Dear Colleagues,

This is the first in a series of communications to inform you of the process in place to ‘rollover’ the VLE from the current academic year to 2009/2010. After ‘rollover’ you will no longer have access to your 2008/2009 course areas and will have 2009/2010 areas created for you. This process will take place at the end of summer. We are aware of some courses and programmes that do not run on the standard academic cycle.

We run the VLE as a live teaching environment. Data that must be kept for a longer period of time than the academic year must be archived off the VLE by academic departments.

As the system grows larger in use and size we are designing more formal processes with direct lines of ownership and responsibility for course areas.

What will happen?

1. We will request notice for courses that should run again next year. We will require an owner’ for each course area
2. We will backup all course areas in late August at the end of the resit period
3. We will only make 09/10 versions for course areas that we have received notice for
4. We will then take all 08/09 course areas off the system

What do you need to do right now?

Nothing. This is simply a communication to alert you to an upcoming event. We will send out more detailed communications and requests for more information and will be hosting Q&A sessions about the process.

If you have any immediate concerns about this process, please email webct-admin@qmul.ac.uk

Regards,

CE6 Admin