San Diego State University Global Campus is seeking a comprehensive Student Information System (SIS) to enhance operational efficiency, improve the student experience, and provide advanced capabilities for managing course catalogs, registrations, fees, student records, and reporting. The system should be robust, scalable, and user-friendly, and should replace or augment existing functionalities to create a more integrated and streamlined environment for both administrators and students. Key features include course catalog and scheduling, fee structure and billing, certificates and awards, reporting and analysis, instructor information, registrations and payment, and student information management.
• Course catalog and scheduling: ability to build classes, catalogs, and programs, with data export for print, setup of policies/rules by program/course, display course offerings on social media sites, conform to institutional branding and be customizable.
• Fee structure and billing: create variable fees for individual courses, create discounts for courses and groups of courses/programs, apply discounts to items placed in a student's shopping cart in real-time.
• Certificates and awards: automatically notify registrants that a particular class is part of a certificate program, allow for classes to be "cross-listed" across different programs, print or create certificates of completion.
• Reporting and analysis: administrative users can create and customize reports of every data item in the system, provide financial reporting by department, capture customer data for targeted marketing campaigns.
• Instructor information: view instruction history, administrators can set up instructor accounts and store profiles, qualified classes, and contact info.
• Registrations and payment: seamless online shopping cart experience, users can register and pay for multiple events in the same session, users can register or purchase a class for others.
• Student information: import legacy student records, demonstrated ease of use and ability to get customers to information and through the registration process quickly, students can print unofficial transcripts of workshops.