Hi All Can anyone help Newark & Sherwood college with this project?? John McKenzie ILT Advisor JISC RSC East Midland Newark & Sherwood College has identified in its development plan a commitment to have a fully unitised curriculum by September 2003. The information systems in the College are in the process of being migrated to Microcompass and the student records component (QLS) will be live from August 2003. The College now invites tenders to undertake a project of unitising the curriculum and ensuring that it is built appropriately within Microcompass QLS Curriculum Unitisation Requirements The College requires the project to provide a curriculum framework by September 2003. It will need to take account of the following: * Unitisation to be based on 30 notional guided learning hours * Identify and use as far as practicable the available bank of Open College Network (OCN) units * Devising local units to an OCN template where current OCN units do not exist * All full-time provision to be unitised * Tagging of units to meet requirements of Microcompass * Input to Microcompass Vendors are invited to supply proposals for delivering this project, which must provide the following: A staffing resource to work alongside College tutors that have the following attributes: * experience of delivering to awarding body specifications * competent IT users * operating experience of Microcompass (QLS) Analysis of Tenders completed by Thursday 24 April 2003 Tender Shortlist to be announced by Friday 25 April 2003 Presentations to take place by Friday 2 May 2003 Best and final offers to be submitted by Friday 9 May 2003 Awarding of Contract to successful bidder by Monday 12 May 2003 If anyone is interested and requires a full copy of the tender document please e-mail [log in to unmask] ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html The Ferl VLE Focus Area is at http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=76 To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle