University Staff and Students
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Created with universities, for universities, the Simitive Academic Solution provides a platform for the engagement of management, academics, non academic staff and students in the performance of the university. Simitive Academic was developed with the Performance For All project and is specifically designed to meet a university’s needs:
Academic Workload Management
Funded by HEFCE and the Leadership Foundation, imagined by University of the West of England, developed and delivered by Simitive.
- Provides a single Institution wide common platform and process for workload allocation, management, monitoring and reporting.
- Significant reduction in cost and time for planning, allocating and reporting.
- Agreed and auditable transparent, fair workload.
- Enforceable and measurable completion.
- Explicit acceptance of workload and confirmation of actual performance.
- Compliance reporting (TRAC, FEC, Professional Bodies).
- Employee engagement enhanced.
- Regular updates become an ongoing ‘living’ process.
- Links to Goals, Student and review modules.
Activity Based Costing
Developed with extensive consultation with university Finance Leaders:
- It is a comprehensive costing, planning, modelling and reporting tool specifically designed to empower university leaders as well as meet regulatory and strategic reporting needs.
- It allows leaders to better visualise the resource and cost implications for the delivery of programmes, modules and projects.
- The product logically generates contribution data on ALL activities and facilities.
- As with all Simitive products it integrates seamlessly with other University systems to remove the manual effort normally associated with Financial analysis.
- The unique rules based Activity costing engine allows standardised parameters to be infinitely varied to meet detailed analysis and reporting needs within a controlled permission based environment.
- In addition it produces TRAC and TRAC(T) returns as required by the Office for Students.
Online review and performance management
- Significant reduction in cost and time to deliver reviews.
- Enforceable and measurable completion.
- Compliance with best practise and standards.
- Allows multiple reviewers, in addition to line managers.
- Alignment with Institutional Objectives.
- Aggregation of training requirements.
- Employee engagement enhanced.
- Review becomes an ongoing ‘living’ process.
- Objectives can be managed in real time through Goals Module and embedded in review.
- Skills and behaviours can be managed through Learning and embedded in review.
Student engagement and performance
- Improves student emotional engagement in personal outcomes.
- Provides a platform for regular progress feedback (reduced time to goal) reinforcing emotional engagement.
- Delivered in a format that students are comfortable with.
- Removes stigma of confronting challenges.
- Encourages collaboration to support achievement.
- Reduces workload for Supervisor in monitoring progress.
- Provides clear identification of issues for Department Heads.
- Supports improvement in tutor/ supervisor performance.
- Tier 4 Border Agency Compliance inbuilt.
- Can integrate with Workload Planning and Living Review.
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Each Product may be implemented individually to meet specific needs or combined to meet larger more complex requirements. Every Product is capable of linking to the others to create an institutional wide performance management environment that can be fully integrated with core systems such as Human Resources, research, data analytics and reporting.
Simitive Academic is used by over 60 universities in UK, Ireland, North America and Australia . The experience gained in both the collaborative development and 60 plus implementations gives Simitive unparalleled expertise in helping universities meet the challenges inherent in the complex and diverse higher education environment. |
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