Led by Tim Boundy, applications and video development team manager, Jisc. With contribution from Pete Gallop, head of ILT, Isle of Wight College. This session will explore the potential that technology can bring to all forms of collaboration, and consider the difference that it has made to some local organisations and their practices. Connect more in Nottingham, Tuesday 12 July 2016.

2. Collaboration through technology:
Moving from possibility to practice
Tim Boundy
Media services development team manager
Jisc

3. Collaboration through technology
A quick tour through first party Jisc support and services
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6. We want to hear from you!
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7. Connecting broadcasters and institutions
» Benefits:
› Increased exposure for the institution
and its experts
› Connects with national and
international broadcasters
› Reduced time demands on academics
Enables institutions to make real time video contributions
to television broadcasts
» Globelynx:
› Fully managed service including booking
and helpdesk
› All institutions can have own equipment
» Three hubs in UK
› Professionalstudioavailable forinstitutions
in the surrounding area to use
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8. Arts and humanities
» Three Jisc funded collaborative projects
» Arts and humanities special interest group
› UK network of peers that have a need to use technology
» Freely loanable equipment available
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9. Janet txt
» Comprehensive suite of secure SMS services provided by PageOne
» Safely and securely distribute SMS messages that can be accessed from
any internet enabled device
» Integrate into management information systems to:
› Send timely information on course changes, site closures, reminders,
tutorials, deadlines, etc
› Receive feedback from students and staff
» Message individuals and groups
» Real time delivery confirmation
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10. Streaming and lecture capture
» Community defined prioritised features
» Multi supplier framework
› At least three suppliers and a ‘Preferred supplier’
» Approved suppliers host their services and storage on Janet network
» Institutions can use framework:
› A) Directly purchase from the ‘preferred supplier’
› B) Engage suppliers in a mini competition
» We would like up to ten institutions to be listed on the procurement as
‘AnchorTenants’
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11. Moving to the cloud
Helping institutions exploit the potential of cloud computing
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12. Cloud computing in a nutshell
Picture credit: CC-BY Jisc, from an original by Phil Wolff
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13. Connecting to cloud providers
BBC (Pacific Quay)
HEAnet
SWAN
(Glas)
SWAN
(Edin)
Glasgow
and
Edinburgh
IXLeeds
Leeds
One
Connect
HEAnet
Google
Akamai
VM for LGfL
Gamma
NHS N3
Synetrix
Exa Networks
InTechnology
IXManchester
Manchester
Global Transit Level3
Google
Netflix
BBC
Init7
Microsoft EU (via TN)
VM for LGfL
Limelight
BBC (HD 4K pilots)
RM for Schools
Microsoft EU (via TN)
Google
VM for LGfL
RM for Schools
Akamai
Globelynx
InTechnology
Simplecall
Updata
Logicalis UK
Pipex / GXN
INUK
Voicenet
Virgin Radio
LINX multicast
GÉANT+
Gamma
Redstone
Voicenet
Telekom MalaysiaSimplecall Amazon Limelight Datahop NHS N3
Akamai BTnet AQL Bogons
Global Transit Tata
Global Transit Level 3
GÉANT
Telehouse North and West
Telecity Harbour Exch.
LINX
100Gbit/s
10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s
The Janet network provides 1Terabit/second of external connectivity
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14. Cloud services and support from Jisc
» Colocation and shared data centres
» Financial X-Ray – understand the
costs of your IT services
» Data archiving framework agreement
» Arcus portal for institutional
management of Amazon Web
Services usage
» Board and committee paper
management
» Deals with Google and Microsoft for
their cloud collaboration suites
Helping institutions to move to the cloud
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15. » Free cloud based collaboration suite for EDU and non-profits
› Based on commercial product used by more than 5 million businesses
» SLA backed versions of popular consumer apps like Gmail and Google Drive
» Integrated with institutional single sign-on and identity management
» Built-inVirtual Learning Environment, Google Classroom
» Marketplace for extensions
» Unlimited storage
Cloud collaboration suites
Google Apps for Education
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16. Cloud collaboration suites
» Free cloud based collaboration suite
for EDU and non-profits
» Based on commercial product with
over 60 million monthly active users
» Integrated with institutional single
sign-on and identity management
» Class Notebook collaboration product
» Marketplace for extensions
» 1TB storage and 50GB inbox per user
Microsoft Office 365
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17. Cloud collaboration suites
» The University of Dundee migrated all
of its 22,000 student accounts to
Microsoft’sOffice365 for Education
service over a week
» They note that this was achieved with
zero down time, and estimate that
Office365 “will save us at least
£500,000 in infrastructure and
staffing over five years.”
- see bit.ly/jisc-dundee
The institutional experience
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18. jisc.ac.uk
Collaboration through technology
Moving from possibility to practice
Tim Boundy
Media Services Development Manager
tim.boundy@jisc.ac.uk
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19. Pete Gallop,
Head of ILT
Isle ofWight College
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Previously from:
UsingYammer in the Educational Sector
Office 365 vs Google

21. Good Practice Session Three:
Collaboration Through Technology
Moving from Possibility to Practice
Pete Gallop
Head of ICT and LRC Services
The Isle of Wight College

22. Why Office 365…
“by utilising standard business tools as a VLE,
we are not only providing resources in the subject area,
we are also surreptitiously training our learners to use
them in the real world"

23. Moodle

24. Moodle Scorm

25. Moodle Assignments

26. Resistance
Parody of Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

27. Office 365 - Vanilla

28. Student Landing Page

29. SCORM

30. Learning

31. Assignments

32. Social

33. Communication

34. Sharing

35. Shared

36. Data

37. Usage
2014-15 - 216,418 hits
2015-16 - 313,791 hits
97,373 Increase over one year!
Highest Month for Unique users 2014-15 - November 2014 - 2,383
Highest Month for Unique users 2015-16 - November 2015 - 3,127

38. Embedding
 SMT and Governors – lead the strategic drive for improving standards, growth and
efficiency
 Curriculum Heads – lead the curriculum direction
 Support Heads – provide local and cross college support
 Section Leaders – ensure all courses use ILT
 Lecturing Teams – provide and monitor coursework
 Quality – ensure that standards are met
 LRC – assist with resources and course creation
 ILT Team – provide know how and training
 IT Team – provide infrastructure to enable delivery

39. Buy In

40. Fun

41. Problems
 Single sign-on is clunky
 No default viewer for some programs (Adobe)
 Some actions are not intuitive
 Microsoft change things periodically

42. Best Bits
 Very little training needed
 All user's are entitled to 5 copies of Office for home use
 Integration is easy
 Always up to date
 No server costs
 No maintenance issues
 It's FREE

43. Office365.iwcollege.ac.uk
Anywhere
Anytime
Anything
Anyone!