Introduction

General

• CAS based security

• read-only integration with GST (daily export via API)

• configuration files for:

  • department/program specific tailoring
  • academic plans for each degree (structured representation of degrees)
  • department info and sub-areas
  • semester checklists

• documentation pages and help files

• server config page

• database validations pages

• online forms for Annual Review, etc.

Academic Coordinator

• overviews of students, alumni

• documents catalog for memos, forms, etc.

• DataTables to allow download of tables as spreadsheets

Student

• academic year checklist

• degree checklist

• documents

Faculty

• overview of own students and committees

Program Statistics

• alumni directory

• tables for doctoral outcomes, degree completion times, ethnicity and gender, etc.

Roadmap

Planned future improvements

• incorporation of Individual Development Plans as a standard form.

• implement generic forms which are aware of approval chain: student, major professor(s), supervisory committee, coordinator/director of graduate program.

• better intergration with FSU Grad School faculty GFS database, to allow automatic compilation of faculty directory.

• cross-departmental integration of committees, so that faculty can see all the graduate committees on which they serve, and access the student progress for all their students.

• installation of individual department instances on virtual servers, to allow quick spin up of new versions (and ease of pushing updates).

• better integration with OMNI BI to allow tracking of registation and course requirements.

• increase web accessibility.