Education Systems Programme Update

Rebecca Warren, Programme & Change Manager, Education Development and Student Support

12 March 2012

Programme Drivers• Improved student experience• Effective corporate systems supporting fit-for-

purpose standard processes• Support academic policies and quality assurance• Efficient administration and support for academic

staff• Replace unsustainable local systems• Flexibility where needed• Statutory/sector-wide drivers

Recently completed projects

• UG Admissions selection database• Events & Interviews• Postgraduate Applications (Hobsons Apply

Yourself)• SITS technical infrastructure improvements

Projects closing soon

• Common Timetabling Platform (Q1 2012)

• Integrated e-learning (Blackboard) (Q2 2012)

Ongoing projects

• Online unit registration

• Fees 2012

• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Customer Relationship Management

• Online Prospectus (2014)

• Key Information Sets

Forthcoming projects

• Dynamic Lab Manuals rollout

• Lecture capture

• Further work on e-learning tools

• Student Services support

SITS ongoing projects

• Automation of transfers, withdrawals and suspensions

• Paperless admissions • PG stipend management• Review of access to SITS• Student Accounting Module (Finance)

SITS in future

• Tribal invited to review our SITS implementation in January 2012

• Made recommendations on basis of modern SITS implementations in other institutions – recognise we need to catch up

• Currently reviewing recommendations and putting together plans and business case – expecting to invest heavily in SITS improvements

How do systems changes get made?

• Sponsorship needed

• Established process for small and large changes

• Small projects/discipline-specific needs met through Small Simple Initiative

• University-wide projects approved via business case route

Got a good idea?

• Requests for SITS: via SITS team (ssio-systems@bris.ac.uk) or your representatives on the SITS User Group

• Speak to your line manager

• Speak to me or Claire Nuttall in Strategic Projects Office

Any questions?