Astra Schedule Release Notes

7.4.0

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Release Notes

 

Release 7.4

9/23/10

New Features

Event Workflow

Customizable Event Workflow XML Rules:

 

Create and edit workflow rules that dictate the event scheduling lifecycle

Configure how and when event notifications and requests are triggered

Customize event statuses

Configure when and how events appear on the calendar based on status

Configure room/resource booking status

Edit event status

Edit event owner

Updated notification list with subscription capability for notification management

Sectioning

Sectioning Sandbox:

 

Configure course section generation

Generate course sections using demand data gathered in Platinum Analytics

Associate students to sections

Manually move student associations to resolve scheduling conflicts and load issues

Timetabling

Timetabling Sandbox:

 

Configure time scheduling preferences

Assign times and rooms to sections using time/room scheduling preferences and student conflict and availability data

Manually move student associations to resolve scheduling conflicts and load issues

Multi-Institution Database

Multi‑Institution Database Support:

 

Support for multi‑instance installation of the application accessing a single, multi‑institution database

Ad‑Hoc Scheduler

New Ad Hoc Scheduler (available rooms tool):

 

Updated room assignment tool for sections

Add/remove hard constraints to improve search results

View alternate time patterns and room availability

View and schedule individual section meeting dates

View conflicting meetings

See student conflict information (timetabling)

Exams

Exam Creation and Scheduling:

 

Configure course exam meeting generation

Support for multiple exam sessions per term

Map exam meeting times from section meeting times

Generate exam meetings

Optimize or manually schedule exam meeting room assignments

Optimizer Sandbox

Academic Section Sandbox (Optimizer):

 

Updated non‑production academic section work space

Copy sections from production or other sandbox data

Resolve schedule in full before publishing results to production

Access section preferences and ad hoc scheduling tool

Enhanced infeasible and bottleneck results feedback

Web 2.0

Enhanced User Interface (EXTJS toolset):

 

Multi‑select filters

Remember last list page filter/sort behavior

Customizable column visibility and order

Resizable column widths

Improved paging controls

Updated appearance of most list pages

Updated appearance of several forms (sections, sandbox)

Expanded ATE Functionality

Import/Export Enhancements (ATE 2.0):

 

Re‑factored SIS interface and general import/export job processing engine

Consistent hub and spoke processing across import types

Improved task processing agent

Enhanced logging

Web Service

XML

FTP

Improved customizability

Low-level API Support

An API is now available for some areas of the application.        

Preferences Update

Updated Room Scheduling Preferences Interface:

 

Rules‑based preferences applied in order

Preference test tool within preference set

Enhanced user interface provides instant feedback on configured preferences and order of application

Re‑order preference rules directly on rule list

Campus attribute available in preference rules for campus‑specific preferences

Easy multi‑select interface for selection of many items during configuration

Scalability

Multiple task agents allowed