Presentation name or presenter name

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Presentation of Degree Audit Information
David Cartwright Brenda Payne
January 4, 2007
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Agenda

• Purpose and Goals
• Update of Degree Audit Information - Demo
• Production Release
• Tools Upgrade Timeline

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Meeting Purpose and Approach

• Purpose
• To discuss campus testing results and preview of
  updates made to presentation.

• Approach
• Review updates made to presentation
• Production Release
• COMR Process
• Tools Upgrade

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Campus Testing Recap

• Preview Version
• Became available October 23, 2006
• For testing data accuracy and presentation logic
• Preview2 Version
• Available November 20, 2006
• For testing user interface and usability
• Campus focus groups of students and advisors
• Iterative Development
• 99 Remedy tickets opened
• Usability improvements and bug fixes
• Suggestions for enhancements

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Focus Group Comments

• Basically, I love it. It is 1000 better than
  the old degree audit. Chico Evaluator
• I like how there is a tab to view the transfer
  credits I have taken because then I can know my
  transcripts have been received and I have
  obtained those units. - Long Beach Student
• I like the icons reflecting the status of each
  requirement. Long Beach Advisor
• (It) seems clearer and more modern... It will
  definitely be beneficial when I'm choosing
  classes and getting closer to graduation.
  Chico Student
• I can't wait to use this site again after May.
  That way I can check my progress myself and stop
  going to my academic adviser/counselor every time
  I can't figure out what my own progress report
  says. Long Beach Student

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Updates

• Configuration Options
• Added new campus defined help text to display for
  inactive students
• Added setup option for printer-friendly links on
  Degree Audit and External Credit pages
• Degree Audit changes
• Usability items addressed
• Better grouping of RG/RQ/RL relationships through
  visual clues in font size, line spacing and
  indentation
• Added horizontal line separators at requirement
  level
• Logic for in-progress icon clarified and
  extended
• All repeat codes (or see external credit
  message) displayed
• Mouse over text added to icons
• Component-level PeopleCode processing to improve
  performance when moving between pages

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Updates

• Course History changes
• Sort by Subject/Catalog Nbr button does not
  produce errors
• Repeat codes display for all types of courses
• Dropped courses no longer display
• External Credit changes
• Model-level comments split from course-level
  comments and displayed separately
• Models in submitted status do not display
• All repeat codes display
• Sort by Internal buttons do not produce errors
• Transfer credit with multiple equivalencies
  displays correctly
• Multiple course lines
• All course credits included in summary
• CSU Adjust grades reformatted to be more
  intuitive
• Averaged grade of 325 appears as 3.25

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Delivered Degree Audit
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Demo
Demo
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Campus Page

• Campus Page is considered Learner Services self
  service functionality as defined in CMS Central
  Campus Development Responsibilities
• COMR policy applies as follows
• Campuses may add links on the CMS delivered
  campus tab page to bring up other campus specific
  pages without a COMR Exception

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Production Release

• January 31, 2007 Scheduled Release of
  Production version
• March 9, 2007 Baseline Release 8.90.055
• Includes PeopleTools upgrade from 8.46.05 to
  8.46.17
• New Degree Audit component for Tools 8.46.17
  included in Post Code Freeze Bundle
• Production Issues
• Normal Remedy procedures apply
• Note All updates and fixes will be made using
  PeopleTools 8.46.17

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Looking Forward

• Usability
• Student and Advisor experience in production
  environment may suggest further refinements
• Performance
• Continue to analyze new PeopleTools features and
  options that may reduce processing time
• Printer-Friendly Degree Audit and External Credit
  pages
• Re-evaluate based on new tools available in 9.0
• Oracle Issues
• GSC Cases
• Enhancement Requests

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