Report for January 2016

Report Date

January 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Finished development and deployed marks rattification, publishing and amendment for overall course marks
• Developed and deployed various enhancements to aid exam board preparation
• Complete changes, test and deploy BI universe, board report and basic programme report
• Initial analysis for MyEd channel replacement
• Provided training for pilot schools for January exam boards
• Provided ongoing support for pilot schools through exam boards 

• Met with key academic and administrative contacts in group 1 and 2 schools
• Drew up transition plan for group 1 & 2 schools for 2016-17 

Resolved issues

• https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/sac034/issues/30 Increase to project budget

Open Issues

• https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/sac034/issues/21 Difficulty engaging with software supplier.  Met with software supplier, awaiting response to requests.
• https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/sac034/issues/32 Impact of LIVE performance issues on the project
• https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/sac034/issues/31 Impact of sickness absence of SSP IS team leader

Next Steps

• Analysis of Award and Progresssion flows and start development
• Enhance course and SMART migration 
• Set up courses and migrate SMART courses for schools moving onto APT for 2016/17 
• Develop dropping items of assessment
• Review exam boards with Schools and plan required enhancements
• Carry out technical review of board reports : BI Suite v EUCLID
• Investigate use of StuTalk/services for exposing data for MyEd channels (and potentially LEARN, EUCLID staff and student views)
• Wider college briefings 
• Start course set up training of schools moving onto APT for 2016/17 

Milestones