1. May 18, 2015 Vocational Placements Ruth Powell European Solution Centre SunGard Higher Education

2. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 2 Vocational Placements What is a placement? -Nursing or medical professional practice -Business studies year in industry -Language study abroad -Engineering year in industry

3. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 3 Vocational Placements What does VOCAP do? —Records the placement requirements For a program, curriculum or cohort —Allocates students to placements Based on their program, curriculum or cohort Considering placement capacity Considering placement and student characteristics —Records student attendance On placements On lectures, theory time etc

4. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 4 Vocational Placements Placement allocations —Can be on a weekly or daily basis —Can be simultaneous Eg. Placement plus weekly study day —Can be split in two with another placement in the middle

5. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 5 Vocational Placements VOCAP forms —Host organisations SJAHORG —Offer placements SJAPLAC —Which have capacity / availability SJAPCAP

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11. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 11 Vocational Placements —Forms continued Programs require learning experiences (delivered via placements) SJAPLRN And have weekly schedules SJAPLRN

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14. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 14 Vocational Placements Learning experience requirements —Weekly Allocations in blocks of a week —Daily Allocations in continuous series of days —Still takes account of weekends —Allocation finishes on actual last day instead of end of week —Can have a mixture of daily and weekly Learning Experiences within a program

15. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 15 Vocational Placements Learning Experience Types Primary —A normal placement allocation (daily or weekly) on its own —A placement allocation which has another (secondary) allocation associated with it Secondary —The study day or middle part of a split

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17. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 17 Vocational Placements Forms continued —Students and placements have —Advisors SJAADVR —Characteristics SJASTUD / SJAPLAC

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25. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 25 Vocational Placements Allocation —Automatic for batches of students —Manual for individual students

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33. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 33 Vocational Placements Student Self Service —View placement allocations —View absence and made-up time —View placement details —View weekly schedule

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37. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 37 Future developments —VOCAP 7.4Feb 2009 Main Features —More even distribution of allocations across placements —VOCAP 8.0Mar 2009 Main Features —Banner 8 Bio-Demographics support. —Banner 8 UTF8 Character support. —VOCAP 8.1Oct 2009 Main Features —Faculty Self-Service page revision. —Placement cohort functionality revisions. —Auto allocation process output enhancements

38. May 18, 2015 | www.sungardhe.com 38 Ruth Powell Ruth.Powell@sungardhe.com +44 1242 228854 Question / Answer