LONDON MLE
The London MLE is an integrated learning and management system based on the Fronter® Open Learning Platform. The London MLE service offering includes:

  1. More than 90 web based tools for learning and collaboration, all compliant with the Becta requirements for Learning Platforms.
  2. A workshop for the Senior Management Team at each school.
  3. A training and deployment program to get the school started.
  4. Integration with most schools MIS for automatic data transfer.
  5. Fully hosted and backed up with 200Mb storage per user.
  6. School support during opening hours 8am - 5pm.

The DCSF has set two goals for 2008 and 2010. The London MLE fulfils both now by providing: A personalised learning space, with an e-portfolio, to all learners, and an integrated management system (MIS) and learning system. Furthermore; the school will have a parental portal.
The London MLE will give learners:
  • a personalised learning space with a personal e-portfolio.
  • access to the service from within school, at home or at any location connected to the Internet.
  • access to their personal content and content held by a number of different content suppliers.
  • a wide range of tools for learning and collaboration.
 The London MLE will give teachers:
  • personalised content creation tools based on their professional judgement of their learners’ requirements.
  • the ability to produce and share learning material, and re-use content materials created by other teachers across London.
  • a link between ‘curriculum’ outcomes and ‘admin’ assessment records.
More than 90 TOOLS
PERSONAL WORK LEARNING COLLABORATION PUBLISHING ADMINISTRATION
Personal Learning Environment (PLE). E-portfolio and personal working area. Learning Management System (LMS). Customised learning, assessment and follow-up. Intranet functionality for efficient collaboration and communication. Learning content management system (LCMS). Production, management and publishing of content. Solid administration tools for large scale installations.
  • Today Page
  • Entrance hall
  • Stickies
  • Visual Mail
  • My calendar
  • Games
  • My contacts
  • Fronter Instant Messenger
  • My portfolio
  • My resources
  • My homepage
  • E-mail client
  • To-do list
  • Blog client
  • My RSS feed
  • Mobile Calendar sync*
  • Information central
  • Meeting
  • Hand-in
  • Individual folders
  • Statistics
  • Result matrix
  • Course import
  • Test
  • Whiteboard
  • Learning path
  • Learning goals
  • Portfolio
  • Individual learning plans (ILP)
  • Notes
  • Question database
  • Video
  • External repository search
  • Attendance/registration*
  • Survey
  • Parental login
  • Learning Resource Exchange
  • Frontpage
  • Messages
  • Shared document
  • Shared calendar
  • Shared contact
  • Activity Folder
  • Chat
  • Discussion
  • Conversations
  • Debate
  • Brainstorm
  • Hot seat
  • Voting
  • Live room
  • Bridge
  • Language support
  • Resource booking
  • Appointment list
  • Shared resources
  • File transfer
  • Links
  • News
  • List
  • Spelling check
  • Page
  • Statistics
  • Metadata
  • Version control
  • OES
  • Metadata search
  • Article
  • Web Fronter
  • Infofronter
  • Free text search
  • WebEq
  • Sound Recorder
  • RSS reader
  • Room
  • Members
  • Export
  • Organisation structure
  • Rights and roles
  • Global settings
  • Local settings
  • Reports
  • MIS Integration
  • Database clean-up
  • Help
  • User-defined tool
  • Single Sign On (Shibboleth)
  • LDAP authentication (USO)*
  • Design tool
  • Import configuration setup
  • Disc Storage management
*Restrictions apply
PLANNING AND DEPLOYMENT

Shortly after the school signs up there will be a workshop for the school’s Senior Management Team led by a London MLE consultant. Secondary schools are visited individually, primary schools in clusters of 3-5. The purpose of this workshop is to prepare the school for the service and to agree a school-specific plan. This will be followed up by a further school visit after the service is operational for the school.

TRAINING AND E-LEARNING

The school can nominate one local school administrator and one “champion” teacher to receive two days of training to get started with the London MLE. They will become certified Fronter trainers for delivering training to their colleagues at the school.
In addition, a range of e-learning modules provides full training for school staff. Online and accessible at any time via the London MLE, the modules when completed, lead to Fronter certification.

MIS INTEGRATION

The London MLE can be integrated with the school’s MIS so that pupil roll changes will be automatically applied to the London MLE on a daily basis. The following MIS systems will be supported, subject to version:
  • Capita SIMS.NET
  • RM Integris
  • Serco Facility CMIS
  • Pearson Phoenix Gold
  • Pearson Phoenix e1
  • Wauton Samuels
HOSTING AND STORAGE

The London MLE is a fully hosted solution with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. All users have 200Mb of data storage, backed up daily and held for one year. The London MLE is operated from a purpose built, highly resilient data centre that is further protected by a separate disaster recovery site.

SUPPORT

Help desk support is available 8am - 6pm during weekdays, school days, for all certified school administrators and ”champion” teachers.



SERVICE LEVELS
SERVICE LONDON MLE FRONTER STANDARD COMMENTARY
Toolset (1) More than 90 Fronter owned tools 70+ tools (1) Fronter owned tools and school-sector Plus packs, including web publishing.
Storage Space included (2) 200Mb each end-user 2.5Mb each end-user (2) With preferential LGfL rates for further upgrades.
In School Support (3) Yes No (3) Visits from MLE consultant team.
Training / Continuing Professional Development (4) Full Basic (4) Includes 2 days training for 2 members of staff for each school and training of LA administrator. A range of e-learning modules are also available.
Helpdesk (5) 8am - 6pm (6) Separate (5) London MLE high service levels apply.
(6) Fronter standard service levels.
MIS Integration (7) Included for: Capita SIMS, Serco CMIS, Pearson Phoenix, RM Integris No (7) Fully included as interoperability develops within the Becta Data Services programme, subject to version of the MIS.
Service Levels (8) 99.9% uptime for London 99% uptime (8) Includes high London MLE service level regime.
Hosted Service (9) Purpose built data centre for London Shared data centre (9) London MLE high service levels apply.
Disaster Recovery Site (10) Yes No (10) London MLE high service levels apply.
London Reference Group (11) Yes No (11) Membership of the London Reference Group allows the direction of the solution to be influenced. One seat per LA.
Pan London Learning Object Repository for Sharing of Data. (12) Yes No (12) Includes content search and rating.
Advanced Search Tool (13) Yes No (13) Advanced free text search inside all content.
Integration with Email and Other LGfL Services (14) Yes No (14) Selected services.
Contract Managed under the LGfL contract Direct with LA / school
Content Migration from LGfL Yes No
Webhosting (14) Yes, 200Mb per school No (14) For webpages published from Fronter.
Shibboleth Integrated into the LGfL Federation No