LIMT Meeting Minutes

Monday, February 10, 2003

LIMT Visits Faculty Council
LIMT members  will attend the Faculty Council meeting on Friday to discuss Series 25, changes to the refund and administrative withdrawal policy and faculty Banner training.  Faculty would also like to discuss plans for involving faculty in Banner changes when modules are live.  Faculty Council also requested LIMT's thoughts about Web CT and other course management tools.  However, LIMT concluded that faculty are in the best position to evaluate and make recommendations regarding course management tools.

ExpressLane Signs and Buttons for Campus
The Project Office is making ExpressLane signs available to departments to identify areas where students can use computers to access ExpressLane.  An announcement was placed in the Daily asking anyone who wants signs to contact the LASR Project Office.  A list of requests was distributed.  If anyone is aware of other areas let Georgia know.  Jane Scheidecker will coordinate feedback for the DTC areas. The Student Core Team suggested some time ago that ExpressLane buttons be made for staff to help promote ExpressLane.  LIMT felt the buttons were unnecessary.  The suggestion will be referred back to the Student Team.

Banner Report Capabilities
Banner users need more information at different levels for financial and personnel reports from Banner.  Teams should talk with their programmers and consultants to identify reports that are available in Banner.  In the interim, team leaders can work with programmers  to develop spreadsheets that provide needed financial and personnel information not available in Banner reports.  FIT will form work groups at their Tuesday meeting to identify report requirements that are needed by instructional departments, BWEL, Finance and HR and prioritize a list of immediate needs.  Other groups may contact Kay Malmberg or Stan Barker if they have needs.  The LASR Project is dedicated to providing as much help as needed to Banner users, and Linda Osak is available to make ìhouse callsî and work with individuals on their informational needs.

Campus reaction to HR go live
Human Resources asked LIMT to refer any questions/concerns about the HR implementation to ext. 5211 in the HR office.  Leave balance errors have been corrected.

Financial Aid Team on Track
The team and the implementation are doing fine.

Class Section Building
Three hundred Summer term, 2003 credit sections have been built in PPRD for the Series 25 test environment.  Team representatives met with Peer to Peer and are working closely with Departments to help relieve the anxiety around the schedule process.  Between now and the end of March updated information will go into TEST in preparation for the March 17 mock registration.  The team will also build a smaller number of  non-credit sections.  May is the target date for section building training for staff.  Clone dates are scheduled for February 22 and March 16.  If departments can provide better section data, it will be entered before the clones.  Preferred room assignments can be emailed to Margaret Kimble.  March 29 is the final date that Summer schedule revisions can get into the printed schedule, so Margaret will need the data by March 24.  The academic schedule on the Web is incorrect; student registration begins June 2.

Series 25 Update
The Series 25 group had a good session with Peer to Peer.  Pre-training will be offered for schedule builders and perhaps follow-up sessions for groups/units.  Resource 25 is being populated with space information.  The group is helping people learn how they will be assigning space.

Banner and Beyond Work
BWEL views budget reporting as a critical path that is separate from the work of  Banner and Beyond.  Jane Scheidecker will meet with Chuck Appleby about reporting needs before the FIT meeting next Tuesday.

LASR Update Topics
The February 21 LASR Update agenda will include an ExpressLane demonstration.  Teams will send additional agenda items to Georgia.