Author Archives: kieron
MyMMU and the Christmas Holidays
It is obvious the Christmas holidays have started for our students, normally we get a drop off in usage on a Saturday followed by a growth in the number of page requests on the Sunday. The average is about twice … Continue reading
A Day at MMU Usability Labs
A first look at LRT’s experience of using the services of http://www.scmdt.mmu.ac.uk/business_services/specialist_facilities/usability_lab/ to analyse how students use My MMU and Moodle. I was most impressed with the lab and team from the School of Computing; they did everything they could … Continue reading
MY MMU usage over the Christmas Holidays 2010
As you can see My MMU was continued to be used over the Christmas break, this year we had 1095 unique users on Christmas day an increase of 188 on last year. Comparing this year’s Christmas break with last years … Continue reading
Campus M Phone based information for students
For the last few weeks the LRT team, Business Improvement and the Marketing team have been working with the makers of CampusM to produce a version of the mobile web site for MMU. We now have a beta Iphone app … Continue reading
My MMU Re-branding
For the last few weeks we have looking at a re-branding exercise for the My MMU portal. The current design is a standard Sharepoint web part site that while the students say the like the content but hate the design … Continue reading
Sql Inserting Multiple rows into a Table
After spending hours trying to work out why the sql bulk insert command refused to work. (it always claimed it could not open the file but the permission sets looked fine) I found Pinalkumar Dave’s blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/06/08/sql-server-insert-multiple-records-using-one-insert-statement-use-of-union-all/ and the … Continue reading
MMU Business School Learning & Teaching Day
MMU Business School Learning & Teaching Day Thursday 27th of May was the third Learning & Teaching day held at MMUBS. Like its two predecessors it was thought provoking and offered insights into excellent practice in the University. This year … Continue reading
My MMU busiest Sunday
My MMU busiest Sunday Sunday the 18th of April was our busiest Sunday with over 5800 students logging into my.mmu.ac.uk. Anyone would think there are exams starting
Who Uses The MyMMU Portal
Over the weekend I had a quick look at our user base and see who uses the portal the most. Of our top five users the gender split was 3 females and 2 males and we have 4 undergrads and … Continue reading
Latest Usage data from My MMU portal
The usage of MyMMU continues to grow This graph shows the average number of page requests per day by month. The use by day continues to follow the pattern of Monday being the busiest day and Sunday being quite strong … Continue reading