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Potentially runs student development, career readiness and staff development programmes at universities and colleges in the UK, Ireland and the US, and at Jisc.
Where an institution’s results are published, we show them. Where they aren’t, the entry describes the programme and when it started.
University of Westminster
Westminster runs its Professional Development Academy for staff on Potentially. The university’s annual personal development review goes through the platform as well, so each review starts from a record of the year’s development.
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Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University use Potentially to embed skills development for more than 5,000 students per year. Graduate+, the university’s award, runs on the platform and was the first employability scheme endorsed by Advance HE.
“We are delighted with the product and support that Potentially provides.”
Jisc
Jisc’s Building Digital Capability discovery tool is built on Potentially. Teaching staff, library professionals, researchers and students each answer a question set written for their role, and each receives a personalised report with feedback and links to resources.
Subscribing organisations add their own development resources and see anonymised dashboards of capability and confidence across their people.
Loughborough University
Loughborough chose Potentially in 2018 as the technology partner for Personal Best, its university-wide programme of academic, professional and personal development leading to the Personal Best Award. The platform went live inside the MyLboro app within two months.
Students take a skills audit against the 15 Personal Best attributes, receive a personalised feedback report, and work through university-written resources mapped to those attributes. From 2021 the skills survey became part of Ready Set Loughborough, the university’s pre-arrival programme for incoming students.
Career Services on PotentiallyUniversity College Cork chose Potentially to deliver its Graduate Attributes Programme, set up under the university’s 2018–2022 academic strategy. The programme was designed so that students complete a self-assessment each year at registration against UCC’s ten graduate attributes and values, and receive a personalised report with a starting point and next steps for each one.
The questionnaires were developed with UCC’s School of Applied Psychology, from staff and Students’ Union officers’ descriptions of each attribute. The programme also planned for students to record everyday learning against the attributes and add those records to a portfolio.
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Berry College
Berry College delivers the Launch Phase, the first of the four phases in its Berry Journey, on Potentially. The phase runs alongside BCC 100, the first-year seminar every student takes in their first semester. Students start with a short survey that sets a baseline, then work through orienting activities, a set of must-do trails, and optional trails that lead into majors, careers and the phases that follow.
Reflection runs through the phase. Students write a beginning-of-term reflection and return to it at the end of the semester, to see how their strengths, values and interests have moved. Faculty teaching the seminar, and the students who serve as First-Year Mentors, can see each student’s progress on the platform.
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