Kate Dickens
Online learning development consultant.
Location Southampton, United Kingdom
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@NicolaJames @CarolA . Apologies, I have now added the link in. Further information is also available in Step 6.16 Laxatives https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-continence-promotion/1/steps/417274
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Kate Dickens replied to Terry Schooling
Hello Terry - thank you for your feedback. We will take it into consideration when we review the course.
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Thank you Steve - they were specially drawn for us by an illustrator who also happens to be a Doctor. You are very welcome to re-use these diagrams but please do acknowledge © Association for Continence Advice. CC BY-NC 4.0
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Hello Steve - you will need to REGISTER with Independent Nurse to read the full article (the LOGIN won't work unless you register). I have just checked registered myself and it does work as I have full access to the article and I wasn't charged for it.
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Kate Dickens replied to anna fallas
Many thanks @annafallas - we appreciate you pointing this out and the link has now been removed.
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Kate Dickens replied to Mo Cowen
Hello Mo - we cover the bowel in great detail from week 4 onwards https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-continence-promotion/1/todo/27292
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Kate Dickens replied to Yvonne Read
Hello Yvonne - please don't feel that you are running behind. There will be other learners joining the course after you have. Do continue to work through the course at your own speed.
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Hello @AndreneSkinner @BarbaraK-S - thank you both for spotting this. The transcripts are created by a third party and sometimes they make mistakes as they do not have specialist knowledge. We seem to have partially picked this one up. We will let you know when the PDF version has been amended.
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Kate Dickens replied to Claire MacLean
Hello Claire - thank you for sharing your experience of Journey with fellow learners. I will add in a link to it for the next run of the course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Joy Davis
Hello @JoyDavis @CarolA - we cover pelvic floor exercises in far greater depth in Week 6 - Promoting Bladder and Bowel Continence https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-continence-promotion/1/todo/27294
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Kate Dickens replied to John Kelly
Hello John - we cover this in greater depth in step 2.12 https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-continence-promotion/1/steps/335306
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Kate Dickens replied to Charlotte L
Thank you @BarbaraK-S for spotting this. Apologies it is completely my fault, and not that of the ACA team, as I typed in the wrong answer - it should have read 'anus' instead of 'rectum'. This has now been amended.
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Kate Dickens replied to Barbara K-S
Thank you for your feedback @BarbaraK-S - based on everyone's feedback, we will be definitely be updating this question for the next run of this course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Maddy Butcher
Hello Maddy - welcome to the course. You are not at all late as we only started on Monday.
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Kate Dickens replied to Sam Crispin
Hello Sam - welcome to the course. Yes, it is a bold course and it certainly should not be a taboo subject. I have been promoting the course to my network by posting on social media and it is interesting that over 225 people have read a post but only 4 people have 'liked' it ....
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Kate Dickens replied to Charlotte L
Hello Charlotte - thank you for your feedback. It isn't an error that one answer is repeated. It looks like we need to amend the instructions.
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Kate Dickens replied to Barbara K-S
Hello Barbara - welcome to the course. I hope that you find the content and conversations are interesting.
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Kate Dickens replied to Mags S B.A.(Open)
Hello Mags - welcome to the course. I hope that you find the content and conversations are interesting.
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Kate Dickens replied to Joy Davis
Hello Joy - welcome to the course. I hope that you find the content and conversations are interesting.
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Kate Dickens replied to Anthony Tallon
Hello Anthony - welcome to the course. It will be really valuable to hear about your experiences from the perspective of a nurse manager of a home that cares for people with complex mental and physical health problems. I do hope that this course is useful to you and your residents.
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Kate Dickens replied to Emma Holloway
Hello Emma - welcome to the course. It will be really valuable to hear about your clinical experiences. If you think any of the course content would be useful for any of your patients, please do share it with them as all of the content including videos and images (unless otherwise specified) can be freely used for educational purposes.
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Kate Dickens replied to Karen Thurgo
Hello Karen - welcome to the course. It will be really valuable to hear about your experiences from a residential care home management perspective. I do hope that this course is useful to you and your clients as well as friends and family members.
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Kate Dickens replied to Rosie L
Hello Rosie - welcome to the course. I do hope that you find the content and conversations useful and interesting.
