The Computer Science Staff-Student Consultative Committee (SSCC)

Agenda for meeting to be held 1-2.00pm on Thursday 26th November 2009 in MPEB1.03.

1. Apologies for absence.
   
   
2. Notification of any other business.
   
   
3. To note the Committee's Terms of Reference (included below).


4. Approval of minutes of the last meeting on 23rd February 2009
   - Minutes should be signed by the chair and at least one student representative. 
   
   
5. Matters arising from the minutes of the previous meeting:
   - Return of COMP3005 Operating Systems coursework and updates to coursework submission and return mechanisms (Graham Roberts)
   
   
6. Departmental Issues (Nicola Alexander):
   • Student Representation on the CS Teaching Committee
   • Information about the upcoming IQR
   • Module feedback forms


7. Induction Week for 2nd years (William Mayor)


8. Local environment items:
   • The CS student Green Champion is Andrew Lennard (MScFC)
   • Availability of bicycle parking at UCL (Thomas Stone)
   • Smoking at entrances of MPEB and Roberts building (Thomas Stone)
9. Technical items:
   • Warning for when your printer quota is running out (Raunak Gupta)
   • More computers needed for lab work and/or more places where notebook computers can be used in labs (Yotam Doron)
10. Student common room items:
    • Any money for the student common room this year? (Raunak Gupta)
    • Preventing students from other departments using the CS student common room (Raunak Gupta)
    • Installing a microwave (Yotam Doron)
    • Can unused lockers be reallocated or coin operated lockers installed? (Yotam Doron)
    New cues for the pool table (Yotam Doron)


11. MScFSE items: Use of Moodle forums, staff availability hours, programming languages and assignments (Pritesh Shah)


12. MScCVGI items: MMAI module and coursework (Yotam Doron)


13. Any Other Business.
    
    
14. The next meeting is due in February 2010.

Terms of Reference (see item 3)

• to discuss follow-up action resulting from previous DSSCC meetings, in particular any matter which was referred to the DTC meeting;
• to comment upon the outcome of degree programme and course evaluation questionnaires and any consequent follow-up action;
• to receive notification of any Departmental changes with respect to teaching, admissions, and assessment;
• to comment upon any significant changes to Departmental policy which would have a direct consequence for teaching, admissions, and assessment;
• to comment upon safety within the Department;
to comment upon physical resources within the Department e.g. computer/library facilities etc.;
• to make students aware of the Departmental Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer;
• as part of UCL's Annual Monitoring (AM) and Augmented Annual Monitoring (AAM) processes to (i) receive and consider the Head of Department's overview of the AM and AAM reports and (ii) identify student related issues for further discussion by the DTC;
• to receive and consider copies of the annual reports of the Chairs of Boards of Examiners;
• to report to the DTC concerned by submission of minutes of each meeting of the DSSCC to the officers of the DTC.

The Policy for departmental Staff-Student Consulatative Committees is described in the UCL Academic Manual, Section H3