October 2019

TEL050

Academic Blogging Service

Discretionary

Milestones:

RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Sonali Nakhate for Oct 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• IDM Integration  functionality deployed to Live post change freeze period.
• Project Review complete and closure report completed

Issues 

• None

Next Steps

• Get Project Closure report approval and close project.

TEL052

QMP Upgrade (17/18)

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status:

AMBER

Report by Colin Watt for Oct 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• It was agreed at the DSOR 29/08/19 that the project could not yet close due to issues which have come up in the period post deployment. Closure milestone date moved to 31/10/19.
• The emailing from assessments issue has been recognised as a known issue by Questionmark: they have proposed to resolve this with an upgrade to the application; it has been agreed that this upgrade be carried out by Questionmark but would need to be scheduled for the Christmas period and would be in service. 
• It was requested that DR testing be carried out before project closure however the outcome of discussion with ITI was proposal to move on to the stretch cluster, given that DR has been verified on the platform.

Issues

• There remain two issues preventing project closure; there is a plan to resolve both of these (one within the project, the other in service).

Next Steps

• Ensure platform is on infrastructure with verified level of DR.
• Decommissioning of legacy QMP platform / update of TAD / Deployment checklists completed.

TEL057

Learn Foundations

Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Lee-Ann Simpson for Oct 2019

Achievements in the last period

• Worked on the Phase One School School analysis;
• Worked on the Phase One School School reports;
• Began Phase Two;
• Scheduled Lessons Learned for Phase One (start of October);
• Re-planned the milestones for Phase Two based on Phase Two project plan.

Issues

• None

Next Steps

• Complete the Phase One School School reports;
• Continue on the Phase Two work streams
• Create the Evaluation baseline;
• Complete Lessons Learned for Phase One with the project team;
• Schedule Lessons Learned for Phase One with the Schools involved within the project.

TEL058

Learn to the Cloud

Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Sonali Nakhate for Oct 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• Testing uncovered some issues with Learn MyEd channel, investigation work ongoing.
• Development work for final solution for BI data feed complete and ready for testing. LTW awaiting access to Test TELSMI.
• Setup of SaaS staging environment ongoing.
• Business Requirements document created for 'Implementation of Data Retention Policy' work. Awaiting revised estimates from Software Development.

Issues

• None

Next Steps

• Complete testing of Learn MyEd channel changes and deploy to Live.
• Complete testing of BI feed.
• Complete setup of SaaS staging environment.
• Start development work for 'Implementation of Data Retention Policy' strand of work.

TEL063

Lynda.com upgrade to Linkedin Learning

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status: RED

Report by Kevin Hone for Oct 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• Options for resourcing the reporting solution and taking this work forward have been documented and previously issued to the Business Lead for consideration.

Issues

• There remains no clear date as to when the Reporting API from LinkedIn Learning will be made available. 
• The Business Lead has had other priorities to focus on so no time has been given to considering outstanding work for this project. 
• Resource for building the BI Reports is not available and would have to be progressed via contract staff were this work to be taken forward.

Next Steps

• An invitation to join a Reporting pilot scheme with LinkedIn Learning needs to be explored to determine if this is a worthy investment of UoE effort.
• Work with business and technology to consider a tactical solution of CSV downloads rather than API use as a source for reporting. 

RAG Commentary

Description of Issue:

We are only able to report service uptake and activity at an organisational level. Prior to the service upgrade from Lynda.com to LinkedIn Learning, we had developed a bespoke reporting solution that allowed reporting to School level.  Previously, these detailed reports were run monthly and used to demonstrate service engagement/value for money to ISG CIO, Heads of College IT, Knowledge Strategy and IT Committees. 

Project Impact:

The project has yet to deliver a full reporting solution.

Project Resolution:

To explore UoE involvement in a pilot reporting solution with the third party and consider an alternative,  tactical reporting solution in discussion with the Project Sponsor and Head of Development.    

TEL059

Moodle Upgrade

TEL060

Learn Upgrade