This week, NCVER has released an update regarding the AVETMISS 7.0 standard for providers. This will be the new mandatory reporting format that will be used across Australia from January 1st 2014.

At the same time, the USI (Unique Student Identifier) system is undergoing legislative approval through Parliament to be endorsed for implementation in January 1st 2014.

onCourse 4.0 has arrived. This is the culmination of about 5 person-years of development effort since version 3.0. Our feature list is long so I will not reproduce it here.

http://www.ish.com.au/oncourse/download/releasenotes/release-notes-400

We have today released a new version of the enrolment process into all staging websites. This is the culmination of several months design, implementation and testing; and it represents the fourth iteration of the enrolment process that we've implemented. Each time we try to add more flexibility but still keep the enrolment process as simple as possible for the student. We know that with every step the student is asked to complete some may decide to abandon their enrolment.

From 8.30am this morning, Newtown has had no power. Unfortunately that means our office phones, email and squish task tracking system are down. All customer websites are hosted in a data centre with redundant power, so this will not affect onCourse website availability or your customers ability to undertake online transactions. All our notification systems are still functioning, so we will also be advised if there is any issue which affects your website. This morning if you need to contact us, you can find us here on the forum... at least until our laptop batteries go flat!

Wow that time has gone quickly. We are almost ready with another onCourse release and this time we've gone all the way to 4.0 since we added so many new goodies.

For all the inside information as to what has changed, please read this:

http://www.ish.com.au/oncourse/download/releasenotes/release-notes-400

And download the first release candidate here:

There is no better way to start a Friday than with some industry acronym jargon, and this post goes out to all my Community College buddies who will (unfortunately!) know exactly what I mean when I mention our annual compliance reporting via the NSW Board of Adult and Community Education (ACE) AVETMISS Online Validation and Lodgement (OLiV) service.