ITS Round Table
Topics:
“is anybody running colleague unidata on a linux platform???”
“How all of your depts./schools handle ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT. New folks, departing folks, graduating . . ..”
Name as part of user name? lots say yes. 1 says we let them choose.
“name changes?” Some say “no”, “no for students, yes for faculty, etc”, “no but email alias”, some say “yes”. employees > HR, students > registrar, and the login will be changed by IT, if notified.
“without losing permissions?”
“Portal, sharepoint?” 2013: starting work on a test version. NIC upgraded last October to Portal 4.1. !!!! your webadvisor web part will break somehow!!! The fix is to early adopt a 4.2 Portal Webpart, so may as well wait for Portal 4.2 in entirety.
Does anyone have C#, .Net programmers on staff? 1 school does, but they are elsewhere in college.
Has anybody had to deal with someone coming in with a Legal Name that needs to be kept … anonymous? Yep, we use preferred name everywhere. Even in their campus-built reports. (Entrinsik Informer.) Alternatively, customized “formatted names” to add a name type with security, and customize the (far fewer) processes that need the Legal Name to look for this type for formatted name.
What gender does a student want to be known as, what personal pronouns should be used?
One-named students? Gmail doesn’t permit customers to lack first names.
Lots of us assign student email accounts. Several of us use Gmail or 365, for this. Single sign-on for 365 seems to take more work.
How many credits before they get to keep their login credentials forever? Some, students have to earn it. One stopped recently, giving 6 months warning for the initial cutoff. Gradual: just webadvisor and touchnet access so they can pay bills, etc, disable account, then delete account.
Have to be moved to student to get a student email address,
Non-credit enrollment solution?
Instant Enrollment,
Elevate $$$$$,
Lumens, for outreach? A few.
Any big frustrations? Studio? Advisor?
Mobile: different APIs for grades and courses, huge security breach for up to 24 hours after login.
Who is still using UniData? Several. More on SQL. On SQL, colon prompt? It’s there, but there are often better tools, especially for data pulling.
CPAE can pass colon prompt paragraphs to the phantom queue.
Gosh, wouldn’t it be cool if everybody end-dated student programs when a student steps out . . . ?
Transitions from alumni/student à employee? Clackamas: wipe and re-build because they’re different domains.
LDAP/ office 365 needs people to have only one account. Sync out to Office 365 was made sensitive to this, using the “other mailbox” field, so an employee’s student email address is in the cloud, but the employee’s employee email address is not.
Some of us have employee emails that can do double-duty as student email addresses, which is really handy.
Colleague on SQL: computed columns in the context card . . . do you have to wait for down time to load new computed columns? Because the computed column compiler locks all computed columns, so when someone opens someone into context, it’s a locked record. Several replies: general best practice is to wait for a quiet system to load computed columns.
Who is attending the Lu’au? Many. Who has Hawaiian shirts? A few. Heavy hors d’oeurves could be enough for dinner if you like them. Dug will be at the lu’au. “The Adventures of Dug and Friends”, find it on facebook and fall in love.
PLUTO IS DECLARED A PLANET.
Adjourned.