Doncaster South City Learning Centre Sharezone Content Repository (CORE)
CDSM worked with Doncaster South CLC to design and build a website that encourages the development of quality teaching and learning resources. Doncaster South CLC is funded by the DfES as part of the Excellence in Cities programme and is a shared resource for Doncaster schools, the local community and local business.
Using our successful Teacher Sharezone components, CDSM have worked in partnership with the CLC to encourage collaboration within the teaching and learning community of South Doncaster.
The website provides information, resources and tools to help enhance learning and teaching across the entire curriculum.
SCRIB - Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau
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The SCRIB website has seen CDSM provide high-profile design and web services to CORUS, one of the world's leading steel manufacturers.The Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau (SCRIB) website is part of Corus's drive to promote recycling to young people in the UK. They required modern, vibrant design with a sensitivity towards education and accessibility. Their partnership with CDSM has resulted in a popular website which has been turning heads in the recycling community.
My Learning Space
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My Learning Space (MLS) is the latest in online portfolio technology specifically developed by CDSM in partnership with Salford CLC.
MLS is a part of CDSM's eLearning application development which includes Pedagogue, an online content authoring tool and Teacher Sharezone, an online content repository. For more information about CDSM's learning services, please see Learning Services
Swansea People
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Swansea People is the sister website to Swansea Lives and latest part of CDSM's "People and Places" online community solution.
Swansea People provides an online community for users with learning disabilities in the Swansea area.
The community will be expanding very rapidly with Neath People on the horizon as well as several other areas in Wales looking at gaining access to this exciting new application.
West Glamorgan Housing Consortium (WGHC)
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The WGHC website is targeted at people with learning disabilities for whom the consortium provide services to.
Consortium staff have the ability to easily add/update website content as well as having the option to publish self-reading pages.
Self-reading pages are multimedia presentations that allow users to roll over text with their mouse and listen to pre-recorded audio reading out the text.
Salford City Learning Centres
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Salford CLC are one of CDSM's key partners is developing a product line of learning applications. GCSE English Online is a direct collaboration between Salford CLC and CDSM.
CDSM designed and built Salford CLC's web portal which includes Teachers ShareZone, CDSM's online content repository software.
Blackburn with Darwen City Learning Centres
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CDSM has provided not just a design and website solution but also Teacher Sharezone, CDSM's online content repository software. The Blackburn with Darwen site enables collaboration and resource sharing in a community of teachers by promoting best practice and discussion.
Renaissance South Yorkshire
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This site provides a web presence to promote Renaissance South Yorkshire, a regional development organisation, and provides extranet access to, and version control for, a library of shared resources for staff and partners of Renaissance South Yorkshire.
Thalidomide Trust
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The Thalidomide Trust required not only an extremely accessible website solution but also a comprehensive application back-end to build an online community for their users.
The Thalidomide Trust website is the first part of an ongoing partnership between the Thalidomide Trust and CDSM Interactive Solutions Limited.
Early Years and Playwork Qualifications Database
CDSM designed and developed this database to allow users to map their qualifications to suitable job roles. It also allows users to select a job role and view the required qualifications associated with it. Guidance notes are also provided to the user when criteria has not been met.
The application development also involved incorporating this database into the existing DfES website.
The Early Years and Playwork Qualifications Database is now a part of the new Children's Workforce Development Council.
University of Wales Swansea Alumni
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For this project CDSM won the HSBC sponsored TW 03 Award for
“Website Designer of the Year”, for the “organisation that has designed and developed a Web solution to improve or transform an organisation's business in the most effective manner”.
CDSM produced a web site that develops and manages the UWS alumni community on-line, significantly increase the number of members and promote inward investment into the area. CDSM worked closely with UWS to create the design and specification for the site. Features include:
- Marketing analysis
- Marketing front-end (tailored to the aspirations of the target audience)
- On-line advice and guidance resources
- On-line message boards
- On-line chat rooms for facilitation and mentoring
- On-line case studies
- On-line news letters
- On-line ‘Find a Friend’ facility to trace schoolmates a la ‘Friends reunited'
- Business Directory a la ‘Yell.com’
Middlesex University (MU) Press
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This e-commerce site for Middlesex University Press offers a substantial content management system as well as secure online shopping for books, learning courses and booking for events.
Plates4Less
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An e-commerce site, that allows the user to search and order from the DVLA database of millions of available registration marks.
National Health Service University (NHSU)
CDSM was commissioned by the NHSU to develop the online Health Informatics Learning Needs Assessment Tool
Features of the solution include:
- A design that is consistent with the NHSU branding guidelines
- Intuitive navigation system to allow for a wide variety of user ability
- An appropriate level of Accessibility (to the Disability Discrimination Act)
- A system allowing communications between geographically disparate users
- Providing individuals with instant access to information, facilities, assistance and guidance
- Facilitate relationships between learners and providers of learning resources
- Providing facilities that greatly reduce administration labour and allow rapid access to data analysis and information dissemination
- Offering a detailed assessment of the individual’s skills measured against the requirements of a current or job role or an aspired job role, this provides a detailed breakdown of each of the assessment criteria with an easy-to-use interface
- Gap Analysis measuring the user’s current skill set against the required skills to occupy the specified role. It provides the information in an easy-to-follow visual and textual format and matches the results up with appropriate learning resources that have been submitted by course providers. The tool will also display the user’s strengths and weaknesses to allow them to identify where they are competent, or where they may need to improve to fulfil the desired job role.
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
The DfES require a self-assessment tool for its staff to analyse their current qualifications and relate these to appropriate job roles within the DfES. The system will also allow staff to search for jobs and provide them with the qualifications to fulfil the roles.
On provision of the DfES requirements for their internal CPD self assessment system CDSM has:
- Produced an initial Functional Specification for the solution
- Built the initial database and a Proof of Concept prototype for the solution which will act as a feasibility study and the Functional Specification for the end solution
To complete the project CDSM will:
- Provide access to the prototype to the key influencers (end users, OFSTED inspectors, Awarding bodies and steering group)
- Take feedback based on the initial prototype to develop the final solution
- Produce further storyboards to define the functionality of the solutions
- Build the solution to be consistent with the DfES’ policies on corporate identity design, technical platforms, accessibility and usability standards
A future phase of development will involve directing users to relevant learning resources to attain the required qualifications.
CDSM is committed to quality. We are an ISO9001 (this link will open in a new browser window) accredited learning organisation that employs a number of Prince2 (this link will open in a new browser window) qualified project managers.
As corporate members of The BCS' Disability Group(this link will open in a new browser window) we are committed to the UK web accessibility agenda, exclusively partnering with UK Pan-disability charity Shaw Trust (this link will open in a new browser window) and are members of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (this link will open in a new browser window).