Did you know that UniversiTools SIS Helps You Manage Semester & Year-long Curricula?

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011

Right!  In fact, some universities run a semester-based curriculum, some others a year-based curriculum, and still some others a combination of both. Different types of student information systems are needed to manage these diverse curricula. But UniversiTools SIS can manage them all.

For example, when defining your courses in UniversiTools SIS, you define academic years and semesters and link courses to them. Of course, this impacts other activities down the road, for example: does a year-long course in fact belong to two semesters on simply to one year? What do you do for a year-long course when the second semester of the academic year starts? Should students register for it again or should they not?

Scenario:

Yearly and semester-based courses

Some universities tend to split a yearly course into two-semester courses, splitting the number of credits and the course grade along the way.

Some other universities want a yearly course to remain strictly yearly; it starts when the year starts and ends when it ends, and the student earns credits and grade for the course only at the end of the year.

And some other universities want some courses to go the first way and some other courses to go the other way.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011

Right!  Admissions is a process that contains many actions, involves diverse stakeholders, and necessitates instant communication. UniversiTools SIS streamlines and facilitates the entire admissions process for you.

Admissions requires that the university deals with applications, entrance exams, fees, grading, and evaluation. With UniversiTools SIS, you can manage all these activities. Moreover, stakeholders can handle independently their own tasks and UniversiTools ensures that these tasks come together to complete the admissions process.

Applicant to Student …

A student was an applicant before, and:

• Applicant fills an online application
• Application is processed (by the registrar, admissions office)
• Student takes the required entrance exams, and pays the required fees (this involves the applicant, exam committee, and finance department)
• Applicant is accepted (by the admissions committee)
• Applicant becomes a student (and given a student ID and card, by the admissions office)

UniversiTools streamlines the admissions process and related subtasks, and ensures clear processing throughout.