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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Information Technology updates (September 2018)

Destiny One Registration System
The latest version of Destiny One software, v5.6, was delivered on July 29, 2018. New functionality includes:

  • Conference letter of accreditation - If professional credits are awarded for a conference there is now the ability to configure a report in Conference Manager to display what was earned and additional text if needed.
  • The conference registration confirmation email now includes session information.
  • Functional testing of the Destiny One-Salesforce integration is scheduled to begin mid-September.

Custom Solutions
The Custom Solutions development team continues their work to support the TADA project (uAchieve implementation) and will be testing progress toward degree data in uAchieve starting in October. The benefits of PTD encoding include:

  • Ability to provide more targeted service to students in their final year.
  • Ability to identify and anticipate program bottlenecks.
  • Foundational work for more innovative data analytics over time.

Student Data and Analytics
The advising leadership working group has been granted access to two dashboards in a production like environment. Feedback they provided has been incorporated into the first release of a dashboard that delivers Progress Towards Degree data. This includes the ability to identify the count of students who are on track/off track, information on admission to the college as well as entry college information, enhanced details around degree applicable and excess elective splits, as well as a direct link to the students APLUS page.

Program and Plan data has been added to retention risk modeling related to a students career. The team is analyzing how the timing of when students add, drop, or carry multiple plans and relates to retention. The team has reviewed the current results based on the static training data with other data analyst around the institution.

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