A&R Audit Findings Work Team Meeting Minutes DATE: July 14, 2015 IT Conference Room TIME: 10:00 A.M. LOCATION: NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 10:00 am 1. FACILITATOR: Karen Croley NOTE TAKER: Karen Karen Croley, Dom Benavides, Joyce Brown-Willis, Amany ElMasry, ABSENT: Charlotte Smith, Frank Chez, , Kyu Lee, Teresa Chan, 2. ATTENDEES: Roderick Fajarda Silvia Cortez Guests: 3. ACTION ITEMS/OPEN ISSUES: THE FOLLOWING ACTION ITEMS AND ASSIGNMENTS WERE DISCUSSED ON TUESDAY, July 7, 2015 # SEE IT (ISSUE): NSC Report. It is time to run the NSC report for summer 2015 but we are hoping to get the attempted units issue fixed prior to submitting. 1 The issue with credential level will be put in the parking lot since it has been determined that it is being cause by a bug with Oracle. In the meantime Dom will open a ticket to request a patch and she and Silvia will manually fix the credential errors on the report. Ticket 2770. It has been determined that we need to continue to use Correct History manually as required to update majors during the term. If a survey is submitted through Passport or Quick Enroll after the term begins the effective date will be the current date. 2 There was a discussion about implementing a deadline policy for changing majors. The survey effective date will not be addressed until some decisions have been made about students changing majors. Dom will schedule a meeting with Dave and Adela and report back next week. The meeting has been scheduled for next Tuesday. 3 4 Ticket 3424/Positive Attendance. Faculty are having difficulty inputting hours for positive attendance classes. Frank modified the logic in the custom process and Amany will test. W grade but no attempted units – Dom identified that some student records showed no attempted units for students who were dropped with a W grade. No progress and still needs testing. No cause or group of students has been identified to determine a fix. No solution has been found to prevent students from receiving no attempted units when issue a W grade. Communication remains open with Oracle. In the meantime, clean-up needs to be done for M15 before FA runs SAP. OWN IT (ASSIGN): SOLVE IT (STRATEGY): Dominique Benavides Silvia Cortez Kyu Lee Frank Chez Silvia Cortez Dominique Benavides Amany ElMasry Frank Chez Silvia Cortez Teresa Chan Karen Croley Kyu Lee Kyu will create enrollment requests Silvia and Karen will test in HMCCFG DO IT (TIMELINE): Update on 7/21/2015 OUTCOME: In Progress A pop-up screen will appear in promt when students have a bad academic plan and are adding classes at the A&R offices. Frank moved the project to UAT for testing. Silvia will retest. Update on 7/21/2015 In Progress Frank will trace error message. Amany will test inputting positive attendance hours as faculty. Faculty needs training Update on 7/21/2015 In Progress Teresa will check the drop process and run a trace. Karen and Silvia will test. Joyce will find original helpdesk ticket for this issue that she opened. Update on 7/21/2015 In Progress Other discussions/ issues: Dominique reported that Dave Nguyen has requested a customization of the NSC report to reduce the number of errors related to enrollment status. He stated that 25% of the students chosen for the financial aid audit have an incorrect enrollment status. When students drop classes and receive a W grade their enrollment status should change accordingly. There was a lengthy discussion and it was decided that we would do a root cause analysis before customizing the report. Silvia and Karen will do the initial analysis and work with IT for testing a fix. The academic load issue was fixed and Dom will run the NSC report for summer 2015. Ticket #3558 - The last admit term on the academic plans initiates an error message when an out of date plan is used but it is just a warning and needs to be a hard hold. Amany has been waiting to hear back from Roderick but he was unaware of the issue. Roderick will find the email and get back to Amany. Dominique will open a ticket with Oracle to identify why the batch process doesn’t build the term in FA when a major is changed after the term has begun. There was a discussion about the need for communication when classes are canceled. If a student is enrolled in a class that gets canceled and financial aid is not notified, the student will be overpaid. It was noted that each college handles canceled classes differently and it was agreed by this group that there should be a cut-off date for canceling classes. A recommendation would come from this group and then go through the process to reach the VP/Deans meeting. Amany sent an email to the schedulers reminding them of the