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Month: November 2017

Cycle 70

11/6/2017 – 11/17/2017

Work Complete

Appreview

  • Added last update information to home page for users with settings roles. This helps surface any problems getting update application data from the Grad School.
  • Added "Review Index" that lists all persons who are assigned reviewers on current applications. This view allows Academic Support Team and Student Services to support faculty reviewers by looking at application list from reviewer perspective.

Courses 

  • Added projected enrollment field. This field is separate from the current offering size values (enrollment limit, enrollment estimate) whose primary purpose are room scheduling. The projected enrollment value will be used to project future course Student Credit Hours. Projected enrollment field will default to the room size limit/estimate, but is editable by instructor request, chair, or administrative staff.
  • Updated all old references to "UWEO" to that organizations current name "UW Professional & Continuing Education", with abbreviation "UWPCE".
  • Removed "ROU" field from new Course form.
  • Project planning for updated instructional staff interface. We are starting a significant revision to how we represent staff associated with course offerings with the goals: 1. Make adding staff easier, 2. Make roles and workflow implications clearer, 3. Make instructional staff records more useful for fiscal, HR, payroll, reference.

Student

  • Fixed quarterly status section on student detail so quarters are displayed in chronological order.
  • Fixed dissertation milestone not being marked complete when 27 credits are completed.
  • Added a download option for faculty's current advisees. Updated advisees complete download for previous database restructure.
  • Added name matching rules for doctoral committee members added in MyGrad as external members. Only people who are Graduate Faculty in the UW Graduate School system get committee records linked to their UW person data. Other members are listed in text comment fields. This system allows us to configure which names to recognize in that text field and link local faculty records.

Infrastructure

  • Investigated and resolved problem with asynchronous tasks (send email) not running in development and testing environment.

Cycle 69

10/23/2017 – 11/3/2017

Work Complete

Appreview

  • "My Applications" view is changed from card based dashboard to a table view. The table includes a column that shows all reviewers who have entered recommendations and a column showing which final decisions have been entered. It also has a column with thumbs-up/down icons to allow users to quickly scan where they have entered recommendations.
  • Added a CSV download for reviewers that includes any reviewer (committee) recommendations. This CSV view is provided when a reviewer downloads from "My Applications" or from "By Committee" report.
  • Reviewer recommendation tool is now displayed in a slide-out sidebar. This reduces visual clutter and allows clearer help text for scholarship comment.
  • Final decisions form is also a slide-out sidebar. The forms for entering committee final decision and advisor have been combined. There is also a separate field for entering "review for scholarship". This same form is accessible from the "Enter Decisions" report view and from the application detail page.
  • Implemented full menus as a slide-out sidebar.

Courses

  • Fixed issue where Student Credit Hours did not calculate correctly on offerings with fixed credits where the course curriculum allowed variable credits.
  • Added links for reports based on on instructor approvals.
  • Updated top level menu pages. Clicking some menu titles in courses goes to specific index pages, these pages have been updated to include same links as menus.

Recruitment

  • Program specific About Yourself form. Created a version of the About Yourself form for Applied Behavior Analysis where prospective students can complete contact and demographic information without the long (hard to read) program interest list. This page is the beginning of a larger project which will allow "Keep Me Informed" pages to be set up for any programs.