UMT Digital Campus Group

UMT Digital Campus Group Meeting Schedule 2024/2025

Terms of Reference

• Set and implement a clear roadmap to ensure that our digital technologies support our ambitions in learning, research and innovation and services.
• Ensure a people-centric, technology-enabled ethos is clear in all aspects of the roadmap, ensuring they are customer focused, value driven and seamless across functional areas.
• Provide a focal point for recommendations from Colleges, Schools, Units and Institutes concerning advancements in digital information technology as they impact the academic mission of the University.
• Ensure faculty members and teachers have inclusive, engaging, adaptive and interactive applications available to them, and the required training, for effective teaching and learning.
• Improve the digital campus environment that students interact with providing an inclusive, seamless, engaging and supportive teaching and learning experience.
• Ensure the research community has access to best-in-class digital services, HPC and secure data management platforms to protect their data and minimise administrative burden.
• Identify and oversee initiatives to modernise the institution’s digital workspaces, processes, services and infrastructure, ensuring existing and new technologies are fully leveraged.
• Focus on streamlining administrative and academic processes through automation, data-driven decision-making and the integration of applications.
• Promote the use of data analytics and business intelligence providing insights for better student engagement, planning, resource allocation and performance monitoring.
• Oversee cybersecurity policies and programmes to protect the university’s digital assets and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Ensure that UCD’s digital environment is well-governed, well-architected, sustainable and is a good business and technical fit to underpin UCD's critical business capabilities.
• Ensure that key success metrics are captured, measured and monitored on each project and programme of work to underline the importance of value based delivery.
• Make recommendations to the UMT on UCD’s digital campus, enterprise architecture, applications and services and the prioritisation of projects that deliver the most value.
• Provide oversight of the sustainability dimension of UCD’s digital campus.

• UMT Digital Campus Group (DCG) Terms of Reference