CollegeSource Users Conference award

At the end of June, 11 University of Minnesota staff attended the 2022 CollegeSource Users Conference in San Diego, CA. CollegeSource is the company that maintains the uAchieve platform that runs APAS. While at the conference, the University of Minnesota System was selected for “Innovation in Advancing System-Wide Positive Student Outcomes” and presented with an award!

This best practice award recognizes the staff who work with uAchieve and the system-wide effort it took to make the Transfer Articulation and Degree Audit (TADA) project (completed in 2020) so successful. It highlights the work they put into the degree audit and transfer articulation best practices implementation during the TADA project, the continued work they do to maintain those best practices, and all the work they have done to make the transfer evaluation processes better for everyone. This was a large, system-wide effort from staff at all of our campuses, and it was a huge success due to everyone’s hard work and dedication to getting it done.

TADA updates

Transfer Articulation and Transfer Credit
The development that will bring transfer articulation details from uAchieve to PeopleSoft is still in progress. While it is in progress, please continue to support and use the TES system to establish more and better transfer articulation rules. Additionally, development to separate transfer courses, test credits, and other credits in PeopleSoft is under way, so ‘test’ and ‘other’ credits will appear in PeopleSoft with established equivalencies for pre- or co- requisites. This should be available at the start of the fall 2020 semester.

Data and data analytics
The second production data snapshot was successful. PDFs and APAS reports for all active students housed in Perceptive Content can be referenced by advisors as needed. A pilot of course-level analytics using aduit output tables has also been initiated for participating units, which include CFANS, CBS, CDES, Computer Science BA/BS, UMC, and UMD. We hope that this information will be useful for both curricular planning and student success initiatives.

Degree planning tools
Four finalists in the RFP process provided demonstrations to a cross-institution and cross-campus group. If you would like to review the demonstrations and help evaluate the product, please view the vendors below:

• Vendor 1
• Vendor 2
• Vendor 3
• Vendor 4

You can submit comments on the vendor presentations using this feedback form. Feedback will be collected until June 15, 2020. Your comments will then be used by the RFP team and advisory group to inform their final recommendation.

In order to maintain an equitable process for all vendors, if you would like to comment, you must view and provide comments for all demonstrations. Please also note that the information about vendors and the content of the demonstrations are confidential to the University of Minnesota and cannot be shared externally. A usability evaluation of the finalists is scheduled for June 8, 2020 through June 12, 2020.