1. [Insert Project Name Here] ELF Toolkits Round 2 Jon Rowett, Brockenhurst College jrowett@brock.ac.uk

2. Brockenhurst College Medium sized FE college in the New Forest 2700-ish sixth formers 8000-ish adult learners CoVE regional partnership with 2 other colleges

3. Emily An internal college MLE project Electronic registration & attendance tracking Class registers Messaging Attendance reports for staff (via Emily), students and parents (via My.Brock portal) System used for all sixth form classes since Sept 2003 Also performance monitoring, ILP, timetables…

7. Project Aims To develop a toolkit to enable the creation of attendance registration systems To produce service definitions for the problem space

8. ELF Context Reporting Proposed service allows attendance data to be provided to external agencies and to management. Tracking Allows student attendance and participation in learning events to be recorded and monitored. Activity Management Proposed services play a role in the management of classroom-based activities. Could be applied equally well to remote / online scenarios where attendance or participation must be recorded.

9. Toolkit Outputs Service Definitions for taking registers and tracking attendance UML WSDL Service implementation Web services Middle tier code Back end database Service consumer A robust, working registration system for institutions to build upon if they choose Evaluation Input from students, academics and MIS staff

10. Standards & Specs No suitable e-learning standard for the domain currently exists, but we will be using: IMS Enterprise Services For building class lists iCalendar For activity scheduling Obligatory WSDL, SOAP, XSD… Endeavour to conform to existing conventions and best pracices (IMS etc)

11. Technologies & Tools C# /.Net / ASMX Sql Server ASP.Net Windows Server 2003 / 2000 Server / XP Professional

12. Further Info www.brock.ac.uk/toolkit2 www.brock.ac.uk/sweet jrowett@brock.ac.uk

13. Project Name? Brockenhurst Registration & Attendance Toolkit? BRAT?