Growing Pains to the re-design of electronic test score data transfer processes

Session Number: 5198
Track: Admissions
Sub-Categorization: Data Loads
Session Type: Case Study
Primary Presenter: Desiree Abohasen [Business Analyst - Miami Dade College]
Co-Presenter: Upma Chhibber [Senior Consultant - Deloitte Consulting LLP]
Time: Mar 27, 2018 (09:45 AM - 10:15 AM)
Room: 255 A

Session Length - Primary Choice: Regular Session
Knowledge level : Intermediate
Target Audience: All
Learning Objective 1: Understanding the steps needed to re-design an electronic test score process
Learning Objective 2: Understanding the usage of File Parser Delivered and Custom Context Definitions and File Mapping Definitions for the re-design process
Learning Objective 3: Understanding the challenges faced by Miami Dade College for implementation
Prerequisites : None
Advance preparation: No Advance Preparation Required
Product: PeopleSoft
Version Presenting: PS 9.0
Level of Customization: Customization
Level of Partner Integration: Shared Institution/Partner
Project Phase: Production
Project Go Live: Earlier than 2017
Your Training in this Area: As Business Analyst, coordinated the efforts to transition electronic test score processes from old Enterprise System to PeopleSoft in 2016. Prior to that, as a Developer built the legacy processes that ran behind the scenes to electronic transfer test scores for the College.

Description:  Miami Dade College has implemented over the years electronic data transfer processes to load and post students’ test score data from third party agencies. With the transition from our legacy Enterprise system into PeopleSoft, MDC completely re-design all existing electronic test scores data transfer processes for ACT, SAT, TOEFL, CLEP, PERT, and FTCE utilizing File Parser. This session will explore the approach taken by the College with the implementation of PeopleSoft to launch these electronic test scores data transfers, the challenges that we faced to automate these processes and how they were resolved. We will also peek behind the scenes to some File Parser custom setups build. This session will benefit those in the audience looking for a fresh approach to implement electronic test scores at their Institution.