Hi everyone,

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI) would like to update you on the latest major production releases and updates for the NGSIS program and student systems. The following are major changes from July 1 to September 30, 2024:

Accommodated Testing Services (ATS)

Accommodated Testing Services coordinates on-campus assessment accommodations for students with disabilities who are enrolled in in-class courses offered on the St. George Campus. ATS has released the following enhancements:

• Introduced instructor emailing functionality: ATS staff can now manage course contacts and send various instructor notification emails. This new system replaces the older one, offering a modern user interface and reducing the number of systems needed for business processes.

Course Information System (CIS)

The Course Information System streamlines syllabi and exams processes for instructors and administrators. The following improvements have been introduced: 

• Various general improvements and many specific enhancements were made for the Faculty of Arts & Science (FAS), the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering (FASE), and the Faculty of Music.
• Department Administrators at FAS, UTSC, and FASE can now create Change Requests in the Syllabus Builder module. Change Requests allow administrative staff to send questions to their instructors and request modifications to submissions, directly within CIS.

Curriculum Publisher (CP)

The Curriculum Publisher is an online application that allows divisions and departments to publish course and program offerings. Between July 1 and September 30, divisional calendars were published for the following areas: John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; the Faculty of Medicine’s MD Program; and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.

eMarks

eMarks enables the online submission of course grades and amended grades. It also allows instructors and departments to track any changes made to a student’s grade. The following improvements have been introduced:

• Introduced a streamlined authentication process.
• Fixed an issue where the hidden course functionality would become unresponsive when attempting to hide or unhide courses.

Student Information Systems (SIS) Core Systems

The administrative core systems, including ROSI, ROSI Express, and OASIS, completed the following major releases:

• Completed improvements for the University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) 2024-25 payment journal and reconciliation process.
• Completed the Ontario Education Number (OEN) process for the upcoming Summer, Fall, and Winter sessions.
• Completed an enhancement to support scholarship deferrals in ACORN.
• Completed database performance improvements for the ROSI to SAP data feeds.

The student core systems, including ACORN and Degree Explorer, completed the following major releases:

• Enhanced fee deferral functionality to allow scholarship recipients to defer their fees directly in ACORN.
• Made updates to the Student Equity Census in ACORN.
• Completed technical improvements and monitoring to support course enrolment in ACORN.
• Enhanced the program assessment functionality in Degree Explorer.
• Onboarded the Computer Science graduate department and added a new Department Admin role in Degree Explorer.

Timetable Builder (TTB)

The Timetable Builder application allows students to easily create and optimize their course schedules with a convenient, user-friendly and accessible user experience. Between July 1 and September 30 the following improvements were introduced:

• Scheduling information for the Faculty of Information was added to the application, and administrative users were added to the administrative interface in the Online Administrative Student Information System (OASIS).
• Fixed an issue where using the breadth/distribution requirements filter did not return results with partial wildcard.