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The registration dates for J-term and Spring 2010 will be November 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19 of 2009. Students will be getting their registration time from their advisor. Students can check their registration clearance prior to their registration time on my.luther.

LIS has received several reports in recent weeks from users of the Datatel system performing slower than normal. Other Datatel clients have reported the problem to Datatel on AnswerNet and on the Datatel forums. We believe the issues are from infrastructure changes that Datatel is making in preparation for the next version (4.0) of the Datatel User Interface. There has not been any indication that Datatel will put resources into resolving the performance issues on our current version, Datatel UI 2.3.

As a new academic year begins and students and faculty return to campus, LIS would like to remind you of two useful tools to reset your passwords. Your NorseKey and Datatel passwords expire every 180 days. You can reset them yourself using the following tools.

On NorseKey.luther.edu you will be asked to set your security questions if you have not already completed them to authenticate yourself so that you can use the “Forgot My NorseKey” option to reset your NorseKey.

Applications are already being received for the 2010 academic year from students using CommonApp.org Luther College will be using the Common Application online for next year’s class. Ben Wilbur and Cindy Goede created the import process for Admissions staff to process files from CommonApp.org and update the information into the Colleague Admissions system. Luther College will start admitting students on September 1st.

We’ve added a new sub-menu called “User Profile”. This sub-menu contains two items for students to view their demographic/academic profile and to update their emergency contact information, the new federal ethnicity questions, and off-campus address for students not living on campus.

We will also be implementing one more change that will re-direct students to this profile update screen every four months. This change should be made within the next couple of days. Thanks goes to Jean and Lucas for their work on this!

Benjamin Wilbur has been hired as programmer analyst to join the Application Development team starting June 1st, 2009. Benjamin will be supporting the admissions and financial aid modules and reporting in Datatel, system support for the AdAstra facilities scheduling software, and interfaces to other systems.

LIS and Dining Services are pleased to announce a new service allowing students and staff to check their Luther ID card activity.

NorseCard.luther.edu allows students to check their meal plan
balances, Dining Dollars, and NordicCash balances. Students no longer need to contact Dining Services to check their balances.

To use the NorseCard.luther.edu website, use your NorseKey username and password to access your NorseCard account information. If you need assistance, please contact the LIS Help Desk.

Datatel.luther.edu web interface will provide Mac or PC users with the same access to all information, reports, and screens that you use on your desktop application or icon.
Off-campus availability to datatel.luther.edu is limited to college-owned laptops with the VPN Client installed. With this new mobility, it is especially important not to share your Datatel password and logout of your session and web browser. Visit http://lis.luther.edu/learn/datatelwebfaq for more information.

Student registration starts tonight and continues on the following schedule. Please refrain from running any Datatel processes that use significant computing resources during these times to insure that our students get the fastest response times possible.

Wednesday, April 15th
Thursday, April 16th

Tuesday, April 21st
Wednesday, April 22nd
Thursday, April 23rd

Registration times will begin at 5:30 and end at 10:30 p.m.

Please report any problems to the help desk at x1000 or helpdesk@luther.edu

A message was sent to the 1628 Alumni with active @luther.edu email accounts reminding them not to share their Norse Key and that Luther Library and Information Services and the Technology Help Desk will NEVER request confidential information, including Passwords, via e-mail.