Report for May April 2022

Report Date

May 2022

Achievements

•  Feature freeze implemented in order to create a stable environment for the UBN Production release on the 28^th of June.
• Resource allocated for putting Teams onto the live Teams tenant in order for this to be launched on the 28^th of June.
• Resource allocated to turn off Grades and Assessments in Teams.
• Resource allocated to put OneDrive onto testing environment so the technical team can make their recommendations.
• Copy on self-enrol and guest courses to be approved and then this can be shared via the LUG (Teams and email to the LUG email list). We will first communicate what’s changing as part of the UBN release and send more information for the next AY later on this year.
• New LUG meeting set up for the 16^th of June at 2pm to discuss items such as self-enrol and guest courses, quick enrol, Teams and other updates.
• Fiona Hendrie now officially made Communications Officer who will be leading on the UBN (and Learn Ultra) comms going forward.
• Poster comms has been signed off and sent to the printer ahead of the Learning and Teaching conference.
• UBN ‘it’s coming’ and ‘it’s here’ images been created for Learn.
• UBN introduction videos created and added to the UBN Learning and Teaching posters. They will also be added to staff and student comms, as well as the Learn Ultra Sharepoint.

Issues

• More time is needed on the Pebble+ 1.3 integration by the vendor. The current release has been tested and is a no go. As such, alternatives are being investigated for this AY and the 1.3 roll out that will take place as part of phase 2 in 2023. Joe will investigate whether 1.1 can be made available from the UBN Tools section in the native setting, or whether low usage amongst EA courses would mean flat links will be the best solution. Conversations will be had between Myles, Fiona Buckland and EAs to understand what the requirements are for Pebble+ amongst early adopters.
• The MyEd service have made some small recommendations on the wording that is to be placed in the portlet. Karen will discuss this further with Stuart before a decision is made.

Next Steps

• Teams to be placed onto the live Teams tenant in order for this to be launched on the 28^th of June.
• Grades and assessments within Teams to be disabled.
• OneDrive to be placed into the testing environment in order for the technical team to make their recommendations on whether to launch this as a tool or not.
• Continue the UBN comms ahead of the UBN launch and post launch in partnership with Fiona Hendrie. Also, promote all training opportunities + supporting material created (e.g. the UBN drop in session recording).
• Go live with Ultra Base Navigation on the 28^th of June.