In February 2023, members from the Office of the Registrar’s Degree Audit and Academic Programs (DAAP) team attended the Leepfrog User Community Conference. The conference focused on building technical skills within CourseLeaf, the curricular management software that we refer to as Lumen on campus, as well as learning new ways to leverage CourseLeaf for student …
Over the past year, an updated Student Information System (SIS) Governance structure was established to provide technical and functional leadership, communication alignment, and oversight in resolving issues, enhancing core processes, and deploying new features related to the campus SIS. The experience and insight of governance members has been invaluable. Over the past year, an updated …
This past year UW–Madison experienced tremendous growth in the number of students who requested and were approved for accommodations for exams in their courses. Although an overall increase in the number of students on campus may have partly contributed to this, there has been a multi-year trend of increasing numbers of students with disabilities seeking …
In response to the College of Letters & Science request to get more comprehensive curricular and student enrollment information, Phil Hull created an Institutional Data Exporter (IDE) for Fall Course Access. The IDE will be utilized during SOAR for Course Access Planning. In response to the College of Letters & Science request to get more …
June marked the official publication of the 2023-2024 edition of Guide. This edition is the culmination of the work that departmental and school/college representatives, academic planners, faculty, and governance bodies have been working toward all year. Over 800 Lumen Programs and Structures updates were processed and implemented in this catalog cycle. June marked the official …
Spring Commencement kicked off Friday, May 12, 2023 at the Kohl Center to celebrate Doctoral, MFA and Medical Professionals. The celebrations continued on Saturday, May 13 with graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s and Law Degree Candidates. There is no other energy and excitement of more than 7,800 graduates inside Camp Randall surrounded by their faculty, family, classmates, loved …
The campus Student Information System (SIS) – or Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions – will be down beginning July 1st at 5:00PM for an upgrade to PeopleTools version 8.60, with a target of Wednesday, July 5 10:00 p.m. for SIS to be available again to all users. During this outage period, users, including students, will not …
In July 2020, Transferology replaced UW Systems’ (UWS) homegrown Transfer Information System (TIS). UW System purchased Transferlolgy as a web-based tool to share transfer credit data among all public colleges and universities in the state and to recruit students from across the country. TIS was limited to sharing freshman/sophomore-level courses and only updated six times …
Do you use Jira or Confluence as part of your job or project tracking? Both platforms will no longer be available after January 31, 2025. Currently, Jira and Confluence are both maintained by DoIT using on-premise servers, which will no longer be an option due to large pricing increases. All users will need to migrate …
During the week of March 27th many members of the Office of the Registrar team attended the annual AACRAO (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Offices) meeting. The AACRAO Annual Meeting is an opportunity to learn, network, and advance higher education. During the week of March 27th many members of the Office of the …