Unitu

Unitu is an online safe space for you to share your constructive feedback, ask any questions or share bright ideas to improve your student experience.

You can also use the platform to spread some positivity and smiles by praising departments, resources or services that enables you to engage in your studies at Arden.

We want to have a vibrant and engaged learning community at Arden University and Unitu helps with this.

The platform enables students and staff to engage in meaningful and solution-oriented conversations which can lead to positive and student-centred changes.

Unitu can be used by any student who is actively studying at Arden University as well as your student representatives and elected officers.

You will also find your Students’ Association, academics, and wider university services staff on the platform.

You you will receive an account activation email when you enrol to study at Arden University.

Once you have activated your account, simply log in using your Arden University student account via this link: arden.unitu.ac.uk.

Our Unitu boards have been created to ensure that you can feed into the different student communities you are a part of. These include your department, campus and the University as a whole. Every student would have access to at least 5 boards. These include.

• Arden University Board: The Arden University board provides a great oppounity to raise ideas and solutions that have the potential to positively impact the whole student body. It is also a great place to raise concerns and solutions about services and resources that are available to all students such as iLearn, your student portal, and much more.


• Get involved in student research Board: This board is specific for students to use to where they need other students to get involved in research activities that relate to their course. This could be for a project or other assignment.


• Incubator Board: This board is specific to the activities of the Universities Enterprise incubator.


• Campus Board: You will also be given access to your appropriate campus board, so whether you are a Distance Learner, Apprentice, Berlin or at one of our UK campuses there will be a board for you. These boards are great to raise ideas, questions, and concerns about: Your Campus community, Digital and physical campus spcaces, accessibility, Non-academic services and resources.


• Department Board:Finally, you will have access to your academic department board. These boards are great to raise ideas, questions, and concerns about: Your curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Academic services and resources.

And don't forget there are dedicated teams of suport staff at each campus to support you so think about submitting a praise every now and again and let them know what their work means to you. You can also raise a praise for the work that your academic teams are doing to support your educational journey.

Your private feedback is visible to all students with the access to the specific board, student representatives and Students’ Association. They can read and comment on your post. Student representatives as well as the association can move the posts into the public feedback area on Unitu where needed.

Important: If a post includes lots of personal information, you will be signposted to the right help instead of it being opened to public. This is done in your best interest.

Posts which are not opened to public but get signposted and/or resolved within the private section are moved to a 'Closed' tab within the Private Feedback section.

We understand that sharing your opinions and feedback with a large group of people can sometimes feel nerve-wracking. To ensure that everyone feels safe to share their ideas, questions and constructive feedback, Your Students’ Association as well as student representatives monitor all the posts on the platform ensuring that conversations remain productive and impactful.

All you need to do is comply to the content policy to make sure that your post is not reported or removed from the platform.

Click here to view the Unitu Content Policy

We want to celebrate the successes with impactful changes that occur through student and staff collaboration. Together We Changed is a feature on Unitu which does just that. You can see the actions taken by staff as well as students to improve an aspect of your student experience at Arden when a post is resolved.

Sometimes, a resolution may not lead to a drastic change but would have resolved small teething problem. In such cases, the post would be closed, and students would still be able to see the actions taken to resolve the post.