PIOP LeicesterShire

One of the Portfolio interoperability projects funded by the JISC

Who to contact
Tim Farthing - Project Coordinator mailto:tim.farthing@vesa.org.uk Telephone 0116 2707942

IT Team Sam Persse mailto:samuel.persse@loucoll.ac.uk Telephone 01509 618234 Megan Jones mailto:megan.jones@vesa.org.uk Telephone 0116 2707942

Pedagogical Team Fiona Henry mailto:Fiona.Henry@loucoll.ac.uk Telephone 01509 618303 Bill Leivers mailto:bill.leivers@vesa.org.uk Telephone 0116 2707942

What we will do
The Leicester shire e-PF/ILP project, working through the JISC PIOP pilot, will seek to explore the potential for exporting our Key Stage 4 e-ILP into similar portfolio systems used by JISC partners. This is an important issue for us locally as we begin to see learners moving through from Key Stage 4 into post 16 options who have an e-ILP that they have developed through our e-PF product. We are also keen to look at how we can enable Key Stage 4 learners to use relevant information from their e-ILP to populate the local electronic Common Application Process [LeCAP] which is the standard approach for applying for post 16 options. As such, we would be keen to work with any JISC PIOP partners who have such electronic application systems in place to test this inter-operability.

What we will deliver
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 * Make our KS4 e-PF/ILP accessible to JISC PIOP partners - usernames and passwords will be forwarded to all partners (end of November 2008).
 * A test student account will be made available for partners to access as a test student(end of November).


 * We will produce a web service to enable partners to export an XML file (using the LEAP2a specifications) that can be used to populate their own applications if they so wish (end of January 2009).
 * Produce an importer that can populate our own e-ILP based on the LEAP2a specification seeking to import JISC partners exported files.
 * All the above deliverables will be fully documented and made available to all JISC partners (please see below for full list).
 * Which aspects of our e-ILP we want to export.
 * The mapping process of our e-ILP fields to the LEAP2a specification.
 * The coding to produce the exporter.
 * The coding to produce the importer.
 * End of project report detailing sucesses, issues confronted and our overall view of the LEAP2a specification as a tool to aid tranfer of data.

Links to materials
Leicestershire PIOP sample site

[[Media:JISC_PIOP_bid_for_e_PF_ILP_final_version_9th_October_2008.doc| Leicestershire PIOP JISC bid]]

[[Media:JISC_PIOP_partner_project_meeting_presentation_Birmingham_27th_November_2008.pptx‎| Power point presentation]]

Notes from meeting held Loughborough College 3rd December leicestershire PIOP, Nottingham- Passportfolio and Myprogressfile Notes]

Technical Developments
Export Web Service Using the field mappings (linked above in the materials section) we have began development of a web service that returns an XML document in the LEAP2a standard containing content from our Key Stage 4 Progress File test site. This is only in test mode at the moment, so may be up or down at certain times (when i come up with a great new idea that doesn't work) and doesn't contain all the data we will eventually export, but will grow over time. For testing use 112625 for the person code when prompted to retrieve the correct data.

Click here to open test export web service

This web service has been devloped using C# in Visual Studio 2008, using a useful Atom formating class in the Service Model Syndication Namespace in the latest .NET Framwork (3.5). See here

This way of doing has saved a lot of time with creating basic elements, currently battling with it to make it work with additional non standard elements and attributes.

Import
Report of the import from Myprogressfile into the Leicestershire PIOP e_PF/ILP - eprogressfile [[Media:Myprogressfilereportedimport.xls‎ | MyProgressfile import report]] Report of import from Nottinghamshire - this import is an account created in their demo account of Passportfolio [[Media:Formatted_notts_export_from_created_account_06.04.2009.xls‎ | Nottinghamshire Import Report]] Report of import from Nottinghamshire - this import is an account created by Stuart Wood [[Media:Copy_of_notts_stuart_wood_export.xls| Nottinghamshire Stuart Wood Import Report]]

Mapping
Please find below the link to the mapping spread sheet final version taking into account the final LEAP2a spec also now has categories included.

[[Media:Leicestershire_PIOP_mappings_final_draft_post_final_leap2a_spec.xls‎ | Leicester shire PIOP mapping spread sheet]]

Please find diagram that reflects the spread sheet above pictorially for those who prefer something more visual.

[[Media:myilpleicestershire.jpg| Leicestershire PIOP Mapping Diagram]]

I hope soon to post a written record of our mapping experience to document the process from the perspective of a complete beginner to interoperability/ web standards.

previous versions
Old [[Media:LeicestershirePIOPmappingexercise.pdf‎| Mapping Exercise]] as at 2008-12-02 Version completed 6th February ( newer one now superimposed above)[[Media:Leicestershire_PIOP_mappings_final_draft_amended_06.02.09.xls‎| Leicestershire PIOP mapping Spread sheet]]