b'Improving the Quality of Teaching, Learning and Student Development(contd)courseassessmentsforboththecourseworkanddemand for credible information on the coronavirusNew Courses and Programmesat the Open Campus Academy of Sport across their final examination components of these courses foranditsimpact.TheFacultyofMedicalSciencesthree BSc programmes. The Board for Undergraduate Semester II and the Summer Semester of AY 2019- (FMS)beingthepremiersourceoftrainingandAllFacultiescontinuedthedevelopmentofnewStudies(BUS)approvedthefirstyearoftheBSc 2020.ThecourselistwasprocessedbytheFSSresearchinhealthwasquicktoopenitsdoorstocoursesandprogrammesasacustomarypartofSport and Physical Literacy Programme which will be Standing Committee, through a series of meetings.notonlythetraditionalcustomersseekinghighercurriculareviewandenhancementeachacademicoffered through the Open Campus Academy of Sport The FSS Standing Committee, with the participation ofeducation but to a regional and global audience inyear. There were some firsts that must be recognized.(OCAS).Inaddition,theCertificateintheArtand the FSS Guild of Students, engaged in this extensivesearch of a credible COVID-19 curriculum. The FMSIn the 2019/20 Academic Year the Faculty of SportScience of Coaching programme was fully migrated and rigorous exercise to ensure that the modificationsorganized a teleconference on March 5, 2020 to sharedelivered academic programmes at all four Academiesfrom the Faculty of Humanities and Education to the weresuitabletotheexigenciesofthetimes,butinformation on the diseasehighlighting its aetiology,of Sport for the first time. This was the first year ofSt. Augustine Academy of Sport (SAAS) for 2019-20 compromised neither the quality and standard of thepathogenesis,epidemiologyandprevention.Thisthe BSc Sports Kinetics programme at the Academy,and a Certificate in Sport Broadcasting was developed courses nor the student learning experience. initiative was followed, a few weeks later (April 19), byand the admission of a first year of student cohortand successfully delivered in July 2020. another teleconference addressing aspects of Code Expanding Online CommunicationRed management such as lockdown and treatment 34 Channels of cases. A third and final teleconference, addressing35The Faculty of Social Sciences made progress towardstheimpactofCOVID-19onchildrenandfamilies,List of new programmes or courses that were either already implementinganOnlineLiveChatusingKayakowas hosted on May 17, 2020. All three conferencesdelivered or to be offered by 2021Classic, a tool used by The UWI in their Mission tointegrated experts in their respective fields to serve as achieve excellent customer service and efficient jobchampions of effective knowledge dissemination and management. Kayako was activated as a test caseadoption. The conferences which remain online via for the Faculty Office staff as well as the DepartmentYou Tube (https://www.youtube.com/uwimonamedia) ofEconomicsinthe2019-2020AcademicYeartowere attended by health practitioners, researchers, provide online live chat support as well as to recordeducatorsinhealthandotherdisciplines,faculty and log different student requests through real-timestaff, students and the general public. To date this responses, or pre-defined responses to issues thatsitehascollectivelyreceivedover58,000views increased response time. engaging local, regional and international audiences. This endeavour was seen as particularly important TheFacultyofScienceandTechnologyAnnualgiven what was already emerging to be pockets of AwardsCeremonycouldnotbeheldasusualinmisinformation in the regional and global landscape. March2020dueto COVID-19. Instead theFacultyTheefforthasbeenlaudedlocally,regionallyand acknowledgedtheachievementsofapproximatelyinternationally with a link to the teleconferences being two hundred undergraduate and graduate studentsadded to the webpage of the Pan American Health and staff via an online booklet and video.Organization (PAHO). Withthisnoveldiseasethreateningthepeopleof the Caribbean, the University saw a rapid increase in ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Realigning our Resources with Resilience and Resourcefulness'