procedures for canceled classes. She also sent an email to the VPIs at the campuses to get confirmation on the process for notifying students when classes are canceled. She will report back to this group when she has more information about FA requirements from Dave Nguyen and feedback from the VPIs. Another concern with a canceled class being the student’s last/only class and the withdrawal process was discussed. Amany will create a class, enroll a student, cancel the class and determine what happens to enrollment and term withdrawal. She will send Karen the student IDs for further analysis on the effects to the student’s record. Amany will send Kyu the navigation so he can determine if notifying the student that a class has been canceled automatically is a possibility. Amany reported that she heard back from three of the colleges and the process for cancelling classes and notifying students is very similar among the colleges. Most class cancellations happen before the term starts but definitely before census. The Dean’s office staff notifies student before a class is cancelled. Amany will find out what notification is sent and will test. The message should be changed to include financial aid information. Amany looked at the grading setup for 501 classes. All active 501 courses are setup as NOG (Non Credit/Not Graded), but the Ungraded value was added as of 2008. Amany stated that NOG Ungraded should be used in all cases. Silvia will review the Grading Scheme Table and the course setups to make sure all set up is consistent and that 501 courses will populate NG for the grade. There needs to be a discussion about the possibility of faculty assigning the NG on the 501 grade rosters. It has been determined that the issue of 501 classes not being graded is user error, not a system error. All NOG classes have only NG for the grade value option. Silvia will open a ticket to have the NG grade default to all NOG classes. Roderick sent Silvia a list of 30 students who did not get the NG value when he ran the enrollment requests. Silvia will test. No update this week due to priority FA issue. Silvia reported on the discontinuation process. It her understanding that process is only supposed to be run once per academic year. Any student who has not attended Fall 14 and Spring 15 will be discontinued. Students lose their catalog rights if discontinued. If was noted that if criteria has changed then written policy needs to be reflected. More clarification regarding the criteria will be researched by A&R. Silvia will follow up with Roderick about discontinuation criteria. No update this week. Transfer Studies plan for financial aid students – Amany will prepare questions that need to be answered before this plan can be set up. Parking Lot There is a ticket open regarding tax ID numbers. We are waiting for the OpenCCC fix. Peralta Student Email: All communication to students from financial aid must be sent to their Peralta student email account. Students should not be allowed to delete their Peralta email account. Sylvia will submit a ticket with screenshots. IT needs to update the student email instructions on the website. There was a discussion about submitting issues to Oracle support. It was suggested that the programmers and analysts work together to submit Service Requests and that updated documentation is needed, along with procedures on how to submit tickets. All analysts should have the ability and knowledge to submit Service Requests to Oracle Support. # CLOSED IT (ISSUE): 1 Ticket 2365. The request was to update all the invalid majors. OWN IT (ASSIGN): Roderick Fajarda Ticket 2264/2547. 64 records had co-requisites issues when attempting to drop one of the co-requisites. There were overrides that are part of the drop process that were Kyu Lee 2 not applied during the cleaned up process. Karen Croley A new ticket (2547) was created to add the override requirement to the fix for ticket 2264. The override fix was successful. Ticket 1916. Teresa looked at this and it was turned into ticket 2365. The original request was to clean up all invalid student plans. At a prior meeting, i t was stated Charlotte Smith 3 that Ranell had ticket 2365 closed because an alternative solution was proposed. Dominique Benavides Dom noted that since it had been determined that a mass clean up could not occur, changes on the academic plan side would continue to resolve NSC errors. Ticket 794. FABATCH process. Rosters are available to faculty from census and attendance verification day and for seven days after. There is a nightly drop process Joyce Brown- Willis Karen Croley 4 that drops students each night. The process backdates the drops to the date before the