HDip in Computer Science Student Survey 2022

1. HDIP IN
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
Year 1 Student Survey 2022
38 responses same as last year
(response rate 79%) (up 3% due to remaining number of students)

2. VIDEO
SECTION 1

3. Video
Summary
◦ 66% Later
◦ 24% Live & Later
◦ Only 8% prefer live only
◦ 3% don’t watch video
◦ (=)

4. Watch Again
◦ 69% always or regularly
(=)
◦ 29% rarely watch again
◦ 1 person never

5. Playback Speed
◦ 3/5 speed it up (↓ from 4/5)
◦ 2/5 play it at normal speed
◦ 1 person slows it down

6. Playback Speed
◦ 1 person half speed
◦ Most playing at normal, *1.25
and *1.5

7. CC
◦ 9 students (↑2)

8. Watch on
◦ 1/3 use a second monitor
◦ 3 on phone
◦ 2 on tablet

9. Lecturer in
Video
◦ ¾ Yes or occasionally
◦ Everyone else no
preference

10. Video
Recording
Preferences
◦ 66% Mixture (↓8%)
◦ 21% pre-record (↑2%)
◦ 13% Live (↑5%)

11. Long Omnibus
V
Short Card
Videos
◦ ¾ making use of omnibus
long videos
◦ Omnibus only = 16%
◦ 1/5 Short ONLY
◦ Short Never 16%
◦ Everyone appears to be
aware of both

12. Quality
Expectations
◦ 97% equals or higher
(=)
◦ below expectations
(1 person)

13. TIME
MANAGEMENT
SECTION 2

14. Time Spent
hours per week
◦ 10 hours or less 18% (=)
◦ Another 26% say 15 or less
◦ 11% 16 hours
◦ So 54% take <=
suggested 16 hours
◦ Another 32% <=20
◦ Another 5 people <= 30
◦ Average 16 hours

15. Time Spent
hours per week
◦ 10 hours or less 20%
(↑ 2%)
◦ Another 8% say 15 or less
◦ 11% 16 hours
◦ So 44% take <= suggested
16 hours
◦ Another 30% <=20
◦ Another 2 people <=22
◦ Another 2 people <= 25
◦ Another person 30
◦ Average 16 hours
Tutors Time – * Data including all students who started *
Programming
Labs & assignment are taking an average of 1 hour = 2 hours
lectures = 1.75 *2 = 3.5 hours
Web
Labs & assignment are taking an average of 1.5 hour
lectures = 1 hour
8 hours delivery
=> 8 addional study hours study
§

16. Calendar
Change
Perceptions
◦ 74% positive or very
positive
◦ 1 student negatively
impacted

17. Combined
Assignment
(web & prog)
Perceptions
◦ 84% very or positive
◦ 1 student negatively
impacted

18. ZOOM
SECTION 3

19. Zoom Session
Usefulness
with Q&A on
Assignments
◦ 87% bneficial /very
beneficial

20. Zoom
Hangbacks
Usefulness
◦ 1/3 of class found them
bneficial /very beneficial
◦ Worth continuing???

21. More Zoom
Q&A
Sessions?
◦ 55% (Up 10%) currently
have the right mix
◦ 32% more Zoom Q&As
◦ 13% no preference

22. Zoom for
LIVE classes
◦ NO, 63% continue as we are
◦ 24% no preference
◦ 13% want switch to Zoom

23. ADDITIONAL
AIDS
(NEW)
SECTION 4

24. Socrative
◦ 79% - all or most
◦ 16% some
◦ 2 students none

25. Tutors Themes
◦ 61% default
◦ 34% dark
◦ 1 black
◦ 1 dyslexia

26. Slack Huddles
◦ 87% have NOT used huddles
◦ Only 5 students have actuall
used this feature
◦ TRY IT OUT!

27. COMMUNITY
SECTION 5

28. Study Group /
Chat Group
◦ ¾ YES
◦ ¼ NO
◦ => if you
answered NO
use this
workshop to
change this

29. Study Group /
Chat Group
Size
◦ Most popular size is 4
◦ then 5 and 6
◦ A group size of 1 is not a group
◦ Only 13 responses
◦ Reconfigure the question!

