DegreeWorks

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DegreeWorks

• Whats Ahead for DegreeWorks?
• Presented By
• Phyllis Kaiden

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Topics

• Customer Profile
• Product Direction
• Where are we?
• Whats ahead?

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Customer Profile
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Customer Profile
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Customer Profile
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Product Milestones

• Development Started February 1995
• Beta Program Started Fall 1995
• General Release January 1997
• First Standalone DGW April 1999
• TreQ Beta Started Fall 1999
• TreQ General Release June 2001
• SureCode,Transit Release June 2001
• First Unix Deployment December 2001

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Product Direction

• Standardization Amidst Diversity
• One Product
• Platform and Database Independent
• Works with Diverse Student Systems
• Preserves Your Investment
• IRIS Integration Preserved

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Product Direction

• Focused Team
• Support staff is being increased
• Training staff
• Implementation
• Increased Sales Effort
• Continued Development of New Features
• Ongoing Customer Feedback

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Where are we?

• DegreeWorks On Unix
• Ported Horizon release to Sun/Oracle and AIX/DB2.
  Still porting to Informix on Sun and HP-UX.
• Scribe, SureCode, Web audits are functioning.
  System test begins this week.
• Transit being ported now.
• First deployment by December 2001.

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Where are we?

• Horizon Release (June 2001 UPDI01D)
• Transit PC software for batch reports
• SureCode PC software for UCX code definition
• TreQ PC software for Transfer Equivalence

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Where are we?

• DegreeWorks on the Web
• Force-Complete exception added
• Easier localization of Web scripts, such as
  What-If audit page, through separate custom
  namespace
• New Audits page combines Review and Run audit
• PRINT button added to Web pages
• New services and keys control access to Web
  functions, e.g. Review Audit, Run Audit, Notes
• New SOC audit reports Military and Civilian
• New WEB22 audit report combines best features of
  Detailed Audit and Advice Audit

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Where are we?

• Audit Reports
• Print blocks in order referenced (UCXD36
  Block-Order Scheme)
• Easier localization of audit reports (UCXD49)
• Each site can define additional student data to
  show on report (UCXD46)
• Audits enhanced to print more complete transfer
  data
• Credits can be displayed as Units or other
  literal (UCXD01)
• IRIS customers may post Percent-Done and GPA back
  to RIM DEGREE-DTL

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Where are we?

• Scribe
• WITH supports DWTitle, DWTerm DWLocation,
  DWGrade, DWGradeType, DWCredits, DWResident,
  DWTransfer, DWCreditType, DWPassFail without
  using any of the 30 bytes set aside for WITH data
  defined in UCXD44
• INCLUDE-BLOCKS-WITH counts blocks with matching
  tags in this blocks header qualifier
  calculations. Example Include-Blocks-With
  (CONCXY _at_)
• Scribe picklists show both code and literal, sort
  by code or literal

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Whats ahead?

• Pre-release (due 1Q 2002)
• DegreeWorks on multiple platforms Sun/Oracle,
  AIX/DB2, Sun/Informix, HP-UX/Informix
• Change-the-Limit exception on the Web
• Not Needed exception on the Web
• Academic Planner
• TreQ roll to non-IRIS student systems

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Academic Planner
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Whats ahead?

• In Progress
• Web Application Suite
• Easier localization through use of style sheets
• Consistent presentation and navigation
• Find Student preserves pick list of selected
  students
• Continued attention to performance and security
• Configurable Web What-If audit page, with dynamic
  pick lists based on major or degree
• TreQ multiple mappings in Undecided and
  Duplicates

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Web Application Suite
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Web Application Suite
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Whats ahead?

• Prototype
• Web Exception Management
• Petitions
• Approvals
• Review Pending
• Phase out PC Compass, replace with Web
• DegreeWorks Data Mart for institutional research
• Curriculum Planning Assistant

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Web Exception Management
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Curriculum Planning Assistant
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Curriculum Planning Assistant