Saturday, April 16, 2016

Student Educational Planners & Drexel: We Did It (ALMOST) and So Can You!


  • History of plans at Drexel
    • Been on since 2008
    • Made templates for every major
    • Add plans through transit in DW to all incoming freshmen records
    • have very few advisors who have the desire to maintain or update the plans
    • have no administrative directive to use plans
    • have no restrictions limiting yearly changes to majors or plans
  • Uh oh!  Now we need plans
    • Welcome Banner XE with its link to DW...the plans are essential!
    • Students need to follow a plan for academic progress
    • We have to provide students with a critical path
    • We have to report on whether or not students are on track
    • If the plans were easier to use and made sense the advisors would use them
  • The documentation is your friend --- or is it?  Where to start?
    • Easy!!
      • Read the Studented Educational Planner Administration Guide, the DW Shepherd Settins Technical Guide, the DW Surecode UCX Tables TechGuide
      • Conver the plans and templates to the next gen SEPs:  
      • use convertplans and convertemplates
    • Ness SHEPSET KEY
    • New UCS tables SEP--01 - SEP069
    • Update show in SEP pick list fields
    • Groups for granting access: SEPADV, SEPREG, SEPSTUVW, SEPSTUID
  • Decisions:  What fields


  • She has a spreadsheet she can share with us