Practicum Administrator
Client - Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong
2004 - continuing
Practicum Administrator is a web-based system for allocating workplace experience placements for students.
Years of development, testing and refinement have made it integral to the placement of over 1000 students annually from within the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong.
The system is now in use in other Faculties and Schools, such as Nursing, in the University of Wollongong.
The Flinders University School of Education began using a customised version of the system in 2007.
Student preferences are used to equitably allocate placements, or a postcode-based, auto-placement option without preferences is available.
Screenshots
An example of selecting preferences by location.
Features
- System-generated email to students about opening and closing dates for submission of preferences, followed by their school placement details.
- Students can change their preferences until the predetermined closing time.
- Schools are able to submit and update the number and details of practicum placements they are prepared to offer.
- Schools are automatically notified of their allocated students and thanked for their participation after the Practicum.
- Submission of 'Practicum' and 'At risk' reports from schools.
- Survey data collected about the school's perception of the practicum experience.
- A transaction log of events and documents associated with a practicum are automatically archived.
- Export to spreadsheet of placement and other data.
- Definable levels of access for administrators, schools, professional staff and students.
- Significant administrative timesaving and flexibility over a paper-based system.