MODULE ASSESSMENT BRIEF - TAKING CARE OF YOUR VALUABLES

For our first task to start the brief, we were split into pairs. In these pairs we came up with 20 problems that students often face when they move to Leeds as freshers. We then had to join pairs with another pair to make a group of four, in which we joined together our problems and whittled them down to 20 from 40. I found that often we had similar problems and they overlapped, because we are freshers ourselves so its coming from our own experience.

The next step was making a group of 8 with another group. We tried to come up with 20 again from the 40 problems. By doing this we were combining all our knowledge and issues we face in Leeds.  We worked well as a team and listened to each others criticism. We had some disagreements over which to get rid of, but we solved our differences. We then swapped our list with another group, and chose 10 problems from their list (and used some of our own points). These issues were ones we felt applied to almost all freshers and ones that could be worked on and solved instead of inevitable problems.

 

Left: the swapped list given to us from the other group. Right: Our group's final list of 10 problems.

We put our problems on the wall and presented them to everybody as a group. Then we all picked 10 issues from all of them, which can be seen on the board below. We all agreed that they were vital problems that can largely affect you as a fresher.