Excerpt from the 2015-2016 OIT Annual Report
A campus collaboration with the Office of the Registrar to ensure undergraduates are on track for their degree goal
The Student Information Systems team in OIT has been working closely with the staff from the Office of the Registrar on a new system for certifying degree candidates, providing information to advisors, and enabling a student to track and monitor their progress toward the degree they seek. The Office of the Registrar worked with the departments across campus to gather and verify the degree requirements for all of Rice’s undergraduate degrees. Once coded, verified, and approved the degree requirements were migrated to the production DegreeWorks system. On the technical side software was developed to move the Scribe rules from the test system to the production system to remove the work of rekeying the rules in the production environment and also eliminating keystroke errors. The Student Information Systems team developed the integration between DegreeWorks, Banner, and Esther. Both groups were involved in software development and extensive testing. The integration involved loading and refreshing the student information from Banner to DegreeWorks as well as the mapping of students to their advisors.
“Currently, a student can disappear (not see an academic advisor) for a couple of years then reappear only when it is time to audit the degree. By then it is often too late to fix things. I hope to address this problem by periodically downloading the entire list of majors and minors with my department, then use Degree Works to review their progress. Thank goodness for Degree Works. Adopting the system was a great idea. My plan is to conduct reviews at least once a year and spot students who are behind or perhaps are at risk due to low grades.”
David Caprette
Professor in the Practice, BioSciences
Academic Programs |
Degrees |
Courses
|
Sections
|
Undergraduate
|
| 248 | 40 | 5546 | Fall 2015: 3015Spring 2016: 3352 |
Fall 2015: 3839Spring 2016: 3724 |
Includes Majors, Minors, Certificates, Masters, Doctoral |
Any degree active and accepting applications for the 2015-2016 academic year. |
All courses that could be offered for the 2015-2016 academic year. |
Total numbers of academic programs, degrees and course sections supported in the student system this past academic year (2015-2016).