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Kate Dickens replied to PETA JELLIS
Hello Peta - welcome to the course. I hope that you find the content and conversations useful and interesting.
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Kate Dickens replied to Rosalind M
Hello Rosalind - welcome to the course. I hope that you find the content and conversations are interesting.
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Kate Dickens replied to Christine H
Hello Christine and Anne - welcome to the course. It will be really valuable to hear about your experiences from an Australian perspective.
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Kate Dickens replied to Fiona Lynch
Hello Fiona - welcome to the course. If you think any of the course content would be useful for any of your clients, please do share it with them as all of the content including videos and images (unless otherwise specified) can be freely used for educational purposes.
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Kate Dickens replied to Jacqueline Hall
Hello Jacqueline, Constance & Helen Mary. Thank you for your feedback. We will take your comments into consideration when we review this first run of the course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Sheila Stuart
Hello Sheila - To get a Certificate of Achievement you need to:
- Upgrade your course – you can do this at any point, before, during or after the course
- Mark 90% of the steps in the course as completeYou’ll be able to view your digital Certificate immediately after you become eligible. Depending on where you’re located, you’ll receive your printed...
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Kate Dickens replied to Rosemary Hillyard
Hello to all of you and welcome to this course! Thank you for your feedback. This is the first time that we have run this course and we are experimenting with the way that we present things. We will be taking all feedback into consideration when we review this course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Jamaluddin Aziz
Hello Jamaluddin and welcome to this course! Thank you for your feedback. This is the first time that we have run this course and we are experimenting with the way that we present things. We will be taking all feedback into consideration when we review this course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Pete Easton
Hello to all of you and welcome to this course! Thank you for your feedback. This is the first time that we have run this course and we are experimenting with the way that we present things. We will be taking all feedback into consideration when we review this course.
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Hello Katherine and Karen - welcome to the course and thank you for pointing out the broken link. We think that this is, most likely, a temporary technical problem for the British Assistive Technology Association website as it was functioning well last week.
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Kate Dickens replied to abdulla fouad
Hello Abdulla. This course is an introductory course in research skills which can be helpful at any level up to and including PhD!
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Kate Dickens replied to Engr. Muhammad Mansoor Afzal
Hello Ibrahim - have a look at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secure-android-app-development/1/certificate-of-achievement
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Hello Monzon - BuggyTheFix is now available to download from this step 4.19 https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secure-android-app-development/1/steps/153914
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Kate Dickens replied to Mahmood Fahim
Hello Mahmood - I see from your profile that you live in India. As part of the Study UK campaign, the British Council is partnering with FutureLearn, to give people in more than 35 countries (including India) access to free courses from UK universities, plus the chance to celebrate their learning with one of 10,000 free Certificates of Achievement. For further...
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Kate Dickens replied to Shivani Gamit
Hello Mihaela - we will be running the course again in April. You can register your interest at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secure-android-app-development/ and you will be notified when the course is open for sign-up.
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Hello Monzon - Yes - I will let you know when this is available.
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Kate Dickens replied to Richard Grime
Hello Richard - thank you for spotting the typo - it has now been fixed!
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Yes, I did. Sunday, 29th January is the last official day of the course but please do continue at your own speed. From our experience with other courses, learners will continue to help each other out even though the mentoring team are no longer there.
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Hello Mihaela - no, it's not too late :-) The mentoring team will be around until Sunday evening and the materials will remain available after the course has ended. Please note however that Fortify SCA is time-limited until the 12th February.
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The correct video is now in place - apologies for any confusion.
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Kate Dickens replied to Mike Richards
Hello Mike - thank you for spotting this. It is now fixed.
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Hello Yanet - thank you for your feedback. Glad you found the video useful. We will be looking into re-recording in HD format for the next run of this course.
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Hello J - thank you for your feedback. We will be looking into re-recording in HD format for the next run of this course. Are you able to view this video using a different computer / mobile device as you may find it is less blurred or not blurred at all? I would also suggest that you don't view in full screen mode.
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Hello Aref - thank you for your feedback. We will be looking into re-recording in HD format for the next run of this course. Unfortunately we are unable to make it downloadable due to the 'permissions' required to do so.
