Update on application to SU Strategic Fund and progress with implementation
The Library and Information Service’s application to the SU Strategic Fund to assist with the financing of the subscription cost for the Leganto course reading management system was successful, and the Library has commenced to install the system on its existing infrastructure. The Library will receive funding from the SU Strategic Fund to subscribe to Leganto for the period 2021 – 2023, with a first integration of the system into SUNLearn set for 1 December 2020.
A Campus Engagement Team comprising staff members from the Library, faculty, Blended Learning Coordinators, academic support divisions, the SU ICT Division and the SU Disability Unit will oversee the implementation process during the next 3 months. The implementation project will include a review of end-to-end lecturer workflows, ensuring the technical readiness of the Alma and SUNLearn platforms to exchange data, and training of Library and academic staff members to improve the online accessibility, format and structure of course reading lists.
By implementing Leganto the Library aims to proactively assist lecturers to create and maintain course readings by adding both print and electronic materials to the same list and showing real-time availability of both. It will assist lecturers in their blended learning offering for the modules for which they are responsible by embedding reading lists as a component of lecturer workflows and not as a separate system that the lecturer needs to access. As described in the application to the SU Strategic Fund, after 1 December 2020 the adoption process will continue into 2021 for full adoption across all possible modules by 2023.
Wouter Klapwijk