The Cascade project

Project Reports

• Project plan April 2009
• Revised Workpackages July 2009
• Interim report September 2009
• Interim report (revised) November 2009
• Project update February 2010
• Revised Workpackages March 2010
• Interim Report March 2010
• Baseline Report June 2010
• Evaluation Report December 2010
• Final Report December 2010
• Completion Report December 2010 - not available online

Case Studies

• Case Study 1: Leveraging technology to drive business performance
• Case Study 2: Customizing open source software: benefits and pitfalls
• Case Study 3: Using technology to support prospective students
• Case Study 4: Enabling staff to easily use a VLE to support course delivery
• Case Study 5: Maximising effective use of technology in new programmes

Project wide documents

• Project schematic February 2009
• Project schematic June 2009
• Communications and Engagement strategy March 2010
• Evaluation Plan March 2010
• Stakeholder Analyses
  • The Tutor's Perspective
  • The Administrator's Perspective
  • The Student's Perspective
• Example service description

Guidance Documents

• Moodle users Moodle site - internal facing site providing access to all project outputs.
• Why use Moodle?
• Editing Moodle: getting started
• Editing Moodle: best practice and use of more advanced features
• Why use online assignment submission?
• Short guide to on-screen marking
• Instructions for using the Department's online assignment submission system
  •  Instructions for students
  •  Instructions for markers
  •  Instructions for Course Directors
  •  Instructions for registry
  •  Setting up assignments

Focus Area Outputs

(a) Online assignment handling

• Wish list of assignment handling features
• Comparison of CASS and Moodle
• Assignment workflow flowchart
• Clarification of roles in assignment handling
• Attitudes to online assignment submission questionnaire for academic staff
• Attitudes to online assignment submission questionnaire for administrative staff

(b) VLE support for courses

• VLE site lifecycle
• Site request walk through
• Template content checklist
• Generic Template (zipped backup files of Moodle) - requires restoration within a Moodle installation

(c) Generic content

• Online support for Departmental students
• Generic online induction for Postgraduate courses
• Postgraduate-level online study skills resources for the historical disciplines - internal facing, pasword required, may be requested from project manager.

(d) Course design

• Course Design Moodle
• New, amended course proposal form

(e) Online enrolment and payment

• Basic online payment workflow
• Payment of invoices by installments workflow
• Shopping basket workflow
• Self managed student profiles system - technical requirements
• Online student services overview diagram
• Trial XCRI feed of Departmental course information data availble at http://xcri-dev.conted.ox.ac.uk 

Presentations, posters and videos

• Video produced for the JISC Curriculum Design & Delivery meeting in October 2009
• Posters presented at the JISC Curriculum Design & Delivery meeting in October 2009 (The Cascade one is on page 24)
• Powerpoint presentation of current state of project presented at the CAMEL meeting in November 2009
• Poster to inform the Department about the project

Source code

Git repositories (hosted by github)

• Assignment Extensions
• Assignment submission questions
• Assignment submission zipped downloads