30. Peer Help on
Slack
◦YES 71%
◦NO 29%
◦We need to
address this
today!!

31. Peer Help on
Zoom
◦YES 13%
◦No 87%
◦We need to
address this
today!!

32. Private Zoom
Calls
◦YES 1/5
◦NO 4/5
◦We need to
address this
today!!

33. Used
TutorsLIVE?
◦YES 3/4
◦NO ¼
◦Try it out

34. Used
TutorsTIME?
◦YES 55%
(down 5%)
◦NO 45%
(up 5%)

35. Feedback
Preference
◦ 58% Video Feedback
◦ 37% Written Feedback
◦ 1 student numeric
◦ 1 student audio

36. SUGGESTIONS
SECTION 6

37. KEEP / CONTINUE
DOING
1
◦ 1

38. Keep/ Continue
Doing
◦ Delivery & flexibility
◦ Speed of delivery
◦ Very responsive to DM's on slack
◦ Generosity of time and support given by lecturers to support students
◦ “I can never watch lectures live with work, but I can watch them later on x2 speed
and catch up efficiently”
◦ “insightful and engaging”
◦ Flexibility – Live or OnDemand
◦ Omnibus live sessions with slack interaction
◦ Online engagement
◦ Help
◦ Live Q&A for the assignments
◦ Help Availability
Quotes

39. Keep/ Continue
Doing
◦ Other
◦ “Perfect for me”
◦ Keep doing the Same / What you are doing.
◦ Quality of Education
◦ Cool lecturers
◦ “I can see the amount of time and energy put into the material”
◦ Tutors
◦ Structure
◦ Layout
◦ “very intuitive”
◦ Labs
◦ “pacing with less labs or one targeted lab per module better”
◦ Steps
◦ Challenges in the earlier labs (missing from later ones)
◦ Detailed instructions
Quotes

40. Keep/ Continue
Doing
◦ Zoom
◦ Q&A sessions pre assignment
◦ Q&A sessions for assignment
◦ Hang Back sessions
◦ Slack
◦ Accessibility of lecturers and students
◦ Quizzes
◦ Polls
◦ Practical assignments
◦ Tiered approach to assignment grading taken in WeatherTop
◦ (facilitates both stronger and weaker students)
◦ i.e. spec shows whats needed for each grade
Quotes

41. Keep/ Continue
Doing
◦ Videos
◦ Video formats
◦ Chapterised
◦ Videos broken down into sections, really helps when revisiting topics
◦ Youtube ability to speed up & replay.
◦ Lectures split into shorter videos on each card
◦ Live
◦ “targeted videos very useful”
◦ Bonus Videos
◦ “Extra videos based on slack frequently asked questions”
◦ Lab Videos
◦ Omnibus
◦ Feedback
◦ Detailed
◦ Thoroughness
◦ “Really encouraging”
◦ Audio/video feedback on assignments
Quotes

42. STOP DOING
1
◦ 1

43. Stop Doing
◦ General
◦ N/A
◦ Challenges
◦ Need more examples on how to complete challenges
◦ Assignments
◦ Staggered release of assignment specification
◦ Not providing Solutions
◦ Not Recording Q&As (we did and made them available)
◦ Overlapping or close together
◦ Partial Briefs - Full rubric at release time please
◦ Staggered releases requiring changes to existing code to maximise marks
◦ Having to make a video + interview, seems a little excessive
◦ Marking down for complexity multiplier
◦ Labs
◦ Offering live help on same evening of new lab release (I’m behind)
◦ Taking too long, (redirect put more focus on working through assignments
instead)
YOU

