Author Archives: Matthew Jones

TODB running locally in English Faculty

October 2, 2009 – 8:32 am

We have achieved a small, but I think significant, milestone in the TODB adoption process: the English Faculty have now set up TODB on one of their servers. Their entirely independently-hosted TODB is accessible here: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/todb/Installation took approximately 20 minutes and went without hitch on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server [...]

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Teaching allocation similarity map

September 22, 2009 – 8:45 am

After setting up, configuring and customising TODB instances for several departments, I am struck by the unexpected similarities between certain departments. It seems that the administration of teaching does not follow disciplines. I constructed a rough map of similarity, which is inserted below. The features common to all TODBs are not listed; only the specific [...]

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Departmental Deployments

August 11, 2009 – 9:43 am

The TODB is ‘under deployment’ in the following departments:

Engineering
Judge Business School
Chemistry
English
Divinity
Veterinary Medicine

Engineering and the Judge are the most established users. Although our engagement with Veterinary Medicine began in December, for various reasons it has not been until very recently (this week!) that their TODB is now online. At the request of the Vet [...]

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MEAoT at the BRII Oxford Assembly

August 10, 2009 – 2:07 pm

Matthew Jones attended the BRII Assembly in Oxford on 9 June 2009. Access his full report – as published in the JISC-SSBR newsletter on 2 August 2009 – here: http://assemblies.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/2009/07/27/meaot-brii-assembly/

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TODB at the Judge Business School

March 4, 2009 – 5:10 pm

The Judge Business School (JBS) at the University of Cambridge has been associated with the Engineering TODB for some time, and is one of the cooperating departments in this project. The JBS currently uses an Excel-spreadsheet based teaching allocation system. An interesting challenge has been translating this into something the TODB can handle without fundamental [...]

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Updates to the Engineering TOD software

January 27, 2009 – 12:15 pm

Various new features have been added to the Engineering TOD software package. It is hoped that these features will allow more effective and easier use of the software.Today is something of a milestone, because it is the first day that the new ‘version’ of the software (unofficially v1.1) is to be used in as [...]

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The Engineering TODB software

January 27, 2009 – 12:04 pm

The Cambridge University Engineering department has been using a software package developed in-house by Prof Richard Prager for managing teaching allocations. This software is known as the ‘Teaching Office Database’, abbreviated as ‘TODB’ or ‘TOD’.This software forms the basis of a usable prototype to demonstrate and evaluate much of the functionality envisaged in the Teaching [...]

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