•    Windows based application for placement administrative staff.
•    Web based interface for supervisors, students and site users.
•    Facility for an administrative user to maintain student details.
•    Ability to import from the university’s student record system to obtain/refresh student details including current enrolment information.
•    Changes to student information (such as new enrolments and drop outs) are noted and highlighted during the import.
•    Ability to create medical/police etc checks for students and restrict students from entering preferences until these checks have been done.
•    Ability for an administrative user to display a history of student placements for an individual student
•    Online provision for the student to view details of their current placements
•    Online provision for students to view a history of their placements
•  Facility for an administrative user to maintain site details
•  Ability to configure a two level hierarchy of sites (such as hospital/ward)
•  Provision to enable placements to be linked to any level of site within the hierarchy
•  Facility for an administrative user to maintain placement block details
•  Management of placement block ‘view’ dates
•  Management of placement block ‘input preference’ dates
•  Ability to link a placement site to a placement block.
•  Facility for an administrative user to maintain details of the linked site/block.
•  Facility for an administrative user to maintain the status of the linked site/block
•  Online provision for a placement site user to view the proposed placements for their site and maintain the details and status.
•  Ability to select students (by course or program), and link them to a placement block thus creating a student group under the placement block.
•  Facility to display the student group details
•  Ability for an administrative user to manually allocate placements to students.
•  Ability to automatically allocate placements based on student preference and the time of submission of preferences.
•  Capacity to send bulk email to students containing relevant details of placement blocks.
•  Online provision for students to view site details (for sites linked to a placement block on which the student is grouped). These can include maps and web search results for each site.
•  Online provision for students to submit preferences for particular sites within the placement block in which the student is grouped.
•  Online preference setting may include business rules such as stopping them from choosing the same site more than once.
•  Facility for an administrative user to override all automated placement processes and manually allocate a student to a site.
•  Facility for an administrative user to remove an allocated student from a site.
•  Capacity to send bulk emails to students informing them that the placement allocation process has completed.
•  Online provision for students to view their allocation and associated attendance details.
•  Capacity to notify the site after allocations are finalised with details of students that will be attending the site under the placement.
•  Ability to set the status of the placement block to “Finalised” when allocations have been completed and “Closed” when the placement period has ended.
•  Provision of basic financial facilities to report on costs of placements to the university.
•  Ability to export data from the system in XML format, suitable for opening in Excel or other programs
•  Provision of standard reports within the system that are both context sensitive and parameterised.
•  The system documentation includes comprehensive user instruction manuals