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About the project
About the project
Over the course of three years, the University will be implementing uAchieve (the vendor's current version of DARS) and making improvements to related processes.
Phase 1 (through July 2019)
Phase 1 (through July 2019)
- Degree audit
- Transfer articulation
- New security/access model
- New self service degree audit student interface (APAS)
- New administrative interface
- Retire APAS web app
- Connector to Transferology
- Data available for integration partners
Phase 2 (through July 2020)
Phase 2 (through July 2020)
- Support for multi-institutional model (all five campuses)
- "Progress to degree" encoding for all campuses
- Standard types of credit (transfer, test, other)
- Transfer details into PeopleSoft for prereq and repeat checking
- Individual audit data retention for analytics
- Student degree progress data available
- Outdated PeopleSoft backbridge redesigned and rewritten
- More accurate academic statistics
- Determine requirements for long-term graduation planning functionality (currently "Graduation Planner")
Phase 3 (through July 2021)
Phase 3 (through July 2021)
- Implement long-term graduation planning functionality (currently "Graduation Planner")
What is uAchieve?
What is uAchieve?
uAchieve is the current vendor name for software that helps the University of Minnesota track transfer credits and give students degree audits (APAS). The University has used a previous version of this software (DARS) for 30 years. The most recent upgrade the University completed for DARS was in 2006. The vendor (College Source) now requires an implementation of the new version.
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