http://www1.aston.ac.uk/map-blog.rss New MAP tasks have been developed relating to student engagement, personal tutoring and coursework submission. For further information please visit the 'Changes for 2012/13' webpage: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/changesoct2012/ http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=536 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:43:20 GMT 20121029124320 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:43:20 GMT 20121029124320 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:43:20 GMT 2012102912124320 Staff and students will be unable to log into MAP or SITS from 5pm Friday the 2nd of March ( 2/03/2012 ) until Monday the 5th of March ( 5/03/2012 ) due to a system upgrade. While MAP is unavailable Blackboard and Aston ePortfolio will remain accessible to staff and students directly and via the MAP login page at http://www.aston.ac.uk/map . http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=383 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:46:44 GMT 20120228104644 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:46:44 GMT 20120228104644 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:20:56 GMT 201202292082056 Aston Alumni now have a new MAP page for all students who study a standard degree programme. This page is designed to allow Aston Alumni to form a presence from the first year and onwards and to communicate to students the facilities and support Aston Alumni offers. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=378 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:56:42 GMT 20120116115642 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:56:42 GMT 20120116115642 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:56:42 GMT 2012011611115642 The Student Lookup now contains a student's placement details once it has been approved by the Placement Office. Information such as the placement organisation, main contact, the student's role and start/end dates are all now visible in the 'Current Programme Details' section of the lookup. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=377 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:39:46 GMT 20120116113946 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:39:46 GMT 20120116113946 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:39:46 GMT 2012011611113946 Academic Staff are now able to view details of their personal tutees/research students in MAP. The link to the details is available in the Academic Staff Actions container. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=374 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:19:12 GMT 20111222141912 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:19:12 GMT 20111222141912 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:29:23 GMT 201112221422923 Personal Contact information is now available to students and staff in MAP. Students are able to view their Personal Contact with an email link. Staff are able to view Personal Contacts in the Student Look-up. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=370 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:59:14 GMT 20111027155914 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:59:14 GMT 20111027155914 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:02:55 GMT 201110271640255 We are now live with the Unavailability for Examinations due to Religious Commitments task in MAP for Students. Students are able to record dates and reasons why they are unavailable for examinations. Students are able to view their request and status in the Absences container in MAP under the "View my Unavailability due to Religious Commitments" link. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=363 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:17:39 GMT 20111011171739 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:17:39 GMT 20111011171739 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:17:39 GMT 201110111751739 Request for a Foreign Language Dictionary is now live and available to students in MAP. Students are able to request dictionaries for use in examinations and this will appear as a To Do List message in MAP. The deadline date for requests is 25 October. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=362 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:30:38 GMT 20111011163038 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:30:38 GMT 20111011163038 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:30:38 GMT 201110111643038 In addition to the Staff Home Page there are now two new pages in MAP for Staff:Planning & Management Information and HESES 2011. The Planning & Management Information page includes information on Live enrolments 2011-12, Data checks and SITS Training Guides. HESES 2011 includes information on deadline dates, HESES11 guidelines and much more. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=360 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:58:20 GMT 20110928145820 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:58:20 GMT 20110928145820 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:58:20 GMT 201109281425820 Course administrators are now able to record AP(E)LS (Accreditation of Prior Learning) via MAPforSTAFF. Once stored successfully in MAP the action will automatically create SMC (exemption) records in SITS. A video (including audio) has also been produced to assist administrators with the task. The link to the task and the video is available in the All Staff: Actions container in MAP. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=351 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:18:27 GMT 20110725171827 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:18:27 GMT 20110725171827 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:20:01 GMT 201107251752001 The Planning and Management Information Office produce a range of student based information for use throughout the University and many of the statistics are available via the Planning and Management Information web pages. A link to those pages has now been created in the Student Details Lookup container in MAP. Examples of the statistics include: enrolment monitoring, December stats, annual monitoring etc. