Garden Design Accessibility Statements

OCA Accessibility Statement

The OCA Accessibility Statement covers the OCA website, which you may use to access course or unit information, or OCA policies.

Mode of study

All of this unit’s study materials are available online. 

Online materials

Online learning materials set out the unit’s content and activities. These comprise of text, images, documents, links to external resources, videos, and online forums. These can be accessed via our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), OCA Learn. 

Visual content

The learning materials for this unit contain some diagrams, illustrations, photographs and audio video content (Design in garden history –  32 minutes in length, The Influence of Garden History on Design – 41 minutes in length). We provide descriptions for all visual content and transcripts for videos.

Library resources

You will be required to access library resources as part of your unit. Essential reading is generally provided electronically.

Projects

This unit contains a short  illustrated critical review academic writing activity, comparing two gardens . This can be submitted as a written document of 1000 words or an 8 minute audio-visual presentation, depending on student choice.

Tuition strategy 

Support is provided by academic staff through tutorials, formative feedback, and group activities. Tutorials are delivered through online video conferencing with optional captioning and/or recordings. Feedback is provided through written documents or as a tutorial with notes. Group activities are delivered as asynchronous forum activities and synchronous group discussions through online video conferencing for this unit. Optional captioning and/or recording is available for video conferencing.

Working with Others

This unit encourages/requires you to work with other students through contributing to online group activities, such as in Project 7: The design process. Students are encouraged  to work with a partner who will act as their client. This can be a fellow student or other person known to the student. The student will gather and share information (primary and secondary research) with their ‘client’ to develop a brief through to a concept presentation by sharing documents and video calls. Contact with other students can be made through the Garden Design Forums.   

Assessment

Assessment takes place through an annotated  digital portfolio, learning log documenting research undertaken, exercises and reflections,  uploaded to the VLE. 

Study tempo

Students are able to define a part-time study tempo that works for them within the overall time frame deadline for the unit. Guidance and support on study skills and time management is available online through the OCA Student Handbook on the VLE. 

OCA Accessibility Statement

The OCA Accessibility Statement covers the OCA website, which you may use to access course or unit information, or OCA policies.

Mode of study

All of this unit’s study materials are available online. 

Online materials

Online learning materials set out the unit’s content and activities. These comprise of text, images, documents, links to external resources, videos, padlets and online forums. These can be accessed via our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), OCA Learn. 

Visual content

The learning materials for this unit contain some diagrams, illustrations, photographs and audio video content (Project 4 – Introduction to hard landscaping lecture 0:12:51 minutes in length, Project 5 – Introduction to Design Strategies lecture 0:16:48 minutes in length, Project 7 – Putting together your planting plan lecture O:31:28 minutes in length, Project 9 – Part 1 – Plant Sourcing 0:26:43 minutes in length and Part 2 – Plant Schedules lecture  0:20:33 minutes in length, ). We provide descriptions for all visual content and transcripts for videos.

Library resources

You will be required to access library resources as part of your unit. Any essential reading is provided electronically.

Projects

This unit contains a 2D Scaled Plan workshop and a Parallel Projections (Isometric/axonometric) tutorial. Students who are unable to attend the workshop/tutorial will be able to submit work, students can practice drawing scale plans of their site by hand and upload them to the 2D Workshop Padlet for asynchronous critique and comments.

Tuition strategy 

Support is provided by academic staff through tutorials, formative feedback, and group activities. Tutorials are delivered through online video conferencing with optional captioning and/or recordings. Feedback is provided through written documents or as a tutorial with notes.Group activities are delivered as asynchronous forum activities and synchronous group discussions through online video conferencing for this unit. Optional captioning and/or recording is available for video conferencing.

Working with Others

This unit encourages/requires you to work with other students through contributing to online group activities, such as group workshops, group tutorials, group forums e.g. Garden Design Forum and group padlets throughout the unit projects.

Assessment

Assessment takes place through an annotated  digital portfolio, learning log documenting research undertaken, exercises, model making and reflections, uploaded to the VLE

Study tempo

Students are able to define a part-time study tempo that works for them within the overall time frame deadline for the unit. Guidance and support on study skills and time management is available online through the OCA Student Handbook on the VLE.

OCA Accessibility Statement

The OCA Accessibility Statement covers the OCA website, which you may use to access course or unit information, or OCA policies.

Mode of study

All of this unit’s study materials are available online. 

Online materials

Online learning materials set out the unit’s content and activities. These comprise of text, images, documents, links to external resources, videos, padlets and online forums. These can be accessed via our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), OCA Learn. 

Visual content

The learning materials for this unit contain some diagrams, illustrations, photographs and audio video content (Project 1-Basic Skills in InDesign 1:17:17 hours:minutes in length, Basic Skills in Photoshop 1:00:04 hours:minutes in length, Project 2-Basic Skills in CAD 56:09 minutes in length, Project 3-Measuring Skills in CAD 16:21 minutes in length, Project 4-  Basic Tools In Autocad 1:35:03 minutes in length, Basic tools in CAD/Photoshop – Section and Elevation Lines 1:13:55 hours:minutes in length, Project 5-Basic tools in Autocad – Hard Landscape Details 49:29 minutes in length, Project 6-Planting Details and Sections 32:54 minutes in length, Project 7-Setting Up A Plant Maintenance Sheet 35:24 minutes in length, Project 8-Setting Out Plans 47:28 minutes in length). We provide descriptions for all visual content and transcripts for videos.

Library resources

You will be required to access library resources as part of your unit. Any essential reading is provided electronically.

Projects

This unit contains a Group Planning Workshop in Project 2. Students who are unable to attend the workshop will need to use the link to Defra Magic Map to identify designations on their site and submit this work to the shared Planning Padlet for asynchronous critique and comments. In Project 9 students will need to visit and assess a built garden/public space to be able to produce a critical case study. This can be submitted as a written booklet/document or an audio-visual presentation, depending on student choice.

Tuition strategy 

Support is provided by academic staff through tutorials, formative feedback, and group activities. Tutorials are delivered through online video conferencing with optional captioning and/or recordings. Feedback is provided through written documents or as a tutorial with notes, depending on student choice. Group activities are delivered as asynchronous forum activities and synchronous group discussions through online video conferencing for this unit. Optional captioning and/or recording is available for video conferencing.

Working with Others

This unit encourages/requires you to work with other students through contributing to online group activities, such as group workshops, group tutorials, group forums e.g. Garden Design Forum and group padlets throughout the unit projects.

Assessment

Assessment takes place through a digital portfolio uploaded to the VLE. 

Study tempo

Students are able to define a part-time study tempo that works for them within the overall time frame deadline for the unit. Guidance and support on study skills and time management is available online through the OCA Student Handbook on the VLE.