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1 EDUCAUSE – October 2011 Kuali Student Project Update

2 2 Introductions Rajiv Kaushik KS Development Manager University of Toronto Rajiv.Kaushik@utoronto.ca Jim Zahniser Executive Director University of Maryland zahniser@umd.edu

3 3 Agenda Introduction to Kuali Student 3 Year Roadmap Product(s) Highlights Delivery Overview Get Involved

4 4 What is Kuali? Open Source software For Higher Education, By Higher Education 1.Financial System (KFS) 2.Coeus for Research Administration (KC) 3.Student (KS) 4.Open Library Environment (OLE) 5.Business Continuity Planning (Kuali Ready) 6.People Management for the Enterprise (KPME) 7.Mobility To learn more about Kuali, please attend the session Introduction to Kuali for CIOs and other strategic leaders @3:30-4:45, Room 201B

5 5 What we are not… We are not a vendor – We are a collaboration – Institutions and companies with shared values – We don’t have a sales force, I’m not a salesperson An investment is “enlightened self-interest” – By participating, members have influence and fully understand the system up front

6 6 What is Kuali Student? A Next Generation Student System which is Meeting requirements of the community – Not just the requirements of one institution Flexible to changing business processes Delivering a rich user experience Modular and scalable

7 7 Founders Naval Post Graduate School University of California, Berkeley University of Maryland, College Park University of Southern California University of Toronto University of Washington Partners Boston College Indiana University North-West University, South Africa University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Community Founders = $~1 M/per year for 5 years….

8 8 Kuali Student Modules Accounts Receivable

9 9 Three-Year Product Roadmap KS Accounts Receivable

10 10 Overall Product Highlights Truly a next generation Student System Kuali Suite:: single open-source development platform common to all Kuali Projects Implementation:: Loose coupling between modules helps institutions – roll out modules over time – integrate with current systems on campus User Interface:: A rich User Experience similar to what users see on the web today

11 11 Overall Product Highlights Truly a next generation Student System Service Oriented Architecture (SOA):: Services are designed to accommodate future changes to business processes. – Front end can change every few years but Service Contracts are more stable over time Extend and Customize:: Use platform to extend, customize and build new functionality Infrastructure:: Relies on a modern infrastructure developed in the Cloud

12 12 Curriculum Management Highlights Curriculum Management (CM) provides a solid foundation for a Student System. Includes: 1.Management of Course and Programs from proposal by Faculty to approval by Senate to publication in Catalog 2.A flexible Learning Unit (LU) to describe learning experiences beyond Courses and Programs 3.Learning Objectives to describe outcomes and to satisfy accreditation needs 4.Rules and requisites for Courses and Programs 5.Analysis of dependencies between and across Courses and Programs

13 13 Delivering and Implementing Curriculum Management Curriculum Management Started delivering code every couple of months Delivered public release of Curriculum Management Institutional implementations in progress – University of Maryland – UC Berkeley – North-West University (South Africa) – Others in planning and sandbox stage (UW, Boston College)

14 14 Delivering Enrollment Enrollment Gathered and synthesized requirements from the KS community Developing a core slice of Enrollment to prove out the design. Culminates in a demo at Kuali Days 2011 Starting development on first release (Enrollment 1.0) – A baseline from which to build rest of the Enrollment scope in order to deliver the broader vision – Launching multiple regional development teams

15 15 Executing the Vision Kuali Student is happening Committed to vision of next generation Student System – Changed strategy to be best of breed by supporting contributions and integrations with third-party systems – Continued focus on out-of-the-box features accompanied by a toolset to allow institutions to develop features they need

16 16 Get Involved Come to Kuali Days – Demos and Deep dives of all the Kuali projects Explore joining KS – Contact: Dan McDevitt Program Director http://kuali.org/news-kd2011-program

17 17 Questions? For more information about Kuali Student – www.kuali.org/ks


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