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=345 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:55:16 GMT 20110419125516 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:55:16 GMT 20110419125516 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:55:16 GMT 2011041912125516 Aston ePortfolio / PebblePad is scheduled to be upgraded to version 2.5.2 on the morning of Thursday 28th April 2011. It will be temporarily unavailable to all users during this period. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=341 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:28:54 GMT 20110408112854 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:28:54 GMT 20110408112854 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:29:40 GMT 2011040811112940 SITS and MAP will be unavailable from 5pm Friday 1st April until Monday 4th April due to a system upgrade. Blackboard, email and Aston ePortfolio access will not be affected and these systems will still be available during the upgrade. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=333 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:25:03 GMT 20110329112503 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:25:03 GMT 20110329112503 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:20:03 GMT 201103291532003 Today we have released a new MAP task that allows you to view statistics on MAP To-Do List messages and Placement messages. The new task is called 'View MAP To-Do List/Placement message statistics' and can be found in the 'General Students: Actions' container on the Staff Homepage. If you have sent any MAP To-Do List messages or MAP Placement page messages then please take a look at this task. Using it will show you how many students have read the message (or not read the message), and will allow you to see a list of the students on the different message statuses (Read, Un-read, etc). We will be looking to enhance this task soon, by allowing you to send a reminder message/email to students who have not read their MAP To-Do List/MAP Placement messages. We will inform you when this is updated. Please send us any feedback on this task by using this email address: mapstaffsupport@aston.ac.uk. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=327 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:00:32 GMT 20110317170032 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:00:32 GMT 20110317170032 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:00:56 GMT 201103171750056 The Aston ePortfolio system is scheduled for an upgrade on the morning of Monday 20th December 2010. It will be temporarily unavailable to all users during this period. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=291 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:55:57 GMT 20101214105557 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:55:57 GMT 20101214105557 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:29:13 GMT 2011040811112913 A new Placements page for students is now available in MAP. This is a new University initiative and the aim of this Placement page is for students to manage all placement activities through one central location of My Aston Portal (MAP). This new MAP initiative will be a phased approach and the first phase will provide two things: (1) enable the University to communicate placement information and messages to students via MAP on a separate Placement page, (2) Provide a selection of links on the Placement page in MAP to other web pages e.g PNet, School Placement web pages and other useful links. The first phase is now live. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=261 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:10:29 GMT 20101103171029 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:10:29 GMT 20101103171029 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:10:29 GMT 201011031751029 The Research Engagement task is now live. All research students are able to record their activities in MAP and submit these to their supervisor. The main supervisor is automatically emailed and is requested to login to MAP to either approve, not approve or record a pending decision on the individual activities. International students have been advised that it is particularly important that they do not delay the submission of their activities because it will provide evidence that they are engaging with their research at the University. Reports on activities are also available to both students and supervisors. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=253 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:06:14 GMT 20101101170614 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:06:14 GMT 20101101170614 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:08:22 GMT 201011011750822 All MAP course administers can now start the process to create a new programme of study. This feature will register your intention to create a new programme by informing the relevant School(s) and individuals involved. The container 'Create New Programme' will enable course administers to use this functionality. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=141 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:08:40 GMT 20100326120840 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:08:40 GMT 20100326120840 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:08:40 GMT 2010032612120840 The Student Lookup has been improved to include a student's entry qualifications and experience. More information on this can be found in the Historical Information section of the report. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=71 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:15 GMT 20100105113015 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:15 GMT 20100105113015 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:15 GMT 2010010511113015 Student teaching timetables for Teaching Period 2 / Term 2 are now being published to MAP and are available to all current postgraduate and undergraduate students. You can also view student timetables using the MAP for Staff Student Lookup facility. Changes to student data on SITS are transferred to the timetabling system each evening and PDF timetables published to MAP are usually updated overnight to reflect these changes. Students are advised to keep checking their timetables on MAP for updates. