The second steering group meeting for the Smudie project is scheduled for the 23rd January 2012 and the first project activity report will be discussed at that time. It covers the period 22nd November 2011 (when the project started) to January 22nd 2012. Although this period included the Christmas and New Year holidays, good progress has been made in the main objectives for the start of the project: setting up the project team and blog reporting; conducting the first round of stakeholder interviews; mapping student information management processes using the Archi EA application; and investigating related JISC resources.
Interviews have been carried out with key staff in SMU Registry, the Faculties and with senior management. These were primarily intended for basic information gathering and scoping of the project, with the intention of follow-up discussions as the 'rich picture' of student information management at SMU developed.
