MA Special and Inclusive Education (Online)
Congratulations, you’re joining the University of Nottingham. A warm welcome to the School of Education’s MA Special and Inclusive Education (Online) which starts on Monday 10 February 2025. We are looking forward to meeting you virtually in the coming weeks.
If you have not already done so, please visit the checklist for distance learners, this gives you important information including setting up your IT account and registering, to ensure you are ready to start the course.
Join us on Wednesday 12 February with other online masters students and course leaders for a warm welcome to your course, with practical information about studying online and how to get the best out of the course.
This meeting will be offered on MS Teams in the morning (9 to 10am) and repeated later in the day (4 to 5pm), please choose the time most convenient to you and just attend one session. Times are UK time.
Moodle
Once you have completed online registration with the university, you will gain access to Moodle, our virtual learning environment.
You will need to log in with your username, beginning with ttx, and the password you created when you completed online registration.
Please note that after you change your password, it takes 24 hours for Moodle to be made available for you.
When you log into Moodle you will see a module overview list which will include:
- Ethics (Education) (UK)
- Moodle Exploration (Education) (UK)
- Masters-level Student Information Hub (Education) (UK)
- M-level Toolkit (Education) (UK)
- Dissertation: Support and Preparation (Education) (UK)
- MA Special and Inclusive Education (Online) (Education) (UK)
Log into Moodle
If you have problems accessing Moodle or your email account, or if you have any IT issues throughout the course, please contact the Digital and Technology Services as soon as possible by accessing the Self Service Portal or by telephone on +44 (0) 115 951 6677.
The Moodle Exploration page acts as a guide to your preparation for the course. It is important you work your way through this to familiarise yourself with the system.
The Masters-level Student Information Hub is where you will find much of the essential administrative information you will need throughout your course. It is important that you take time to explore this page. The student handbook is a particularly important document, and you should make time to familiarise yourself with this as soon as possible.
Your course homepage - MA Special and Inclusive Education (Online) - contains some introductory information regarding the course and the course tutor team. Please read all the information here carefully, and complete any pre-course activities. In particular, it is very important that you complete the pre-course activity on academic integrity and plagiarism.
Personalising Moodle
You might like to add a profile picture so that your forum postings will have a more personal touch. To do this, click on your name (towards the top right of the screen), select 'Preferences', and then select 'Edit profile'.
From the ‘Preferences’ page you will also be able to choose to receive a daily digest of all the module and course forum posts, rather than an individual email for each post. Just select 'Forum preferences' to explore the options available to you.
Starting your course
Your course starts on Monday 10 February 2025. During the introductory ‘soft start’ week beginning on this day, there is opportunity to familiarise yourself with Moodle, complete the introductory activities mentioned above, and get to know your fellow students.
Your modules
In the Spring semester of your first year, you will study the compulsory module EDUC4112 Debating Special and Inclusive Education. This module will be available to you in Moodle from 12 noon UK time on Friday 7 February.
In the autumn semester of your first year, you choose one of the following:
- EDUC4113 Responding Mindfully to Challenging Behaviour
- EDUC4110 Communication and Literacy
- EDUC4236 Education for Students on the Autism Spectrum
Personal tutors and academic tutors
Once you have started the course you will be allocated a personal tutor, who can help you with all general course-related queries or concerns. To begin with, this will be your course leader, Lauran Doak.
For each module you take you will also be allocated an academic tutor, often within a tutor team, who will guide and support you through the assignment process and mark your work.
Contacting you
In future, we will send all emails to your university email account rather than your personal one. Please remember to only use your university email address and to check it regularly as this is the only email address we will use to contact you.