The OUCIO's ICT Project Initiatives

One UWI Learning Management System (Moodle)

Implemented an integrated instance of Moodle to facilitate content delivery to Cross Campus Courses and facilitate cross-campus teaching and learning.   The Cross-Campus Moodle (CCM) instance is currently hosted by the Open Campus.  Authentication into this Moodle instance is achieved by a plugin which passes the credentials from each of the localized campus Moodle instance.  

Expanded Learning management system (CCM) solution to enable  students/lecturers from all campuses to seamlessly access course material, over 4000 students in foundation course; Faculty of Sports; SALISES, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medical Sciences.

Microsoft Office 365 for All Staff on UWI.edu domain

The project is in alignment with the UWI’s strategy to establish a unified platform that will facilitate the one UWI initiative. This project seeks to enhance and modernize the communication and collaborative space of the UWI. 

O365 creates secure communities to share information, drive discussion on projects & a variety of topics, enable the secure syncing and sharing of files from any device giving seamless access to content from anywhere, at any time and increased data capacity allowing for more files to be stored in one central place.

One UWI Business Intelligence (Technical)

The project is in alignment with the One UWI strategy and is seeking to consolidate BI technical efforts and resources into a single BI organization across the University. The unified BI technical environment facilitates seamless information delivery to facilitate reports on students and staff across the UWI.  The solution provides decision-makers across the University access to accurate, relevant, reliable, valid and real-time data/information.

Redesign Cross-campus and UWI.edu websites

OUCIO's team lead the redesign of top-level web pages at the University and campus levels. The team comprised the cross-campus technical web team in collaboration with University Marketing and Communication

Security – UWI CSIRT

Established cross-campus UWI Cybersecurity Incident Response Team

Enterprise Architecture

Initiated Enterprise Architecture cross-campus group;  Obtained CDB funding to conduct training in TOGAF methodology.

Data Protection Policy

Drafted data protection policy in 2018.  Lead IT Working Group which is a sub-group of the Implementation Committee.  Provided dedicated Project Management service to Data Protection Policy Implementation Committee

OneUWI Digital Transformation Programme

Identified CDB funding; UWI lead with consultancy for developing DT Programme Report in collaboration with cross-campus ICT teams and SVUS Programme Coordinator culminating with workshop in May 2018 under auspices of Chair University ICT steering Committee   

Provide technical support to establish MS Office 365 platform for collaboration across the programme domains

ICT Operating Model for Shared Services

Implement shared services for improved and consistent delivery of ICT services; optimize IT investment; benefit from economies of scale; realize operational efficiency due to standardization of IT processes, procedures and service delivery.  

Designed ICT shared services operating model for improved and consistent delivery of ICT services in collaboration with CIOs and cross-campus teams

Phase 2 completed. Transition phase not yet started due to unavailability of resources  and absence of HR and Finance framework