SMP_Central Version 3.0 (Release Feb 2004)

The following changes have been included in the February 2004 Release of SMP_Central:

Depending on the Permission you have to access SMP Central, you may not see all the tabs mentioned in these notes.

Version3.0 is a 'New Look' SMP Central - The look is consistent with the University Web Pages and will contribute to improved performance (as menu items and icons no longer have to load).

Class Roll

SMP Central now facilitates the combining of classes. Subject Synonyms can be setup and classes can be viewed 'as a whole'.

For example, students enrolled in XYZ400 and XYZ900 attend the same lecture(s) and tutorial(s) and they submit the same number of tasks (even though different work is set, the tasks have the same weighting and are marked out of the same value). In the past these classes had to be maintained separately on SMP Central, which meant users had to deal with separate class rolls and call up different classes to enter task marks, final marks etc

The same functionality could be used by staff who teach classes (in the same session) at different campuses. For example XYZ113, you could combine the Shoalhaven, Bega, Bateman's Bay and Moss Vale Spring instances of the subject and treat them all as 1 class on SMP Central (depending on the tasks set and whether or not On-Line Tutorials are used).

Groups - If students enrol in more than 1 tutorial group (Tutorials, Labs, Workshops, Practicals) the groups are placed into separate columns when the class roll is exported (to aid in sorting).

Define Groups

Users had reported problems with performance when trying to update quotas on groups. Improvements have been made to the performance of the Define Groups function. Subject Synonyms may also assist as classes can be combined and groups only have to be setup once and the quota applies to the combined class.

Assign Groups

Improvements to performance.

Attendance

Improvements made to the recording of attendance in order to aid in the reporting of non attendance. Null pointer exception error has been fixed.

Define Tasks

No Changes

Task Marks

New Export tab on the Task Marks summary screen - Users can export the entire Task Marks summary (previously could only export 1 task at a time) - Import is still only on 1 task at a time, but as the user can select which columns to import, the spreadsheet exported from the Task Marks summary could be used.

Final Marks

No Changes

Unit Summary

No Changes

Advanced Search

No Changes

SOLSMail

No Changes

Supervising

No Changes

Special Consideration

No Changes