Office of the Registrar
DARS Progress
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September 2008 – Jeremy announces he will be leaving DARS support and joining the Kuali Foundation as it relates to ISU systems. A replacement will be found and we will continue to have him on the ISU campus which is a plus! We wish him well! Talk has begun about ISU offering Certifications in LAS and AG colleges. The process and programs are in the discussion stages. August 2008 – Students may now access their degree audits via AccessPlus on the web using their id#. Students and advisers also have been updated with the ability to run “what-if” audits in different majors/minors/catalogs/options than their stated curriculum, plus, future courses may be plugged in and an audit run showing where on the audit the course fits. July 2008 – TRANSIT, the new Admission piece to DARS is now operational. This is a state legislation mandated web system that will assist prospective transfer students with information on how courses will transfer into ISU programs. May 2008 - Discussion begin on e-reports taking the place of paper audits in the future. March 2008 - Work begins on pieces of the audit where we want technical credits to appear due to Admissions no longer monitoring it once TA is in production. The electives areas or not applied areas on each program will be affected. January 2008 - Colleges continue to improve doing exceptions to student records. November 2007 - Laura reported Senate file 601 is driving the TA progress meaning we need to have the transfer evaluation piece of DARS running for prospective students by July 1, 2008. A team from Admissions has been working on this. September 2007-DARS is now the exclusive degree audit system used at ISU. With the 2007-2009 catalog in place and the 2003-2005 catalog expired, no old system audits are used. At the September steering committee meeting, we celebrated DARSWeb at ISU. Degree audits are now available to advisers via AccessPlus with DARSWeb. The most current student information is at the advisers' fingertips. September 2006 – DARS is used campus wide. All colleges with the exception of Engineering and programs not loaded into DARS are now using DARS audits exclusively. Majors not loaded to DARS include (Ag and Engr ’01 catalog, AMDP major ’01 catalog, & EX SP major ’01 catalog). Engineering continue to use both DARS and old system for the ’03 catalog and DARS only for ’05. These audits are run in hard copy batch and distributed to colleges for distribution to departments. Each college has several staff that can run a DARS audit from their desktop as needed. ITS has predicted Fall 2007 for all advisers to have DARS available through AccessPlus on the web. August 2006- New DARS query fields are now complete and available via the info file to colleges. July 2006 – Web pages are updated. DARS informational computer connections to all campus systems are near completion, replacing old system connections. June 2006 – Deanna attends DARS annual conference in Colorado Springs, Co. April 2006 – Staff working with student exceptions meet to learn more about doing specific situations. This is a spin off from the steering committee meeting, meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month that the steering committee does not meet. March 2006 – Taun Cao joins the ITS staff to assume responsibilities in DARS programming. March 2006 – Viewing/update screens of Admissions transfer courses and DARS Registrar screens (DR) in ADIN are now compatible. Colleges are now able to run new transfer students with DARS audits before admission has taken place. January 2006 – Daniel Dennis leaves Admissions office causing delays in progress toward transfer articulation. Helen Graham moves to November 2005 – Campus wide upgrade from 3.0 DARS to 3.5.2 DARS completed. September 2005 – New screens are now available for DARS curriculum loading on the ADIN system September 2005 – New 2005-07 catalog is completely loaded only into the DARS system. Colleges of Business, Design, and Human Sciences are exclusively using DARS audits. July 2005 – Jenny Froyd joins the Registrar’s office DARS team as a part time member. July 2005 – Engineering staff view DARS PowerPoint presentation for the first time. They are the last college to begin testing. June 2005 - Deanna from Registrar’s office, Jeremy Hanson from ATS office, and Daniel Dennis from Admission’s office attended the annual DARS conference in April 2005 – In the Business and LAS colleges, second majors within same college are now set to run on one audit in place of two separate one. April 2005 – Additional informational pieces are posted to the web to assist with understanding DARS audits. The DARS survey is again postponed until an undetermined time. March 2005 – Registrar staff work with colleges to assist in the transfer of student exceptions from the old system to DARS system as needed. January 2005 – Instructional material added to DARS web site to assist colleges with audit adjustments (exceptions) for individual students as needed. January 2005 – Queries are in place to assist the graduation area in identifying potential problems to graduating senior audits. November 2004 - The DARS survey was postponed. It will be distributed to students, faculty and staff during the spring advising period. November 2004 - ATS is in the planning stages of setting up the new version 3.5.1 of November 2004 - FCS plans to distribute DARS to students and advisors during the spring advising period. October 2004 - Deanna Jordan and Laura Doering attend the