Application Development

The “Enrollment Verification” link on the my.luther.edu web site has changed. The Enrollment Verification link lets the user connect to the National Student Clearinghouse to receive an enrollment certificate to print and mail to a health insurer or other company that requests proof of a student’s enrollment at Luther.

The National Student Clearinghouse recently changed their policy about connecting to their web site.

Facilities Management is now using a new system to allow campus users to submit and track requests for facilities services. The new web-base request submittal form allows the requester to identify the location and type of work being requested.

You can make a request by entering your email address on the form at fixit.luther.edu The first time you use fixit you will be asked to complete information such as your name and phone number.

The Alumni office is sending the final notice to Alumni with a full email account and Alumni that use email forwarding encouraging them to create a NorseMail account to continue using their @luther.edu email address beyond November 15th. Accounts for Alumni that do not move their email forwarding and email to NorseApps will be disabled this weekend.

Student registration starts November 5th and continues on the following schedule. Use Internet Explorer if possible.

The Dean’s office is piloting a new course evaluation software from the IDEA center www.theideacenter.org. Jodi Enos-Berlage, Jeff Dintaman, and I will review the process at division meetings this morning. Each faculty member has submitted a course that they are teaching this Fall to the Dean’s office that they would like to evaluate. Faculty will be required to complete the IDEA faculty information form and optionally add up to twenty custom questions for their course. Survey access will be available to faculty from November 17th – 30th.

CBORD has completed the server side upgrades. I have installed PCS and HMS on most of the machines that need it except two, which should be done soon. Micros in dining service is connecting to Odyssey, and the Bookshop is back online.

If you see any problems, please ask the Help Desk to open a task.

Lucas Welper has been hired as programmer analyst to join the Application Development team starting November 5th. Lucas will be supporting the student records modules and reporting in Datatel and interfaces to other systems.

On Monday Oct 20th LIS will be upgrading the CBORD Odyssey PCS and HMS system. This is a necessary update to provide compatibility with Windows Vista. They are some new tools in PCS and HMS, most notably a way to send a report to email.

The system will likely be down between half a day (ideally) to the full day. We will let you know via blog when the process is complete. A member of LIS will stop by and upgrade users of PCS and/or HMS.

We have just enabled some new menu items on the my.luther.edu web site. This will allow a small group of student workers to enter their work time on the web. We are starting with a small pilot group of students to begin this project. Most users will see the message “You do not have permission to access this workflow.” when they try to access the links on the Students and Employees menus.

The web time entry project will be gradually expanded over the coming months to allow additional student workers to enter their work time via the web.

Using your Internet browser (Internet Explorer or FireFox) go to

lists.luther.edu

Click on the “login” button in the upper right corner. Enter your email address (including @luther.edu), your Norse Key password, and click the “Login” button.

Click on “Internal Non-Public Lists”

Click on dug@luther.edu, the Datatel Users Group list.

Click on the “subscribe” button, on the left side of the screen.