SMS Services – the managed leaning environment

PPTA

10 September 10

The SMS market share (July 2010)

Musac Kamar PCSchool Musac Kamar PCSchool

2005 2010Sec 9—15

(236)17373%

125%

10%

8737%

12653%

115%

Sec 7—15 (103)

7775%

44%

00%

5049%

3938%

77%

Intermed(123)

94 1 0 64 5 0

Composite (147)

68 3 2 46 32 2

SMS market share by students

% market share by students in schools having students in

Years 1—8 Years 9—15

MUSAC 45.5 35.4

KAMAR 3.6 50.9

eTAP 24.9 0.6

PCSchool 1.0 6.1

Schoolmaster 18.8 0.1

Synergetic 0.8 2.9

LMS market share

Intermed Composite 7—15 9—15

Moodle 3 9 20 61

Ultranet 16 3 15 35

KnowledgeNet 21 7 11 27

My Classes 2 3 8 10

First Class 1 1 3 6

Scholaris 0 1 1 3

Early Notification & eAR

Early Notific Intermediate, Composite, and Secondary Schools

School Links 87

TxtStream 53

MGM 29

Approved for eAR

Composite 60

Secondary 270

Intermediate 35

Primary 650

• These numbers are disappointing.

• We think we know why.

• Can you add to our understanding?

Attendance management

SRT

ENROL integration

Online systems/LMS/Parent portals

ePortfolios

Reusable and portable content

Identity and access management (single sign-on)

Assessment (including National Standards)

Key work strands

What holds it all together – the MLE

• An MLE can loosely be described as:

“Software tools and digital content that support learning” • An MLE comprises many modules

• Consider joining the MLE Reference Group to learn more

An MLE – 3 views

An MLE

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Curriculum & Pedagogy

National curriculum

School curriculum inc. lesson plans (school, subject,

teacher)

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

ePortfolios (record of learning)

Course Management Systems

Assessment tools

Planning tools

Communication

Blogs

Podcasts

Chatrooms

Noticeboards

Social networking

Discussion threads

Audio conferencing

Video/web conferencing

Administration

Student Management Systems (SMS)

Student Record Transfer (SMS-SMS data exchange)

NCEA returns

Calendaring

Timetabling

eReturns

ENROL

Resources

TKI

Websites

Wikis

Digital Learning Objects

Library Management Systems

Content Management Systems

Authoring/publishing/editing tools

Other content sources (open access)

Enabling Services

Identification / authentication

National Student Index

Parental portal

Transport mechanisms

Metadata schema

Interoperability standards

Specifications

Shared content

The same thing as a wiring diagram

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SMS

ENROLENROL

Student record

transfer

Student record

transfer

e-asTTlePAT

e-asTTlePAT

Early notification

Early notification

eReturnseReturns

Library systemLibrary system

Metadata searchingMetadata searching

Web mailWeb mail

Digital content stores

Digital content stores

IdP

Content Authoring

Tools

Content Authoring

Tools

NSINSI

SMS - directory

integration eportfolioeportfolio

LMS

Parent portalParent portal

Online office suites

Online office suites

National StandardsNational

Standards

Electronic attendance

registers

Electronic attendance

registers

ENROL integration

IAM

Reusable and portable contentAssessment support

Attendance support

Authentication flows (existing)Data flows (existing) Data flows (proposed)

Authentication flows (proposed)

Attendance

A new explanation sheet for 2011 is up on the Ministry website.Changes include:• School codes I and S both map to a truancy code of present• More examples are provided of when to use each code• Supervised study is treated like any other timetabled period• Updated details are provided around school closures, attendance and the

impact on the length of the school year• paid union meetings• emergencies – fire, flood, epidemic, earthquake• strike

• Changes will also be introduced in 2012 that will include code changes and additional statistical reports

Student record transfer (SRT)

• At the start of each year more than 80,000 students start a new school• Throughout the year more than 40,000 students and more than 50,000

student-transfers occur between schools• 130,000 plus student records that already exist in a database are keyed

into a new database• SRT was trialled several years ago• The phased rollout started this year in four clusters with 28 schools• Musac has yet to complete their software and assuming they do so by mid

2011, we will have many more schools using it next year

Integration & Interoperability

Connectivity Test E-returns

Get/Check NSN Leavers Arrivals

Total DEX Transactions Roll

MUSAC 13,042 969 37,123 37,410 1 88,545 313,761

KAMAR 2,819 438 70,921 19,806 11,105 105,089 157,385

eTap 4,137 1,640 38,793 23,712 9,192 77,474 112,910

SchoolMaster 2,571 1,072 86,579 - - 90,222 85,969

Totals 30,280 4,553 261,721 81,949 20,735 399,238 768,196

Online systems/LMS/Parent portals

•Uptake subsidies now available for many schools•Working with eTAP, Edtech (Ultranet), Dataview (KnowledgeNET and Moodle)•Rapid over-subscription of primary quota but secondary okay•Intention is to assist 200-300 schools per year•Check out the SMS-LMS group to learn more

ePortfolios

• Currently developing guidelines to ePortfolios• Researching what needs to be done to ensure better

interoperability between common LMS and MyPortfolio• Interesting discussions with LMS providers where LMS has

built-in ePortfolio functionality• At this stage we are quite comfortable with MyPortfolio down

to level 7• Participating in JISC case studies• Investment in usability• Taster sessions being offered

Reusable and portable content

• All LMS make it easy to create or distribute digital content (tests, links, images, embedded media)

• We want to address the difficulty of:• sharing content between schools with the same or different LMS • taking content with you to another school• use it in an application other than in which it was created

• We want to break the dependency between the content and the run-time environment

• The most common issue faced with LMS and some ePortfolios is the difficulty to move it or provide it to the student to take with them

Examples

• Content created in WikiEducator is now available in different run-time environments, as a book and as an editable document• Eg MyPortfolio, Ultranet and Knowledge net

• A plug-in for MS Word will soon be available to save files in Mediawiki text format

• We are still working to improve:• the description of content using metadata and/or tagging• the discovery of content by searching DigitalNZ from an LMS• the location and performance of rich media for embedding

Identity and Access management

• How many usernames and passwords do you have?• Just how much do the following annoy you?

• having strong passwords and keeping them secure;• remembering them; and• experiencing the pain and time wasting, security questions etc to

obtain a password reset when you get locked out• We now have several schools using single sign-on• SAML services – Google Apps for Education, Myportfolio, Moodle,

Ultranet, KnowledgeNET, Access-It, Koha, WikiEducator (teachers)Live @edu

• And more good stuff is coming with the User Directory Interface and Identity Data Extract

Your influence

• What are the main issues that create stress in your school’s ICT environment?

• Is there anything we could include or change in our work plan that might assist?

• If you were able to influence the work that the SMS Services team is involved in – what would be the single most important factor?