myDegree

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myDegree

• The Chemistry VLE
• Dr Karl Harrison
• Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

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Chemistry VLE

• Includes
• Timetables
• Synopsis Oxford Bodington VLE
• Practical Class Booking
• Questionnaires
• Student Registration Oxford Student Record
  System ?

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Timetables

• Timetables
• Gazette vs. Useful
• MLE - administration
• Problems
• Term dates

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Synopsis

• Synopsis
• Traditional
• Good example of best practise
• Dynamic database driven
• Staff authoring

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Practical Class Booking

• Other VLE dont give you this
• One third of teaching !
• Chemistry is complex
• 3 Separate Laboratories
• Experiment Equipment Issues
• Limited number and prone not to work
• Student pairs etc.

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Practical Class Booking

• Organic Chemistry System
• Live display of slots
• Problems Students
• Physical Chemistry System
• Complex and embedded into the myDegree
• Inorganic running as a separate FileMaker Pro
  database system
• Not web-based yet

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Questionnaires

• QAA Feedback Loop !
• Traditional paper based system
• Online version
• myDegree
• Aim to improve take up
• Personalized tracking of completion
• Overall Questionaire
• Staff results

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Student Registration

• myDegree
• Unique ids
• Privacy issues Oxford only registration
• Hacking careful SQL coding !