News and Announcements

A number of workshops took place over the central band of the UK last week. In addition to the Universities who attended, the workshops also prompted other Universities who were unable to attend to organise individual meetings. The company has therefore a busy schedule of meetings arranged for the New Year. An additional workshop will […]

Members of the Society and College of Radiographers are enjoying the fact that they are able to download an Android version of CPD Now from the Google Play Store and the iPhone version is now available in the Apple App Store.                      This means that members […]

We have been involved in the introduction of electronic assessment at three Universities (Southampton; Bournemouth and Surrey) and all our sites have successfully moved from pilot to full scale implementation. All the projects like the sites themselves have been very different and we have gained a real insight into how to manage the transition from […]

The article that appeared in the Nursing Times provides clear guidance on how to fully digitise the assessment of professional practice across a whole Health Sciences faculty. All students on the nursing, midwifery and allied health professional courses at the University of Southampton now use an e-Assessment of Professional Practice (eAoPP) tool. If you want […]

Networking for Education in Healthcare The NET conference draws together nurses from across the world and we are delighted to again be exhibiting at the event. We have had the opportunity to speak to delegates from Universities in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK and it is apparent there is a growing […]

The first group of students to use the online Surrey Practice Learning Platform to have their practice experience assessed, have just completed the first year. The students were on the Paramedic and Child Nursing courses and have been used to trial the system. It has been a successful experience for the students, their mentors and […]

Universities have requested some new tools and features and they are enjoying using them. Feedback from colleagues can now be captured using a 360 degree tool. Students can create a CV and easily chose supportive evidence from their portfolio Mentors can sign off work using their student’s devise using a secure PIN All these developments […]

Three year paper cost = £138K vs £54K electronic One off printing costs £20 per portfolio x 400 students per year = £8,000 Verification – 1200 students (all three years) submit twice a year.  2400 submissions to verify at 4 portfolios per hour = 600 hours of academic time = 16 weeks (4 months) = […]

Now that the first quarter of the new Professional Experience Tool that we developed with and for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has passed, it is time to reflect on a successful implementation. The tool is used by 600,000 trainee accountants located across the world who capture evidence of their professional experience alongside […]

On June 7th our customer of long standing the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) launched their new application version of CPDnow the site we developed them which supports all their CPD and accreditation activities. The application enables members to capture their Plans and Evidence Offline and then they sync back to their portfolio when […]