Hello! 

We've had an udpate to the direct link for the DARS Explainer Experience video that students see in their My ASU. For those of you who directly link to the video, you'll need this new link: 

https://dxp.video/dars

Thanks!

As of Tuesday, July 17th, critical tracking processing for the spring and summer 2018 terms has completed. A whopping 101,909 evaluations were run over the course of 91.5 hours!!  

Special thanks to our UTO team and DARS encoders for all their work! 

This is a reminder that the DARS upgrade is scheduled for tomorrow, July 23rd.  Our original plan was to start the upgrade early in the morning.  However, we will be changing the time so as not to interfere with batch jobs that run overnight.  The new outage window for users is 5pm – 6pm. 

Please contact Jennifer Malerich with any questions or concerns.
Phone:  (480) 965-7817
Jennifer.Malerich@asu.edu

The DARS upgrade scheduled for July 16th has been postponed due to testing issues.  Our next target date for the upgrade is July 23rd.  Just a reminder that the upgrade will be scheduled to start early morning and users should only experience an outage of an hour or so at the beginning of the day. 

Please contact Jennifer Malerich with any questions or concerns.

Phone:  (480) 965-7817
Jennifer.Malerich@asu.edu

Please make note of the following:

Some DARSweb Manager users have noticed that when they remove a DUP/RPT flag from a course, save, and run a new transfer evaluation, the DUP/RPT flag is automatically reapplied. This is not an error/bug. Bryan Tinlin (from the TSD team) has advised that they have purposely set up DARS so that if the flag is on the red book (source) course, it will pass automatically to the blue book (target) course. You may see this behavior most frequently on old transfer work that was loaded in from the legacy system, but at times these flags may be added to the red book courses manually in order to ensure that they are not lost when the transfer evaluation runs.

If you find a situation where the flag(s) need to be removed but they return after running the transfer evaluation, the flag must be removed from both the blue book course and the red book course.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Good Morning!

We are going to begin the minor upgrade to the DARS system and it is planned for Wednesday July 16th.  The upgrade will be completed by 8:00 a.m.  During the upgrade the DARS system will be unavailable for use.  I will notify everyone on the status of the upgrade and when the DARS system is open.

Testing is scheduled for the DEV and QA environments.  Advisors are **not required** to do testing, but are welcome to.  Continued testing will be conducted by the DARS Team and UTO Development Team on June 16-27 to ensure proper function of the system.

This upgrade will include fixes to bugs reported by universities using the software.

Thank you,

Leticia Mayer, M.Ed.

Curriculum Analyst
Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS)
Office of the University Provost
CSB 200 E. Curry Rd, Rm: 317C
480-727-4052

Dear All,

The DARS upgrade I spoke about at our last meeting has now been scheduled for July 16th.  The outage will begin about 4am and should last only a couple hours.  Downtime during normal business hours will be minimal. 

We will be in touch as we get closer regarding testing and more specific timelines.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Jennifer

Jennifer Malerich
Senior Director, Curricular Activities & Actions
Office of the University Provost
Arizona State University
Phone:  (480) 965-7817
Jennifer.Malerich@asu.edu

After extensive testing, the minor DARs system upgrade that was originally scheduled for this Friday has been canceled.
We will inform you when the upgrade has been rescheduled.

A minor upgrade to the DARS system is being made on Friday, Jan 10th.  The upgrade will only take about 30 minutes and will be completed before 8 a.m.  During the upgrade the DARS system will be unavailable for use. The upgrade process will not interfere in the eAdvisor critical tracking processing.

Testing is scheduled for the DEV and QA environments.  Advisors are **not required** to do testing, but are welcome to.  Continued testing will be conducted by the DARS Team and UTO Development Team on Jan 6-7 to ensure proper function of the system.

This upgrade will include fixes to bugs reported by universities using the software.

Per the University policy starting in catalog year fall 2013, students pursuing concurrent degrees will be required to take 30 additional hours for each concurrent degree.  This change applies to degree with a requirement term of 2137 or later.  If the student has one concurrent degree with a requirement term prior to 2137 and one after 2137, the first degree will continue to have the 120 total hours requirement, but the second will have the 150 total hour requirement.  When the student is ready to graduate, neither degree will be posted until both have met all requirements.  As a result of this, the audit for students with concurrent degrees will reflect this new total hours.  Students that do not have concurrent degrees will continue to have the 120 total hours requirement.  If a student has one active concurrent, the total hours requirement will be for 150 total hours and two active concurrent degrees will have a requirement looking for 180 total hours.  Nothing else in the audit will change, and how to run audits will not change.

DARS went through an upgrade to u.achieve on March 17, 2013.  Users should not experience any loss of data integrity or basic change in functionality.  A new method for completing a CT exception was introduced, as was a new RT exception type.  Instructions for how to complete these exceptions can be found in the resources section of the eAdvisor & Major Maps page.  The new URL for u.achieve is: https://webapp4.asu.edu/dars4webadvisor/.  Please update your bookmarks.  For any questions or concerns please email DARS-q@asu.edu.

Please find the most up to date list of DARS Encoders and their college responsibilities on the eAdvisor & Major Maps page.

DARS Encoder College Responsibilities