SPLASH

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SPLASH
Amy Waldron - Project Manager Hesan Yousif -
Client Manager University of Sussex
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Aims

• Create student personal homepages in a social
  software portal
• Use portal/mash-up technology
• Make homepages customisable
• Get students and lecturers using the system for
  teaching, learning and social purposes

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Audience

• University students
• Freshers
• Undergraduates (18-21)
• Postgraduates
• Distance Learners
• Placements
• Mature students
• Subject groups
• Interest groups
• Student Union groups
• Staff
• Lecturers and other teaching and learning staff
• Support staff internal communications
• All staff social and communication
• University Communities

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Approach

• User consultation and requirements definition
• Technical analysis
• Mock-up site
• Feedback and Usability Testing
• Beta Launch
• Further development
• Launch revised site
• The future.

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Findings Issues

• Findings
• Staff are surprisingly keen!
• Students need guidance from academic champions to
  use social software for learning
• Issues
• You need a lot of resources to keep a site
  alive
• Speed of the site caused damaging disillusionment
  at a key point
• Developing in an environment we hadnt used
  before

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The big SPLASH lesson

• Think about all your users!
• Involvement of staff and other University units
  was key to the take up of the software product
  but we didnt fully realise this in our planning
  at the beginning
• The collegiate environment can be problematic
  for communication

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