This system is designed to make AIS documentation easily accessible. The system will employ the web as an access point to AIS documentation. We are currently importing our existing documentation into this system. This will make our documentation easier to get at and easier to understand, it will also be easier on us because maintenance of the documentation will be more straightforward and easier to accomplish. We ve started with online and batch AIS user manuals, but see this task as ongoing as we incorporate other forms of documentation into the project.
Future planning includes possibilities for procedure and job control documentation.
At the November Chancellor's Cabinet meeting in Minot, I agreed to strike a task force to look at the growing list of overlapping courseware management products that are finding their way on campus. It will not be long before there is a request to exchange data between these packages and our administrative systems. Note this functionality must include the pedagogical and courseware management services as well. A system with a great administrative interface and a lousy set of management tools is useless in an overall sense. If such a standard is identified, or one of the products has an interface that will work well with our existing system, we need an estimate of the effort necessary to modify our administrative systems.