Monday, December 13, 2010

Meeting Minutes December 9, 2010

Fall Updates

  • Student Record Clean-up


    • Purged ~3,000 student records who never attended

    • Adjusted ~250 individual record errors (emails sent to wrong student file, etc

    • Created pop out view for emails in advising history (suggested by committee to add CLOSE button to top of email pop out)


  • Misc tweaks and fixes – still in progress



Topics of discussion:

  • Results of Priority Ranking for new development areas


    1. Student Profile Adjust

    2. More Search Filters

    3. Department Settings and Templates

    4. Reports

    5. Emails

    6. Forms

    7. Calendar

    8. Advisement Sheet

    9. Virtual Server


  • Student Profile Adjustments


    • Update navigation (multiple tabs) one screen viewing (reduce scrolling, reduce time to load profile load)

    • One tab would be open for all advisors/departments to see, discussed the following:


      • Preferred names, assigned advisors

      • Status (i.e. Disqualified, Transferred out, Departed, Study Abroad Sem/Location, Verbal graduation date)

      • Follow-up notes (i.e. referred student to…, or please contact advisor if you see this student…, remind student to…)


        • Lead to discussion about database being capable of sending reminder emails to advisor and/or student for follow-up

        • Heather will look into this possibility


      • NREG Statistics


    • Authorizations Tab for FERPA


  • More Search Filters (Placement results, Enrollment term, #Enrolled units) – discussion:


    • Some options covered by Custom reports

    • Search Enrolled # of units: full-time, part-time

    • Cumulative GPA by term – showing progression each semester



Next Meeting:

  • Last week of January or first week of February – meeting request to follow

  • Plan to continue discussion on Profile change and possibly finalize

  • Discuss sending out survey