Projects

This is the list that holds all of the OIT Projects.

• ​Automate the account creation/management process
• Implement web-based password management tool.
• Enhance user information security through the establishment of password formatting standard and regular reset schedule.
• Implement Colleague HR module and trained HPU HR team.

• Customize system around university needs
• Generate robust reporting and SLA controls
• Reduce desk visits with remote support

Data Clean-up

• Update building type - Completed May 2015
• Streamline email types (business, personal, campus) - Completed June 2015
• Streamline advisor types - Expected August 2015
• Update course types (classroom, online, hybrid) - Expected August 2015
• Update academic departments and schools - Expected August 2015

Position Control & Budgeting

• Implement position budgeting and position control modules

Reconfiguration Services

• Prioritize actionable recommendations
• Registrar - Completed in 2014
• HR - Completed in 2014
• Student Accounts - Completed in 2014
• Collaborate with consultants on identified best practice modifications to Colleague
• Implement changes pertaining to the Office of the Registrar in the student module - Completed in 2014
• Deploy HR module - Completed in 2014
• Implement changes pertaining to the Student Accounts Office in the student module - In Progress

Registration Simulation

• Determine system load capabilities
• Improve application performance

Self-Service Financial Aid

• interactive checklist of financial aid programs and processes
• Provide incoming students the ability to apply for and accept financial aid in a self-service format
• Allow existing students the ability to accept financial aid online

Self-Service Student Planning

• Provide students the ability to plan long-term course work throughout their entire college career
• Select sections for registration in a particular term

SQL Migration

• Customization Investigation, documentation and evaluation
• Determine if Colleague equivalent exists to replace existing customizations
• Evaluate Colleague-delivered equivalent to customizations and revise business processes
• Design, build, test, document, and deploy customizations without an equivalent in the SQL environment
• Data Mapping
• Practice migrating data in the test environment as preparation for actual migration to new production environment
• Map where data is contained in Colleague, determine how to move data to the appropriate location, move data in production, and modify associated business processes
• Define the functional need for non-native data elements and deploy those required in production
• Document Functional Unit Processes and Customization Review
• Identify daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and ad hoc processes
• Test identified processes in SQL test environment
• Identify customizations
• Resolve customizations via use of Colleague recommended resolution or rebuild customization in SQL environment
• Data Integrations
• Define connection from Colleague to all university systems
• Define all directional feeds to and from Colleague
• Identify which connections needs to be rebuilt and define a plan to rebuild connections to SQL environment
• Reporting
• Inventory current Informer reports and prioritize them to be rebuilt in Argos
• Design, build, test, revise business process, and deploy rebuilt report

• Identify and replace end of life network switches.
  
• Integrate new switches into system monitoring tools
  

• ​Identify business critical applications and services.
  
• Implement Disaster Recovery plan
  
• Create and implement a remote web based system providing access to applications and services.
  
• Implement timely testing and review process identify changes and upgrades within the University.
  

• ​To replace the multiple solutions that High Point University has with one, all ad-hoc solution that provides an enterprise wide, robust anti-virus product.​