JISC

Brockenhurst College, Totton College and Farnborough College of Technology are partners in the ‘Applied ICT for Business’ (ict4.biz) Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE). ict4.biz’s collaborative work has created a complex need for sharing of enrolment, course and learner management data between the partners. This project will standards/services-enable three Management Information Systems (MIS) in common use in the FE sector. Data to be shared will include learner, staff and class records, timetables, enrolments, statistics (retention, achievement, success, gender etc). This data is currently shared through off-line records and paper-based reports (derived from each partner’s MIS).

Aims and Objectives

The specific objectives are to:

• To implement a partnership deployment of Brockenhurst’s Sweet.NET toolkit
• To Sweet-enable the MIS at each partner college through the authoring of adaptors
• To aggregate data drawn from the 3 MIS into a single partnership portal
• To demonstrate the operational benefits of the prototypical regional MLE

Project Methodology

The project will be managed and implemented by the Brockenhurst College MLE Development team. The team will work in partnership with MIS and IT staff at each of the three colleges, and with the ict4.biz steering group, to identify and meet the specific requirements of the end users. The majority of the coding work will be completed by the MLE Development team and it is hoped that a Foundation Degree student from the CoVE will also gain work experience through coding involvement with the project team. FD Learning and Capita will support the project in a consultancy capacity as an when the need arises. They will be kept closely informed of the work of the project as it progresses so as to ensure compliance with support contracts etc.

Implications/ Deliverables/ Stakeholders

• Sweet.NET adaptors for Tribal Technology EBS and Capita Unit-e and IMS Enterprise data maps
• Planning and implementation documentation for the Sweet deployment in a partnership environment
• Evaluation documentation
• Expansion of college expertise (all 3 colleges) in developing and deploying standards-conformant data transfer through web services
• Experience designing and implementing a prototypical regional MLE

Final Report This project completed in Oct 05 and their final report is available at the bottom of page. 

Project Partners

• Farnborough College of Technology
• Totton College
• Tribal Technology (formerly FD Learning)
• Capita FHE