July 11, 2019 – September 20, 2019
My main project continues to be a collection of improvements around certification tracking to Student Database and Applicant Review Database that are instigated by state reporting requirements, but should provide some nice improvements for users in the college. Read about the project plan for Certification Updates.
Work Complete
Applicant Review
- (Complete) Use shared Certificate HTML view from Student in Applicant Review.
- (Complete) Update Application data model to track whether applicant is pursuing initial teacher certification.
- (Complete) Basic Skills are shown in Applicant Review for applicants pursuing certification. Available test scores are automatically match to basic skills categories using college selection logic. Specific scores can be selected by staff.
Complete
- (Fixed) Faculty activity report updated for recent change from “ROU” to course “Owners”. Report filter is working again.
- (Fixed) Faculty activity report updated for course “Owners”.
Budgets
- (Complete) Switch to 2019 Biennium. 2019 is now the default view for Budgets database. 2017 metadata was copied to matching 2019 budget numbers. View can be switched to 2017, 2015 is archived.
Hiring
- (Fixed) Request status was not always updating. In order to provide the home page view that shows last step complete and next step needed, appointment requests need to be analyzed after each user interaction. A couple interactions were not triggering this process, resulting in incorrect status on the home page.
- (Complete) Updated person information flows down to NARF Worker records. Our college databases import person information from multiple sources (e.g. student, employees). We now have a process where the official UW data will update NARF worker records.
- (Complete) Updated the notification from email address to coepay@uw.edu.
Recruitment
- (Complete) Added an RSS feed of upcoming recruitment events. This allows the public college website to automatically add those events to its calendar.
Student
- (Complete) Move “Completes” to its own nightly update job. Completes (or degrees earned) was part of the large multi-step “Student Update”, but this backward looking record has a distinct time frame from (forward looking) enrollment records and records were occasionally missed. Making this a separate process allows it to have its own job parameters.
- (Complete) Update certification data model to better support reporting requirements and business processes. Moved certification to its own database and application namespace for clarity and maintenance. Built an run migration processes to transform existing records.
- (Complete) Implement Certification Checklist as a per certificate child record. Previously a checklist applied to a Student. This opens the implementation for custom checklists for different certificate types.
- (Complete) Basic Skills, as entered in Applicant Review, are displayed and editable through Student database.
Tech Support
- (Complete) Change text encoding scheme to handle wider character set. Ticket system can now handle full UTF8 4 byte character set (e.g. ?). Now that we have email ingestion for ticket issues we are dealing with a wider variety of input.
Infrastructure
- (Complete) Automatically increment resource caches during deployment. This ensures that users get latest version of included web page resources (style sheets and JavaScript application).