Strategic direction for ASR: Course, Class, Calendar, Classrooms

Thank you to all ASR staff who attended the Course, Class, Calendar, Classroom session at the spring ASR staff event. We continue to collaborate with the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE), develop requirements, and outreach to departments. To ensure the best process development possible, we continue to engage in the following practices:

• Researching best practices at peer institutions and at the University of Minnesota
• Gathering input and feedback from stakeholders
• Engaging in an iterative and collaborative design process

Campus stakeholders continue to offer feedback through listening sessions, information-gathering sessions, committee meetings and informal networking.

Progress is underway for a few topics:

Credit and grading-base changes after registration starts

• The bulk of credit and grading base changes happen prior to the start of the term, but after registration starts.
• A process has been implemented for a cross-functional ASR group to complete an audit of the requests to understand student impacts.
• The group can approve, reject, or offer solutions for requests that do not impact students.

ECAS improvements

• We reviewed priorities with OUE and developed functional designs for various ECAS improvements, including course attributes, freshman seminars, and cross-listed courses.
• Development work will transition to production later this summer.