A few observations about this - a way of thinking about "the student experience" particularly in light of September.

Clearly the "balance of hours" between A, B C and D varies between courses, students, universities, students and circumstances. But we can play and make some assumptions.

Lots of attention paid to Area A so far. Area A is not a huge part of an average student's week. It's important - but doesn't use up much time.

Very little attention paid to Area B so far. Much of this happens on campus - will there still be facilities for this to happen, especially in groups, on campus?

If we are shifting expected hours to deliver learning outcomes from A to B, that's a red flag on value and student satisfaction.

Some attention paid so far to C but it largely sounds like marquees in late September. Finding viable on campus facilities for C in December when its cold will be tough.

D is really hard to make happen organically online - we should assume we need to do much more C than D than usual to engender belonging etc.

So much of all four is already online and arguably quite unhealthy as a result. Are we about to make that all worse?

Very few people thinking about D but it's absolutely vital. Will there be campus facilities for this - not least because our usual facilities (going to pubs, clubs, cafes and each other's houses) are likely to be severely restricted?

More thoughts welcome! The diagonals would be offline/online, by the way.