January 2012 - Enovation Solutions were invited to present an award for the Online Trainee of the Year at the National Off-Licence Assocation of Ireland annual awards ceremony which took place in the Society of Kings Inns in Dublin.  We are delighted to have helped NOffLA implement this online training course using the Moodle Learning Management System. 

The RTC programme is recognised as the first of its type in any market in Europe, where traditional off-licences operate. It is also the first programme to provide specialised online training resulting in formal certification for management and staff retailing alcohol in Ireland.

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December 2011 - In common with many Universities, academics in Trinity College Dublin collaborate with their peers across the world on various projects.  In the case of the Department of History, it is a research project in collaboration with Universities in the UK and US relating to the letters and papers of Oliver Cromwell.  The project needed a space to share resources online in a controlled and secure manner.  They looked for an external partner that could put an appropriate managed solution in place, quickly.

Enovation have considerable experience implementing online collaboration solutions utilising the Alfresco document management system.  Other customers in Ireland include Local Authorities and Three Ireland.

Some of the specific requirements for this project include:

•  Need to share version controlled documents
•  Comprehensive search and retrieval capability
•  Use of forums, document annotation and wikis to enhance online communication
•  Document workflow for review and publication

We were delighted to be able to help the team by providing a secure, managed environment which had the all functionality they required. 

We look forward to supporting them on this project.

 

The RIAN (http://www.rian.ie) Open Access portal was developed by Enovation solutions on behalf of the Irish Universities Association.  The premise behind the portal is to showcase Irish research in one central location that is easy to use. 

In these challenging economic times it is imperative that Ireland continues to demonstrate its commitment to innovation and research.  In this context, the fact that RIAN  can now be searched on the EU portal http://www.dart-europe.eu is great news indeed.

Currently RIAN will allow you access research papers and resources from the 7 Universities in Ireland as well as the Dublin Institute of Technology.  It is hoped to add more institutions to this roll-call in the coming months.

Some of the features of RIAN include:

•  Comprehensive search functionality (by Institution, Item type, Funder, Peer review status, Language)
•  Portal level Statistics
•  Reporting – exceptions, new items etc
•  Per item Statistics – geographic, also viewed, rating etc.

Enovation is proud to support and maintain this important national portal.

November 2011 - Enovation Solutions and the Irish Computer Society are collaborating to bring an enhanced Virtual Learning Environment to schools.  The ICSGrid - as the service will be called - will combine the technology expertise of Enovation with the domain expertise of ICS to ensure a managed and secure environment, based on Moodle, that offers schools:

•  Mapped content & Courses covering 80% of the Irish curriclum
•  Access to a huge repository of content for schools  - the Global Grid for Learning - for use in creating your own courses
•  Integrated access to ECDL content and assessment
•  Includes integration for Google Apps for Education
•  Ability to share content and courses with other ICSGrid members
•  Includes training & support

This service is currently in pilot and due to be rolled out nationally at the end of 2011. This initiative will greatly help schools to increase the use and effectiveness of eLearning through access to rich, relevant, copyright approved content mapped to the Irish curriculum.

For more information please read the brochure.