The ESSQ ChM VLEs support the 4 Edinburgh Specialist Surgical Qualifications (ChM) in General, Urology, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Vascular and Endovascular surgery. They are among a number of bespoke VLEs commissioned by academic programmes within the University. In common with many of the bespoke VLEs, it provides a highly customised user experience, with a strong sense of programme branding, but has not been built in a resilient manner.  Although supported by second line support teams during standard office hours, it is not classed as High Priority in the University Disaster Recovery Classification.

The University has 2 centrally provided VLEs: Blackboard Learn and Moodle. Both these services are supported by IS and have user groups allowing colleagues who use the services input in to how they are developed. They are classed as High Priority in the University Disaster Recovery Classification and benefit from the highest level of relsilience with infrastructure located in both the University's main hosting sites.

This project will look at additional aspects of a migration of the bespoke ESSQ ChM VLEs to the centrally provided Blackboard Learn VLE

It is one of series of migrations scoped by the VLE Consolidation Project TEL038.