Tuesday, March 26, 2013
New Blog
You can visit my new Blog site here. http://www.wou.edu/wp/rushingj/
Friday, March 22, 2013
Augmented Realty Applications
Here's how it works: turn on your
smartphone video camera, then point it at your property. The augmented reality
app will overlay data about the property in your viewfinder. This could include
things like vacant units, or repairs that need to be finished. To get specific
details, simply touch one of the onscreen captions.
This might give the possibility of interactive data during
room tours. Further investigating of this technology would be needed but could
have huge potential.
Online Work Order System
I added family housing on Knox to our Online Work Order
system. This involved some initial studying of the code from the previous
programmer. Finished up the update fairly quickly, but now the real work began.
This update affected several other programs we use. I ended up having to update
about 6 other programs that deal with buildings and the resident groups. An
example is preventing Knox students from accessing the online meal point
additions application. Another example is with gaming devices and limiting
access to that as Knox students get their internet from an off campus provider.
This process added a few days to the project. I knew I was going to have to do
this during the initial evaluation of the update. Everything is now live and
working.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Weekly menu
You can find the weekly dining menu for Valsetz dining hall
online(http://www.wou.edu/student/residences/diningmenu/). The menu list a breakdown of what is being
server for each meal in each area of the food court. Today I updated the menu to allow students to
see what is being offered in the following week. The menu used to update each week on Sunday
allowing students to see what was on the menu for the week. Unfortunately when the end of the week comes
around they start to have a shorter and shorter view of upcoming meals. So I created a link that will allow them to
see what is being offered next week as well as this week. This will provide students a better way to
see and adjust their eating needs.
Nutrition Information
As
students are getting more and more cautious about what they eat and like to
track their food intake we have a web page that allows them to calculate their
food intake for the day (http://www.wou.edu/student/residences/nutrition/). I made some adjustment to this application so
students could track an entire days’ worth of meals rather than a single meal
time. The nutrition calculator now keeps
track of foods throughout the day until you request to clear the calculator.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Online-Admissions
We had a meeting about our online admissions process for
both the Admissions office and Housing.
This meeting was extremely beneficial.
Both department went through their process of admitting a student and we
were able to better facilitate our process.
Communication is a great tool, this elaboration allowed us to belter
customize the process and make it easier for each department to coordinate with
each other.
Room Sign-up
We have a new tool designed to help students with the
recontracting for next year. Inside
their Portal is an application that allows students to set a few preferences
and R.S.V.P. for the upcoming Room Sign-up night. We are encouraging residents to look at
continuing their housing with us as upper class students. Along with this newly developed app is an
admin application that can trace who has signed up and who has not. We are also able to track some useful data
like gender and contract type so we can determine our housing needs for next
year.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Gov. Food Drive
Where are running a Governor’s Food drive this past week. We moved from an auction system to a Buy It Now
system. The look and feel of the
application is very similar to our auction system. In every aspect I could, I made the new buy
it now work with the old auction interface in a way that we could go back to an
auction style or even move into a style that would integrate both methods.
A link to the Auction can be found within the WOU Portal. Housing hand Dining have been great contributors to the Food Drive and we are hoping this new model of Buy It Now will generate additional revenue for the drive.
A link to the Auction can be found within the WOU Portal. Housing hand Dining have been great contributors to the Food Drive and we are hoping this new model of Buy It Now will generate additional revenue for the drive.
RSC Portal Channel
We have experienced an issue with students getting package notifications
sent to their spam folder. We use Google Mail which makes it difficult to
control the students spam filter settings campus wide. One solution I came up
with was to create a channel in our Portal applications. This Channel uses a
graphic method to quickly show a student if they have a package waiting for
them. Housing is planning on using this method in their next set of
publications to incoming residents rather than listing the email notification
method.
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