All Student Systems courses

We welcome you to hear Kate Maxwell (Senior User Lead for the CamSIS Improvement Programme) introducing the new CamSIS functionality. This will be followed by system demonstrations of:

• First Year Assessment
• Postgraduate feedback and reporting: Self evaluation and supervision reports
• Staff homepages: Adding tiles and swapping between homepages
• Student Self Service: How administrators can support students

There is much opportunity for your questions.

CamSIS Search is a tool used within CamSIS to create lists of students and update student data. This course will show you how to understand the data structure and how to use CamSIS Search to create student lists.

New training arrangements during the Coronavirus Crisis

CamSIS is Cambridge’s system for handling student information, records and transactions, from initial contact and application all the way through to graduation.

While classroom sessions are currently suspended, we can instead offer online training sessions, including Introduction to CamSIS and CamSIS Search.

Please email camsistraining@admin.cam.ac.uk if you'd like to arrange a session.

• Supporting documentation

CamSIS Training in Moodle https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=167312

Introduction to CamSIS https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=138371

Delegates will learn how to use shortcuts in Excel to improve their productivity, and also techniques for analysing complex data quickly by using pivot tables.

CamSIS is Cambridge’s system for handling student information, records and transactions, from initial contact and application all the way through to graduation. This course will teach you the basics of using the system to view student records and to produce basic lists of students.

• Supporting documentation

Introduction to CamSIS https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=138371

This training session will introduce participants to the Assignment and Turnitin activities and provide opportunities to explore the main features of online assessments set up and grading. It will be beneficial to Moodle users who administer or support online assessments in Moodle.

Participants will practice setting up various types of assignments, managing students' submissions, and using Moodle grading system.

Moodle as the Virtual Learning Environment is supporting teaching and learning at the University.

One of the key principles in the University's implementation of Moodle is devolved control. Moodle is used by a large number of Faculties, Departments, Colleges, and other offices, and each area will have its own specialist knowledge and specific requirements. Devolved control will enable each institution to have control over the courses they built and their location in the Course structure.

As such, each Institution has at least one Moodle Coordinator (we recommend two). Moodle Coordinators manage all the courses within their category of Faculty, Department or College; they can do anything in any course they have control of, including create new courses, edit existing courses, and add teachers. Coordinators will also act as a first line of support - offering help and advice to the users in their area.

This is a training course aimed at users who are current Coordinators or are planning to become Coordinators. During the interactive course participants will practice how to create subcategories and courses, how to backup and restore their courses, how to enrol cohorts of users, and how to archive their courses in the Course History environment.

You’re invited to attend an open meeting on Wednesday 10 July about important plans to improve parts of the subject moderation process in time for the next admissions round in October 2019.

There will also be information provided about work to improve other areas of Undergraduate Applications and Admissions, and an opportunity for questions and discussion.

Agenda:

11:00 - Welcome from Sam Lucy, Director of Admissions for the Colleges, and Helen Reed, Head of Admissions & Data Services (CAO)

11:10 - Introduction and demo for the subject moderation interface project

11:15 - Timeline and how you can get involved

11:30 - Introduction to Undergraduate Applications and Admissions Research

11:45 - Timeline and how you can get involved

12:00 - Q&A and refreshments

As you know, this is a vitally important area for the Collegiate University so I hope to see you at the meeting. Please book a place on the UTBS to help us order the right amount of tea and coffee.