slides of the module catalogue project

1. Module Catalogue Demonstration Matthew Bull and Nicholas Thurston

2. Introduction Background Objectives of the module catalogue Handbook information and how the catalogue works Demonstration Programme Factory – the bigger picture

3. Background 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 Module Handbook editor and pdf/print export On-line module catalogue Drupal module editor and data exports 2011 Prospectus data upload On-line prospectus Drupal prospectus editor and data exports Programme Handbook information upload Drupal programme editor and data exports Content Management System: Programme Factory

4. Objectives of module catalogue Single re-usable source of module information More efficient and consistent editing, storage and sharing of module descriptions Searchable web pages to help students choose modules Acts as a template for prospectus, programme handbooks and programme and module specification processes

5. Handbook information as data Module textual info such as synopsis or learning outcomes are in a database Editor interface to allow departments to change the information Automated processes take textual info and merge with Student Data System and Timetabling data Output is web pages and print-ready formats

6. Current handbook production Many different handbooks in the University: faculty, department, short-term, flexible-learning, etc. Each has different deadlines, groups of modules, and print formats, which when presented on the web can be confusing to students Difficult to search

7. Current handbooks on web To preserve existing module handbooks on the web, we have introduced the term ‘collection’ to describe subsets of all the modules on offer e.g. Humanities Stage 1 Social Sciences Stage 2&3 Short-term modules Computing Stage 1

8. How it works SDS xml web pages Nightly transfer Timetabling Module Handbook data Web styling and search functionality Module Handbook Editor

9. Where is it? www.kent.ac.uk/studying/modulecatalogue/

10. Demo - two scenarios Scenario 1 Prospective student with an interest in French and browsing for interesting modules.

11. Demo - two scenarios (cont) Scenario 2 Existing Law student who wants more detail on optional modules LW585/6, and then generally browsing for other optional modules starting LW5.

12. How do you link to it? Direct link to central catalogue: http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/modulecatalogue/

13. How do you link to it? (cont) Link to entire module catalogue Module listings not yet possible, but will be… Module catalogue

14. How do you link to it? (cont) Direct link to a module: http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/modulecatalogue/modules/EN302.xml

15. How do you link to it? (cont) Link to EN302.xml in the module catalogue

16. How do you link to it? (cont)

17. How do you link to it? (cont)

18. How do you link to it? (cont) Direct link to a ‘collection’ eghttp://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/modulecatalogue/collections/xyz.xml

19. How do you link to it? (cont) Link to a list of relevant modules in the catalogue Module catalogue Existing pdf still needed for now

20. Bigger picture Content management system Content Factories – content reuse for personal profiles, programmes, modules, news, events, etc. Permissions and workflow controls. Easy content editing.

21. User Interface A Content Factory

22. Programme and ModuleContent Factory User interface links/read only

23. Programme and ModuleContent Factory (cont) Overall architecture is similar to the current setup. SDS Factory offers enhanced functionality. xml web pages Nightly transfer Timetabling other data sources web output Module Handbook data factory Web styling and search functionality user interface Module Handbook Editor

24. More info http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cms/ http://twitter.com/UniOfKentCMS