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Student Life Cycle
Project Details
Description:
The Student Lifecycle Project includes recruitment, admissions, advising, registration, assessment, progression and graduation, as well as a full Curriculum Management System. The Project is divided into a number of phases and will be implementated over three to five years commencing March 2013.
Phase I covers the delivery of an online system to support student course choices, MyCurriculum, for the academic year 2014/15. The introduction of an online system is a significant business process change from the current method of course selection, and will complement the introduction of Personal Tutors to enhance student support.
The coding of full Curriculum Rules and Regulations within the new system, with interfaces to CMIS, the University's timetabling package, will allow students to have access to much greater information as they begin to consider their course choices, and lead to enhanced student satisfaction with curricular choice.
Phase I - Student Lifecycle Project
The aim is to have MyCurriculum in place ready for returning and new students to make initial self-service course selections over the sunmmer of 2014, ahead of the start of the new academic session.
Phase I Benefits:
The implementation of MyCurriculum will deliver a number of benefits to the University:
- A student-led system leading to:
- Better student ownership and understanding of the degree requirements
- Better informed course choices:
- New students could have an opportunity to consider curriculum choices pre-arrival
- Returning students could make course selections before summer recess
- Students (or Personal Tutors) can request appointments
- Other savings:
- Improved business processes allowing staff time to be focused on students who need the most assistance
Short-Term Timetable (March to June 2013)
- Project planning
- Workshops (April thru June) to agree requirements
- Systems design
- Development work agreed
Subsequent Phases
The precise scope and timing of subsequent phases will be agreed through the detailed planning for the Project.
Time-frame (Phase I): To be completed by August 2014 (target)
Project Sponsor: Professor Peter McGeorge
Project Board: Membership to follow
Project Director: Nicki Matthew
Student Lifecycle Project Director
Nicki Matthew is the Project Director for the OneSource Student Lifecycle Project. Nicki re-joined the University in March 2013 to take on this role, having previously worked here between 1998 and 2010, latterly as Senior Policy Adviser for Research. Nicki has extensive work experience in higher education covering project management, research policy development and planning, the research assessment exercise and research excellence framework. She has worked on the development and implementation of improved management information systems to support, monitor and report on research activities.
Contact Nicki at n.matthew@abdn.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1224 273622
Student Life Cycle Project Board
The remit of the OneSource Student Life Cycle Project board is:
- Approves the Project Initiation Document
- Championing the project and raising awareness at senior level
- Communicating with other key University representatives
- Driving and managing change throughout the University
- Resolving strategic and policy issues
- Provide overall guidance and direction to the project
- Ensures that quality assurance mechanisms are in place
- Reviews project risks
- Approves project plan
- Approves project changes
- Authorises project closure
