Cloud Computing - Category One Projects
Accrington and Rosendale College
This project will replace traditional on
premise servers and provide a storage
capacity for students and learners.
Barking and Dagenham College
This project is for access to Google Apps
(for Education) to provide an online
Business Enterprise Incubator for
learners. This will be a cost effective
means of supporting the College's
curriculum for employability and
entrepreneurship.
Barnsley College
This project is for anywhere, anytime
learning to be provided through a project
entitled Hub Mobile.
Blackburn College
This project is for the development of a
virtual desktop facility so that students
can access software online at the
College and remotely. The benefits are
described as improved access to
software for staff and students, the
widening of this access to beyond the
College IT suites, the ability for staff to
work at home and the value of a desktop
which is tailored to reflect the home and
office desktop.
Bolton College
This project is for access to Google Apps
(for Education) and Google's Cloud
based operating system Google Chrome.
This is to enable work based assessors
to deliver and record live learning,
tracking and feedback, progress and
achievement from a variety of work
based locations. This new way of
working will enable efficiency benefits for
staff and learners.
City College Coventry
This project is for the development of an
HTML 5 Cloud content management
system to deliver a mobile app for
information and communication for
student use. This will result in improved
student access to critical information.
East Riding College
The project sees the development and
implementation of Office 365 with
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager
through the Microsoft ESS agreement
and A2 pricing framework to provide
access to Cloud based collaborative
services.
Exeter College
This project is for an integration of the
College SharePoint/Moodle VLE in the
Cloud. Moving to the Cloud will enable a
more engaging VLE service for students,
greater functionality for creating
interactive learning content for teachers
and a platform for further development.
Exeter College (2)
This project is for the migration of student
file storage, email and collaboration tools
to the Cloud, integrating them with the
College’s VLE. Benefits will be to student
in terms of enhanced services and to the
College in terms of savings on servers
and staff.
Gloucestershire College
This project is for the development of an
external facing College website and an
internal SharePoint system from an
internal based system to a web based
Cloud hosted solution. The benefits are
described as better services for current
prospective learners in using the College
website, reduced costs for hosting and
maintaining the website and SharePoint,
and increased efficiency for teams in
updating the website and SharePoint
with content, news and information.
Greenwich Community College
This project is for a Cloud based VLE
and Disaster Recovery service and is
presented as part of a set of shared
services projects with NESCOT. The
benefits are described as learner access
to a large body of teaching and learning
resources, joint development of
resources, reduced maintenance cost
and a focus away from systems support
towards teaching and learning.
Grimsby Institute
This project is for "bring your own
technology" access to the VLE and other
applications across 14 sites at anytime,
anywhere. Benefits are described in
terms of better access for students and
staff.
Hartlepool College
This project will implement an email/web
filtering security solution, the projects
goals are to improve user experience,
performance, reliability and reduce IT
costs and management and most
importantly significantly reduce internet
bandwidth by eliminating spam email.
Herefordshire College of Technology
This project is for a shared Cloud based
implementation of Moodle 2.0 VLE
between Herefordshire College of Arts &
Technology and The Royal National
College for the Blind. This will include a
JAWS sound based approach for VI
learners at RNCB. Benefits are anytime,
anywhere learning.
Isle of Wight College
The College proposes to move its
Financial Services system to a Cloud
based provision.
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
New College Durham
This project is for Cloud hosting of the
College VLE and Intranet. Staff and
student benefits include faster upgrades.
North East Worcestershire College
This project will extend the use of
technology for independent learning, to
support innovative and exciting course
delivery. It will provide staff with the
resources need to develop the use of
technology to support and deliver
business operations, learning based
outcomes and assessment opportunities
for all users.
Northampton College
This project will move away from elearning solutions being hosted in-house
and move towards providing Cloud
based solutions.
Oxford and Cherwell Valley College
This project is based on enabling the
development and implementation of a
flipped classroom approach across
Oxford and Cherwell College/Reading
College. This would be through supplying
Cloud capacity for visual media. Benefits
are described in terms of wide learner
access to engaging video resources,
enhancing the quality of learning and
services to external clients.
Portsmouth College
This project is submitted on behalf of the
six Solent 6th Form Colleges in an
Innovation Partnership. This project is for
a Community Cloud based VLE
approach to a Virtual Science Learning
Centre. Benefits are identified through
collaborative resource development
across sites and this translating into
learner success. This project can be
extended to other subjects.
Reaseheath College
This project will progress on improving
areas of the VLE and access to it and
improving the ability for the learners to
bring their own devices and enable them
to be connected to all resources from
whatever and wherever.
South Devon College
This project is for private Cloud hosted
remote desktop facilities to enable
access to Microsoft Office applications
and specific learning applications at the
remote centres of the College.
Swindon College
This project is for Moodle in the Cloud.
Improving the robustness of Moodle and
gaining the ability to audit Moodle
courses.
Telford College
This project is for the development of an
FE app store of pre-packaged open
source software.
Walsall College
This project is for migration to the Cloud
of business continuity functions. With
benefits of putting Disaster Recovery
services in the Cloud.
Warrington Collegiate
This project is for a Virtual Cloud
Desktop offering to enable learners to
access College owned software and
desktop services on.
Wigan and Leigh College
This project is for hosting of the College's
VLE in the Cloud to enable increased
development and adoption. The learner
will benefit from hosting the VLE in the
Cloud.
Xaverian College
The college intends to migrate from a
Novell network infrastructure running a
mercury mail service to a Cloud based
email and office software solution
through the Office 365 Microsoft solution.