Web ASSIST Maintenance CSU

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Web ASSIST MaintenanceCSU UC Data Issues

• 13th Annual ASSIST Conference
• Walnut Creek Marriott Hotel
• December 1 2, 1998

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Overview

• Topics
• Data Conversion
• Standard Course Prefixes
• No Course Articulated
• Extensive Draft-Mode Instances
• Old Articulation Agreements
• Articulation Agreement Column Widths
• CAN Data

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Data Conversion

• Combine TCA and Course List data
• Generate additional course records from AAs
• Course name inconsistencies in AAs
• Department inconsistencies in AAs
• Some courses will get converted to text

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Standard Course Prefixes

• No longer needed
• Course identification/selection in local form
  only
• Will continue to store data (just in case) but
  nothing in the new system uses it

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No Course Articulated

• How to convert NCA, NCC, NA etc. when entered as
  a course using a standard prefix?
• ACS can convert to the text equivalent
• What should be in new prefix field?

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Extensive Draft-mode Instances

• ACS will identify which Univs have this issue
• Work directly with those Univs to decide whether
  or not they should be deleted

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Old Agreements

• ACS will ask each Univ to identify any old
  agreements in their local database that they
  dont want converted into new database

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Articulation Agreement Column Widths

• Description of problem background
• Problem in Revelation and Web
• Needs to be resolved some time soon (not today!)
• New curriculum data linkages could make it worse
• Suggestions on process to resolve?

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CAN Data

• Compare local course names between CAN and ASSIST
• Resolve any further course name inconsistencies
• Regular updates

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Questions