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Following on from the recent launch of the HEI Courses Service accessible through the HEI Portal, the SLC have announced that the HEI Course Database Web Service Partner Test Environment is now available to allow institutions to perform acceptance testing.

Smaller institutions that are satisfied that the On-Line HEI Courses Service (portal screens) that went live on the 2nd June is a suitable method for their institutions to manage course information then there is no need to further progress with the WebService at this time.

The Web Service will allow HEIs / IT Suppliers to directly update SLC systems based on information held on their own retrospective systems and is available as an additional method of providing course information to SLC along with the HEI Courses Service that went live at the beginning of June.

This document below provides the information required by the HEI or their IT Supplier when accessing the SLC test system for the purpose of customer acceptance testing.

Course database changes

The SLC are introducing a significant change to the way that HE institutions submit their course database information. From May 2008, new web service and portal options will replace the previous CD Rom method. Click here for further information.

The Student Loans Company ran a seminar for software houses and HEIs in Glasgow in March. The presentations from that seminar are available on the SLC website.

Technical specification documents for the course database is now available.

Documents included :-

Course DB Web Services Technical Approach - External.doc  v2.0
HEICourseDatabaseEntities.xsd  v1.4
HEICourseDatabaseSchema.xsd  v1.4
HEICourseDatabaseTypes.xsd  v1.6
HEICourseDBWebMessages.wsdl  v1.3
HEICourseDBWebService.wsdl  v1.3

Summary of the changes

SLC HE Services portal



 
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