See individual team reports (Academic Structure, Student Administration, Student Accounting, Reporting, Web / Interfaces, Organizational Readiness, Technology Infrastructure) for additional detail.
The Provost's Office has stated that the mode of delivery, Traditional or Non-Traditional (Interactive or Compressed Video; Online, Internet, or Web-based; Other Distance Learning), should be recommended by the department chairs. Thus, the information provided on the course review forms returned by the chairs in December 2002 will be used to populate all modes of course delivery. All courses have already been set to at least 'traditional' delivery.
A request has been sent out to all Schools/College concerning valid major/minor/emphases combinations. This information is required to set up the data migration in academic structure.
Jill worked with Bill Parsons on the ACT load process the last three days he was here. Since this process is quite complicated, they did not have time to complete the process; therefore, Jill will try to finish up the work he began by Wednesday, 1/29/03, for the test scheduled of this process on this day.
Work in the area of correspondence continues.
The Student Master Migration test was not as successful as hoped. Various pieces had not been migrated to CM due to various errors on both the legacy and CM sides. Of the data migrated, it was difficult to test (comparing student data in legacy to student data in CM) since so much 'garbage' data from prior developer's tests hampered the process. Some errors had already been identified and corrected, so testers, Charlotte Fant and Denise Knighton, spent a great deal of time looking at erroneous data that had already been identified by IT developers. It has been suggested by Jill and others that once all data has been sucessfully migrated (all pieces have successfully been run from legacy through to CM), a new group of 100 students be extracted from legacy and migrated with all data pieces to CM. Charlotte and Denise Knighton have agreed to set aside one day to completely review all data migration (comparing legacy to CM). This date has been set for Monday, February 3.
Various errors with legacy data have been identified, and will be distributed to the proper offices, the Registar or one of the Admissions offices, for clean-up. Erroneous data will not be migrated to CM.
Denise has been clearing up test score errors in legacy in anticipation of migration.
Charlotte, Onice, Suzanne, Larry, and Jack have spent a great deal of time attempting to determine authorization profiles. This is a very time consuming effort. After many days of work, only profiles for the student master data have been determined. There are many other profiles (for the student file) which must be established before proper testing can be accomplished.
Main and sub transactions were entered in DEV for the following departments: Student Health, Student Pharmacy, Alumni Center, Chemistry Department, Campus Mail Service, University Police Department, University Publications, Media Production, Bursar's Office, Study Abroad, Physical Plant, Telecommunications, Student Housing, ID Center, Music Department. Work will continue on this area as we progress through the project up to the go-live date.
We worked on authorizations for the various departments that will utilize student accounting.
Work continued on the interface between financial aid and CM.
Work continued on fee configuration.
Two members of the student accounting team were in Germany for two weeks for testing purposes.
DEV 02/14/03 Friday
QAS 02/21/03 Friday
PRD 03/01/03 Saturday
DEV 03/28/03 Friday
QAS 04/04/03 Friday
PRD 04/19/03 Saturday
DEV 05/09/03 Friday
QAS 05/16/03 Friday
PRD 05/31/03 Saturday
DEV 06/20/03 Friday
QAS 06/27/03 Friday
PRD 07/05/03 Saturday
The software for Solution Manager has been recieved and is being reviewed for installation.