Exciting Initiatives in OIT

The Office of Information Technology is working in collaboration with departments across the University on these exciting initiatives and more.

Now

• Reducing student registration time from 30 seconds to 10 seconds
• Providing drop-in training every Friday from 2-5:00PM in Sullivan Hall
• Presenting at new student orientation
• Helping develop new 60- and 30-second TV spots
• Preparing data for regulatory reporting and annual financial audit
• Redesigning selected courses
• Supporting launch of new academic program
• Supporting the stu.edu website redesign initiative 

Summer

• Launching 24/7 telephone support for students, faculty, and staff
• Providing online syllabus search and retrieve
• Improving the look and feel of the MyBobcat website
• Moving a large display from the OIT office to an instructional area
• Implementing monthly network and system vulnerability scanning
• Deploying 27 new computers for Athletics (Fin Aid and Admissions previously done

Fall

• Providing new-and-improved online instructor orientation
• Providing new-and-improved online student orientation
• Refreshing disk image for all academic computers

Ellucian Recruit and CROA

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) at St. Thomas University would like to announce our upcoming initiatives to expand the existing Ellucian Colleague infrastructure with the addition of two major components:

1.  Ellucian Recruit

Recruit delivers key features that prospective students (traditional, graduate, certificate, etc.) expect on your web site, including: online inquiry form; campus visit scheduler; Student Concierge Portal with social media integration and personalized program information; fully configurable, integrated online application(s) for admission; web based event registration management and more. We expect this product to be deployed by the end of the Fall 2016.

2.  Ellucian Colleague Reporting and Operating Analytics (CROA)

Colleague Reporting and Operating Analytics is a higher education business intelligence module that delivers self-service access to pre-packaged analytic reports, ad hoc templates, and dashboards with more than 150 metrics that can be used out-of-the-box to help make better decisions and deliver more for less. We expect this product to be deployed by the end of Spring 2017 semester.

We will continue to update our community on these initiatives as project updates become available.