Programme Approval and Management Programme Management: Screen Shots

Programme Approval and Management Status Page: Page showing the status of all programme developments underway. Schools to complete all ‘components’ to develop a new programme or individual components for the annual management of information.

Feasibility Study: Proposer to outline their ideas, for further discussion within the School.

Report: Upon completion of each task, a report of the information that has been input is available for schools to check and confirm. Feasibility Study to be considered by Board of Studies / School Board and approved by the Head of School.

Business Case – Proposer and/or School Manager to prepare Business Case setting out the rationale, resources and costs associated with proposal developments.

Programme Costings – Proposer to upload a file detailing the cost/expenditure associated with the programme development and attach it to the proposal.

Initial Programme Details – Proposer may choose to set up a new programme based upon a ‘standard template’ (e.g. standard structure) or based upon an existing programme run by their School.

Initial Programme Details – Proposer to provide specific information about the programme being developed. The information here will automate the creation of the programme code and set up the relevant programme structures in SIMS.

Report: Upon completion of each task, a report of the information that has been input is available for schools to check and confirm.

Programme Information Management Homepage Programme Descriptions – Proposer to enter a full, student-focussed programme description, which will eventually be published on the University Course Finder, Handbooks, School webpages.

Programme Information Management HomepageProgramme Structures – Proposer to create programme diets.

Report – Proposer able to download and print reports of the information held in SIMS under each component. The reports will be used to provide information to an approval panel.

Next Steps: Full implementation of Programme Management Toolkit and new processes; Publish programme information from SIMS on Course Finder; Targeted content for current students – University Intranet; Programme/Module ‘Search’ facility for current students – Intranet; Integration of ‘Reading Lists’ with Voyager Library System; Welsh Language Support.