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Month: July 2016

Cycle 39

Jul 5, 2016 – Jul 15, 2016

This cycle we continued work on Student 2. We did some requirements drafts and mock-ups on major features that will be enhanced in Student 2: Credit & GPA counts, Placements, and Milestones. In the next couple weeks we will be meeting with subject matter experts in the college to ensure the new build is a significant useful enhancement.

Work Complete

Appreview

  • Validation on external user edit form to ensure that login string is unique.

Courses

  • Refinement to view titles and menus to help clarify user navigation.
  • Course load report has UI so associate deans can look at views per faculty.

Student 2

  • Client side application to load current registration and transcript into student detail page.
  • Display student picture on detail page. Implemented the UW ID Card photo web service.
  • Show groups (including cohorts) on the student detail page.
  • Reformatted student header block with photo, current program, advisor, and groups.
  • Report of students by cohort. Cohort menu is a dynamic expandable tree.
  • Report of students On Leave last quarter showing status this quarter. Graduate students previously On Leave must extend leave or register before end of current quarter or they lose status.
  • Report of student inactive for over a year.
  • Doc Committee displayed on student detail page.
  • Requirements documents, implmentation plan, mock-ups for Credit & GPA, Placements, and Milestones. Prep for meetings with SMEs.

Tech Support

  • Created a detailed work plan for adding department to the tech support ticket system. This will allow Haring Center to use the tech support database for ticket and inventory tracking.

Test Scores

  • Add a test score assessment type.

Infrastructure

  • Upgraded EDUC project to Laravel 5.2. This version included binary file response used to add student Husky ID Card photos to Student 2.
  • Amazon Web Service UW account set up. 
  • Research and planning for Splunk implementation. Splunk is a log file analysis platform that will allow us to get actionable highlights and summaries from server and application data.

Cycle 38

Jun 20, 2016 – Jul 1, 2016

Work Complete

Courses

  • Brainstorming and planning around sharing Courses with other units. Several other units have expressed interest if having a tool for course scheduling like ours. We are exploring workable ways to support them. Initially we have set up a demo site for other UW users to explore.
  • Authorization system for course release.

Person

  • Modify the person update process (name changes, logging) to allow processes that preview changes without committing them.

Student 2

  • Import Grad School Doctoral Committees data. Link to existing person data where possible for coherent searchable record but allow for external committee members. New system keeps historical committee data with effective end quarters. Ran updates for available import files (year's worth).
  • Faculty list and faculty detail page. Faculty detail page includes advisees and committee roles.
  • Advisor on student detail page.
  • Scheduled jobs for updating Student 2 nightly on production.
  • Connector to UW Student Web Service (SWS) to get student current registration and transcript data. System to lookup course titles from UW SWS and cache them locally to speed transcript load times.
  • Stand alone page view of registration and transcript. Client side application will load these views into the student detail page on activation (same behavior as STEP).

Infrastructure

  • Progress toward getting a UW account set up for Amazon Web Services. 
  • Meetings with UW-IT and tech staff at Computer Science about strategies for security hardening web servers and applications.