SITS:Vision is the UK's leading student and course administration system for Universities and Scottish further education colleges.
It is currently used by over 65 per cent of the UK higher education sector, including the University of Edinburgh and University College London (both part of the Russell Group), as well as a number of overseas institutions.
Our overseas clients include The Education Authority in the Municipality of Oslo, the University of Malta and the University of Technology, Jamaica.
Our system is also used by a number of our UK clients at their overseas campuses.
Solution overview
SITS:Vision manages student administrative processes from enquiries through to graduation and alumni. The system acts as the central point of information on students and their qualifications, and integrates with supporting applications such as finance systems, campus access systems, library systems, estates management, human resource systems and virtual learning environments.
SITS:Vision and e-Vision both consist of a series of core and optional components that provide universities and colleges with a flexible and functional system to manage their back-office databases, as well as the delivery of student information and data via a self-service web portal for the use of students, staff and alumni.
Each module has been designed by working in partnership with our extensive customer base to provide a solution which is rich in functionality and meets the specific needs of the higher and further education sectors.
Features
SITS:Vision is made up of five module groups, each designed to address the needs of the main business functions within a college or university. Modules are then selected and implemented to meet the individual requirements of our clients.
The five module groups are:
S:V Admissions provides a comprehensive set of components for managing student recruitment. It covers the entire process including the management of all enquiries, agency applications via UCAS, and direct online applications.
S:V Programmes is a set of components designed to manage student curriculum, assessment tracking, examinations, class timetabling, calculation of module results and award classification.
S:V Students is a course registration solution which manages enrolments, fees processing, invoicing, grants and loans, progression, assessment and the administration of student placements.
S:V System Tools is at the heart of SITS:Vision solution and it enables users to analyse, process and extract data in a variety of ways to suit business process requirements. The tools are flexible and customisable allowing staff to extract key management information for decision making. The tools utilise the latest innovations in workflow and automation.
e-Vision is a group of web modules used to manage the delivery of data and information from the SITS:Vision client server system to a web portal which can be customised with branding, business processes and academic rules.
Benefits
SITS:Vision provides the following benefits:
- provides a flexible and powerful tool for producing management reports and information
- automates a number of key business processes, reducing the burden of administration costs and improves overall efficiency
- allows highly configurable self-service web access for staff, students and alumni reducing communication barriers
- manages key statutory reports and returns including HESA, HESES and UCAS
- integrates with other back-office systems such as e-learning, finance, CRM, work-based learning and ID card production
- provides integrated systems to streamline key student data processes.
Software support
At the heart of all of Tribal’s software solutions is our unrivalled support service. We provide dedicated teams for each of our software applications and our trained experts provide an accessible and flexible service to meet the needs of our customers.
We have developed a number of solutions to ensure our clients not only have access to the support they require, but work with us to develop our products to ensure that their needs and those of the wider sector are met.
Our SITS:Vision support services include:
- a dedicated ‘mysits’ support portal for our clients to log help calls, book consultancy and training, download hotfixes and software releases and access a discussion forum used by our clients and product experts
- user group membership which includes access to regional user sessions as well as specialist product interest groups and annual conferences.
Professional services
The provision of quality information systems requires more than just software. Fully-trained staff, quality processes and reliable systems all contribute to an effective system.
We have the skills and knowledge to develop, implement and maintain cutting edge services to enable our clients to gain the maximum return on their investment.
Our professional services teams provide a support framework to ensure we provide a solution which is tailored to our clients’ requirements.
Our services range from one-day training courses through to full project management of systems implementation. These services contribute to providing our customers with a continuous improvement programme to increase operational effectives and gain a competitive edge.
Our professional services include:
- business process review
- project management
- user training
- system implementation
- report writing
- continuous improvement framework.