Tuesday 22 May 2012

Yanqing attended the Business Action Group (BAG) for student engagement systems (SES) meeting on 26 April. She provided an update on two JISC projects: Business Intelligence project and transformation project. The revised EA questionnaires were distributed to the meeting participants. Yanqing introduced the six key enablers for strategic use of student engagement systems in the university and drew BAG meeting participants attention to the importance of considering the long term use and impact of SES.

Wednesday 9 May 2012

JISC SIMSE Project Meeting

Our monthly JISC SIMSE project meeting took place on 25 April 2012. University wide IS updates included: SES is to be integrated with Personal Tutoring Systems,  SES monitoring equipment will be installed in every teaching facility, and data-warehousing system will extract data from SiTs (student record system), Timetabling, and attendance databases.

Other University IT announcements includes the opening of the University Repository Service to direct submission by staff. Training sessions have been arranged throughout May but direct support will be available for staff if large scale data enty is required.
It was agreed that the terms of reference for the Steering Group is to drafted to clarify the membership, objectives and planned meeting of the Steering Group. It was agreed that the key function of the Steering Group will be to review the SIMSE project progress and implementation against the original objectives of the project application.
We had our first Steering Group (SG) meeting on 30 April. Six people attended the meeting representing key stakeholders of student engagement systems in the university (Senior management.(academic and student experience), planning in registry, ISD). Project Leader introduced the JISC transformational programme and the UoB's transformation project SIMSE. Terms and references were discussed and accepted. The draft SICT implementation plan was discussed and approved. It was agreed that the project should focus on three key strategic ICT enablers: ICT governance, commnucations and engagement, and ICT shared services.

Next SG meeting will be in six month later (Nov/Dec).