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February 8, 2008
Astra - Weekly Update
It has been a more than busy week with the Astra project. After experiencing some system problems, we have now scheduled Spring and Summer term classes using Astra. It has really helped in scheduling classrooms.
I spent most of the week working on exporting scheduled events from Scheduler Plus into Astra events. That was really a challenge. Finally, this afternoon, with some help from Dale, the events were imported (about 450 events). If you go to the Astra web (link), log in as guest - no password, select Schedules from the left hand menu, then apply the filter, you will see a number of events listed. Unfortunately, these events can only be displayed in Astra, they can not be modified or have information such as customers added to them. So, Jill will be having to redo a lot of them, but at least the events and rooms that have been scheduled are displayed. By the way, you will be able to request event space for your event from the web in the near future (It works now, but is not entirely functional yet)! Stay tuned.
It is really neat that Astra is now able to handle the scheduling of all classrooms on our campus. You have no idea how much work was involved in setting this up to work correctly. Rose Ann Riester, Kathy Hill, and Tiffany Smith have really worked hard to get the configuration such that Astra could perform our class scheduling.
The "big picture" plan now is to get the WUC events scheduled, and also to get the Hamersly Library events into Astra, too. The final piece will be to get Nathan's equipment entered.
Astra is a very powerful application. It really works! The entire campus will benefit right now with more efficient classroom scheduling, and more visible displays for all events. Eventually Astra will also provide improved communication for event scheduling as well.
Posted by rossm at February 8, 2008 3:58 PM
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