EDUCAUSE – October 2011

Kuali Student Project Update

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Introductions

Rajiv Kaushik KS Development Manager

University of TorontoRajiv.Kaushik@utoronto.ca

Jim ZahniserExecutive Director

University of Maryland zahniser@umd.edu

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Agenda

• Introduction to Kuali Student• 3 Year Roadmap• Product(s) Highlights• Delivery Overview• Get Involved

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What is Kuali?

Open Source software For Higher Education, By Higher Education

1. Financial System (KFS)2. Coeus for Research Administration (KC)3. Student (KS)4. Open Library Environment (OLE)5. Business Continuity Planning (Kuali Ready)6. People Management for the Enterprise (KPME)7. Mobility To learn more about Kuali, please attend the sessionIntroduction to Kuali for CIOs and other strategic leaders@3:30-4:45, Room 201B

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What we are not…

• We are not a vendor– We are a collaboration– Institutions and companies with shared values– We don’t have a sales force, I’m not a salesperson

• An investment is “enlightened self-interest”– By participating, members have influence and fully

understand the system up front

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What is Kuali Student?A Next Generation Student System which is

• Meeting requirements of the community –Not just the requirements of one institution

• Flexible to changing business processes

• Delivering a rich user experience

• Modular and scalable

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Founders

Naval Post Graduate School

University of California, Berkeley

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Southern California

University of Toronto

University of Washington

Partners

Boston College

Indiana University

North-West University, South Africa

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Community

Founders = $~1 M/per year for 5 years….

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Kuali Student Modules

Accounts Receivable

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Three-Year Product Roadmap

KS Accounts Receivable

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Overall Product Highlights

Truly a next generation Student System• Kuali Suite:: single open-source development

platform common to all Kuali Projects• Implementation:: Loose coupling between

modules helps institutions– roll out modules over time– integrate with current systems on campus

• User Interface:: A rich User Experience similar to what users see on the web today

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Overall Product Highlights

Truly a next generation Student System• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA):: Services

are designed to accommodate future changes to business processes. – Front end can change every few years but Service

Contracts are more stable over time• Extend and Customize:: Use platform to extend,

customize and build new functionality• Infrastructure:: Relies on a modern infrastructure

developed in the Cloud

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Curriculum Management Highlights

Curriculum Management (CM) provides a solid foundation for a Student System. Includes:

1. Management of Course and Programs from proposal by Faculty to approval by Senate to publication in Catalog

2. A flexible Learning Unit (LU) to describe learning experiences beyond Courses and Programs

3. Learning Objectives to describe outcomes and to satisfy accreditation needs

4. Rules and requisites for Courses and Programs5. Analysis of dependencies between and across Courses

and Programs

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Delivering and Implementing Curriculum Management

Curriculum Management• Started delivering code every couple of months • Delivered public release of Curriculum

Management• Institutional implementations in progress– University of Maryland– UC Berkeley– North-West University (South Africa)– Others in planning and sandbox stage (UW, Boston

College)

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Delivering EnrollmentEnrollment• Gathered and synthesized requirements from the

KS community• Developing a core slice of Enrollment to prove

out the design. Culminates in a demo at Kuali Days 2011

• Starting development on first release (Enrollment 1.0)– A baseline from which to build rest of the Enrollment

scope in order to deliver the broader vision– Launching multiple regional development teams

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Executing the Vision

• Kuali Student is happening• Committed to vision of next generation Student

System– Changed strategy to be best of breed by supporting

contributions and integrations with third-party systems

– Continued focus on out-of-the-box features accompanied by a toolset to allow institutions to develop features they need

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Get Involved

• Come to Kuali Days– Demos and Deep dives

of all the Kuali projects

• Explore joining KS– Contact:

Dan McDevittProgram Director<dmcdevit@indiana.edu>

http://kuali.org/news-kd2011-program

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Questions?

• For more information about Kuali Student– www.kuali.org/ks