CVC Database Development offerings began in early 2003. CVC has partnered with the Client Server Group to develop non-enterprise online applications. We are developing on an Oracle DB backend using PL/SQL tools to develop the front end user interface. More information can be found at http://cvc.ucr.edu/?content=services/programming.php.

One of the online applications to come out of the CVC Database Development offering was the HR Online Registration. This application allows Human Resources to post current course offerings online and campus staff to sign up online and reserve a place. There are 45 courses being offered on the online application. There are also 330 students and instructors signed up on the database. More information can be found at http://hrtraining.ucr.edu/.

CVC has been developing enterprise web sites for the deployment of state and governmental informational web sites. DMCA and SB1386 are such sites that cover the details of DMCA regulations and SB1386 laws and applications as it applies to the UC community. Such sites allow C&C and UCR to disseminate information to the campus community in a convenient way for them to reference. More information can be found at http://dmca.ucr.edu/ and http://www.cnc.ucr.edu/sb1386/.

One of the new offerings that CVC is introducing this year is Online Module designs. Online Modules consist of HTML, Flash, Quicktime, Camtasia and other tools combined to present a course online. The course has several lessons as well as a quiz at the end that will allow instructors to evaluate the student. Student performance is tracked on a database and the system allows the student to keep track of his training accomplishments.

CVC has begun to use Camtasia to deploy Help and Training Flash movies to the web to replace FAQs or text help for applications. Camtasia allows video screen recording of software applications. This lets users have a visual representation of how to use various functions of a particular application at any time. More information can be found at http://cvcwork.ucr.edu/cnc/how.php?content=staff_services/applications/training.html.

We have 21 users total from 3 different campus groups (International Office, Graduate Division, and Undergraduate Division). We also have 718 Students and 147 Scholars in the fsaAtlas database. There have been 223 Student update batches sent to the Homeland Security Department's computer. More information can be found at http://cvcwork.ucr.edu/sevis/.

The Online Financial Aid Award Letter deployed in early July. With no announcement or instruction to the students, the first student accepted his Financial Aid awards at 4:30 A.M. less than 1/2 hour after they were processed. Along with accepting awards, students can request revisions to their aid. These revision requests are routed directly to the Financial Aid counselors.

We are in the design phase of fully automating enrollment, assessment, and billing of UCR matriculating students attending summer sessions. For Summer 2004, UCR matriculating students will be able to enroll in summer classes using our existing web enrollment system (PAWS).

The Class Wait List function for Enrollment is in the testing stage. As this project was driven by a committee, the testing is now in their hands. The goal is to have a fully functioning Wait List for the Winter Quarter in 2004. The process will allow students to put themselves on a Wait List, and will automatically put them into a class as a seat becomes available.

As a result of the comprehensive planning document produced by the UCR Student Information System Planning Group last year, funding was approved to move forward on the enrichment of the current SIS+ system. Two major enhancements include the development of a Data Warehouse for SIS+ and implementation of a student portal.

GROWL, the student web services running directly on the mainframe, is growing by leaps and bounds, and is handling the growth handsomely. Therefore, the project to move the remaining web applications running with the web middleware has moved to the top of our priority list.

With the upcoming Fall Quarter, SIS will directly feed the SEVIS application with changes to data being tracked on certain visa types. Certain "trigger" fields have been identified and SIS will alert SEVIS when they change.

UCR has restructured its license agreement with PeopleSoft and consequently gained complimentary licenses for their Enterprise Portal, E-Procurement, Content Management, and COBOL compiler products. The PeopleSoft Portal has been installed and configured to provide the foundation for the UCR Administrative Transaction-Processing Portal. It currently authenticates against the UCR Enterprise LDAP Directory and provides single sign-on to the financial system and custom-developed PeopleTools applications. A timeline has been approved that calls for a September 2004 migration to PeopleSoft Web/Portal

All of UCR's PeopleSoft 6 customizations have been inventoried and documented to chart the course for modifications needed in the 8.4 environment. To date, 50% of UCR's distributed, online financial applications have been migrated to 8.4 (budget establishment and adjustment, cost transfer applications). The current timeline plans for all remaining customizations to be completed and tested by June, 2004.

