PT: Student functions and enhanced staff functions now live, delay to delivery of full staff functions

Report Date

August 2012

Achievements in Last Period

Project aims for August were to:

• define the requirements for the (enhanced) notes functions, in particular the email notifications (complete)
• complete build and test for student MyEd channel changes (complete)
• build, test and release enhancements to notes as soon as they are ready in priority order 1. Mark as read (complete), 2. Notification emails (complete), 3. Add file (in progress), 4. Flag as deleted (in progress), 5. Summary digest email to monitor (not started) [note it is unlikely all of these will be completed in September]
• track user feedback and suggestions and define changes to be grouped into mini-project for small enhancements (see Staff Enhancements List)
• participate in the wider communications planning (complete)
• participate in the training and rollout where needed (complete).

Issues

• Amber status due to: delay in completion of work in July and August meant prioritisation of student functions for delivery prior to Fresher's week (complete); delivery of remaining staff functions will be through September.
• Introduction of new functionality to enable formatting of text will delay delivery of Add File, Flag as Deleted and Summary digest email to monitor, likely into October.

Next Steps

Project aims for September are to:

• deploy the student MyEd channel changes to live
• complete build and test of the remaining PT and SSO functions (including batch job of notification for change of PT) and deploy to live
• build, test and release enhancements to notes as soon as they are ready in priority order (new function formatting added following core group decision on 10-Sep-12) 1. Formatting of text within notes, 2. Add file (in progress), 3. Flag as deleted (in progress), 4. Summary digest email to monitor (not started) [note it is unlikely all of these will be completed in September]
• continue to track user feedback and suggestions and define changes to be grouped into mini-project for small enhancements (see Staff Enhancements List)
• participate in the development of the communications to staff and students and updates regarding the IT Tools project.

Milestones and tracking of completion are on the wiki page: Project Milestone and Completion Log