STUDENTS

Tutoring

In order to help the students throughout their education, eCampus provides for 3 types of Tutors, in line with Ministerial Decree 1154/2021 on “Self-Assessment, Evaluation, Initial and Periodic Accreditation of Institutions and Courses Of Study.”:

  • Disciplinary tutors: (TD), who carry out the didactic activities in the virtual classes of the University;

  • Tutors of the Degree Courses (TCS), with guidance and monitoring functions;

  • Technical tutors (TT), with technical support functions.


ACTIVITIES OF THE DISCIPLINARY TUTOR

The Discipliny Tutor (TD) is a qualified expert who supports the professor in charge of a specific subject in carrying out teaching activities. The disciplinary tutors are specifically trained on the technical-communicative aspects of online teaching. This figure was also established to support students in overcoming particular difficulties in studying a particular teaching, including through specific meetings in the virtual classroom.
The Disciplinary Tutor:

  • carries out the didactic activity in the virtual classes or, in any case, through the use of the Academic platform;
  • facilitates the didactic interaction, and in general the communication, between teachers and students;
  • facilitates the correct execution and monitoring of the long-distance didactic activities carried out by the students;
  • supports the teachers and, in coordination with them, contributes to the arrangement and the execution of the implemented and interactive didactic activities;
  • supports the teachers in the examination of the individual students and to the related activities;
  • supports the teachers for the activities connected to the role of supervisor of the final dissertation;
  • carries out the tutoring and supplementary didactic activities.
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To sum up, the disciplinary tutors, are qualified experts on the discipline, who complement the teachers with their individual skills, contributing to the constant improvement of the quality of the courses, of the services offered to the students and of the learning ability of the students.

For all the teachings of the University courses, the VLE provides a specific session for the direct interaction (synchronous) and another, still specific yet asynchronous, dedicated to the registration of the feedbacks sent by the teachers and disciplinary tutors on the specific e-tivity completed by the student, though specific tools, such as the forums, the C-Map and the eCampus Wiki.

For the monitoring of the educational pathway of the students, the disciplinary Tutors have access to two essential VLE tools:

  • The ePortfolio allows the certification both of the ongoing evaluating process and of the final evaluation of the individual courses.
  • The Online Monitor Tutoring: allows real-time visualization of the main activities between student and tutor during the course (number and frequence of the meetings, contents of the meetings, correspondence, difficulties, review of the planning of the course, etc.).

ACTIVITIES OF THE ON-LINE TUTORS

Within the eCampus tutoring mode, the Tutors of the Degree Courses carry out the activities purely online, so much so that they can also be called Online Tutors (TOL). In generals, have the task of providing, in collaboration with the student, an individual and personalized educational programming plan, providing support in the temporal organization of the student's activity. In particular, the tutors:

  • provide the student with guidance on examination methods and activities for Active Didactics, Interactive Didactics (tutorials, forums, collaborative activities, exercises in virtual classrooms, etc.) and in-presence laboratory;
  • discuss, along with the student the methodology and scheduling of the study, encouraging participation in the forms of interactive and hands-on teaching, providing students with information and guidance on the schedules and contents of virtual classrooms and any in-presence laboratory activities associated with the different courses;
  • periodically monitor the progress of the student's learning journey by providing the necessary motivational support; and support the student in activities related to administrative procedures;
  • support the student in activities related to administrative procedures;

Furthermore, the TCS also carry out the activities of Technical Tutors (TT) and in particular they:

  • sdeal with the introduction and familiarization of the student with the academic website and its functionality at the beginning of the course of study;
  • provide the student with ongoing technical support in using the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE);
  • where appropriate, address the student to the technical helpdesk.

TRAINING AT THE BASIS OF THE e-CAMPUS TUTORING MODEL

For UnieCampus, the training and preparation of tutors is of crucial importance. In addition to initial training, training activities are provided for:

  • updates of methodology and technology;
  • the conduct of online teaching;
  • the use of technologies and tools for communication with students.

In addition, the implementation of the educational pathway, along with the educational objectives of the Degree Courses and the technologies and methodologies adopted, must be documented for all those involved. Tutor training and refresher activities are managed through the support of the eCampus Academyplatform, designed with the aim of improving the delivery of training courses, enhancing skills development initiatives and enabling timely monitoring of teaching activities and staff in training.