The Quali-R project is a JISC-funded project to implement a small-scale platform for managing and tracking a small HEI's quality assurance and enhancement actions through standards-based aggregation. An issue tracking or task management system will be adapted to manage action items from external examiner reports, annual course monitoring reports, and course committees. A simple client will facilitate the extraction of actionable items from narrative documents into time delimited actions and tasks. The action items will be syndicated as iCalendar feeds for a temporal overview of deadlines and deliverables, and as RSS feeds to syndicate narrative updates to interested parties. We will also represent achievement of objectives graphically to simplify performance monitoring.

We will also be exploring ways to present narrative quality assurance documents in an easy to consume way. At present, and for the foreseeable future, documents are created using a word-processor, based on a standardised template. We will look at "wikifying" this process, and at representing the documents in an extra-institutional document repository such as Scribd or Google Documents. We aim to reduce paperwork and time in meetings. More importantly, we intend to use Web 2.0 technologies to leverage time spent on quality assurance to deepen engagement and encourage participation.

Feeds of actionable items will be syndicated into well-known institutional platforms, specifically the institution's VLE (Moodle), and the institutional wiki. This approach ensures that casual users of technology have access to the information, whilst the more advanced users can opt to choose feeds that interest them.

Evidence from internal research suggests that learners prefer a well-structured VLE that provides access to relevant course information in one place (the institutional portal, it seems, is not dead). Naturally, more advanced users will be able to subscribe directly to the RSS and iCalendar feeds.