Scholaris Learning Gateway -...

Scholaris Learning GatewayPresented by: Justin Cantrill, Asia Pacific Regional Manager

Sydney, 28th March

Deep Dive – Maitland Newcastle

Strategies

Challenges

Change Management

Professional Development

Lessons Learnt

The Future

Objective of Scholaris

To assist teachers in engaging and

developing learners

Some of the Challenges facing Teachers

Time

Change Management

Access to information

Administration

Duty of Care

Engaging Students

Parent involvement

Professional Development

Access to Learning Content and Resources

Dependency on IT Department

What is Scholaris?

Scholaris is an enterprise framework and comprehensive set of

tools and applications that allow your whole school community

access to everything they need in one personalised place

Teachers

Students

Parents

School Executives

Administrators

What is Scholaris?

Parents

Students

Teachers

Parent contact

details

Online learning

environments

Reports /

feedback

Bookings /

organisation

Timetabling data

Learning needs

information

Learning

materials

Communication

Attendance dataProfessional

learning

Must be easily

accessible from a

single point…..

1. School Intranet

1. School Intranet

2. Enterprise Search

3. Learning Object Repository

4. Communication and Collaboration

4. Communication and Collaboration

5. Document Management

6. Managed Learning Environment

PLANNINGConsiders all evidence,

Sets Target grouping and

Goals for new cycle of

Teaching and Learning

ASSESSMENTAssess assignment

submission - quantitative

and against Outcomes

goals, including

Discussion contributions

LEVELLING Considers Assessments

and other evidence to

apply a formal Level to an

Outcome for a

student.

COURSE

BUILDER

Plan and build

Courses to facilitate

the goals of the Profiler

ASSIGNMENT

MANAGERDistribute Course

activities or Quick

assign activities for

easy delivery of

lessons

Managed

Learning

Environment

Technology Stack

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Latest SP or R2)

Provides core functionality, such as Active Directory and Internet Information Services

6. Also provides Network Load Balancing, and Clustering technologies to improve

scalability.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007

Provides effective knowledge sharing through collaboration, news, surveys,

discussion boards,document libraries and enterprise search.

Microsoft ISA Server 2006

Provides reverse-proxy features, including single sign-on, link translation and

aggregation of multiple servers into a single URL.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (Service Pack 2) or 2007

E-mail, tasks, calendar, and public folder functionality.

Microsoft SQL 2005 Server

Storage for SharePoint and Scholaris databases.

Maitland Newcastle – Scholaris Learning Gateway

Presented by: Dr. Doug Ashleigh

Sydney, 28th March

Why implement the Learning Gateway?Why

How

What

How was the Gateway implemented?

What has been learned?

Situation Analysis

Why a Portal Approach?

Why implement the Learning Gateway?

The Catholic Schools Office Maitland – Newcastle

The CSO provides educational services for the community in

the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Hunter and Manning areas.

Maitland Newcastle

Maitland Newcastle

17 245 students1 850 staff 56 Schools, 3 remote office sites45 primary schools11 secondary schoolsTwo senior colleges year 11 – 12 ( Newcastle and

Maitland area) Five 7 – 10 high schools (Newcastle – Maitland

areas) Three 7 -12 regional high schools (Lake

Macquarie, Taree, Aberdeen)One K – 12 regional college (Singleton)

Maitland Newcastle

SOE in all sites based on windows 2000 - Office 2000 – Server

2000 ISA 2000

Moving to windows XP, Office 2003, Server 2003

MPLS WAN

Identical server configurations – Server 2000, ISA, Exchange

Proactively working with schools to upgrade hardware – 3 year

replacement life

Migrated the CSO to Active directory

Progressively updating school servers and moving to Active

Directory across all sites

NAME FUNCTION

Accident OHS Stores accident information supplied to the Catholic Schools Office from office and schools.

Human Resources System

Stores a list of all available applicants and casual teachers

Ombudsman Reporting Track child protection notifications to the Ombudsman

Construction Certificate Stores students who have completed the VET Construction Course induction program.

Directors Bulletins Stores all documents sent out in the Directors Bulletins.

Directors Mail Lists List of Contacts such as Parish Priests.

Payroll Data Stores current school and personnel data which has been extracted daily from the Catholic Schools Office Payroll System

Data Integration

Postcodes An Australia Post database used for data entry in other databases to ensure Postcode information is valid.

Professional Development

Stores all PD courses and all personnel attending courses.

QUILT Stores statistical date for the QUILT project

RE Course Records and tracks students attending the Religious Education Certificate Course.

SLC Clients Stores a list of all SLC clients

Volunteers Register Stores the names of all Volunteers registered at schools for Child Protection

Job Vacancies Store job vacancy details for access via web and to streamline advertising development

AFW Info Stores Version and Library Info for Schools. Used to send report to Ideas web site.

Seasons for Growth DB Store Facilitator and Teacher Program information for Seasons for Growth Program

Integration Database Track financial details of Special Education grants and spending.

Census Data Store diocesan teaching details for the DEST and CEC census. Links to the Statistical Information System to generate adhoc queries for staff and student data.

