April Update

A number of upgrades to the AS&L Portal for the Wales region were made over the last month. The first of these was the completion of the Wales Page in the portal Support area, which now provides a range of links to business support, finance and training resources for companies in the region.

All of the training modules produced by Coleg Sir Gâr for the project have been IPR reviewed to ensure that copyright issues related to the content had been fully covered. It was confirmed that all of the text was created by CSG as part of the module authoring, as were all the graphic images used (although some were contextualised versions of commonly used images in the literature and were acknowledged as such). All photographic images were either owned by CSG or were from copyright free sources, which were acknowledged in the text. The modules on both the live portal and the development portal have been updated with appropriate meta-data.

An IPR Management Statement for the materials contribution made by Coleg Sir Gâr was drafted summarising the process applied and the outcomes and is available on the project Wiki. Also produced were the next two in the series of Briefing Papers:

1. Briefing Paper 7: Portal Content and Presentation
2. Briefing Paper 8: Forum Organisation and Management

The Auto Share & Learn project timescale has been extended for a further three months beyond the original planned completion date of 31st April and will now conclude on 30th June 2015.