Supporting the Bologna Process in HE Information Systems

Abstract

The Bologna process has far reaching implications forEuropean HE institutions. Two of them require a clearsupport from the respective IS: the European Credit Transferand Accumulation System and the Diploma Supplement. Thepaper presents the steps taken by the HEIS SIGARRA at theUniversity of Porto to implement them. They includerecording the student workload estimates by the professorsfor each course component; recording measures of the actualtime spent in each component by a sample of students;calculating percentile based classifications; and issuingdiploma supplements.