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Hobart
The Apple University Consortium is a partnership between Apple Computer and
33 Australian Universities. Apple pays a rebate to the Consortium on sales made
into member institutions of the Consortium. These funds are used by the AUC
to fund various scholarship, development and training programs for staff and
students of member institutions.
Many of the programs funded by the AUC are based on a competitive application
system, and a committee is appointed to rank and score applications as part
of the selection process. Some programs have specific reporting and/or sharing
requirements - for example, one program requires a monthly progress update of
up to 200 words, another requires a 3-monthly report, and another requires the
delivery of a presentation at a member institution.
The project would require the development of a system that:
• allows online (web-based) application forms editing (by the program
manager), completion (by the applicants) and scoring and ranking (by the evaluation
committee);
• allows flexibility in the above, since programs come and go over time,
and information sought and selection criteria change;
• handles management of the reporting requirements of the different programs
(in some cases, allowing program recipients to upload their reports directly
to the system, in other cases allowing a program manager to "check off"
that a reporting requirement has been met);
• supports various output reporting options, including history by institution,
individual and program;
• has the ability to assign user roles to individual users of the system
(eg., promote an individual to a review committee for a given program, or promote
an individual to the role of program manager);
• is modular and can be easily extended over time;
• has a clean visual design, as the system will be used by a number of
users who are geographically dispersed and hence who will not be able to receive
training;
• is easily relocatable to an alternative URL or server.
The preferred development database is MySQL, The development platform should be either PHP or Ruby on Rails. The end-product should be capable of running on MacOS X. The AUC will be able to make hardware available for deployment testing.
The nature of the project will make it AUC-specific. The AUC will own the IP of the version delivered to it, and can make changes subsequently without having to provide those changes back to the developers. The developers will own what they develop, and may modify it and subsequently make it available to other clients.
Client Name (person who will be student contact): Tony Gray
Phone Number (business hours): (03) 6226 2956
Mobile Number (if have one): (03) 6226 5544 (not a preferred contact avenue)
Email Address: a.d.gray@utas.edu.au
Website (if have one): www.auc.edu.au
Address (where students will visit, not PO Box): School of Computing & Information
Systems, Hobart.
The estimated software difficulty rating is 3.5