SIS Applications Group

 

Financial Aid

 

 

Award Letters: Changes and testing were completed for packaging and awarding Law students.  Changes continue to finish the award letter process for all remaining students.  COD phase III testing is in progress. Several iterations of receiving, processing, and sending COD XML files have been completed.  COD conference calls continue.

 

 

 

WWTE/webUK

 

A new directory (webuktest.uky.edu) has been set up for the 2.3 web server installation. The 2.3 web server installation and 2.3 mainframe installation is complete in the test area. Changes for set-up, UK graphics, and UK modifications are in progress.  Work with the 7 new functions that come with this upgrade are in progress.  Financial Aid elected to ‘go live’ with the 2.3 release so that they could concentrate on award letter processing.

 

The 2.1 release has just marked 2 months in production, averaging 3100 hits per day for that period.  Weekly and monthly webUK statistics are now available at http://www.uky.edu/IS/AdminApps/SIS/Admin/WebUKstats.htm    

 

The web application for undergraduate admission is being moved from the iweb machine to the wwte machine.  Iweb shares several applications and this move will allow us more access for testing and debugging production problems.  Once the move is complete we will begin testing the batch printing of applications and replicating the admissions application for LCC.

 

 

 

CAS/DARwin

 

Work is in progress to produce flat files for loading the DARwin database.  We will load student demographics and student courses, as well as the course articulations that are already built in SIS.  The registrar’s office will build degree programs and requirements manually via the DARwin client.  We requested some test flat files from the other pilot schools via the project listserv.  Only Murray State responded but they have yet to send us a file.  The next CAS meeting at CPE is April 25th.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

An upgrade to the job scheduler was migrated to production by the systems group. We are working with the individual SIS offices to assist in the proper use of the new features and processes available now.

 

Three members of our group attended the SQL Server administration course April 10-11 at the Young Library.

 

Began attending meetings on campus to address the Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) project.  Also working with SCT to define SEVIS requirements for the existing SIS system.