Personal Development Planning practice and systems

This is some help for using the site at http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/PDPcontent. The site is provided only for registered users. To apply for registration, please send details of whether you are a PDP practitioner, or involved with a PDP ICT system, something about that involvement, and a username and password of your choice to Simon Grant at a@simongrant.org. This site is intended as an exchange, rather than a showcase, so we would like you to take on an entry either for PDP practice or an ICT system supporting PDP.

Help with browsing this site

The site consist of two main sections.

• Examples of PDP practice
• IT systems that support PDP

From the home page, click on the heading of interest. You get a list of what is viewable of the type you want.

Click on a name to view a survey of that example of PDP practice, or of that IT system. At any time you can return to the home page by clicking on the link in the top part of every browsing page ("PDP practice in the UK"). This page is always in its own window. The "how-to" link at the top right of every page opens this page in its own window. If you click on it an nothing seems to happen, it is because you already have this window open - find your window (task bar at the bottom of Windows).

Within an example of practice, or a system, the surveyed information is stored in a tree or hierarchy. At every level, the page has:

• links to the "higher level" branches at the top;
• the name of the current object;
• a link to show the tree below this point; (not offered at lower levels)
• information relating to the current object;
• lists of objects at a lower level, if any exist.

There are two ways of navigating through the tree. Firstly one can choose the links to go one step down, or any number of steps up, the tree. Secondly one can jump to any point displayed in the tree display.

Operation of the tree display

Clicking on the plus and minus boxes at the top respectively expands all the branches and collapses them all. Clicking on any other plus or minus expands or collapses that particular branch.

If you disable cookies, the tree display will not work, and you will have to navigate through the ordinary links.

Only if you are registered as the editor (or manager) of that branch, next to the object's name will be an "edit" link which will take you to a form to edit the main information displayed.

For help with editing, please visit the page on how to edit.

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Maintained by Simon Grant for the CRA as part of the JISC MLEs for Lifelong Learning programme.