It is expected that all students will travel to, or reside on, the DMU campus (or SU campus for those students who elect to study at SU for their final year) to engage with face-to-face learning sessions from the start of the academic year.
Engagement monitoring is supportive and seeks to ensure that student welfare is our priority. This means that the School may contact students about their levels of engagement, or if students show concerning patterns of engagement to establish the reasons for lack of face-to-face engagement and offer to help and/or encourage them to engage, even if they have met general requirements.
Both DMU and SU will use a range of data sources to monitor student engagement with their studies, which includes but is not limited to, attendance at scheduled face-to-face and virtual learning sessions and study groups, activity in teaching and learning platforms to determine resources viewed, submission of assessments and coursework, library data and engagement with personal tutor meetings.
Engagement will only be considered when it is capable of being monitored. If, for example, a scheduled learning session is cancelled by removal from the timetable, then this engagement data will not count against a student’s engagement record.
All notifications required by these regulations shall be sent in the first instance to the student's official University e-mail addresses (students will have an e-mail account for each institution).
The university where the student is based (SU or DMU) will contact students who have significant periods of non-engagement with their studies on a 7-day rolling basis to ensure their welfare and offer support. Where the level of engagement does not subsequently improve without explanation over a 21-day rolling period, both parties may, in exceptional circumstances, consider the withdrawal of the student from the programme. Such decisions will be referred by the Joint Academic Board to the to the Joint Management Board for final approval. Normally, a candidate with a decision of ‘Required to Withdraw’ shall not be readmitted to the same programme of study, but may, in exceptional circumstances, and at the discretion of the JMB, be offered an alternate academic programme at DMU only.