Peter,
Whilst I am sure minds more enlightened than mine will be able to offer more useful comments than these, it sounds like you may be looking to design a workflow-type process (possibly using a content management system). In principle, the student submits his or her thesis to the system and each of the subsequent process steps are performed via the workflow. However, I should stress that my understanding of this concept is limited and that, to my knowledge, most of those steps would still be performed manually. That is, upon submission, the system would alert those persons within the university responsible for tasks such as publishing, printing, issuing to examiners and so on, and the thesis would proceed through this process (within the content management system) as each task was completed. In effect, the content management system is the place where each staff member involved in the thesis submission process goes to in order to perform their part of that process until every step has been completed.
Whilst it may be possible to automate the process you describe (or parts of it), the costs involved in linking all of the various systems (by writing code or buying applications) and taking humans "out of the loop" are likely to be significant. The tasks you list are quite diverse and relatively complex (from the point of view of automation) so, if you are being asked to report to Registry on whether this is feasible, I'd be prepared to let them down gently!
Am keeping my fingers crossed that someone else out there has come up with a more practical solution...
Best,
Dave
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Subject: [VLES] Automatic process to download to institutional repository from Turnitin
I was not sure whether to post this under Plagiarism, VLE or Blackboard, so doing all; apologies if this is the 3rd time you've seen it!
Registry want to look into a single system for students to submit their thesis encompassing everything from placing it into Turnitin to applying metadata and publishing in the library via printing hardcopies and sending them to the examiners and generating consolidated reports to exam boards along the way. (No pressure then!)
Just wondering if anyone else has done this and what solutions you have employed.
We have an environment of multiple VLEs across the University; Blackboard, Moodle, SharePoint mainly. The student records system is SITS and the bibliographic database will probably be in dspace.
Any comments gratefully received.
Thanks
Peter
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