June 2014

Upgrade of Questionmark Perception, from version 5.2, to version 5.4.

Appraisal of QMP cloud based tools will be included.

The development of pilot projects exploring the use of technologies and  functionality for innovative assessment and feedback practice. Focus will be on evaluating opportunities and challenges for integration with existing systems, best match with pedagogic requirements, adaptability and scalability. We anticipate that the technologies explored will be a mix of hosted (cloud-based) and installed here.  Schools and courses with a history of innovative approaches to assessment will be identified and invited to develop these pilots.

Three separate projects are expected :- Adaptive Learing Map My Programme Feedback Analytics Capture Systems

This project will deliver a management information reporting solution that Schools and IS can use to understand the breadth and depth of engagement with IS Technology Enhanced Learning Services. It will be possible to see the picture at individual School level, at College level, or for the institution as a whole.

TEL012 (AP34-048)

Moodle Upgrade

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

 GREEN

Report by Colin Forrest for June 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• The project has progressed to the Acceptance stage and at our acceptance meeting all areas of the upgrade passed muster with all stakeholders other than one issue with the TEST area.

Issues

• The issue with the test area is yet to be fully bottomed out.  Initial investigations have shown that it may not be a code issue with the Moodle System other than the expected slowdown documented with the 2.6 system.  There is a disparity between the KB and AT sides of the TEST infrastructure when we’ve done initial load tests with one side performing at exactly half the speed of the other side.  We are monitoring the issue through a JIRA and subsequently a support call to ITI (I140708-0881).

Next Steps

• Resolve the one issue and then deploy the system to LIVE.

TEL011 (AP34-049)

Next Generation Personal Response System (PRS) - Procurement

Compliance  

Milestones   

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Maurice Franceschi for June 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• new procurement approach agreed
• new milestones set

Issues

• The colleges have decided that the physical devices supplied will no longer be used, and the university will move to students bringing their own mobile device

Next Steps

• issue PQQ

TEL013

Learn Automated Failover

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Colin Forrest for June 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• The system has been integrated into TEST and the some integration rework was done.  The expanded Card System is now at the UAT stage.
• With this the relevant persons have been setup by Student Systems and testing of the UAT is due to begin on the week of this report. The testing will take multiple days as the test persons are allowed to progress through the relevant systems as they would normally.

Issues

• Integration rework has caused a short delay in the start of the UAT as has the patching done to the TEST DB layer on the 8^th of July and the subsequent failure of the EUGEX to IDM connector to run since.  This however does not materially impact the project schedule as we are due to deploy in October.

Next Steps

• Finish the UAT and complete the ASOR.  Then the project will go into hiatus until peak period for Card is over in October.