Online Student Scheduling: Wait-Listing

Configuration

• Only certain courses may be enabled for wait-listing (there is a toggle on the Edit Course Offering page).
  • By default, only selected courses can be wait-listed. This can be changed using unitime.offering.waitListDefault which defaults to false.
  • Certain overrides can be disabled for wait-listed courses (using unitime.offering.waitList.prohibitedOverride).
    • For example, a student should not be allowed to request a class limit override for a course that can be wait-listed.
• There is now a different toggle for wait-listing (Wait-List) and for just indicating that a course cannot be substituted (No-Subs).
  • A student (Course Requests, Scheduling Assistant) can use one or the other, based on the student status.
  • An advisor (Course Recommendations) can use one or the other, based on the unitime.acr.waitlist setting (defaults to None) or based on the student status.

Student Scheduling Assistant

• An additional information about wait-listed courses is displayed, in the Wait-Listed Courses section (shown when at least one course is wait-listed).
• As only some course can be wait-listed, the Wait-List checkbox is only available if the first-choice course can be wait-listed.
• There is a warning when a wait-listed course overlaps with the rest of the schedule.

Student Scheduling Dashboard

• Wait-List and No-Sub toggles are separated, including the Filter / assignment.
• A course only shows as wait-listed while the student is allowed to wait-list and the course can be wait-listed.
• Show wait-listed courses in the detail of a student, and additional wait-list information (like the wait-listed time stamp, or student's position on the wait-list) on various places of the page.
• Various improvements in the filtering for wait-listed courses.

Custom Validation

• A custom validation of the wait-listed course requests can be implemented using the WaitListValidationProvider class.
  • The validation does work similarly to pre-registration, using a test schedule, but doing one course at a time on top of the existing schedule.
  • It may include max credit overrides.

Process Changes

• Re-scheduling is disabled by default (students are not moved around during course unlock).
  • Can be enabled by setting solver configuration parameter Enrollment.ReSchedulingEnabled to true.
• Students wait-listed for a course are processed in the following order:
  • Course request priority (critical courses) first, student priority second, wait-listed time stamp last.
  • Students with a pending override, a time conflict, or students over max credit are skipped.
  • The order can be customized (e.g., only be based on the wait-listed time stamp)
• Email notifications added when custom enrollment fails (it is not possible to enroll student because of registration error).
• Wait-list toggle is no longer automatically enabled when a student attempts to enroll to a course that is currently locked.
• Various improvements across all the wait-listing functionality.

Student Scheduling

Special Registration: Variable Title Workflow

• Added an ability to plug-in a variable title course request workflow.
• This include a new functionality on the Scheduling Assistant page and an API that can be used to create a variable title course in UniTime.

Course Requests: Requested Credit

• Requested credit computation updated to consider students (and optionally) advisor's no-subs/wait-listed courses.
  • A no-sub/wait-listed course cannot be replaced by a substitute course.
  • The advisor recommendations are only considered when the solver parameter Load.UseAdvisorWaitLists is set to true.

Online Student Scheduling Dashboard: Requested Approvals

• Details of a student: show student's requested approvals in a new tab when available.

Batch Student Scheduling: Section Times

• Added ability to load arranged hours (no time) classes with a time (listing the date pattern but no time) and rooms (that are required by the class).
  • This allows the effective date pattern and required room to show on arranged hours classes on the solver dashboard.
  • Can be disabled by setting the solver parameter Load.ArrangedHoursPlacements to false (defaults to true).

Student Scheduling Dashboards: Enrollments

• When showing classes of a course, list all classes (but the classes that do not match the filter are grayed out).
• It is possible to switch between showing all classes and just the matching classes using the sctdashShowUnmatchedClasses user setting parameter (defaults to yes, show unmatched classes).

Student Scheduling Dashboards: Additional Filter Capabilities

• Requested credit range (e.g., requested-credit:>=15 for students that requested 15+ credit hours)
• First-choice credit range (e.g., first-choice-credit:>=15 for students with their first-choice requested courses of 15 or more credit hours)
• Choice / alternativity (e.g., choice:>1 for cases where an alternative course is assigned, or not-assigned primary course request has at least one alternative)
• Request Priority (e.g., rp:<=2 for course requests that are of priority 1 or 2)
• Online / Face-to-face / Has-Time / No-Time (e.g., face-to-face:<2 for students with less than two face-to-face classes, or online:>50% for students with more than half of their classes online)
• Added ability to filter by primary academic area, classification, major, concentration, or program (e.g., primary-area:A)

Student Program

• Added ability to include an optional program field on a student, with academic area, major, and classification.
• Included in Student XML and Course Requests XML exports and imports.
• Student Scheduling Dashboards: Added optional Program column and the ability to filter by program.

Student Campus

• Added ability to include an optional program field on a student, with academic area, major, and classification.
• Included in Student XML and Course Requests XML exports and imports.
• Student Scheduling Dashboards: Added optional Campus column and the ability to filter by program.

Course Finder

• Sections that the student cannot be enrolled in are grayed out even when there is space in them.
• Hide sections and instructional methods not allowed by the Online-Only filter.
• Added a column listing whether the course is wait-listed and/or has some allowed overrides.

Banner XE API

• Added ability define whether advisors using the XE API will set or not set the admin flag (systemIn parameter).

Examination Timetabling

Examination PDF Reports

• Added new output format options: CSV, XLS, and PDF using a non-monospaced font.

Course Timetabling

Solver: Stop

• Added ability to stop the solver after it has finished, while running the when finished actions, including:
  • solution save (all solvers),
  • student sectioning (course timetabling solver),
  • validation (student scheduling solver).

Administration

Roll Forward Session

• Roll date pattern preferences (for alternative date patterns) forward.
• Corrected rolling forward of learning community reservations (special case of student group reservation).
• Added ability to roll forward wait-listing (is an offering wait-listed) and prohibited overrides.

Added Support for JDK 16+

• Various dependencies updated to avoid illegal access exceptions.
• MemoryCounter updated to avoid illegal access calls (using the Unsafe access instead).
• LDAP authentication is disabled by default, to enable add the following line to catalina.properties:
  • unitime.spring.context.security=securityContextLDAP.xml

Added Support for Apache Tomcat 10

• Due to the move from Java EE to Jakarta EE, the Tomcat 10 compatible version of UniTime is available under web-tomcat10 in the distribution.
  • It is built using the Apache Tomcat migration tool for Jakarta EE.

Dependencies / Technology Update

• GWT updated to version 2.9.0 (was 2.8.2).
• Javassist updated to version 3.28.0 (was 3.18.2).
• Spring core libraries updated to version 5.3.14 (was 4.3.40).
• Spring security updated to 5.4.9 (was 4.2.20).
• Spring integration updated to 5.4.12 (was 4.3.24).
• Protocol Buffers updated to version 3.18.2 (was 2.6.1)
• Log4j updated to 2.17.1 (was 1.2.17).