The project has been extended to permit the Faculties to enter data directly into the system. The system has been redeveloped in SQL Server to enable multi-user access. For the August 1998 graduation ceremonies the Faculty of Arts ran both the new and old systems in parallel. Due to the success of this trial the new system has been expanded to all Faculties for December 1998 processing. As the system is updated on-line Faculty staff can access directly the latest information and make changes themselves.
Staff can quickly query the system by student number, course and a number of other attributes.
The user can set conditions for each student. When the examination results are processed the system will indicate whether the student is eligible to graduate. The May ceremonies ran successfully. The DPGRs for the August ceremonies have been uploaded and are available to users via the Graduation System. A meeting was held with key Faculty and MIS staff, the Graduations Officer and the Director of Student Administration to discuss and review the December processing.