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© Banff and Buchan College 2002
About Banff & Buchan College
• Rural College, main campus in Fraserburgh.• 9,500+ enrolments.• Approx 24% of enrolments at outreach locations.• Maritime course provision one of our specialities.
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Project Staff
• Paul Sherrington: – Depute Principal
• Graeme Watt: – IT Manager & Project Manager
• David Herd: – College Web/Intranet Developer.
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Network
• College network 400+ workstations• Internet connection 34mbps.• 100Mbs to the desktop.• Small support team.• Windows 2000 on server and clients on Windows XP.
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Outreach Network
• Rural outreach provision– Peterhead– Ellon– Huntly– Banff– Turriff
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Our Learning Environment
• Supplement full-time and part-time courses with the provision of on-line learning materials.
• Track and monitor student progress.• Enrol students for on-line courses.• Provide easy methods of content creation.
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Component Parts (Vendors)
• College Intranet Portal (Apache/IIS, MySQL, PHP, Zend Optimiser)
• SITS, student record system component (SQL based with optional web-interface).
• SkillNet (SUfI), Virtual Learning Environment component.
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Aims & Outcomes
• Interoperability between – SkillNet and SITS for student tracking/life long
learning records.– SkillNet and SITS for on-line enrolment.– SkillNet and College Intranet for packaging/exchange
of resource repository content .
© Banff and Buchan College 2002
Henderson Road, Fraserburgh, AB43 9GA
Tel: (01346) 515777 Fax: (01346) 515370
www.banff-buchan.ac.uk
