MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

2003 – September Enrollment Tool Notes

 Testing of new items added to the enrollment tool - The test server is on Ive's Laptop - Not always available for access  Do anything you want to the test database - it cannot be harmed o Test the alphabetical listing of the students o Test the local offering section o Test the ghost course problem  What is the possibility of a users manual for the enrollment tool?  three level of user rights for submnitting grades: instructor, DLC, registrar  Instructors can add grades and modify grades after they have been submitted  The modify grade function can be turned off by Jason at a certain time.  Registrars get a grade submitted link for the classes  CHANGE ROLS TO COUNSELOR  Grade submission will begin on Monday at eight and end friday at five  Have the system tested by October first  Master course form protect the top for DLC only  Have withdrawals and LDA auto populate  DLC needs to see all students on final grade list, all others see only their school's students.  Archive Data Committee: o Curtis o Jennifer o Natalie  Add college to the course list and the semester the couurse was taken  Change the Select Indiviual Instructor display  Remove special characters  Remove dashes in SSN in student listing and student update  BB Organization for DLCs and instructor on hold  Spring add/drop will be reuced to two days  Jason will be submitting the next calendar dates - please check with your school  three key issues addressed with BB o Failure of the migration - BB said these things happen o Servers and infrastructure - No prior testing on setups as large as ours - one other larger organzation had similar problems o Breach of contract with mantaining the service  Can MSVCC host their own server? Bodies will be needed to accomplish this tasking  We want to stay with BB  The damage could be worse.  We will pursue other interests  Look at hosting in house  Want to keep local instalations  Build a standardized online withdrawal form across all of MSVCC - Requires further study

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