Cycle 68

10/9/2017 – 10/20/2017

Work Complete

Provide a new home page for Appreview. This view highlights important pages for faculty reviewers and provides a full site map. The site map provides a better organized index than the previous top menu navigation.
Provide lists of applications by review committee. If user is a member of any review committees those are linked on the home page.
Created a rubric coding tool to apply evaluation categories to rubrics. These evaluation categories are reported to state of Washington for educator certification.

Worked on an issue when specific course offerings with fixed credits based on course curriculum with variable credits would not correctly calculate and projected student credit hours value.
Combined the course offering credits form with the enrollment form.

Fixed problem where current appointments were not listed in person database. This appointment data is used to identify faculty and staff in systems and supports auditing of our system's authorizations.

Added a view for a person with no enrollment history. Generally pages like these would not be linked from Student database, but we are adding cross linking from Appreview and Test Scores, links to non-student is possible.
Filter out quarters from UW transcript that have no course enrollments.
The UW transcript view now list the quarterly major for undergraduate students along with the class level.
Fixed the advisee service endpoint in student which supports the faculty merit tool. This needed to be adjusted for student data model changes.

9/25/2017 – 10/6/2017

Fixed Endorsement and Endorsement Requirements not getting added to new applications.
Exposed list of Test Scores included in application view from UW Student Database. Tools for Student Services to adjust this configuration.
Updated report filter time period to include upcoming years. This now queries actual application data and offers filter options for any year where we have applications.
Added Red Flag feature to Appreview. Red Flags are important comments added by Office of Student Services that have major impact on admission decisions. Examples are insufficient GPA and TOEFL scores. Red Flag indicators are displayed on applicant list views and the full comments are displayed at the top of application detail page.

Added budgets for 2017-18 Biennium to Budgets index. Added tab interface that allows switching views between 2015 & 2017.

Simplified Instructor review and approval of course plans. Before each quarter's entry into UW Time Schedule construction our Curriculum Coordinator asks instructors to review the course plan and enter room preferences. We have built a tool where instructors can review plan, enter room preferences, and add comments all in one place.
Fixed bug in system that matches UW Time Schedule records to local plan records that could cause a canceled plan to not be highlighted as a difference.
Implemented an automated testing framework for the Courses project. Initial tests for UWTS matching logic.
Fixed bug where a missing value for a report parameter could cause the page to crash.
ROUs (Responsible Organizational Units) have been removed from Courses database. As college structure has changed ROUs have become a less useful description of how course planning gets done. Removed to hide unuseful and stale information.

International students are indicated in Contact section of student detail.
Fixed student search type-ahead suggestion, was showing quarter by quarter student history.
R&I Paper Submitted added as a milestone for doctoral students.
Fixed Reading Committee milestone, was being incorrectly marked complete. Discovered bug in data feed. Updated the doctoral committee import process with better preview and more data validation.
Moved external students into general student model. External students are non College of Education students added to Student database to track certification, most often music students becoming music teachers. These records have been rebuilt so that they live in the same tables as COE students. Simplifies maintenance and querying. This also allows TEP students to be added to Student database during application process for certification tracking.
Added link in Student… menu to Test Score database. Requires user authorization in Test Scores.
Added link in Student… menu to Person log. This shows history and sources of person record updates. Requires user authorization in Person.

Updated quarterly student import for recent Student database changes. This tool allows tech office to make current students active tech support database users for equipment reservations.

Big improvements to Test Score requirement rules to more clearly show configuration and provide better tools to manage. Requirement Rules in Test Scores allow us to find and display import test scores for students based on the Washington state Teacher Certification and Endorsement Subjects the student is pursuing. One output for this linking is the Certification Checklist in Student database.