Unitu

Unitu is a student voice platform where you can post any questions, ideas, issues, or praise about your student experience. This can be anything from where to find the right information, to new big ideas on developing something special at Arden University.

Unitu is a student voice platform where you can post any questions, ideas, issues, or praise about your student experience. This can be anything from where to find the right information, to new big ideas on developing something special at Arden University.

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 are automatically enrolled onto the platform when you start studying at Arden. Simply log in using your Arden University student account via this link: arden.unitu.ac.uk.

You will have access to discussion boards where you can interact with your peers and staff. As Blended Learners you have access to: University Board – for sharing ideas, questions, and feedback on wider university services. Campus Board – for sharing ideas, questions and feedback related to the specific campus that you are enrolled in. School/ Department Board – for feedback, ideas and questions related to your course. As Distance Learners you have access to: University Board – for sharing ideas, questions, and feedback on wider university services. Distance Learning Experience – for sharing ideas, questions and feedback related to your distance learning experience. School/ Department Board – for feedback, ideas and questions related to your course.

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.

Making Posts on Unitu

Private Feedback Public Feedback
When you make a post, it automatically gets posted in the Private Feedback section. These posts are not visible to academics and other staff members. They will be unable to read or engage with your post unless it has been moved to the Public Feedback section. Posts created by staff automatically become visible on the Public Feedback section. Any post that is opened from private feedback section or moved to this section usually gets assigned to specific staff members or services who can respond to them. Students can continue to engage on these posts.