March 2021: Mosaic Rapid Release
Goal: Composite Query for Aid & Awards
What has changed?
Counts of students with zero balance owing due to OSAP and Institutional aid needed for presenting to conference panel on university affordability.
Data was needed very quickly and Query Manager was not sufficient. Composite query gave the desired results with only 20 minutes of extra effort!
Goal: Upload Process required for Medicine student funding codes
What has changed?
Data has been entered manually (200-500 records per term). Now a .CSV file can be loaded directly into Mosaic, saving hours of work each term.
This data is required for Government counts each term. This process will reduce chance of human error in coding as well as saving time.
Goal: PeopleSoft Image 37 Update for Finance
What has changed?
Time to perform some Get Current updates to the latest available PeopleSoft Image for each stream. This month was Finance’s turn. Next up will be Human Resources.
Staying as current as possible with PeopleTools and Images greatly enhances our ability to adopt new functionality whenever we wish to.
Goal: Add Excel Version of Transcript Report to Batch Jobs
What has changed?
Student Services team needed an Excel version of the Transcript Report instead of existing PDF or XML versions.
This simple change allows Student Services staff more flexibility to remove rows / requests prior to printing transcripts.
Reach out to us!
Many of these changes are influenced through conversations with the McMaster community. If you have an idea of how we can enhance the user experience, please reach out to one of our Rapid Release Champions!
Mosaic Rapid Release