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=68 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:56:44 GMT 20091216095644 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:56:44 GMT 20091216095644 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:03:12 GMT 2009121610100312 The Subject Area Lookup for Combined Honours Programmes has been improved to allow users to send emails to a group of students. Emails can now be sent to students studying a specific subject by their year of study. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=57 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:12:03 GMT 20091016111203 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:12:03 GMT 20091016111203 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:14:34 GMT 2009101611111434 You will now be able to view a student's library pin number through the Student Lookup. This information is available in the 'Miscellaneous Information' section of the Student Lookup. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=53 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:20:21 GMT 20090928142021 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:20:21 GMT 20090928142021 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:20:21 GMT 200909281422021 Student teaching timetables for Teaching period 1 / Term 1 are now being published to MAP and are available to all current postgraduate and undergraduate students. Staff can also view student timetables using the MAP for Staff Student Lookup facility. Changes to student data on SITS are transferred to the timetabling system each evening and PDF timetables published to MAP are usually updated overnight to reflect these changes. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=52 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:12:04 GMT 20090925111204 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:12:04 GMT 20090925111204 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:24:50 GMT 200909251532450 International Student Welcome Week ( 21/09/2009 to 25/09/2009 ) and Welcome Week ( 28/09/2009 to 02/10/2009 ) event timetables have been made available to new students that have completed Online Enrolment Stage 1. New students can view their timetable using links on their MAP homepage. Staff with access to MAP can view any new student's Induction timetable using the Student Lookup facility. These timetables are constantly being updated and students are being advised to keep checking on MAP for updates to their own personal timetable. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=51 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:34:48 GMT 20090916153448 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:34:48 GMT 20090916153448 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:35:51 GMT 200909161533551 The Module Lookup task has now been enhanced to include searches on Postgraduate modules. Staff members will also be able to access the Quick Student View (QSV) facility (Undergraduate and Postgraduate modules), making the Module Lookup report a more comprehensive report http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=41 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:54:29 GMT 20090609105429 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:54:29 GMT 20090609105429 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:54:29 GMT 2009060910105429 From 1st June 2009 all visa/student status letters should be requested by students through the MAP Portal and not produced locally. This includes the following letters: Bank letter Confirmation of enrolment Graduation Ceremony Date of Award Graduation Ceremony Invitations for family members Post Study Work visa letter Schengen (short visit) student status visas Admissions visa letter (these are being initiated via MAP by Admissions staff) Renewal visa letters and accompanying Bursary Letters (these are being initiated by the University's four Qualified Visa Advisors (Gemma Ball, Karen Manley, Christina Walker, Jill Wilson) in consultation with designated staff in Schools). Work is being carried out on Attendance confirmation and Council Tax Exemption Certificates. Further information to follow. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=39 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:13:27 GMT 20090602091327 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:13:27 GMT 20090602091327 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:20:23 GMT 200906020992023 The new admissions applicant Visa Letter is now live in MAP for a restricted number of users. This letter is issued by the University and sent to overseas applicants who have been confirmed a place at the University. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=35 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:25:13 GMT 20090428162513 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:25:13 GMT 20090428162513 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:25:13 GMT 200904281642513 Working with Aston Business School, ISA has just completed an Online Module Selection pilot using MAP, allowing first year students on all Aston Business School Undergraduate Single Honours programmes to select and confirm their optional modules online for the forthcoming 2009/10 academic year. For students on certain degree programmes, their module choices depend on the selection of two subject 'streams' and the ability to do this through MAP has also been provided before students enter the Online Module Selection screens. Online Module Selection on MAP directly interacts with SITS to automatically create and update the module taking records for the optional and compulsory modules a student is taking. As optional module choices do not now need to be added to SITS manually, administrative staff in the Business School have reclaimed a substantial amount of time to devote to other tasks. Due to the ease of which students can select modules online and the amount of preparatory work done by staff in the Business School, student engagement with Online Module Selection has been high. Up until today, the response rate across different degree programmes has been between 68% at its lowest and up to 94%. Overall, we have achieved a response rate of 87% for students that have optional modules that they need to select. For more information on this process, please contact ISA at mapstaffsupport@aston.ac.uk http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=34 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:51:16 GMT 20090330175116 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:51:16 GMT 20090330175116 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:57:31 GMT 200903301755731 Postgraduate Teaching timetables have now been released to relevant postgraduate students on MAP and are being updated on a daily basis to reflect changes in teaching times and locations. Where relevant, these timetables are also viewable on MAP for Staff through the Student Lookup facility. