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Vocational Placements
Ruth Powell
European Solution Centre
SunGard Higher Education
July 21, 2015
Vocational Placements
• What is a placement?
- Nursing or medical
professional practice
- Business studies year in
industry
- Language study abroad
- Engineering year in
industry
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Vocational Placements
• What does VOCAP do?
— Records the placement
requirements
• For a program, curriculum or
cohort
— Allocates students to placements
• Based on their program,
curriculum or cohort
• Considering placement
capacity
• Considering placement and
student characteristics
— Records student attendance
• On placements
• On lectures, theory time etc
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Vocational Placements
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Placement allocations
— Can be on a weekly or daily basis
— Can be simultaneous
• Eg. Placement plus weekly study day
— Can be split in two with another placement in the
middle
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Vocational Placements
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VOCAP forms
— Host organisations SJAHORG
— Offer placements SJAPLAC
— Which have capacity /
availability SJAPCAP
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Vocational Placements
— Forms continued
• Programs require
learning experiences
(delivered via
placements) SJAPLRN
• And have weekly
schedules SJAPLRN
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Vocational Placements
• Learning experience requirements
— Weekly
• Allocations in blocks of a week
— Daily
• Allocations in continuous series of days
— Still takes account of weekends
— Allocation finishes on actual last day instead
of end of week
— Can have a mixture of daily and weekly Learning
Experiences within a program
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Vocational Placements
• Learning Experience Types
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Primary
— A normal placement allocation (daily or weekly) on its
own
— A placement allocation which has another (secondary)
allocation associated with it
Secondary
— The study day or middle part of a split
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Vocational Placements
• Forms continued
— Students and placements
have
— Advisors SJAADVR
— Characteristics SJASTUD /
SJAPLAC
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Vocational Placements
• Allocation
— Automatic for batches of
students
— Manual for individual
students
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Vocational Placements
• Student Self Service
— View placement allocations
— View absence and made-up
time
— View placement details
— View weekly schedule
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Future developments
— VOCAP 7.4
Feb 2009
• Main Features
—More even distribution of allocations across
placements
— VOCAP 8.0
Mar 2009
• Main Features
—Banner 8 Bio-Demographics support.
—Banner 8 UTF8 Character support.
— VOCAP 8.1
Oct 2009
• Main Features
—Faculty Self-Service page revision.
—Placement cohort functionality revisions.
—Auto allocation process output
enhancements
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Question / Answer
Ruth Powell
[email protected]
+44 1242 228854
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