deadline. This causes drop date errors which in turn cause incorrect grades and Kyu Lee fees to be applied to student records. Ticket 1442- Roster Availability. Need to talk to Adela and decided that 2 weeks or less for a class, the roster will be available 2 days prior. Otherwise, roster to be 5 available 7 days prior. Ticket 2553. Students dropped from census but still with the W grade. Ticket 6 has been closed Ticket 2511. Issue is related to 2553. Action date for Spring 14 can either 7 manually fixed or depending on the count of instances of enrollment with action date of 2/5/2015. Joyce Brown-Willis Karen Croley Silvia Cortez Amany ElMasry Karen Croley Charlotte Smith Silvia Cortez Joyce Brown-Willis Kyu Lee Joyce Brown-Willis Karen Croley Kyu Lee SOLVE IT (STRATEGY): DO IT (TIMELINE): OUTCOME: There was a mass update to fix all invalid majors. CLOSED Default overrides for roster drops in production were applied to the fix. CLOSED Errors will continue to be addressed with Amany’s help on the Academic Plan table. CLOSED Ticket 1442 made rosters available prior to the submission deadlines. This ticket stopped the nightly drop process and now drops are posted in real time. CLOSED Drop dates have been a major issue with incorrect student records. Making rosters available prior to census and attendance verification instead of 7 days after will help with this issue. CLOSED Enrollment requests were created and processed to remove incorrect W and F grades and drop students with correct drop date. CLOSED Ticket was closed on March 6. Amany has created undeclared academic plan codes for Exempt students who do Creation of 12 undeclared academic plans. Major code IM079 (intended majornot want to declare a major. These plans undecided) was continuing to be used when importing CCCApply data for students Amany ElMasry 8 who do not want to declare a major. IM majors are causing issues with data integrity Dominique Benavides are not eligible for financial aid. A&R will test these new codes before they are in PeopleSoft and should no longer be used. put into production in CCCApply and the survey. Close ticket. Karen Croley 9 Ticket 2702 – Drop Error Report. Ticket must be closed as it has been determined COMPLETED COMPLETED CLOSED that the information requested originally will not be needed. Charlotte Smith Kyu Lee Frank Chez Silvia Cortez Ticket has been closed. 10 Ticket 1648. Effective Date logic in Survey Customization 11 Ticket 2581/Students who dropped after census but did not receive any penalty. 34 students were identified to be dropped with a W. All students dropped via self-service.13 classes were affected; all were dynamically dated online classes. Amany stated that PeopleSoft does not round up when calculating census and Gopaal Chandrasekar attendance verification dates on dynamically dated classes. Adding census dates to Amany ElMasry dynamically dated online classes is included in the new customization. Amany worked with Gopaal to create a custom process to correctly calculate the census date for dynamically dated classes. Amany reported that the process is 90% complete but on hold while Gopaal works on another project. Ticket will remain open until the custom process is put into production. Amany sent an email to Gopaal to request that the customization be moved to production. She hasn’t heard back but thinks Gopaal is waiting on Ranell’s approval. 12 Ticket 2879. Update Acad Plans with the new CIP Codes– Amany is working with Roderick to update the academic plans with the new CIP codes. 14 A request has been made to customize the withdrawal process from Quick Enroll and to add 501 courses to the withdrawal process logic. OpenCCC applications for prior term. When students submit an application for a term prior to their current active term, the application goes to the suspend file. Currently, correct history is needed to get account activated for the prior term. It has been determined that activating students for prior terms is not an option and this will continue to be a manual process. Silvia will close the ticket. Kyu Lee Silvia Cortez Sylvia Cortez Frank Chez CLOSED New CIP codes were created and need to be assigned to the new table. Project has been moved to PROD. CLOSED Coding was moved to UAT again for end-user testing. Silvia tested in Self-Service and testing was successful. CLOSED Sylvia will open a ticket. CLOSED Amany ElMasry Roderick Fajarda Ticket 2582 /2965-Term Withdrawal for F14. Based upon the query results, it has been determined that the students that are not going through term withdrawal are either still enrolled in an ungraded, no unit course or they have been dropped by A&R using 13 Quick Enroll. CLOSED