SITS integration with Blackboard in a Federal HE context; Management perspective on what is

‘advanced’ now

Nancy TurnerAssociate Dean: Professional Development

University of the Arts, London

What I did summer 2007 and why…

Nancy TurnerAssociate Dean: Professional Development

University of the Arts, London

Before 2007

• some use of VLE•manual process of student enrolment•No management centrally of creation, enrolments or ‘clean-up’ of system – user request lead

2007

VLE integrated with Student Records System

• Allow for growth of use of e-learning and VLE beyond current capacity limited by staff manual entry

• Reduce errors in course creation and enrolment and improve staff/student experience

2007

VLE

QL

Staff Records System

Course file

Student account

file

Staff account

file

Enrolment file

Key:Existing databases

Flat files

2007

VLE

CustomAuthentication

QL

E-Directory

Course Mapping

Table

E-mail Look-up

Table

LDAP Mapping-students

Student account

file

Course creation

file

Enrolment file

Staff account

file Key:Existing databases

Mapping tables

Flat files

processes

2007

EfficienciesEnhancementTransformation

2008

•Policy for required minimum course content•Possible for students to access VLE prior to enrolment

Q22 Overall Satisfaction

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National Student Survey 2009

• Establish the minimum requirements for all courses on Blackboard to provide equity in the student course experience

• Provide easy access for students to relevant course documents

2009

•Policy requiring VLE site for all courses

• Enhance communication between course teams and students

• Establish the minimum requirements for all courses on Blackboard to provide equity in the student course experience

• Provide easy access for students to relevant course documents

2007

315 course sites

2008

455 course sites

2009

746 course sites

09-10 08-09 %

Number of course sites 746 455 64

Number of courses sites with over 25 content items*

450 264 70

Number of course sites using announcements

487 444 10

Average number of announcements per month

5548** 3 353 65

Number of course sites using discussion fora

131 125 <1

Total fora Used 567 330 72

Number of course sites using groups 182 167 9

Overall use

* Each course is created through an automated process with a standard 25 content items ** September to March 2010

Key points

• Strategic drivers at all points along the way• Needs not technology based• Institutional investment• Institutional support

New challenges

• Control of processes• Streamlined VLE?• Increasing costs and demands but decreasing

financial resource• Is real transformation the future?