UMACRAO conference in September 2004 - The following colleges/departments will distribute pilot DARS audits during the fall advising period: Business, Design, V M, Psych (in LAS), Educ, and I TEC ('03 in Ag). September 2004 - A committee has been created to implement a DARS satisfaction survey. This survey will be distributed to students, faculty and staff in certain colleges and departments shortly after they receive their DARS audits during the fall advising and registration period. July 2004 - DARS 3.5.1 is now available. We plan to purchase and implement as soon as ATS is comfortable with the new product. This includes an interactive component which gives students and advisors the option of choosing ‘what if’ courses, adding them to a shopping cart, then running an audit to see how they fall. It also includes grafts to show student progress. July 2004 - Encoding has begun in the June 2004 – Deanna Jordan attended the annual DARS user conference in May 2004 - The Business and Design colleges and HHP major have been coded with the NCAA component. All F03 freshmen athletes have had coding added so we can begin testing. April 2004 - The DARS web application is currently installed in a test site. It's now ready to be tested extensively. April 2004 - The Admissions team is in place to begin the task of implementing a new way of transfer articulation. March 2004 - Training for advisers has been completed for Business and Design colleges. March 2004 - Admissions is moving ahead with DARS transfer articulation. A team from admissions plus Deanna Jordan and Larry Dau attended the Transfer Articulation Skills and Workshop in February 2004 - DARS audits were distributed to the following colleges and departments: Business, Design, Vet Med, and Psych in LAS. This was the first large batch of DARS audits to appear in the college communities. January 2004 - The DARS team and graduation staff is now meeting twice a week and reviewing the graduation certification process to see what procedures need to be changed or adjusted to fit with DARS. November 2003 - The NCAA piece has been added to one test major. Once we have the test site working, we will begin adding to other majors. September 2003 - The decision was made to not allow split credits on the DARS audits. This will be a University wide practice, however, if a college finds a need for a requirement or group of requirements to split, that could also be handled on an individual requirement bases. August 2003 - Training with the June 2003 - Deanna Jordan attended the annual DARS user conference in June 2003 - A large batch of audits was provided to Business, Design, and LAS to begin extensive testing. A graduating senior batch was run and distributed to graduation area and colleges for further testing. May 2003 - Don Meyer, our DARS representative from May 2003 - The PowerPoint training presentations will now be available on the web (click here to view). March 2003 - Helen Graham shared the "look" of a web audit, not ours, but a good representation of what DARS can do. Everyone seemed excited about the possibilities DARS offers. November 2002 - The DARS team met with advisors from the October 2002 - Business, Design, and LAS colleges received a test batch of audits to review September 2002 - Deanna Jordan and Helen Graham are working with DARS support in February 2002 – Goal – January 2002 – Sheryl Soden completed DARS Encoder I training at January 2002 – Completed 2nd meeting with colleges, gathered information and discussed project status December 2001 - An Iowa State DARS web page will be created to provide information and track the progress of DARS. The minutes from the DARS Steering Committee will be posted on this website for those who are interested. December 2001 – Training manual created, trained Business and Design Staff December 2001 – Testing Design audits November 2001 – DARS software installed on Business and Design College PC’s November 2001 – Begin encoding Design College Programs November 2001 – Testing Business Audits October 2001 – Most of July 2001 - New Clerk III position for DARS will be filled May 2001 - DARS WWW page developed for college to reference and to chart DARS progress April 2001 - Phase I audit testing: Ability to run minimal degree audit in test mode (hand entered student data) March 2001 - ADP work on development of StuInst (student records database interface to DARS) January 2001 - Repeat table is automatically migrated to DARS December 2000 - DARS engine installed and preliminary program coding and testing begun November 2000 - A steering committee composed of college classification personal is formed to meet every other month to discuss DARS issues October 2000-April 2001 - Internal DARS tables coded - Initial coding of programs in test mode September 2000-December 2000 - DARS technicians and ADP staff work to get a DB/2 database version of DARS operational September 2000 - Deanna Jordan, Helen Graham and Larry Dau go to September 2000 - DARS Darwin client software installed August 2000 - Install new computer server and DB/2 July 2000 - Computer hardware and other necessary software (non DARS) purchased May 2000 - Work on purchase agreement and actually purchase DARS (DARWIN) product April 2000 - Write sole source report for Purchasing including documentation and reasons for choice. March 2000 - Determine DARS to be the only viable product for ISU January 1999-May 2000 - Review and evaluate DARS and other available degree audit products. Attended 3 days Presentation in November 1999. |
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