Speakers: Matthew Bowler, service leader technology, Wiltshire College Michelle Capes, online learning development officer, Wiltshire College Simon Bowler, learning technologies and resources manager, Wiltshire College Clive Carey, learning and skills development coach, Wiltshire College Supporting all learners to progress and achieve is at the heart of what Wiltshire College do, and for those who support learners on non-accredited programmes with Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA), ensuring this is evidenced and monitored accurately is all the more important. Tasked with developing a digital solution that learners could own, that was intuitive for support staff to manage and provided managers with instant access to insightful data, the Wiltshire College learning technologies team settled on an open source solution which is already delivering positive results since being been introduced across the college. This session will demonstrate the Wiltshire College RARPA system from the perspective of each group of users; the students managing their own progress, the staff using the system to support their learners and the managers now with a college-wide visibility of progress. In addition the developers will also explain how all of this was achieved, and their ideas for the future.

1. Clive CareyMatt Bowler
@MattB_LT
Michelle Capes
@MichelleC_LT
Simon Bowler
@BowlingForTech
A college-wide digital approach
Delivering RARPA

2. • 3,000 full-time and 6,000 part-time students
• Pre–entry to Higher Education
• Broad vocational curriculum with courses in most sector subject areas
• Largest subjects: health and social care,
engineering, motor vehicle, hairdressing and beauty therapy
• Four main campuses at Chippenham, Lackham, Trowbridge and
Salisbury, widely spread geographically, with over 40 miles between
Chippenham and Salisbury
Wiltshire College and University Centre

3. •Recognising And Recording Progress and Achievement.
• Measure progress and achievement of learners on non-accredited programmes
• Many more ‘smaller’ targets compared to more traditional, academic targets
• Our RARPA demographic
• All learners with an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
• 350+ high needs learners
• c.500 students
• The team supporting RARPA across the College
• Foundation Studies Department
• Learning Skills Development Service (LSDS) – Support staff
• Curriculum teachers
What is RARPA?

4. Mountains of
paperwork
Handwritten
evidence
Filing and
storage
Security
Difficult to generate
overview
Working across
different services
Existing systems not
suitable
Why we needed to develop a RARPA system

5. Before the RARPA system

7. Student-centric Reduce
paperwork
Improve
efficiency for
staff
Intuitive, easy
to use system
Improve data
security
Evidence
capture
Consistency and
accuracy
Management overview
for data and evidence
Ready in a
month!
Project Brief

8. • Usability – familiar to users
• New standalone installation
• Easy to administrate
• Quick lead time
• Logins and access managed by
existing processes
• Permissions easy to handle
Moodle selected
Options
SharePoint
Moodle
Bespoke
Selecting a solution

9. Add users
via CSV
Build
courses via
CSV
Set
permissions
on course
Template
course
prepared
Duplicating &
distribution
Create
assignment
hand-in point
for
presentations
Use Dataform
to create the
two forms
Create
template
course
New Moodle
instance
created
Creating
How it was built

10. Mobile access
• Access directly
from iPads and
tablets
• Images not added
to camera roll
• Shortcut placed on
college devices
Usability
• Revoked
permissions for
unnecessary parts
of Moodle
• Intentionally
simplified for users
• Searchable
• Different look and
feel from standard
Moodle
Rollout
• Training done on
staff development
days
• Learning Coach
supporting
individual staff
members
• Additional support
from LT team
• Reporting
Ongoing
Maintenance
• Adding users to
courses and
generating new
student courses
• Backup and
security
• End of year/start of
year setup and
archiving
Considerations

11. Live Demo

12. View and upload evidence directly from the mobile deviceSecure log in to view your students
Mobile devices

13. User Feedback and Impact – Staff View

15. You know targets and what you need
to improve on. You can see what
you’ve done and keep practicing it.
Holly
“ “
Useful. It teaches me IT skills like
download. Enjoyed doing my PowerPoint
Carl
“
“
Useful because it tells us what to do with the
comments put on by my tutor
Jack
“
“User Feedback and Impact – Student View

16. I would like to explore the opportunities of sharing what
we’ve developed with other colleges and other communities
involved with EHCP learners to see if it could have a wider
remit to make the same kind of impact on other learners that
it has made with ours here at Wiltshire College.
Tony Green, Head of Foundation Studies
“ “
• User import / course creation
• Permission authorisation / processes
• Single sign-on (on premise)
• Sharing with RARPA Community
Lessons Learned and Future Developments

17. Clive CareyMatt BowlerMichelle CapesSimon Bowler
ILT@wiltshire.ac.uk
@LT_WiltsColl
Any questions?

18. customerservices@jisc.ac.uk
jisc.ac.uk
Thank you
Wiltshire College and
University Centre
Delivering RARPA
A college-wide digital approach
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