IASystem 2.04-2.05 Release Notes

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New Features & Modifications

Over the past few months we have been making behind-the-scenes improvements including:

  • Technology infrastructure upgrades to improve performance
  • Updates to the Faculty Portal to improve navigation and accessibility
  • Ongoing work on future feature development

Release 2.04-2.05 does include a few changes that users may notice:

Administrative Portal – Institutional Data Uploads 

  • Update to Validation when Importing Institutional Data Files: when IASystem™ processes an institutional data file, column validation and processing have been modified to allow for extra columns and column reordering to support users adding information that is useful for them when generating the data file.
  • Update to Instructor Upload Term Display: when uploading the instructor file, term is now displayed as “ALL” to more accurately reflect that the instructor list is enduring and preserves existing faculty records across terms.

Course Summary Report Filename Changes

  • Change to Report File Name when generating Course Summary Reports as Multiple PDFs: When users are creating Course Summary Reports and selecting the Multiple PDFs, the system generates a zipped folder that contains separate PDFs for each course evaluation report.  The file name for these reports has been modified to better support upload to faculty portfolio systems.

Course Summary Report file names have been modified:

FROM:   [term]-[courseID]-LastName].pdf
TO:         [LastName]-[term]-[courseID].pdf (with hyphens removed from LastName)

Here is an example of a Course Summary Report filename for instructor David Smith-Jones:

FROM:   AU16-ENG12345-Smith-Jones.pdf
TO:         SmithJones-AU16-ENG124345.pdf
  • Change to Report File Name for single Course Summary Reports PDF generation: Previously when Course Summary Reports were generated individually as PDF files, the file default name was output.pdf.  So there is consistency, all Course Summary Reports will use the new report filename convention.

Here is an example of a Single Course Summary Report generated for the same instructor listed above:

FROM:   output.pdf
TO:         SmithJones-AU16-ENG124345.pdf

 

Please note, as a result of these changes, we have updated the  IASystem™ Administrator User Guide.