The iSiS Cross Functional team is very interested in the comments, opinions, and suggestions of the iSiS user community. Please take a few minutes to let us know what you think about iSiS.

http://www.uml.edu/enrollment/isis/iSiS_Survey.html

Due to faculty feedbackthe following changes havebeen made to the iSiS Faculty Center:

• Nowwhen you view theGrade Roster, the default number of students to show has been changed to unlimited. The previous default was to show the first 20 students.
• Drop and Waitlist totals for each course are now displaying on the Faculty schedule page

iSiS will NOT be available on Saturday 02/20/2010 beginning at 4:00PM until Sunday 02/21/10 at 12:00PM for system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

As the spring semester begins, the Registrar’s Office has posted some important information to UML Today for Students and Faculty.

For Students…

• Important Schedule Information
• Graduate Students_Graduation Clearance Form Deadline.doc
• The Spring 2010 Final Exam Schedule is now available

For Faculty..

• Please Check Class Rosters
• Waitlisting Available for Closed Courses
• Mid-Term Grade RostersAvailable as of March 3rd
• The Spring 2010 Final Exam Schedule is now available

The Centers for Learning and the Registrar’s Office will be open normal hours (8:30 – 5:00)during the Holiday break (12/24 – 1/3) and will have staff accessible to assist userswith any iSiS functionality questions.

• Centers for Learning
  Southwick 3rd Floor (North)
  978-934-2946
• Registrar’s Office
  Dugan Hall, 1st Floor (South)
  978-934-2550

Faculty and Students are encouragedtocontact either office for assistance with any iSiS self-service questions.

The Information Technology Help Desk will be open reduced hours during the break. They are Closed on 12/24, 12/31; Open on 12/28, 12/29, 12/30 from 10:00 ‘ 2:00pm.

• Help Desk
  Olsen Hall, 1st Floor (North)
  help@uml.edu
  978-934-4357 (HELP)
  1-866-435-7437(1-866-HELP-HERE)

Users needing assistance logging-in (e.g. password resets)should first use the integrated password reset functionality within iSiS.If additional assistance is requiriedusers must contact the Help Desk. Please leave a message on theirvoicemail or email if support is needed off hours.

While it was only a partial week, therehave already beena significant number of users logging into iSiS during the first few days of 9.0.Through 12/6/09 there have been357 faculty and 5613 students who have successfully logged into the new system.

There have been relatively few issues reported in the last couple days.See the Known Issues blog entry to see the latest updates including recent fixes.

Students and Faculty are welcome tovisit the Centers for Learning on North or the Registrar’s Office on South if you need any personal assistance using iSiS 9.0.

The Administrative Systems Integration office is continuing to provide roving support to administrative users andis available for any academic department presentations.Deans and Chairpersons should contact Doreen Bray(x4777) if you’d like to schedule a demonstration or Q&A with your department. A breakdown of the various support approaches is documented on the iSiS support web pages.

Last Update1/05/2010 -9:00am

We will post updated information here regarding major known iSiS 9.0 issues and their status.

OPEN ISSUES – Confirmed issues that are being investigated by the technical team

• Login — Lowell has reported to UITS that some users are having troubles logging into ISIS. The user believes they are typing the username and password correctly, but the system makes the user change their password. Please post a comment if this is an issue you too have experienced as it is difficult for us to troubleshoot.
• Update on Login Issues: UITS has been able to replicate the issue and is investigating long term solutions. In the meantime, if you experience this issue you may do either of the following: Hit your browser back button until theerror message no longer displays or close theentire windows session andstart the log in process again at http://isis.uml.edu
• Performance — UITS continues to evaluate system performance issues. Many users have reported increased performance, but there are still some experiencing slowness. If you do experience iSiS being slow, please contact the HELP desk at help@uml.edu or at 978.934.4357 and give as much detail as possible (what process you were trying to complete, the page you were on and the time of day). These details will allow us to better troubleshoot the issues.

RECENTLY CLOSED ISSUES– Confirmed issues that have recently been updated and fixed.

• Student Online Financial Account — The display of student financial data was significantly different and causing some confusion for students. This has been modified to make it more user friendly.
• Performance — UITS has improved the Advisor page to more rapidly load all advisees. The performance was 91 seconds and is now 11 seconds for one advisor with over 1000 advisees.
• Faculty Class Roster Update — faculty now have the option to view students on the waiting list via their class roster.
• Student Request for Official Transcript —the link to request official transcripts wasn’t appearing in the drop down, but is now available.
• Permission Number Creations –a processing error prevented the Registrar’s Office from generating additional permission numbers. This has been fixed.
• Help links to UPK are now available via the ‘Help’ button within faculty and student self-service. More improvements are coming, but this is at least now functioning.
• International Access — Links toself-service have been changed to fixa couplelogin issues. The change willnow allow userswithinternationalcomputer operating systems to accessiSiS. Additionally facultyself-service users willenter iSiS directly in the’faculty center’.