I had a rearranged tutorial on Sunday that was originally postponed due to a clash. That should have been foreseen so there was no excuse really. It wasn't one of the best tutorials I have ever had, and it was undoubtedly the worst so far on this module. The tutor appeared to have a very poor grasp of the actual module materials and just rambled on about what they felt like saying about a variety of different things just loosely connected with a small part of the topic. There was evidence of unpreparedness about the whole session, and some of the students attending appeared to know a lot more than the tutor, who was often challenged on various points.
The second tutorial of the week was an attempt to go over the skills required to complete TMA01. It was a bit too generic for my liking and I didn't find it particularly useful. It should be remembered that there are a range of students with varying abilities enrolled on S283 and this was mostly 'lowest common denominator' stuff. I think using somebody else's slide deck and not having a particularly good grasp of the module didn't exactly endear me to the session, as I regard it as a bit of a red flag. No harm done though.
On Tuesday I wrote an email to the module team asking if it were possible to organise the tutorials on a module-wide basis rather than a cluster-wide one. I wasn't expecting a quick positive reply but I received one that was both. On Wednesday, a senior-ish member of the module team said that they would look into making recordings available to all students but booking live events might be a bit trickier. This is more than I could have hoped for, and I'm positive that something good will come of this.
In other news, it was announced that the end of module exam will be on Monday 8th June. This is 205 days away from today. It's late in the May/June exams period, and is in week 33 of a 31 week module. The revision period begins on 16 May, which is quite generous.