The University of New South Wales
Action Sheet
| Item & Date | Item | Action By | Action Required | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item 16 13/10/2023 |
New Courses | John Shepherd | Ensure that the three new courses are timetabled for 2024:
COMP6131 Static Analysis for Software Security,
COMP6173 Natural Langauge Processing,
COMP6453 Applied Cryptography. All courses are now open for 2024 and attracting enrolments. For the first offering, the quotas are small. |
20/10/2023 Closed |
| Item 15 13/10/2023 |
EF Workload | John Shepherd | Determine workload for EF academics. The concensus (via the EBA?) is the EF academics should teach, on average, 2.5 courses per year. This could be implemented as teaching 5 terms out of 6. |
20/10/2023 Closed |
| Item 14 13/10/2023 |
COMP4920 update | Sebastian Sequpiah-Grayson | Seb to discuss with Flora Salim and Alan Blair to modify COMP4920 syllabus to also include topics requested by ACS in the accreditation. | 13/10/2023 Opened |
| Item 13 13/10/2023 |
COMP3142 introduction | John Shepherd | Schdule COMP3142 to run in 2024 (to replace COMP3141). Approved by Faculty and originally scheduled for 24T2. After Paul Hunter generously agreed to run COMP3141, COMP3142 was move to 24T3. |
20/10/2023 Closed |
| Item 12 01/09/2023 |
Course Outlines for Term 3 | All Convenors | Make sure that all "data cleansing" is complete so that
ECOS outlines say what we want and meet Faculty standards. All 23T3 courses were completed just in time. Now we have to work on UNSW Online courses and courses for 24T1 and 24T2. |
01/09/2023 Closed |
| Item 11 01/09/2023 |
Unihire | All acdemics | Ensure that Unihire forms are filled quickly. Almost all tutors had contracts by the start of term, thanks to Tina and Andrew and academic staff. We need to get onto Unihire processes earlier next term. |
08/09/2023 Closed |
| Item 10 01/09/2023 |
New PG ethics & project management course | Alan Blair | A PG ethics + project management course would be useful way to flesh out the MIT with ACS topics, and be a good lead-in to COMP9900. Alan to discuss with Morri. | 01/09/2023 Opened |
| Item 9 01/09/2023 |
Change COMP3900 Pre-reqs | John Shepherd | Knowledge from COMP2511 would be beneficial in COMP3900. Add as a pre-req. | 01/09/2023 Opened |
| Item 8 04/08/2023 |
Improve Course Offering Balance | John Shepherd | Move some courses from T3 to T2 to better balance
number of courses offered in each term.
Suggested schedule for 2024.
I give up. Despite this item, people still keep asking for their course to be in T3. |
17/11/2023 Closed |
| Item 7 04/08/2023 |
Improving Lecture Attendance (ii) | L&T Directors | Discuss CFCC's with Engineering and Science Faculty to allow students to attend multiple classes on same day. May be tricky given all other timetable constraints. | 04/08/2023 Opened |
| Item 6 04/08/2023 |
Improving Lecture Attendance | Tina Tuomikoski | Purchase large amount of chocolates and candy to give to students
in lectures to encourage attendance. This did not work. We now have many kilograms of candy. |
17/11/2023 Closed |
| Item 5 25/05/2023 |
Revision of COMP3121/9101 | Raveen de Silva | COMP3121 needs some refinement to cater for the (lack of) knowledge of students coming from COMP2521/COMP9024. Course revision has gone in via ECLIPS and the Faculty APC. |
30/10/2023 Closed |
| Item 4 25/05/2023 |
Elite Students Programme | Raveen de Silva | Description of Elite Students Programme needs to be refined and its web page made to look more modern. | 25/05/2023 Opened |
| Item 3 9/2/2023 |
Course Outlines ECOS/ECLIPS/Astra Synchronisation. |
Committee | Faculty wants descriptions of courses in various places to be consistent. ECLIPS is source of truth, should be reflected in Astra and ECOS course outlines. By July 15, required to fix course data in ECLIPS, which will partially populate ECOS entries. Subsequent terms most of the data will roll over. | 30/10/2023 Closed |
| Item 2 09/02/2023 | Grok Future Curriculum Workshop | John Shepherd | JS to share Proposed National IT curriculum to the members. Understand the Technologies Learning Area Digital Technologies Curriculum |
05/05/2023 Closed |
| Item 1 09/02/2023 |
Draft Terms of Reference | John Shepherd | JS to provide members with an online version of the draft Terms of Reference to review and provide feedback. Action: Present and resolve/approve the TOR at the next meeting. | 15/06/2023 Closed |