Day One Morning

Steve opened with introductions with the usual info requested, name,what we did, what our goals for the conference were, where we were born and to tell something that is not true about our selfs. At least 4 people mentioned that they were sad that St Louis lost the World Series last year to the Sox. (We have a few Sox fans here in Boston) We learned that we have few skiers and water sports freaks. There was quite a lot of interest in the CRM module we are going to start to design real soon. Donna Swinford mentioned that they were using 7 programs and 9 applications at one point this year. Wow. Multi program support rocks!! Steve also mentioned that one big change in the app was that the admins can work remotely more easily due to the ability to download the app using Java web start.
Largest group was from University of Rochester.
General Session
Admissions
We then moved on to the admissions demo, some questions were.
Q:How do you change resources?
Career
We then moved on to the career demo
We discussed searches
Candidate lists were next
Discussion of the
question about bid due dates and resume due dates being hard coded. No there are not hard coded.
question about the delivery of niggly (amanda) items (will they have to wait 3 months for these?) Not necessarily.
Q:question about default value for date on tasks
student management next
talk of roles and rights and the what was available to career and registrar
viewing roles were discussed
Alumni
Moved onto Alumni Directory Services (or community directory services for the whole school)
talked about sound files
talked about profile info (privacy settings)
searching on employment records
personal infomation preference (steve didn't see everything he expected because the app properties)
email for life
alumni search (everything is searchable except for those things guarded by privacy settings)
much discussion about the guarding of email addresses
Job posting discussion
Importing Job Postings Talk about jobs going from career to alumni. This can be done today by allowing students to remain in the system but only giving them a viewing role that only allows them to see a job
Class notes
Q:Question about changes in phones numbers showing up in profile
Pictures with class notes
Q:Question about integration with yahoo (A: yes with external link)
mail groups
alumni yellow pages
admin side
the approval process was covered
Cut short due to time constraints
Registrar
Announcements (by viewing role) were covered
code table discussion - sort order and masking
student side
rules discussion
Q:question on bidding for classes (most schools do)
Q:can a mass registration done by an admin be prevented from being changed by the student(A:yes)
discussion of the phases process
more rules discussion