Scheduled Events: Degree Audit

Dates: August 17-18, 1999

Instructor: Sue Presnell

Description:

The Degree Audit module enables our institution to improve advisory services to students, ensures they stay on track in their efforts toward their educational plan, and facilitates review of alternatives to that plan. Degree Audit uses files which collect data from other modules to evaluate a student's academic progress online. You can choose up-to-date information or evaluate progress as of specific dates in the past. This data can then be used during advisement consultations and has an interface to graduation processing. Evaluations are driven by a student's academic program, in which you build the program requirements and subrequirements. Particular attention is paid to the building of subrequirements, where particular course and credit mandates are indicated. Additional functionality is provided to allow you to make custom adjustments, grant exceptions, and overrides to a student's academic program.

Purpose:

This class provides key decision makers and administrators with the knowledge to begin the implementation of the Degree Audit module. Course objectives are achieved through lecture, discussions, hands-on exercises, and case studies. Specifically, the class provides:

• The information required for module setup
• A high level overview of required and optional data
• A review of reporting capabilities for strategic enrollment management and advising services
• A review of this module's relationship to other Colleague modules
• A file structure overview of the module

Audience:

• Computer center and project management staff responsible for managing and implementing the Colleague product
• Enrollment management team members and administrators responsible for implementing curricula
• Registrar and key advising personnel who are decision makers and require knowledge of data integration and functionality

Prerequisites:

• Completion of the Envision Terms and Concepts computer-based tutorial (if you use the character-based interface) or familiarity with the Guide to Colleague Interfaces (if you use one of the graphical user interfaces)
• Completion of the Student System computer-based tutorial
• Core Concepts training by Datatel or client staff
• Academic Records and Registration classes
• Faculty Information and Curriculum Management classes
• Review of the Implementation Approach Document
• Familiarity with your institution's curricula

Course Length:

Two days - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.