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=33 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:35:28 GMT 20090330143528 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:35:28 GMT 20090330143528 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:56:18 GMT 200903301645618 Now that student exam timetables are now available through MAP this is a reminder that staff are able to include an individual note at the bottom of an individual personal examination timetable by creating an “Exam” Detail type record in SPD. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=32 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:02:56 GMT 20090330130256 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:02:56 GMT 20090330130256 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:02:56 GMT 200903301310256 A new reporting facility has become available in MAP for Staff, beneath the Module Lookup container, which will enable users to view students for a Degree Programme or from a specific subject area in Combined Honours. The Degree Programme Lookup lists all current and expected to return students grouped by the year of study for a selected programme. Where applicable, the option is also available to view students by route. Searches can be conducted on Single and Combined Honours, postgraduate and undergraduates programmes. All report pages in both searches can be printed out in an appropriate format. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=31 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:40:11 GMT 20090324094011 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:40:11 GMT 20090324094011 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:20:27 GMT 2009032411112027 SITS and MAP are undergoing an essential upgrade to version 8.1.1 this weekend. This will mean that both the SITS client and MAP will be unavailable to staff and students from 31st January until 1st February. Students will continue to be able to access Blackboard via http://www.aston.ac.uk/map while MAP is unavailable. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience that this may cause. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=28 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:58:12 GMT 20090130105812 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:58:12 GMT 20090130105812 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:26:11 GMT 2009013011112611 From this afternoon MAP for Staff users will be able to view historical module marks for modules that a student has taken. The student's agreed mark from SMR will be shown alongside module taking information and where no mark is available, 'Unavailable' will be displayed. As with other mark related information, student module marks will be shown to any MAP user with Supervisor or Course Administrator access levels. This covers all academic and school administrative staff. Other users with Basic access, such as those in student support, will not see this information. Please also note that mark information is not currently shown to students outside of end of year transcripts and provisional assessment marks. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=27 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:50:56 GMT 20090129165056 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:50:56 GMT 20090129165056 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:29:46 GMT 2009020512122946 As of today, all students are able to view the Academic Appeals process on the Registry website via a link on their MAP homepage. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=25 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:05:30 GMT 20090116140530 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:05:30 GMT 20090116140530 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:21:40 GMT 200901291532140 Following approval by Senate the latest editions of the Regulations on Student Discipline and the Tariff of Penalties are now available to all students on MAP. These new regulations came into effect on 12 January 2009 and can be viewed by staff on the Registry regulations and policies website http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=24 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:23:32 GMT 20090113172332 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:23:32 GMT 20090113172332 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:44:28 GMT 200901141424428 Welcome to the new MAP for Staff blog. This blog will be used by the MAP team in ISA to make announcements and provide information on changes and improvements to MAP that will affect both you and your students. It will also be used to give you advance notice of any planned maintenance to MAP or any of its other components, such as teaching time tables. The four most recent blog posts are displayed on your MAP for Staff homepage and, if you are viewing this in MAP, by using the link below this container you can view the full blog archive on the Aston website. We hope that this will be a useful service for staff and welcome any comments or suggestions. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/map/map-blog/?blogpost=23 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:59:37 GMT 20090113165937 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:59:37 GMT 20090113165937 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:03:57 GMT 2009012111110357