Report for February 2016

Report Date

February 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Started Award and Progresssion development
• Developed enhancements to course set up and SMART migration so that process can be run by Student Systems (saving Dev Tech resource)
• Developed initial functions for dropping items of assessment
• Carried out review of exam boards with Schools 
• Technical review of board reports : BI Suite v EUCLID
• Investigated use of StuTalk/services for exposing data for MyEd channels (and potentially LEARN, EUCLID staff and student views)
• Comms: presented 4 wider college briefings 
• Transition planning: meetings set up with group 2 schools moving onto APT for 2016/17 to agee plan for rest of 2016
• Delivered course set up training of schools to 4 group 2 schools 

Resolved issues

• Impact of sickness absence of SSP IS team leader
• Impact of Live performance issues
• Change of Sponsor
• Change of milestone for S1 exam board review
• Behind plan on Progression and Award processing  resolved at 2/3

Open Issues

• Difficulty engaging with software supplier.  
• Lead developer on Jury duty

Next Steps

• Set up courses and migrate SMART courses for schools moving onto APT for 2016/17 
• Develop functionality to support straight through progression and award process 
• Work with software supplier to set up progression and award rules for pilot programmes
• Define strategy for reassessment development

Milestones