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Work Plans

July 10, 2019

Cycle 105

Through 7/10/2019 Work Complete This is a catch-up post for several weeks worth of work. During the end of the academic year and start of Summer I have been focusing on planning for the coming year and catching up on small fix and maintenance backlogs. Applicant Review (Complete) Improved matching of application records to enrolled…

May 28, 2019

Cycle 104

5/13/2019 – 5/25/2019 Work Complete Appreview (Complete) Update report filter “Period” to only show years and quarters where applications exist. Follow up to deleting historical applications. Courses (Fixed) Add Joint Section tool was not parsing non COE curriculum abbreviations. Student (Ongoing) Investigate and test import of Complete (i.e. degree earned) records for students who earned…

May 13, 2019

Cycle 103

Apr 29, 2019 – May 10, 2019 Work Complete Applicant Review (Complete) Finalized delete time frame as 3 quarters after applicant’s target enrollment quarter. This provides overlap for applicants that re-apply in following year, PESB reporting, and is approximately 1 year after decisions communicated. (Complete) Executed delete of historical application data through 2018 Summer. (Complete)…

April 29, 2019

Cycle 102

4/15/2019 – 4/26/2019 Work Complete Applicant Review (Complete) Delete Character & Fitness forms. These are forms formerly collected by the college, but now teacher candidates submit this form directly to the state. Budgets (75% Complete) Working on some updates to the Budget database for the fiscal office. There are currently in a dev environment and…

April 15, 2019

Cycle 101

4/1/2019 – 4/12/2019 Work Complete Applicant Review When an Application is deleted system checks if that Application was only reference to a Person record. If if was the only reference the Person record is deleted also. If it was not the only reference (person had other applications, is a student, is a college employee) the…

April 1, 2019

Cycle 100

3/18/2019 – 3/29/2019 Work Complete Work continues toward Deleting Application Data. This cycle I implemented some tools to help Institutional Research team code records for the application warehouse and did refactoring of the warehouse data model. We want the warehouse vetted and settled before we begin the historical delete process. Applicant Review (Complete) Forms for…

March 18, 2019

Cycle 99

3/4/2019 – 3/15/2019 Work Complete Applicant Review This cycle was focused on building out our Application Data Warehouse data set in preparation for Deleting Application Data. (Complete) Red Flag, both short tag and note, are included in CSV spreadsheet downloads. (Fixed) Reviewer recommendation now correctly saves and refreshes the current view. When a review entered…

March 14, 2019

Cycle 98

2/29/2019 — 3/1/2019 Work Complete Appreview (90%, awaiting owner approval) Add Decline Note to Applicant Review detail page. This is a paragraph text field where COE faculty and staff can record information about why an applicant declined our admission offer. This field is meant to supplement the Grad Schools structured survey with unstructured feedback gathered…

Cycle 97

2/4/2019 – 2/15/2019 Work Complete Courses Changed the definition of “Evening Class” to courses that start at 4:30 PM or later for the meeting view report. The hover title on that report shows actual meeting times. Hiring (Complete) Once a request gets Department Approval changes must be submitted through HR contact. This will ensure that…

Cycle 96

1/22/2019 – 2/1/2019 Work Complete Hiring (Complete) New header and menu. Move menu button to far left and W logo to far right. This new layout works more intuitively and improves accessibility. (Complete) Allow four decimal places in budget split field. This is the same precision allowed in UW Workday. (Complete) Open approvals can be…