2024-06-28 UPenn PATH

Owned by Denise Kidd
Jun 28, 2024
2 min read

UPENN team

  • Kylie - Degree Works, Explore Programs, PATH plans

  • Adam - NGSS, fix problems in supportive programs. Moonlights as advisor and is a parent.

  • Traci - OUR requests related to bugs and enhancements

  • Meghan - term config, academic class scheduling

 

NGSS - Next Generation Student Systems

  • All tools related to advising, curriculum - everything except LMS and evaluations

  • Went from no catalog to full catalog in 3 years - CAT

  • CIM

  • CLSS

  • PATH

  • Getting ready to release PLAN

PATH

  • June 2022 implemented - included 10 years of records

  • Summer and Fall 2022 first semesters of registration in Banner and PATH

Advanced reg model

  • No appointment times for registration (time tickets)

  • System open to build carts for 2 weeks prior to opening registration.

  • Shopping period ends.

  • Students put priority when shopping on each course.

  • Optimization process runs to create draft course assignments for everyone who did carts.

    • Send to departments 3 iterations of drafts; tight turnaround.

  • Schedules are optimized and registered and then students can change.

CE: Is there pushback from departments? Are more sections added by departments?

Meghan: Not many sections added (can cause housing issues)

SD: Have you done any analysis on whether students are generally happy with results or are they making lots of changes?

MK: Both - they’re not mutually exclusive. The campus community is generally happy. This model existed for years prior to CL, but all features were brought forward from the mainframe into CL.

Kiley: we understand how the optimization works. If there’s a tie between students, don’t understand how the algorithm does the tie-breaker.

PATH registration overview

Shows advising profile - ID, expected grad, major, advisors

Primary cart

Add classes to cart

Can search by attribute

Can give priority to each course.

Can add courses to alternative course in case courses in primary course are not available.

Students can be registered administratively in SSB by school registrars or dept admins. The role they have in Banner is the Advisor access role.

Students can request permissions (can be approved/declined). Reports available to all depts to manage their course permissions/overrides.

Can students select a grade mode that doesn’t exist at the inventory level? No. We don’t define a grade mode at the section.

Connection points to DW

Degree audit and advising

  • Degree audit button - what-if API

  • shows progress by block

  • Some things are more intuitive in DW.

Explore programs

  • What-if using student data

  • What happens when you add X minor to your program?

  • Non-authenticated users would pull in catalog information

Planner

  • Build a planner from a course search

    • Add course to plan

  • Use Degree Audit button

    • go to major, select course, and add to plan

  • Can edit plans - pencils to change term or remove course from plan.

  • Validate plan - validates against degree audit

  • Audit view

 

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