Office of the University Registrar

Finding out which students are registered for a particular class section just got a lot easier.

Earlier this month, the “Class List by Section” report was deployed in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), the new campus-wide data reporting service. It’s the first of several reports being created to replace the aging “deptinfo” system that provides administrators access to class lists, enrolled students, and other departmental information. Users with access to deptinfo will be granted access to the new report automatically in the coming weeks.

The new EDW report offers a number of improvements over the similar report available through deptinfo:

• Interactivity – Information in EDW reports is web-based and can be easily sorted or filtered within the web browser to provide the best view of the data for the user’s needs.
• Additional information – The Class List by Section report also includes students’ minors, information requested by many department admins but not available in the deptinfo report.
• Immediacy - Departmental admins can view class lists immediately in their web browser. Under deptinfo, user requests arrived by e-mail 10- to 15 minutes after being requested.
• Output flexibility – The report can be exported in a variety of formats, including PDFs for output or into Excel or CSV files for further analysis.

Other improvements are planned for updated versions of this report, including class lists by entire course, not just a specific section. Future reports replacing other deptinfo functionality include lists of students who’ve applied for graduation in a given quarter, and generating contact info for all students in a department to simplify invitations to department functions. A deployment timeline for all EDW reports (including those in human resources, research, and finance) is available at the Office of Information Management’s (OIM) Enterprise Reporting Initiative website.

The Class List by Section report was jointly developed by the Registrar’s Academic Data Management Office and OIM.

This post is another update to a previous entry, available here: Faculty: Spring into web grading this quarter.

It’s the day after grades were due for Spring quarter and the verdict is in: web grading is a hit! It’s amazing how quickly faculty embraced this new process, which indicates its usefulness for everyone involved in the grading process.

Spring quarter grades by submission type: Over 50% submitted by web grading!

Just over half—51%—of grades for the quarter came in through Web GradeBook. That’s an impressive statistic considering this is the first quarter for which online submission has been widely available (a “soft rollout” was available Winter 09, but not heavily advertised). We look forward to this number increasing over the next few quarters as more faculty discover the convenience—and benefit to students—of web grading.

The Office of the University Registrar thanks all those faculty who submitted their grades via web grading, and to Catalyst, the Office of Information Management, UW Technology, and everyone else who helped bring this project to fruition.