The Masters in Transmedia is designed for students who wish to make a career in broadcasting, communication and/or web-related sectors, giving them the relevant skills and knowledge including:
- Transmedia project management
- the management of multidisciplinary teams in an international and intercultural context.
During their Master's year, one of the projects for the students is to plan “The Studio” a Transmedia project.
This is a practical exercise designed to bring them closer to understanding all aspects involved in the running of a Tansmedia project.
The very definition of a Transmedia project means that it is composed of multidisciplinary teams so the students work in groups of 3 or 4.
| Eager to pass on his knowledge and best practices experience in Project Management, but also in order to evaluate his students' work, Mr. Compérat needed to be able to follow the work of each group of students. | Before choosing Planzone his needs were as follows: - to provide students with a cloud based solution not needing local installation. - have the opportunity to evaluate their interaction in a project. - have storage space available for coursework documents. |
| Mr. Compérat was looking for a solution that had 3 tools in 1, with: - a collaborative workspace - online document sharing - a schedule Mr. Compérat was recommended Planzone by a consultant in Project Management and decided to try it out with his Masters' students for three main reasons: He set up a project in Planzone made up of three sessions for the "Project Management Tools" course.With Planzone Mr. Compérat was able to: In turn, each group of students was able to create and use a Planzone project that allowed them to : |
- create a schedule - assign todo's - collaborate with members of the project team to complete assigned reports in a timely manner. - understand the importance of the Project Manager role in the control of project resources and in the writing down of decisions arrived at during meetings, giving each project member equal access to all information, allowing them to properly achieve objectives. One of the other advantages of Planzone within education is that through the weekly activity reports by e-mail, the teacher has an overview of: We asked Mr. Compérat to describe Planzone in three words and he came up with: |
« Transmedia projects are very complex because they combine different media. Using Planzone in such projects allows us to have a global vision. »