments Tests

    • Maths Careers Events Schedule

    • Maths Careers on Blackboard

    • Summer Internships: Maths EPSRC & DKO  |  UoM LtR

  • Complaints: FSEstudentenquiries@manchester.ac.uk

• UG Student Projects (preparing for an Oral Assessment/Viva)

  • Guidelines and expectations for students and supervisors  

• PhD Student Support: FSE.doctoralacademy.support@manchester.ac.uk
  [obsolete] Maths-PGR-Support@manchester.ac.uk

  • Admissions Guidelines:
    NaturalSciences-PGR-Admissions@manchester.ac.uk,
    CC: FSE.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk

    • *New* SNS Diversity PhD Scholarship

  • Maths PGR Resources

    • Maths thesis LaTeX style

  • PGR Life - UoM Travel and Career Support

  • MSI-  Manchester Modelling in Science & Industry

• Student IT: helpmegetonline@manchester.ac.uk,  0161 306 6199

  • Setting up Duo (2-factor identification) for students

• E-learning contact: Ryan.McGeown@manchester.ac.uk

  • • https://tinyurl.com/FSEOnlineSupport

    • Podcasting Settings: www.mypodcasts.manchester.ac.uk 

      • Technical support: mediatechnologies@manchester.ac.uk 

    • Teaching IT Emergency: 0161 30 65544 (press option 6)

• Report contract cheating services: cheating.spam@manchester.ac.uk 

Admin Resources

• Personal Timetable [more reliable], Personal Timetable 2 & Group Timetables [VPN only; off-campus alternative]

• • Student Timetable Preview (requires student ID; VPN-only) 

  • Personal Teaching Restrictions Form in Collaborative Timetabling

  • More Timetabling info and integration with personal calendars

  • Setting Blackboard Start Date for a course unit availability 

• • Teaching Assistant (GTA) Support Allocation

    • Requesting Blackboard access: sonstimetables.student@manchester.ac.uk   

• TLO Sharepoint (exam scripts, DASS files, etc.) 

  • *New* Assessment Marksheet Guidelines 

• Campus Solutions [alternative link] (UG/PGT students)

  • *New* Relative Ranking Stats (2023/24)

  • *New* PowerBI - Class mailing lists

1. Go to Advisees -> "View data for other students" or search for "Student Services Centre".
2. Enter student name / ID and then select "Grades" from the drop-down list on the left.

• Academic Advising Resources | Attendance Sheets (UG/PGT)

  • *New* (optional) Academic Advising Referral Form

• eProg (PGR students)

Teaching Resources

• *New* SNS Scholarship Activity Fund (up to £1k) 

• Staff Virtual Common Room on Blackboard

• Printing on campus: mobileprint.manchester.ac.uk

• Booking rooms on campus: resourcebooker.manchester.ac.uk 

• *New* Student Engagement Monitoring [Guidelines & help]

• E-learning Resources & other tips

  • Polling systems with LaTeX support: Pingo, Mentimeter

  • Piazza Discussion Board (introduction; setup guide) 

  • HELM - Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics

• Maths Blackboard resources

  • *new* Reusing video podcasts in Blackboard | Maths How-to

  • Setting up Blackboard Quizzes  |  Examples of Online Assessments

  • MathJax LaTeX (please always check the student preview)

  • batch-uploading of quiz questions 

  • Other Blackboard Widgets

• STACK-based assessment [help and examples | UoM STACK forum]

• • Setup instructions | Departmental guidelines

  • Recordings of STACK Workshops & Tutorials (TALMO UK) 

  • Troubleshooting link for Students (for Blackboard)

• Gradescope-based assessment

  • Overview | Setup instructions

  • Maths-specific demo-session (video starts at ca. 30:00)

• Checking website accessibility from China

  • See also Zoom Data Routing setup for overseas students

• IBM Open Data Science -a free teaching resource

• UoM Lifelong Learning (self-paced Blackboard courses)