Academic Advising

Advisory Group Newsletter

December 2017

ALLIANCE 2018:  Salt Lake City, March 25 - 28, 2018

Academic Advising Track sessions for Alliance 2018 have been selected based on community input. Here’s a sneak peek of the proposed line up:

• Querying the Academic Advisement tables: How to report data from the degree audit
  
• Looks Do Matter: Print Options on the Advisement Report
  
• The Exception is the Rule - Tricky Requirements 101
  
• Digitizing Graduation Reviews
  
• CS9.2 Academic Advising Self Service and Fluid Self Service Enhancements
  
• Academic Advisement Birds of a Feather
  
• Academic Advisement Reports (AAR) Thinking Out of the Box or "Hey...how do I do that?"
  
• A Cross-Campus Collaborative Approach to Degree Audit Development
  
• Building AA Reports to Capture FA Ineligible Courses
  
• Unpacking the Degree Planner

Be sure to check out the overview of the entire Academic Advising Track, and see the session viewer for all tracks.

Remember, early bird registration closes January 12, 2018, so make sure you book your hotel room using the conference hotel reservation system first, to ensure you get the discounted conference registration rate.

WHAT’S NEW – PUM 7 Academic Advising Features

Newly released PUM Image 7 for Campus Solutions 9.2 includes important updates to two components in Academic Advising.

1. New access control features now exist for the Advising Notes component; and 

2. It is now possible to have the Academic Advising Report automatically generate for students who do not yet have one.

Oracle's video provides a quick overview of these new features. Use this link to start the video at the relevant section.

All the PUM 7 details:

CS 9.2 PUM Update Image 7 is now available on the PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) Home Page (MOS Doc ID 1641843.2) by selecting the Update Image Home Pages tab, choosing Campus Solutions Update Image Home Page and expanding the section CS Update Image Link. 

Where to learn more:

The Campus Solutions Update Image Home Page Additional Documentation section contains convenient links including The PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2 Documentation Home Page (Doc ID 2013381.1), PeopleSoft CS 9.2 Update Image Overviews (Doc ID 2116071.1) and PeopleSoft 9.2: Campus Solutions Update Image Documentation (Doc ID 2117001.2).

CS 9.2 PUM Image 7 contains a number of features which are highlighted in the video:

Campus Solutions 9.2 PUM Image 7 Feature Highlights.  Visit the PeopleSoft Information Portal  for additional information.

FAREWELL and THANK YOU

This month, we bid a fond farewell and send best wishes for a long and enjoyable retirement to Larry Borgione, Oracle Product Strategy Manager. Larry has worked closely with the AA community for many years, always listened to what our members had to say, and worked hard to make sure that our community’s concerns were not overlooked in development plans. Larry, you will be missed.

LEARN MORE – Education Series Webinars

Check out what’s on offer from the HEUG Education Series regular offerings.  Click here to see the latest schedule. These sessions are free for all institutional members.

Of particular interest to functional users considering implementation of Fluid pages is a session on December 18, entitled “Fluid – How do we all work together to create a responsive design?”

Don’t forget to browse the Education Series Archive to catch up on sessions you may have missed. (Institutional members can access even paid webinars in the archive.)

Share your news

Have you figured out a puzzle or streamlined a process? Did you discover just what the heck that little box actually does when you click it? Did you implement something for the very first time? Did you manage to figure out what that section of PeopleBooks really meant?

Don’t hide there alone in the dark. Forget modesty! Share your genius with the rest of us! We are your people, and we understand and appreciate these small triumphs.

Send a sentence or two (or a hundred) to your AA Communications Coordinator at d4wright@ryerson.ca so we can celebrate together.