Welcome to ALPS

This website provides support to those people involved in using and evaluating the mobile technologies and assessment tools as part of the ALPS (Assessment & Learning in Practice Settings) programme.

From here you can access information for assessors and students about the assessment tools, log in to the assessment suite, share your experiences and questions with others on the forums, view the user guides and documentation on the ALPS Help Desk, contact the ALPS Help Desk to get support with using your mobile device and find out more about ALPS.

Win a Nintendo DSi!

Students with an ALPS mobile device are invited to enter a competition with a chance to win a brand new Nintendo DSi and game. Click here to find out more.

ALPS System Service

Service Status

Today 20th November 2009: The ALPS web Service is running as normal. yesterday's upgrades were completed as planned and the new 'Signature' feature is now live.

Please report any problems and issues you find immediately to the ALPS Help Desk.

Planned Outage

19th November 2009: 10:00 ~ 11:00 There is a further minor upgrade planned to be released on Thursday morning. This involves only minimal disruption to the ALPS service and should be complete within the hour. During this time uploads of completed assessments from the mobile device to the server will not take place, but they will be queued and should upload as normal once the service is brought back on-line.

All other services such as the completion of web based assessments or cohort management fucntions should be unaffected.

11th November2009: There is scheduled maintenance planned for  Wednesday 11th November when the system will be unavailable for most of the day.  This work is part of the planned upgrades to the service full details of which can be obtained from the ALPS help desk if required.