External Review of a Unit
This applies to people with the capability of unit review - Academics with Unit Reviewer status and people with Librarian role.
The College Academic Committee prepares the unit for approval. One of the key steps for new units and those undergoing a major revision is the External Review. The CAC allocates an external reviewer and sends its to them.
Units in this state will appear on the Units Dashboard in the Units in preparation section.
Performing an External Review
You are able to see a listing of all units in which you have been allocated as a reviewer by selecting My External Reviews from the menu.
Clicking on the title of the unit will show its detail along with a button that begins the external process form. From here you can also click on Compare to previous to see the differences between the two versions.
Click Do External Review of unit to display the external review form. This form aligns with the Unit Policy. Clicking on Print view will open the Unit information in a new window.
Once the review process has been done and the information entered into the form, click Save review. You are returned to the unit. You can click on Do External Review of unit to edit or add to the review.
Once a review form has been saved an additional button presented. Click on External review complete in order to finish the review step and return the unit to the College Academic Committee.
The unit will no longer appear under My External Reviews.
The unit returns to ‘In preparation’ on the dashboard.
Viewing the unit displays an additional button to Show external review.
The Approvals section of the Unit will display the reviewer and date
Preparing a library impact statement
Another key step is the check that the library resources are sufficient. This is performed by the library staff of the unit’s college.
You are able to see a listing of all units waiting for a library impact statement by selecting Library Reviews from the menu.
Click on the title of the unit to show its detail and then click Edit unit. Scrolling down, there is Library section.
If the current library resources required to support the unit are already sufficient, the checkbox can be ticked. If additional action is to be taken, that can be noted. Otherwise, enter the details of the actions that the library intends to take. Click Update unit to save the impact statement information.
Once this information has been saved, a new button appears. Clicking Impact statement prepared indicates that the impact statement is complete and the unit is ready for the step of preparation.
The unit will no longer appear under Library Reviews.
The unit returns to ‘In preparation’ on the dashboard.
The Approvals section of the Unit will display the librarian and date
