The disability bulletin board enables students with disabilities to communicate with others within the university about their particular issues. University staff are able to use the links to external disability related sites to gain further understanding of their students' needs. Dramatically adding to the speed and efficiency of communication, the aim is to support learning and administrative functions fundamental to academic progress and student life, whilst providing a working model of what is becoming common practice in the workplace. Functionality includes ease of navigation, advanced communication through video-streaming, interactive community groups, discussion forums, and delivery of teaching support material in various formats. The Intranet integrates the Faculty's MIS with teaching and learning.
Students feed back into ongoing developments through online participation.
Evaluation is currently analysing ways in which students gather and transfer knowledge, and collecting qualitative data on the learning and communication experience of students. It provides comprehensive on-line course material for a Diploma in Local History, complete with notes, guides for students, and structured lessons and assessments. The aim of the site is to provide a comprehensive source of learning resources for all AMS students. It has been designed to allow students to access the information as directly as possible, whilst still allowing them to move around and between the site sections easily. Accessibility is clearly important, and for this reason attention has been given to good web practice.