For Lecturers¶
An Orientation to Vestigia for Supervisors and Module Coordinators¶
This section is written for lecturers, supervisors, and module coordinators who encounter Vestigia while supporting final-year or capstone project students — whether through direct recommendation, a student's mention of it, or your own exploration of the repository.
It is written as one educator to another, not as a persuasion document. The goal is to give you a clear picture of what Vestigia is and what it is not, so that you can make your own informed decision about whether and how to mention it to your students.
Nothing in this section assumes your endorsement, requires curriculum changes, or asks anything of you structurally.
What This Section Contains¶
What Vestigia Is provides a complete account of the framework — its intellectual basis, its two-phase structure, its relationship to the log book tradition, and where it sits relative to existing academic expectations. This is the document to read first if you are new to Vestigia.
How It Works in Practice explains what students actually do when they use Vestigia — what Guide A asks of them during a project, what Guide B asks of them after it, and what the experience looks like from a supervision perspective. It also addresses how Vestigia interacts with common project management approaches, including Agile.
Mentioning It to Students offers practical framing for how to introduce Vestigia if you choose to — when to mention it, how to position it, and what questions students typically ask. It includes suggested language for different contexts: pre-project briefings, supervision meetings, and subject documentation.
Assessment and Integration addresses the relationship between Vestigia records and existing assessment structures — where they naturally connect, how student work produced through Vestigia tends to show up in assessable components, and considerations for departments that wish to integrate the framework more formally.
How to Navigate This Section¶
If you are encountering Vestigia for the first time: read What Vestigia Is and How It Works in Practice in sequence. Those two documents give you everything you need to form a view.
If you are already familiar with the framework and deciding whether to recommend it: go directly to Mentioning It to Students.
If you are exploring formal integration or curriculum alignment: Assessment and Integration addresses that specifically.
On tone
The student-facing sections of Vestigia are written collegially and directly — not institutionally. This section is written the same way. Vestigia does not position itself as an authority on how final-year projects should be run. It is a tool that some students find genuinely useful. This section helps you decide whether your students are likely to be among them.
Begin with What Vestigia Is.