44. Stop Doing
◦ Slack
◦ Too many notifications sometimes
◦ Video
◦ Pre-Recotds
◦ Don’t enjoy pre-recorded videos
◦ Not a fan of voiceover demo (Zoom Call more natural)
◦ Stop - Many short videos. I prefer the omnibus video.
◦ Materials
◦ Links are hard to find again. (Provide Index of links discussed in lectures)
◦ Delivery
◦ Prefer live to recordings
◦ Assignments and new class/topic at the same time
YOU

45. START DOING
1

46. Start
Doing
◦ General
◦ n/a. Keep the same.
◦ “program delivery seems to be down to a fine art.”
◦ “really well set out and the team do all they can to support us”
◦ Video
◦ Putting links in the YouTube description or on the video
◦ Zoom Lives (similar to normal f2f) (needs participants to be up to date)
◦ Materials
◦ More resources
◦ More Challenges
◦ relating less to the lecture materials
◦ Card with Most important takeaways - starred slides
◦ (we’ve done this in the Summary Slides and Recaps following week?)
◦ More reading materials – Booklists (given in induction)
◦ Complete week's notes available as 1 pdf download (it used to be that way – very big)
◦ FAQs from previous years (we encorporate that into changing the materials)
◦ Using screenshots of code from the programs we are using
1

47. Start
Doing
◦ Assignments
◦ More support on assignments (ask on Slack)
◦ Group Assignments? (ask on Slack)
◦ Issuing the complete/detailed assignment spec/rubric on the release date
◦ Reflections, maybe a sample reflection (given as part of the spec)
◦ Introduce them earlier (experience says it frightens people)
◦ Review selected elements of assignments, to show how it could be done
better/cleaner
◦ Tutors
◦ A tick box or completed session indicator on the cards, videos, quizzes so we can see
if we have missed anything on the course modules
◦ Create groups based on similar tutors login times
◦ Labs
◦ Looking over labs
◦ Release Solutions in the subsequent lab (days later)
◦ too tempting to go to the solutions rather than slack for help
1

48. Start
Doing
◦ Other
◦ Advice from past students of all different grades
◦ Reminders on what exactly the terminology (see the intros and summaries)
◦ Group Study
◦ Talk on how a typical job looks like in software development, example tasks etc.
Kind of an overview of the profession >> see today’s schedule 
◦ More explanation of how things should be done
◦ A bit more on why things work a certain way, or are done a certain way. (I can follow
what we're doing but don't always understand why?)
◦ Later classes as opposed to lunch time
◦ Programming
◦ breakout class – to work on flowcharts rather than syntax for loops and conditionals
◦ Groups
◦ “Ask everyone early at the start of the course to join a group of 4/5 people to aid with questions /
issues”
◦ (We did this at induction)
1

49. COURSE
SECTION 7

50. Course is what
I expected?
◦ YES ¾
◦ Not Exactly ¼

51. Why is the course not what you expected?
◦ Much better than expected
◦ Didn’t know what to expect
◦ Without work, recommend it
◦ A lot more work than I expected and a lot more intense than I expected too
◦ It's far more intense at times than I was expecting for a part time course.
◦ It moved very fast for me I was struggling with terminology all through two of the projects finally got it now, but
would have liked to see refreshers or a “cheat sheet” at least at the start first few of weeks of the lectures.
◦ The delivery of the course has exceeded my expectations and the structure and calendar ie. Assignment dates
and deadlines work really well for me

52. 100% Recommend The Course?

53. why you wouldn't recommend it?
◦ I'm blown away by the course delivery and the flexibility it allows. The lecturers are fantastic, they deliver
complicated material very clearly and are selfless with their time. The labs are very good and ensure that you
will be able to make a decent attempt at assignments. The course sets you up for success
◦ The reason why attended college is to expect help/support when I'm stuck. But asking classmates, who they
also doing assignments, feel sorry to ask. Need dedicated support sometimes to understanding.
◦ (you need to reach out on Slack to staff)

54. HDIP IN
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
Year 1 Student Survey 2022
38 responses same as last year
(response rate 79%) (up 3% due to remaining number of students)