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Kate Dickens replied to John Powdrell
Hello Andrew - thank you for your feedback. It will be taken into consideration when we review the course.
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Hello Simon - as we recommend that learners set up a virtual machine first regardless of whether they use Linux, Window or Apple, we simply had to choose one single operating system to use as an example and we chose Windows as I suspect it is the most commonly used.
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Hello Yanet - thank you for your feedback - we will take this into consideration when we review the course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Bob Blackwell
Hello Trevor - we're really sorry that you've experienced difficulties. We have put an enormous amount of effort into producing this course. We will be taking all feedback into consideration when we review the course and we will update the course before the next run later on this year - you are very welcome to join us!
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Kate Dickens replied to Ian Jenkinson
Hello Ian - Zeyad has recorded a video walkthrough of running Fortify to detect code vulnerabilities. We have just added this to the course and you might find this useful.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secure-android-app-development/1/steps/161076
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Kate Dickens replied to John Powdrell
Hello John and Andrew - we are sorry that you have both been experiencing installation problems.
The team tested the full installation of the development environment on Windows 7, 8 and 10 and in Mac and Linux environments. They did use someone with no experience of secure android app development to test the instructions out (me). This is the first time...
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Hello Allan - thank you for spotting the 'typo'. This has now been fixed.
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Hello Mike - we do take your point and we will be doing so for future runs of this course.
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Hello Shivani - welcome to the course. The team will be looking out for comments in all of the weeks for the duration of the course, so it doesn't matter if you start the course a little late.
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Hello Andrew - we cover this in step 1.12 https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secure-android-app-development/1/steps/153903
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Kate Dickens replied to john drinkwater
Hello John and Chris - welcome to the course. I have just downloaded the trike.xlsx successfully onto my iMac so we know that it works successfully on some systems. As we are not responsible for Octotrike's software, I suggest that you contact them directly about your problem. I am the least technically-minded of our team but I am certain that we have...
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Kate Dickens replied to Harold Colvin
Hello Harold - welcome to the course. Full instructions will be available next week however, it looks like Android Studio is now on version 2.2 so it would probably be best to update.
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Kate Dickens replied to Kat T
Hello Kate - to echo Gefion, many thanks for your feedback - we will be taking it into consideration when we review the course.
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Hello Noelene - I'd like to encourage you to continue at least a little further. We have finished defining networks and we now move on to an activity where we look at who the most powerful person is in a social network.
This will be of use in week 2 when we look at professional applications of social media such as building a personal brand or community...
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Hello Rayden and Abena - I'd like to encourage you both to continue at least a little further. We have finished defining networks and we now move on to an activity where we look at who the most powerful person is in a social network.
This will be of use in week 2 when we look at professional applications of social media such as building a personal brand or...
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Hello Michelle - I'd like to encourage you to continue at least a little further. We have finished defining networks and we now move on to an activity where we look at who the most powerful person is in a social network.
This will be of use in week 2 when we look at professional applications of social media such as building a personal brand or community...
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Hello Richard - thank for pointing this out. It has now been fixed.
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Kate Dickens replied to Suzy Fisher
Hello Suzy and Neil - here is a link to the list of links available in PDF format https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Ytr4BUNCGqS0YzX3J3cHBvWjA
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Hello Pamela - thank you for pointing out the 'typo'. This has just been fixed.
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Kate Dickens replied to Xiong Xy
Hello Xiong - unfortunately you can't re-take the test on this run of the course. However, we are running the course again starting on the 6th February and if you sign up to it again you can re-take the test then https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility/
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Kate Dickens replied to Suzy Fisher
Thank you Neil - we are really glad that you have enjoyed this course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Agnes Kiss
Apologies, please try this https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility/
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Kate Dickens replied to Leigh Horton
Apologies, please try this https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility/
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Kate Dickens replied to Leigh Horton
Hello Leigh and Judy - further to Jenny's comments, there is nothing to stop you recommending that people just do certain weeks of the course and that they can then dip into other weeks should they be curious (especially as it is free!). We are running the course again starting on the 7th February and it is open for sign-up...
