Dear SIS users,

Student Information Systems (SIS) is delighted to offer its first ‘Ask Us’ session on Thursday, March 21 at 11 a.m. Submit your questions now using the SIS Ask Us Sessions form. Ask Us sessions are for administrative staff and faculty users of applications and processes managed by SIS. These sessions are designed to address ‘How To’ questions related to system usage and functionality.

If you have specific questions about a process (e.g., course set-up), or even if you feel some apprehension about utilizing specialized functions of our systems (e.g., effectively setting up ROSI downloads for reporting), please fill out the SIS Ask Us Sessions form. We will choose questions for the session with priority given based on the potential number of users of the function and relevance to the academic cycle. If we aren’t able to answer the question in the session we will still try to get back to you by email or the Enterprise Service Centre.

Please be specific in your request. Provide details and examples when possible, but do NOT include confidential or personally identifiable information (PII) from any supporting documentation (e.g., samples, screenshots, etc.).

Sincerely,
Student Information Systems

Dear SIS users,

Please join us for a Connect+Learn session on Creating and Managing Course Sections and Meeting Sections in ROSI on Thursday, February 22 at 11 a.m.

This session will be helpful for staff in academic units and Registrars’ Offices who are responsible for setting up or maintaining course scheduling and instructor information in ROSI each academic session. It may be of interest to new staff who have not performed the function yet as well as continuing staff who may want a refresher on this cyclical activity.

Topics to be addressed:

• Preconditions and downstream dependencies
• Creating course sections and meeting sections
• Enrolment Controls
• Managing instructor data
• Academic activity downloads (time permitting)

Registration is not required for this event. Please use the Connect+Learn iCal attached to add the event to your calendar. You can also access the meeting via the Teams Meeting Link.

Sincerely,
Student Information Systems

Dear SIS users,

If you are new to Student Information Systems (SIS) or are a new ROSI user,  please join us for a Connect+Learn session on SIS Training Resources & Support on Thursday, February 1 at 11 a.m.

The Student Information Systems (SIS) group manages enterprise student and curriculum applications, and processes for the University. SIS provides reporting tools, enhancement and production request forms, and support for the SIS applications.

In the session, we will discuss:

• Student Information Systems – What we do and how to get help
• ROSI and OASIS Training Materials & Resources
• What we support and what we do not (and where to go for those)
• When to use ESC and how to write a ticket and use ESC appropriately

Note: This session is not a ROSI screen tour.

Registration is not required for this event. Please use the Add to Calendar link to add the event to your calendar. You can also access the meeting via the Teams Meeting Link.

Thank you and have a good evening.

Sincerely,
Student Information Systems

Dear ROSI users,

Please note that we will need to take ROSI and most associated student information systems offline on Friday, March 15 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to perform quarterly maintenance on the database. We will return the systems to service sooner if the work is completed earlier than 9 p.m.

In addition, while ROSI-REPLICA on the Managed Instance (MI) will remain accessible during the maintenance, data will not be synced with ROSI starting at 5 p.m. It will be synced again at 9 p.m. when maintenance is complete.

The following systems will be affected:

• Accommodated Testing Services (Student and Admin)
• ACORN
• Course Information System
• Degree Explorer (Student and Admin)
• EASI Institutional File Transfer
• eMarks
• Online Administrative Student Information System (OASIS) – including Absence Declaration, and the Timetable Builder and Transfer Equivalencies database administrative screens
• ROSI
• ROSI Express
• ROSI Files
• Safety Abroad Student Registry
• Varsity Blues Registration System
• Web services/APIs

Timetable Builder (Student) will remain available.

A notice will be posted on the ACORN launchpad and social media so that students are aware of the outage.

Thank you for your patience as we make these improvements.

This email has been sent from a service account and does not accept replies. Please direct any follow up questions to the Enterprise Service Centre http://www.uoft.me/esc

Sincerely,
Student Information Systems