Degree Works 5.0.6Presented By John Crispino & Dennis Crowson

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PRESENTERS

15+ years experience in Higher Education and 13+ years experience with Degree Works, Banner, and Cognos reporting

John CrispinoSenior Consultant

30+ years in Higher Education, with 20 years Degree Works experience

Dennis CrowsonSenior Consultant

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Agenda01 Introduction and Upgrade

Path

02 Responsive Dashboard

03 Web-Based Transit

04 Controller

05 Other General Enhancements

06 Database Changes

07 Known Issues

08 Questions and Wrap-Up

Introduction and Upgrade Path

CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT AND DEFECT RESOLUTION MAINLY IN THE RESPONSIVE DASHBOARDADDITIONAL WEB TRANSIT AND CONTROLLER FUNCTIONALITY

Introduction to Degree Works 5.0.x

ADDITIONAL WORKFLOW FUNCTIONALITY

MAY USE CLASSIC AND NEW DASHBOARD CONCURRENTLY

5.0.6 RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2021

Upgrade Paths 5.0.6

Source Ellucian© Degree WorksTM Release Notes 5.0.6

Terminology Updates

Audits

New 5.0.2 interface = Responsive

Dashboard (RD)

Classic style interface =

Classic Dashboard (CD)

Student Planner

Latest SEP (responsive) =

SEP4

Student Educational

Planner (Plans tab) = SEP3

Classic SEP (Planner tab) =

SEP2

Controller

5.0.3 - Controller

5.0.6 - Properties

5.0.6 - Default list of values

Transit

Transit in 5.0.2 -Web Transit

5.0.5 - Launchjob

5.0.6 - PDF

Composer

Properties Files

XSL/CSS Files

SEP1 (static “form” planner) deprecated in 5.0.2

Responsive Dashboard

Improved experience for

students, advisors and

administrators

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2

Improved, modern design, following Ellucian Design

Standards

WCAG 2.0 AA compatible for

accessibility

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4

New visual metaphor based on

a design concept where information

is clustered in “visual cards”

Responsive Dashboard Features

5

Card UI provides more

personalized user experience,

making interface more simple,

clear, and balanced

Responsive Dashboard

• Progress bars replaced with gauges

• Student header is easily customized via Controller and Composer

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Responsive Dashboard – Audit Worksheet• Blocks

represented in visual cards

• Block headers configurable via UCX

Responsive Dashboard – Audit Worksheet

All sections of theaudit can becollapsed

Responsive Dashboard Enhancements 5.0.5

• Add "Additional areas of study" for What-If filter modes C, D, and M.

• Improvements to What-If Curriculum Rules filter mode

• Allow up to 10 custom search items in student advanced search

• Support filtering of values in advanced student search dropdowns

• Allow control over which student goal data displays

9 dash.studentHeader.goals.items

9 dash.worksheets.goals.items

Responsive Dashboard Enhancements 5.0.5

• Display custom student label when no data appears

• Printable format for SEPs

• Indentation for SubSets/Groups fixed

• Expose deep links for Worksheets (Academic, Financial Aid, Athletic

Eligibility) and Plans

Responsive Dashboard Enhancements 5.0.6

• Audit Print View replaced with a generated PDF with better formatting to

use less white space

• SEP4 Still Needed list filters courses scribed as a wildcard with attribute

• Workflow implemented for Petition and SEP4 Approvals

Transit

Web-Based Transit

� 5.0.5 Transit highlights

�PC Transit no longer supported

�When selecting ID's student

information is displayed when

Add Student ID selected

�Launchjob script with the

--wait parameter

Web-Based Transit

� 5.0.6 Transit highlights

�Can print PDF's using the

Responsive Dashboard FOP

stylesheets

Web-Based Transit

� Additional Administrative Tasks such

as:

�View and Delete Orphaned Audits

�ENV Check

�View and download the log files

Web-Based Transit

�ENV Check

Full system

inventory

review

Controller

Controller

� Shepentry/surecode terminology sunsetted

� System Settings (SHP) & UCX tables combined into searchable

configurations area

� 5.0.6 - Groups and users combined into the Authorization area

� 5.0.6 - Added the Properties area

Controller

� Authorization Area

�Tab for Users

�Tab for Groups

� Default list of all

users and groups

Controller

� Configuration Area

�Default list of all UCX

tables and SHP

variables

Controller

� Properties Area

�Default list of all

properties files

�No longer need

access to Composer

to change a

properties file

Controller

� Properties Area

�Can change

properties file in

either Controller or

Composer

Other General Enhancements

Other Functional Enhancements 5.0.5

• Audit: Migrate Audits from Big Endian to Little Endian9Audits are now portable when migrating from a big-endian operating system (HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris) to a little-endian operating system (Linux); 64-bit to 64-bit only.

• Banner: Population SQLs now reside in Controller Shepard Settings9 integration.banner.extract.student.sql.daily9 integration.banner.extract.applicant.sql.daily9 Integration.banner.extract.advisor.sql.daily

Other Functional Enhancements 5.0.5

• Banner: Controller settings allow you to control the number of daemon processes run on the classic server for web and dap jobs.9 The DW_*_COUNT moved from dwenv.config to Shepard Settting

• Transfer Equivalency: Enhance Degree Works Transfer Equivalency Admin for entring and articulating transfer work.

• Other: Restarts no longer required for new entries related to Scribe tool or shpcfg Shepard Setting

Other Functional Enhancements 5.0.6

• The User API functionality has been directly incorporated into the Transit

and Transfer Equivalency Self-Service applications

9 Gateway no longer required for Responsive Dashboard.

9 Gateway is still required for Classic Dashboard

• Added an additional field to shp_user_mst to support a unique ID in

addition to a campus ID

• Addition of an About option in Profile menu that displays Application Build

Version

Database Changes

Database Changes

Database Changes

Known Issues

Some Known Issues 5.0.5Case Number Description

CR-000180795 DAP54 is unable to create a new plan from a template that has Placeholders on it

CR-000180416 Transit: webrestart does not create a new web.log or load updated localized fop*.xsl files.

CR-000180276 At 5.0.5 the Banner extract does not extract college and student status correctly

CR-000179893 5.0.5: audit tree may fail to load, which will lead to the program (dap32 or web07) aborting

CR-000179885 505 SP1: Prereq checking fails - both for Banner prereq checking and SEP plan validation

CR-000179179 In 5.0.5, the banner student extract is not extracting students' advisors to Degree Works

CR-000179145 In 5.0.5, shp_filter may get corrupted during the banner extract

Some Known Issues 5.0.6

Case Number Description

CR-000181501 ResponsiveDashboard: PDF for Planner Audits puts planned classes in the 'In-Progress' block as opposed to 'Preregistered.

CR-000181444 SHP40 displaying MPE IMAGE errors in certain MEP instances

CR-000181435 RAD11 sometimes gets various "RAD11 failed with status" errors

CR-000181269 Responsive Dashboard: Historic audit dropdowns are empty if student has historic audits processed for a degree or school code with a backslash

CR-000181802 Controller: Can't open a resource in Properties if SHP080 is empty

CR-000181261 ResponsiveDashboard: Worksheet What-if once processed, does not refresh after editing previous selections and re-processing - starting in 5.0.6

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