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Kate Dickens replied to Agnes Kiss
Hello Agnes - what a nuisance for you. Unfortunately there is no way round this however we are running the course again starting 6th February. If you sign up again you will be able to re-take the test https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/digital-accessibility/2
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Further to Manuel's comment above, we had hoped to be able to we link you to Sally. We sincerely apologise, but due to circumstances outside our control, this panel session was not able to go ahead.
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Hello Muhammad - we do sincerely apologise, but due to circumstances outside our control, this panel session was not able to go ahead.
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Hello Serhiy - we do sincerely apologise, but due to circumstances outside our control, this panel session was not able to go ahead.
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Hello Michele - we do sincerely apologise, but due to circumstances outside our control, this panel session was not able to go ahead.
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Hello MD and Monireh - we do sincerely apologise, but due to circumstances outside our control, this panel session was not able to go ahead.
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Kate Dickens replied to Suzy Fisher
Hello Suzy - Neil has kindly volunteered to do this and is working on this right now. We hope to have this ready in the next few days and we will provide a link to this in the end of course email which will go out early next week.
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Kate Dickens replied to Michele Farmer
Thank you Michele - we really appreciate your feedback. We will be taking it into consideration when we review the course.
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Hello Emma - oops, thank you for pointing out the 'typo' - this has now been fixed.
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Kate Dickens replied to Viki Galt
Hello Radek - thank you for your detailed feedback. I can confirm that I have received it via the FutureLearn Support button. I will be sharing it with the team.
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Hello Pauline - a link to the recording will be made available.
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Kate Dickens replied to Viki Galt
Thank you Radek - FutureLearn don't encourage personal contact with the course team so I'd prefer it if you could please send your feedback via the Support button which can be found on the bottom right hand side of this page.
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Kate Dickens replied to Viki Galt
Hello Viki and Nadine - thank you for your feedback and we will be taking all feedback into consideration when we review the course.
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Kate Dickens replied to Neil Rogers
Hello Nadine - you can keep working through this course at your own pace and you do not need to finish it by the end of this week as it will remain open for at least a year.
You won't be able to pick up where you left off if you start again in February in that you will need to re-mark all those steps that you have already 'Marked as Complete' but you are...
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Kate Dickens replied to Viki Galt
Hello Viki, Radek and Ken - we would really appreciate it if you could please tell us the number(s) of the questions in which you found the wording confusing. We will ensure that we evaluate the test questions thoroughly when we review the course.
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Hello Trevor and Radek - oops, thank you for pointing this out. This has now been fixed.
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Hello Nadine - oops, thank you for pointing out the 'typo'. This has now been fixed.
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Kate Dickens replied to Natalya D
Hello Natalya - the font used by FutureLearn is Europa
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Oops - that's been corrected now too!
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Hello Asma - thank you for spotting this 'typo' - we have now fixed it!
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Hello Michele - apologies for the broken link. It is now fixed.
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Kate Dickens replied to Jessica Wykes
Hello Christina. It is an optional activity for you to do the captioning exercise. It is an opportunity for you to practice captioning if you have not already done so.
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Kate Dickens replied to Stuart Lawler
Hello Stuart - thank you for your comments. Have you found the Support button on the page? if so, please could you send your feedback about the platform directly to FutureLearn. If you are unable to do this, please let us know and we will forward your comments.
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Kate Dickens replied to Jessica Wykes
Hello Jessica. You are really welcome to re-use the persona profiles as these have Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licensing. If you do use them, we'd just appreciate if you could please credit them appropriately.
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Hello Judy. In earlier courses on FutureLearn, the only way to view the transcripts was via a PDF download. The platform has now evolved to include the transcript just beneath the video. We are happy to provide the transcripts as PDF files to download, but it may take a few days before we can complete this. I will respond to this post when this has been done.
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Thank you Ros - we really appreciate your sharp-sightedness.
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Kate Dickens replied to Sandra Lyon
Hello Sandra - this has now been added into the Glossary page https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ytr4BUNCGqNGFjeFV3YkpNcDQ/view?usp=sharing
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Kate Dickens made a comment
Thank you for all of your comments. The glossary is now available in PDF format https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ytr4BUNCGqNGFjeFV3YkpNcDQ/view?usp=sharing from a link which is located towards the top of the Glossary page.