The development of UCR's web-based Travel system is 90% complete. Travelers can submit travel plans and expense reports to their travel coordinators via a web interface. The travel coordinators then process travel expenses, scanning and uploading receipts to the Travel database. The entire approval cycle is also handled via the web, with scanned receipts and documents available for immediate online retrieval and review. The interface to UCR's Accounts Payable system is being completed and a Travel Purchase Order (TPO) system is being integrated for direct-pay travel expenses (air fare, lodging, etc.).

The UCR Proposal and Award Management Information System (PAMIS) has been deployed to the pilot user group. The version 1 offering features proposal and award creation, establishment of funds and fund attributes, and creation of departmental budgets via BEA in a completely online, paperless environment. Interfaces to the UCR Financial System have been completed, and the document imaging component allows the Office of Research to scan and upload award documents so that all supporting documentation is instantly available online to various types of users across campus.

UCR has completed development of its Enterprise Access Control System. EACS is a single, web-based tool, which allows departmental Systems Access Administrators to grant and maintain user privileges related to our administrative computing applications. Four applications are already EACS-aware: Travel, the Printing & Reprographics Work Order System, the Facilities Management System, and PAMIS BEA. UCR is in the process of modifying the remaining administrative applications to the EACS authorization model.

A new Printing and Reprographics Work Order System is now being deployed at UCR. This web-based system allows users across campus to submit their printing requests online. Importantly, source documents can be attached electronically to work orders, eliminating the need for customers to print and carry originals to the printing office. This highly-configurable system allows P&R staff to process and bill all work orders electronically via the web.

In partnership with Computing and Communications, the UCR Academic Planning and Budget Office is deploying a web-based facilities management system that contains all space information related to the Riverside campus. It features scanned CAD drawings of every room at the University. The FMS system authenticates against the UCR Enterprise LDAP Directory and integrates with the UCR FDX, PPS, and Financial systems.

UCR has begun design and development of a new, web-based Purchasing application. The new system will combine purchase requisition and low-value purchasing capabilities. It is being designed to interface with EACS, PeopleSoft 8.4, and the UCR Administrative Transaction Processing Portal.

This summer C&C completed a 4 year project that upgrades presentation technology in general assignment classrooms. The last 14 of the original 51 classrooms were upgraded this summer. Every classroom received at minimum a 4,000 lumen LCD Projector with a computer interface, DVD and SVHS VCR.

Faculty have been enjoying the accessibility of new technologies in their courses. Since the beginning of this project, 10 classrooms have been added as general assignment classrooms. C&C has received funding to integrate technology into these rooms with the same array of presentation technology that faculty now enjoy. These rooms will be completed during the Winter break.

Due to the success and well-received technology upgrades, the EVC has invited C&C to submit proposals for funding classroom technology an additional 4 years. The plan consists of control systems that provide ease of use and a common user interface. These control systems will be centrally supported and will provide system security. The plan includes card access to our technology cabinets that would enhance and facilitate the use and security of all installed devices.

Working closely with the Microcomputer Support Group, Computing Infrastructure and Security has developed a web-based resource to simplify the migration from the UCR's current central e-mail system to our new e-mail system. Aided by the opt-in web page, users of the current e-mail system can begin using the new system without support staff intervention.

Our Blackboard learning management system went through a complete upgrade over summer to better support the increased demand and to move from the proprietary (and slow) Blackboard database to Oracle. Hardware was upgraded from a four processor Sun V480 (16Gb) to an eight processor Sun V880 (16Gb). The database was also moved from an NFS shared Network Appliance to faster internal fiber channel drives on the V880. We expect this upgrade to fully support the over 1000 classes currently using Blackboard, as well as the new features in the Enterprise version (e.g. integrated support for grades).