Pre-Conference Education
As we return to an in-person conference, we are excited to bring back our Alliance Trainings. We have additional educational opportunities for you choose from this year: 7 Hour Training and 3 Hour Workshops.
Training
Agile/Scrum Training
Primary Presenter: University of Wisconsin – Madison Team: Tamra Dagnon, CCBA; Patrick Hare, PMP, CSM; Lauranne Bailey; Amanda Renz, CSM, CSPO
Higher Education IT is increasingly pressed to respond to rapidly changing needs and deliver value more quickly. Agile principles and practices can transform an organization and enable it to succeed in an uncertain environment. More and more UW-Madison IT projects are “going agile” and using a Scrum framework to deliver fast, deliver often, and manage risks through frequent feedback and iteration. Agile and Scrum rely on focused communication between IT and their customers to keep projects moving and delivering the highest value features first. Through regular detailed planning (every two to four weeks), continual sharing of work in progress with customers, and frequent opportunities for obtaining feedback, Agile/Scrum teams can respond to change and hit a moving target. Come and experience what it’s like to be on a Scrum team in this high-participation, hands-on workshop that’s been successfully presented at EDUCAUSE, HEUG Alliance, MIDHEUG Alliance, and many times at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You’ll learn about Scrum team roles, artifacts, techniques and ceremonies and experience them first hand.
Note: We have a number of hands-on activities planned but will sanitize the materials before the conference and provide hand sanitizer and disposable nitrile gloves for all participants.
7 Hour Training
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2022
Time: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Where: Washington Convention Center
Cost includes Boxed Lunch, AM Break and PM Break
Contact support@alliance-conference.com to register.
Workshop
Advanced Tips & Tricks with GT eForms for PeopleSoft
Primary Presenters: John Woodrum, Gideon Taylor; Lynette Chaudoin, Gideon Taylor
Timeslot: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
By request, we’re hosting a jam-packed GT eForms Advanced Tips & Tricks workshop at Alliance 2022. We’ll address many of the questions most frequently asked of our support team and show you how to get even more out of your eForm solutions. This workshop will cover a variety of advanced topics for GT eForms users, including:
- Advanced AWE routings including multiple paths
- Custom search and row level security
- Advanced navigation
- Setting up public portals for external guests
- Email-based approvals
- and more!
Workshop
Equation Engine Workshop
Primary Presenters: Neelima Tummala, Marquette University; Tara O'Neil, Marquette University; Karen Kilps, Marquette University
Timeslot: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This presentation will cover fundamentals on equations, example of equation engines as an alternative to mods, examples includes stand-alone equation engines, package selection equations, and others. Use of Equation SQL routine, using views in equations, and batch process, FAPEQREN to execute equations will covered. There will also be example equation issues and how to fix them.
Workshop
Taking the stress out of Acceptance Testing: Let PeopleSoft Test Framework take the strain
Primary Presenter: Suat Oneren, University of Nottingham
Timeslot: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
In this workshop, I will explain the basics of the Peoplesoft Test Framework from creating test scripts to reporting test outcomes. We will be going through an end to end journey in PTF starting with creating test scripts and followed by running them and analysing test outcomes.
In this workshop we will:
- Review Peoplesoft Test Framework Execution Options
- Record (Create) test scripts
- Run the test scripts
- Create shell scripts to run multiple tests together
- Clean the test scripts to avoid unnecessary steps
- Review the Peoplesoft Test Framework tables in query manager
- Create example reports
- Look into Screenshots taken during execution, where are they ?
- Create project for migration of the test scripts
- Manage the test logs
- Talk about Tips and tricks
Please note that Peoplesoft Test Framework connection would be good to create test scripts during the workshop but it is not mandatory.
Workshop
Build and Train a Conversational Digital Assistant for Students
Primary Presenter: Joe Huang, Oracle
Timeslot: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
As more and more Higher Educations are interested or are implementing ChatBots to assist in Student and Employee Services, there is now a strong need for a platform that can quickly scale built chatbots or Digital Assistants for a variety of use cases. In this session, you will get a hands on opportunity to build a ChatBot end to end, while learning key conversational AI concepts such as Intents, Entities, Dialog Flow, Natural Language Process (NLP), etc.
3 Hour Workshops
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2022
Times: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM & 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Washington Convention Center
Cost includes Boxed Lunch
Contact support@alliance-conference.com to register.
