Tag Archives: Modular

Update from the Teaching Office Database System

March 11, 2010 – 12:02 pm

Here is an update on what has been achieved by the Teaching Office Database (TODB) project as it enters its final stages.We have worked with the Engineering Department and six other Departments to develop customised versions of the Teaching Office Database (TODB) system for them. Many enhancements made along the way have been ‘retrofitted’ [...]

By Anne Clarke | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Institutional Innovation Exchange

February 1, 2010 – 2:42 pm

We all went out to Aston, on the little pond’s shore lineTo trade products with some tokens, we didn’t have much timeLawrie Phipps and the support team found the best place aroundWith lots of coffee, food and good wine, we sold our stuff by the poundTalks on the waterand products in the sky—————-
The “trade fair” [...]

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We’re all going to Aston…

January 21, 2010 – 12:32 pm

Avi Naim and Guy Chisholm will be off to the JISC Institutional Innovation programme meeting in Aston next week. Watch this space for the “outputs” we’ll have for sale in the Trade Fair!

By Laura James | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Modular e-Administration of Teaching: Assembly Report

December 14, 2009 – 12:09 pm

The Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) in Cambridge University hosted a JISC assembly for the Modular e-Administration of Teaching (MEAoT) project on Thursday, 10 December 2009.
The list of participants included:
Richard Prager, MEAoT project PI,
Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED)
Laura James, CARET
Anne Clarke, MEAoT project, CARET and CUED
Guy Chisholm, MEAoT project, CARET
Avi Naim, MEAoT [...]

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TODB has new Team Member

November 13, 2009 – 9:59 am

TODB has new Team Member

Hi, I’m Anne Clarke and I have taken over from (couldn’t attempt to replace) Matthew Jones on the TODB Project. I have had a varied career in IT which included working in a baby clothes warehouse near New York, some time in Coutts Bank and working on Stock Exchange feeds [...]

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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 [...]

By Matthew Jones | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Exam Entries Demo Report

October 1, 2009 – 4:05 pm

The initial specification of the examination entries module was based on discussions with the physics department of Cambridge University. However, it is difficult for potential future users of this module to imagine what it will look like in reality and so important points may be missed.In order to make it more tangible we prepared a [...]

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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 [...]

By Matthew Jones | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

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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