March 2021

TEL057

Learn Foundations

Discretionary

Milestones:

RAG Status: RED: Project has been escalated due to the current recruitment freeze within the Univeristy impacting two core project team members who are on fixed term contracts currently. Mitigations are being prepared should we not be in a position to extend contracts.

Achievements in the last period

• Continued Phase Three programme of engagement.

• Continued Phase Three programme of user experience (All Learn Foundations user experience work completed with final analysis undwerway).

• Continued with Phase Three workstreams, including:

  • User Experience: Providing additional information around both student and staff requirements in relation to hybrid teaching (particularly virtual classrooms);
  • Support and Guidance: Looking at additional support and guidance when using Learning Technology to make the most of out each course;
  • Best Practise: Provision of sharing best practise to afford colleagues the opportunity to review other courses that may enhance the delivery of their own course (or in turn, share their best practise for others to benefit from);
  • Student Recruitment: Recruitment of student interns across the summer of 2021 to support with the delivery of the project.  Still to be undertaken once go-ahead from IS confirmed.

Issues

• Project has been raised to RED due to the recruitment freeze imapcting two core project team members. 

Next Steps

• Continue Phase Three programme of engagement.

• Continue Phase Three programme of user experience.

• Continue with Phase Three workstreams, including:

  • Support and Guidance: Looking at additional support and guidance when using Learning Technology to make the most of out each course;
  • Best Practise: Provision of sharing best practise to afford colleagues the opportunity to review other courses that may enhance the delivery of their own course (or in turn, share their best practise for others to benefit from);
  • Student Recruitment: Recruitment of student interns across the summer of 2021 to support with the delivery of the project.
  • Template: Final decisions to be made on the next iteration of the template in preparation for the Phase Three build being created.
• Support the Learn User Base Navigation Project with user experience activities - pulling from the work undertaken by Learn Foundations in Phase One and Phase Three

TEL068

EExams Procurement

Compliance

Milestones:

RAG Status

Report by Colin Forrest for Mar 2021

Achievements in the last period

Issues

Next Steps

TEL070

Moodle Annual Upgrade

Compliance

Milestones:

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by David Watters for Mar 2021

Achievements this period

• Project brief and plans signed off
• Apps resources secured and assigned
• Business analysis work by LTW staff and Applications started
• System analysis and design underway

Issues

• Need to upgrade database identified - project will need to include additional time for this

Next Steps

• Business analysis work by LTW staff and Applications to be signed off
• System analysis and design to be completed
• Build of new db infrastructure to be completed
• Project plan to be tweaked to include additional infrastructure tasks

TEL064

Moodle Upgrade

TEL063

Lynda.com upgrade to Linkedin Learning