Staffing Information System

Store extra staffing details that are not available from Payroll. eg. Email addresses

Web Databases Contains data to maintain the mn.catholic.edu.au website.

Our Learning Agenda

foster significant improvements in learning by facilitating the use of the most advanced and proven educational techniques

develop our present and future generation of learners with a strong knowledge and understanding of information and communication technologies

facilitate collaborative learning experiences among learners

utilise technology as a tool to repurpose, recycle and reuse digital learning resources

provide quick access to just in time information and resources for staff.

encourage and support staff with the contextual integration of ICT into the classroom.

Internal environment

Task environmentExternal environment

Mega-environment

ICLT Service

International

Dimension

Political-Legal

Dimension

Technological

DimensionNew technologies are

evolving exponentially

E-learning – LMS, LO

Socio-cultural Dimension

Economic

Dimension

Global shift to knowledge

and intellectual resources

- Information Age

Changes in funding

arrangements to

Catholic schools

Fiscal restraints Catholic

Schools Office

ICT key driver in Australia’s

productivity growth & future

prosperity

Digital Divide -Inequitable access

especially for indigenous & rural Australians

Life long learning & learner centred education

Increasing technology uptake

Schools without boundaries

Technological driven generation gap. Children

natives to technology, adults as ‘immigrants’

Shift in jobs from traditional areas to knowledge &

service industries

Digital Agenda Bill

Privacy Legislation

Anti spamming legislation

Disability Discrimination Act

Child Protection Legislation

Interoperability &

standards

Affordable high

bandwidth

Accelerated

generation of

information, coupled

with greater access

Globalisation demand for different

skills and more flexibility from

employees

Heavier emphasis in education on

accountability: quality assurance; and

comparisons at local,

national and international

levels

Technical Foundation Stone

Implementation of Microsoft Active

Directory services will enable Catholic

Schools System to store, find, and

update mission-critical data about users,

files, applications, printers, and

resources in one centralised location

instead of in diverse directories across

the network

We wanted………

Rich portal experience merging administrative and academic systems

Single, secure, personalised point of access

Web parts that enhanced sharing and collaboration.

Seamless integration with existing Student. Management system

Solution that was scaleable and added value to our IT investment

Reliability

Robust performance

Quality support

Why a Portal Approach?

Build on what we knew and what our

stakeholders were comfortable with in

a ‘one stop shop’Microsoft Office functionality

Sharepoint useability

Outlook features

Add value to the standardised network

structure and Active Directory designUse payroll data as the authorative data source

Integrate SQL data bases

Why a Portal Approach?

The Catholic Schools Office engaged SolutionsIT

to develop the Scholaris product to meet the

specific requirements of the CSO

Significant influences

Complexity

Stakeholders

Future direction

How was the Gateway implemented?

Project Scope – working document

Issue Resolution

Key data integration with

school timetable

package

St. Joseph’s High School Aberdeen – Trial 2006

All Saints College St. Peter’s Campus Maitland

All Saints College St. Peter’s Campus Maitland

All Saints College St. Peter’s Campus Maitland

Key data integration with

school timetable

package (Time Chart)

What has been learned?

Layers of complexity

Diffusion and adoption process

Focus on the core work of an organisation

Key drivers

Supportive

work

environment

Key

Technology

Drivers

Social osmosis

LeadershipRelationships

Innovation

Successful Implementation of an ICT initiative

Resources

RelationshipsLeadership

Learning and Teaching

When technology was used as a tool to support learning the greatest effect on the achievement of learning outcomes occurred

Learning focused on a context that was real and meaningful

Multi-sensory, collaborative and inquiry-based

Teaching and Learning

Schools that are successful with the implementation of a school-based technology initiative have a clear focus on the learning environment

Strong link between successful classroom integration of technology and the type of teaching pedagogy adopted by the classroom teacher

Innovative Teachers are key

Effective schooling driven by creative &

passionate teachers

Students rely on stimulating instructors to

engage them in the learning process» Gallup Youth Survey 2004

What Has Been Learned . . .

Sharing of knowledge and skills

Valuable learning takes place when teachers learn from the mistakes

Learn just in time from the help of colleagues

“… undertaking professional training

was as important as installing the

technology itself”

Successful implementation and

management of the LG

Novelty

Ubiquitous diffusion

Leadership – Principal

Key driver/s

Support of staff

Linked to learning /

performance outcomes

Just in time learning

Thank You

Dr. Doug Ashleigh

doug.ashleigh@mn.catholic.edu.au

Phased Implementation Approach

Scholaris - Roadmap

First Half 2007

Student Reporting Engine

TLF Syncronisation

Greater support for IMS/SCORM and SIF

Enhancements to existing features

Second Half 2007

Attendance Upgrade

Early Learner Portal

Enhancements to existing features

Scholaris – Early Learner

Scholaris Learning Gateway – Special Offer

Solutions IT will subsidise a relief teacher

for 5 days to the value of $1250 for schools

purchasing Scholaris before June 30th 2007

and

A voucher for one individual to attend a one

day Scholaris group training session.

Further Information

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