Sessions

Datatel/Vendor Presentations

• Teaching, Learning and Technology: Datatel's Intelligent Learning Platform Earns an A

  • Datatel, Inc.
  • Is your learning management system performing Magna Cum Laude or at risk of failing? Come and learn about Datatel’s new teaching and learning solution and the power that integrated solutions can bring to your campus.

• Datatel Recruiter: Modern CRM Tools to Achieve Your Enrollment Goal

  • Datatel, Inc.
  • Datatel Recruiter gives you the CRM tools to find the perfect students for your institution, continue to engage with prospects in one-on-one communications, and ultimately get them to enroll. Throughout every step of the recruitment process, Datatel Recruiter improves your team’s efficiencies with powerful reporting and analytics, sophisticated e-search, automatic campaign management, list and event management, and much more. Your recruiters will be able to build custom messaging on the fly while ensuring your prospects receive all your communications.

• This Changes Everything!

  • Datatel, Inc.
  • See how Datatel’s new user interface can dramatically change everything on your campus – improved productivity and efficiency across all departments. See the latest in RIA technology, and learn how easy it is to implement and maintain. It’s hero time -- give your constituents what they need to work smarter.

• When a Port to SQL Makes Sense

  • Datatel, Inc.
  • Let’s face it – it’s a technology storm out there. And the real question is when does a port to SQL make sense for your institution? And what do you need to know about the move? This session will answer those questions and provide you a strategic direction.

• Apps of Steel: Live "Mobile" While Using the Datatel Smartphone Application

  • Datatel, Inc.
  • Stretch your mind, flex your technology and serve your students. Join us for a look at this new access to serve your constituents on campus including registration, campus maps, to-dos, notifications, phone directory, course information, connect to my friends and campus news. Serve the student in a way your peer institutions cannot and stand out as an institution of change.

• Retention's Dirty Little Secret

  • Datatel, Inc.
  • During this session, we’ll expose the dirty little secret behind retention and graduation rates. And reveal a new, innovative process design for supporting your students throughout their educational experience. We will review several case examples of excellent retention strategies now in place at colleges and universities and how these strategies can be connected into a systematic and iterative process that you can use.

• HR Reporting: How Are We Doing?

  • Datatel, Inc.

• Admissions Reporting: How Are We Doing?

  • Datatel, Inc.

• Datatel-integrated Imaging

  • Perceptive Software
  • Perceptive Software, creators of ImageNow, is Datatel's exclusive enterprise content management (ECM) partner and its 2010 partner of the year. Perceptive Software maximizes your technology investment by easily integrating ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow with Datatel Colleague. In this session, learn how ImageNow complements the functionality of your Datatel applications in key departments, such as enrollment services and the business office.

• Give your PCI Headaches to Us

  • Official Payments

• X25 Reporting & Master Planning

  • CollegeNET, Inc.
  • X25 reporting helps institutions save money by addressing scheduling policy effectiveness, space inventory fitness and space utilization goals. Core scheduling decisions often pivot on intangible instincts and political sensitivities. Yet, the buy-in is strongest when supported by facts. CollegeNET's dashboard reporting, master planning and analysis tool - X25 - provides data you need to support space management decisions and develop sound scheduling policies.

• Don't Scan

  • M2 Business Solutions
  • Let us show you how to capture documents and electronic forms to take your campus near-paperless without ever touching a piece of paper.

• Virtualization: How does it help provide High Availability and Disaster Recovery in a SQL environment?

  • VComp Solutions
  • VCOMP Solutions will discuss how virtualization technologies can be leveraged within a Microsoft Windows and SQL environment to provide High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities. Technical considerations specific to running Colleague in a SQL environment will also be discussed.

• Informer Web Reporting - Automated Operational Reporting and Analysis for Datatel Users

  • Entrinsik
  • Used by over 200 Datatel customer, Informer's robus query engine and user-friendly interface -- all within a Web browser -- allows for flexible ad hoc reporting and analysis based on real-time data from multiple data sources. Join us to see how Informer can extend self-service operational reporting and analysis capabilities to users.

Student Track

• FA Roundtable

• David Clevenger, University of Northwestern Ohio
• Do you have questions or concerns about all the changes happening this year? Do you have a success story you would like to share with others? Stop by the FA Roundtable and join the discussion.

• Direct Lending

• Amber Logan, Indiana Wesleyan University
• New to Direct Lending? Come see how Indiana Wesleyan University is processing direct loans.

• Year-Round Pell Processing

• David Clevenger, University of Northwestern Ohio
• Curious about year-round and cross-over Pell processing? See how UNOH has implemented the new Pell processing rules.

• Using Reporting and Data Warehousing to Save Time

• David Clevenger, University of Northwestern Ohio
• A data warehouse can save an enormous amount of time and help you avoid having to contact the IT department for reports. Come see how the UNOH Financial Aid office has utilized their data warehouse to save valuable time.

