2004 Archived News
10/4/04
International codes for transfer institutions are available for use in DARS and CAS. The list of codes is maintained by Miami University and is supported in CAS. Documentation is here (.pdf).
9/30/04
The View screen in 3.5.1 allows filtering of WEB, BAT, and ONL audits. This feature can be used to allow students to request more then one audit in 24 hours. Documentation is available here (.pdf).
9/30/04
DARS Support Services is posted here (.pdf).
9/20/04
Report/Process Monitor
The Report/Process Monitor for DA0001CP allows viewing of audits by advisors without having the DARwin client installed on their desktop. Documentation is found here (.pdf).
#AT Address
You are no longer limited to having only the student's Permanent address appear on the audit. Using the codes defined in PS0009UG (Address Maintenance) in ISRS, other addresses may be printed instead. Documentation is found here (.pdf).
#EA# E-mail address
Student e-mail addresses, stored in PA0001UG/ST1050UG, can be printed in INCLTOP or FULLDEMO. Documentation is found here (.pdf).
#TM# Transcript Message
Transcript messages, stored in ST1135UG, can be printed in INCLTOP. Documentation is found here (.pdf).
#PL Placement Level
Student Placement Levels, stored in ST3506UG, can be used for condition code and/or course processing. Updated documentation can be found here (.pdf).
FS@ Report
A report of students in Joe Cool listed by FICE code of the source institution is now available through a DARS "@" Report. Documentation is found here (.pdf).
8/24/04
South Dakota State University (003471) semester catalog is availble. Request catalog here.
7/27/04
The Curriculum updates for St. Cloud Technical College 2003-2004 academic year have been updated on the web here.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
7/9/04
The Curriculum updates for Bemidji State University 2003-2004 academic year have been updated on the web here.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
7/08/04Bismarck State University (002988) general education semester catalog and University of North Dakota - Grand Forks (003005) semester catalog is available. Request catalog here.
6/7/04
May 27, 2004 User Group Minutes are posted here.
Minneapolis Community and Technical College DARS catalog is now available. Request catalogs at here.
4/22/04
Documentation concerning DARS Pre-assigned Condition Codes is now available here (.pdf).
This information is of use when doing both Requirement/Sub-Requirement encoding and exceptions.
4/21/04UW-River Falls, UW-Eau Claire, College of St Catherine, and Concordia-Moorhead DARS catalogs are now available. Request catalogs here.
3/26/04
Enhancement #RC (Displaying Advisor Access Codes) allows additional spaces before printing access number. Documentation is located here (.pdf).
INCLTOP printable lines are set at 50. Revised documentation here (.pdf).
Bug fix for #DD# (Displaying previously earned degrees) correcting print problem when there wasn't a Previous Degree.
Bug fix for export. The Export process is much faster now!
DARS Catalogs has been revised.
Central Lakes quarter catalog is available.
Normandale quarter catalog is available.
Request catalogs here.
3/10/04
North Dakota State University catalog is available
U of Minnesota-Morris (quarters) catalog is available
Request catalogs here.
3/10/04
Tech Prep with DARS documentation is located here (.pdf).. DARS Tech Prep articulated catalogs are available for transport to MnSCU campuses through June 2004.
3/10/04
The Curriculum updates for Northland Community and Technical College 2003-2004 academic year are posted on the web at here.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
2/25/04
1) Enhancement to #PD Previous Degree - now a match can generate a course or a system condition code (previously only generated a system condition code). *
2) Added #DD# - Displays previous degrees in incltop area: degree level, major, major concentration, minor and minor concentrations entered in ST1131UG, ST1132UG and ST1133UG. *
* Documentation for BOTH #PD and #DD# is located here (.pdf).
3) Added #NC (No concentration) to allow users to prevent concentration in ST1104UG from being used in DARS processing. (If #NCY then spaces will be moved to concentration). Documentation is located here (.pdf).
2/18/04
The Curriculum updates for Southwest Minnesota State University 2003-2004 academic year are posted on the web here.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
2/11/04
The Curriculum updates for Vermilion Community College 2003-2004 academic year are posted on the web here.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
2/9/04
"Campus request of IREF and TA catalogs" revised to identify campus specific Target course replacement of TRANSFER. Request catalogs here.
2/2/04
The Curriculum updates for Lake Superior College 2003-2004 academic year are posted on the web here.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
1/28/04
INCLTOP #CO, #TS, #PD, and #PR documents updated with enlarged functionality of 100 items. (All files are .pdf's)
INCLTOP #CO
INCLTOP #TS
INCLTOP #PD
INCLTOP #PR
1/23/04
The Curriculum updates for 2003-2004 MnSCU campuses are posted on the web here. Course changes are available for 31 colleges. Curriculum changes for
Northland CTC, Mn State CTC, Northwest TC, Mesabi, and Vermilion campuses will be offered as new catalogs.
Use these curriculum updates to help you maintain the catalogs you have encoded in Transfer Articulation.
1/22/04
U of Minnesota - Morris, semester catalog, with MnTC Goals, is available to encoders. Request catalogs here.
1/20/04
Enhancements to the 'Displaying and using test scores and percents' functionality via INCLTOP in DARS:
- The number of lines allowed when entering #TS and #PR and #CO in your INCLTOP has been expanded to 100 from 40.
- Test scores for some tests (particularly the CPT Assessments) is actually reported in ST1118UG with two numbers after the decimal place. So now instead of just whole numbers being allowed in either the #20 (display) or the #TS (processing) of test scores, the number for selecting test scores increased from 9999 to 9999.99.
- ADDED the option of entering the word DATE to allow the automatic printing of the actual year/term from the test date when creating a course for #TS.
The instructions, updated to include these enhancements, are here (.pdf).
1/13/04
University of Minnesota-Crookston semester catalogs, with MnTC designations, from 1999 are now available for transport. Request catalogs here.
1/13/04
Instructions on adding an email link in your web audit is available here (.pdf).
1/6/04
The export process has been fixed/changed to allow the export of Unit Credits and to not allow the population of invalid courses in the Local Field on ST1112UG. The newly revised documentation is here (.pdf).
1/5/04
University of Wisconsin - Stout catalog is available. Request is available here.
