Thursday, January 27, 2011

Meeting Minutes - January 27, 2011

Updates:

  • Comments now have line breaks. These were retroactively added to previous comments, if line breaks were used.

  • Entry Terms – Can now be searched using <, >, = qualifiers

  • Can now find students who have graduated from a special program, such as SCP

  • SAP/AcRev status are now in reverse chronological order (most recent status up top)

  • Custom Reports – Programmer has worked on removing duplicate records


Next Items

  • Multiple Tabs – to reduce database load time and scrolling. Primarily Student Profile Changes (i.e. Demographics, Scholarships, and Contacts on different tabs)


    • Brief discussion on having customizable Profiles similar to default List View (may be complicated by mix of STATIC information from SIS and Dynamic info added by us)


  • Student Profile Changes - Discussion


    • Heather composed most common Custom/Department Fields utilized, which included: Advisor, Graduation Date, LOA, Preferred Name, Office of Overseas Studies. Noted that 450 items created, were unused.

    • We discussed which items make the most sense to be included in a common tab that all departments can view, and which also may be useful for NREG tracking.

    • We’ve agreed upon the following, with logistics pending:


      1. Preferred Name

      2. Department Contact (Academic Advisor – or other contact for more complicated advising arrangements. This item can also be left blank)

      3. Enrollment Status with semester noted (LOA, Abroad (w/location), Transferred Out, etc.). I envision this similar to AcRev or FinAid status.



  • Survey for future action


    • We will plan to continue with our survey to advisors regarding Database changes, updates, training preferences.

    • Chris Noll has started process, and we will continue to work


  • Next meeting likely early March, pre-Spring Break --- Meeting Request to follow