• Using Communications Management for FA

• David Clevenger, University of Northwestern Ohio
• Tired of regular old text only emails or want to make your communications processing more efficient? UNOH has developed HTML emails through Colleague and found some great ways to make communications processing fast and efficient.

• E-Advising: Student Success through Technology

• Terri Gould, Delta College
• Terri McDaniel, Delta College
• From an Advisor/Counselor viewpoint, learn how to: Search for courses to add to the student’s educational plan; Notify students by e-mail that their plan has been updated; See the suggested plan of courses for a program that a student has entered on the course planning worksheet and approve the courses, making them part of the student’s educational plan; See the student’s public comments about the plan. From a Student view, learn how to: Create and modify a plan of courses for an academic program using course planning worksheets; Add courses to the course planning worksheet; E-mail their advisor/counselor; Run a program evaluation to check progress in a current program, or run a “what-if” evaluation for another program being considered, to see what requirements of that program are met; Enter Public Worksheet Notes that are seen by their advisors, as well as enter Private Worksheet Notes that cannot be seen by advisors; See which courses and /or the Student Educational Plans that have been approved by their advisor/counselor

• Online Bills @ 2 Schools

• Robert Carrier, University of Evansville
• Kelly Sinacola, Northwood University
• See how two schools have implemented online statements through WebAdvisor.

• Parent Access @ 2 Schools

• Robert Carrier, University of Evansville
• Kelly Sinacola, Northwood University
• See how two schools have given parents access to their student's information in WebAdvisor.

• Retention Alert

• Verlyn Mol, Baldwin-Wallace College

• Admissions Reporting: How Are We Doing?

  • Tracy Williams, Datatel Inc.
  • Kevin Meldorf, Datatel Inc.

Information Technology Track

• Getting Started with SQL Server and Colleague

• Jeremy Brinkman, University of Northwestern Ohio
• If you are new to SQL Server, or just want to see how another school is managing their Colleague databases in SQL, stop by this session. We will cover maintenance plans, database indexing, backups, and a few other tricks.

• IT CAT Roundtable

• Theresa Dennings, Northwood University
• Pull up a chair and join IT users from other institutions, share your experiences, and learn something new. This session is an ideal forum for going over current issues, sharing best practices, and getting answers to your question.

• Using jQuery in WebAdvisor

• Brian Gasperosky, Schoolcraft College
• Learn how to use the jQuery JavaScript library in WebAdvisor. Come see why everyone including Google, Netflix, Major League Baseball, NBC and CBS are using jQuery on their websites. Learn how to add a simple Calendar datepicker to date fields, an animated sliding information accordion, and even a simple Word-like editor to allow users to add and edit their own HTML entries within WebAdvisor without calling your IT staff for help.

• Bringing the Datatel Portal to Life at a Small School

• Jeremy Brinkman, University of Northwestern Ohio
• Kevin Maurer, Hillsdale College
• Hillsdale College and the University of Northwestern Ohio recently implemented the Datatel Portal to provide single sign-on capability and improve communication on their campuses. Stop by to see how these two schools brought the portal to life with limited technical staff and how it is being used to connect students, faculty, and staff to online services.

Colleague Advancement Track

Human Resources/Payroll Track

• HR/PR Roundtable

• Pamela Christie, Northwood University
• Tracy Williams, Datatel, Inc.
• Pull up a chair and join HR/PR users from other institutions, share your experiences, and learn something new. This session is an ideal forum for going over current issues, sharing best practices, and getting answers to your question.

• HR Projects in Flight

• Want to go a little deeper into the current HR projects in flight? Come learn more about the HR projects in the works!

• Web Time Entry

• Crystal Yax, Northwood University
• This session will give you information on the great benefits and easy how-to’s of using Web Time Entry for hourly and student employees.

• Paperless Leave Plan Tracking

  • Justin Voelker, Northwood University
  • Pamela Christie, Northwood University
  • See how Northwood University has eliminated the paper from their leave plan tracking process for salary employees. This process is built in WebAdvisor and includes UI screens for payroll to view the information submitted.

• Using AQIP Quality Tools to Implement Faculty Assignments

  • Dolores Sharpe, Mott Community College
  • Steve Robinson, Mott Community College
  • Like many institutions with unionized faculty and staff, Mott Community College has many computer processes that are governed by complex contractual requirements. The Faculty collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is full of differing loads, overloads and pay types along with a complicated formula for spring and summer teaching that only a few truly understood. For many years, faculty assignments were coded and calculated outside of Datatel. Due to the expiration of a legacy system that calculated the assignments, our college faced a crucial deadline to bring the previously-unused Datatel Faculty Assignment module online.
    
    This session will provide our experience of launching Faculty Assignments using continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes and tools we've learned through our participation the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). Our process brought together a variety of stakeholders from Human Resources, Accounting, Institutional Research, Academics and Information Technology Services to create buy-in, ultimately establishing a collaborative team environment that continues to thrive.

• HR Reporting: How Are We Doing?

  • Tracy Williams, Datatel Inc.
  • Kevin Meldorf, Datatel Inc.