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We use a password-protected Access database which lives on a shared drive so we can all enter details as we see students. Has changed our lives! We had a paper-based system previously which we transferred to spreadsheets once a year in Data Input Week - absolute nightmare. We designed and set up the system ourselves with a bit of techie help.

Kim

Dr Kim Shahabudin, FHEA, Study Adviser, Study Advice & Maths Support 

1st Floor, University of Reading Library, Whiteknights, PO Box 223, Reading, RG6 6AE 

( 0118 378 4614 : www.reading.ac.uk/studyadvice twitter: @unirdg_study

Please note that I now work part-time and am not usually on campus on Mondays.

From: learning development in higher education network [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Liz Coombs [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 October 2013 15:11
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Subject: Academic Study Support Database

Hi

Does anyone use a database to keep data relating to student use of academic skills support services?  We are currently using a number of unwieldy spreadsheets to keep track of students who use our service, both so that we can report back centrally and also so that we can keep track of individual students – see when they last came in, look up the nature of previous queries/sessions, note attendance at workshops etc.

 

We would really like to store this information in a database but we’re not sure where to start with finding or designing one.  At the moment we would be looking for something which would be separate from our central records/registry systems.

 

I would welcome any ideas or experience that anyone can share,

 

Many thanks

Liz

 

Liz Coombs

Director

Centre for Workplace Learning

St Mary’s University College

Waldegrave Road

Twickenham TW1 4SX

020 8240 4015

www.smuc.ac.uk/cwl

@stmaryscwl

 

 

 


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