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OPUS : The On-line Placement University System

OPUS is the On-line Placement University System, and is designed to facilitate placement operations for a school, college or university, released under the GPL v2 software license.

It allows the following stakeholders access

• Placement administrators from the university;
• Students, who can apply for jobs with CVs, download resources, etc.;
• Companies and their HR staff, who can advertise jobs and recruit students;
• Workplace supervisors who can assess students and get information;
• Academic staff who visit students on placement.

OPUS is designed to

• do tedious repetitive tasks for you, to help free up your time for the important tasks;
• provide a mechanism for storing placement related information for audit;
• give ownership to stakeholders;
• greatly speed up the placement process;
• help provide pastoral care to students;
• provide speedy and transparent assessment functionality and more. It is the sister project of PACE.

OPUS is a web application, and so needs a web server to be installed upon, it uses PHP, Perl and MySQL, all of which are available under free licenses.

OPUS development is led by the University of Ulster, and the product is actively maintained and supported. Ad Hoc support is available from the support menu above, and consultancy is available for more significant support.

If you wish OPUS to integrate to your Student Records System (SRS), you will also need to implement a small section of the code common to both it and the PACE (web services layer) for your SRS, if it is not already supported.

More details can be found below

Frequently Asked Questions (source:FAQ) Install Guide (source:INSTALL) Documentation (DRAFT) (OPUS Manual (DRAFT)) Video Testimonials We are still recommissioning or uploading the resources below.

Try OPUS out on our sandbox demo server Leaflets Screenshots