Project meeting at Bedford Campus 3pm on 3 Feb

Another SIMSE meeting was held at 3pm today in Bedford Campus. Team members discussed the questionnaires to be used for SES (Student Engagement System) Business Action Group (BAG) meeting.

The purpose of the Business Action Group is to determine how the Student Engagement System (SES) can be best used to support the student experience. The group will ensure that a consistent approach is taken so that duplication is avoided and produce the necessary support documentation including:

• Triaster process maps
• Training requirement specification
• User documentation
• Communication plan - user instruction, advertisements and posters
• Equipment monitoring specification

The group will also input into the feasibility of expanding the current placement of attendance equipment and web based analysis software to interrogate the attendance monitor unit data.

BAG membership consists of the representatives of the key SES stakeholder including Registry, ISD, faculty managers, faculty administrators, UKBA compliance offer, Academic staff, International office, etc.

Based on the Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) framework and JISC EA guidelines, the questionnaire asks respondents to reflect their thoughts on the “as is” (current) state and the “to be” state of SES in the following four basic boundary issues: source of motivation, decision making and governance, source of knowledge and guarantee, and source of legitimacy. To each basic boundary issue, three categories are assigned: stakeholder, concerns and difficulty.

This is an exploratory exercise aiming to examine stakeholders’ understanding of SES and their sense of directions.