Shared LMS Project

John DallingSenior Learning Resources AdviserUWTSD

Mark HughesHead of CollectionsSwansea University

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Sharing is nice…

‘…It’s not actually going to happen, is it?’

How did we get here?

• Consortium purchase of Voyager LMS• SWWHEP Project• WHEEL (Welsh Higher Education

Electronic Library)

• Scoping exercise• JISC Feasibility Study

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11 88600 170,000

partners

staff

libraries

customers

10,000,000Bibliographic records

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How do we avoid this?

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Project Structure

• Project Working Group• Appointed Project Manager• Report to WHELF Steering Group

– Signed off timeline / road-map• Requirements Sub-Group

– Subdivided requirements– Leads and seconds for each category

Building on expertise of individual institutions• Technical and business change leads

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Project Timeline11/9/13Project Group First Meeting

25/1/14Issue OJEU Notice

and PQQ

7/3/14Deadline for PQQ

Responses

10/4/14Invitation to

Tender (ITT) Issued

20/5/14Deadline for ITT

Responses

July 2014Completion of

Evaluation Activity

Summer 2014Contract start date

Mid 2015First tranche of installations live

End 2016All partners live

on new LMS

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Déjà vu?

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Change

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Governance

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Meeting the challenge

Questions?