1. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Interoperability Study Paul Sherrington psherrington@banff-buchan.ac.uk

2. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 About Banff & Buchan College Rural College, main campus in Fraserburgh. 9,500+ enrolments. Approx 24% of enrolments at outreach locations. Maritime course provision one of our specialities.

3. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Project Staff Paul Sherrington: –Depute Principal Graeme Watt: –IT Manager & Project Manager David Herd: –College Web/Intranet Developer.

4. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Network College network 400+ workstations Internet connection 34mbps. 100Mbs to the desktop. Small support team. Windows 2000 on server and clients on Windows XP.

5. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Outreach Network Rural outreach provision –Peterhead –Ellon –Huntly –Banff –Turriff

6. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Our Learning Environment Supplement full-time and part-time courses with the provision of on-line learning materials. Track and monitor student progress. Enrol students for on-line courses. Provide easy methods of content creation.

7. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Component Parts (Vendors) College Intranet Portal (Apache/IIS, MySQL, PHP, Zend Optimiser) SITS, student record system component (SQL based with optional web-interface). SkillNet (SUfI), Virtual Learning Environment component.

8. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Aims & Outcomes Interoperability between –SkillNet and SITS for student tracking/life long learning records. –SkillNet and SITS for on-line enrolment. –SkillNet and College Intranet for packaging/exchange of resource repository content.

9. © Banff and Buchan College 2002 Henderson Road, Fraserburgh, AB43 9GA Tel: (01346) 515777 Fax: (01346) 515370 www.banff-buchan.ac.uk enquiries@banff-buchan.ac.uk