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Ellucian Live - Middle East

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Sunday December 8, 2013 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Welcome Reception, Tranquillity Terrace, Jumeirah Beach Hotel

Monday December 9, 2013 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast

Safinah B

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Networking in Exhibit Hall

Safinah B

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

General Session

Mathew Boice, Vice President, EMEA & India, Ellucian

Meyana Auditorium

10:05 AM -10:35 AM

An Innovative Solution for 21st Century Learning

General Session

Dr. Mansoor M. A. Al Awar, Chancellor, Hamdan Bin Mohamed e-University

Meyana Auditorium

10:35 AM - 11:30 AM

Learning Changes, Learning Revolution!

General Session

Elliott Masie, Technology and Learning Futurist

Meyana Auditorium

People and organizations are changing how they learn. We are leveraging technology, social connection, mobile devices, deeper curiosity, video stories and connections, open and massive knowledge models and a desire to accelerate our learning experiences! Learning changes are shifting how corporations, schools, colleges, associations, and even political campaigns are sharing knowledge. Learners are expecting a rich set of learning options, personalized to their needs, socially connected and available on any device in any setting. Elliott Masie will explore key Learning Changes in a highly interactive presentation.

11:30 AM - 11:40 AM

Education & Technology: A Student Perspective

General Session

Student Speaker (TBA)

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Ellucian Update

General Session

John F. Speer III, President & CEO, Ellucian

Meyana Auditorium

Join us for an overview of Ellucian product philosophy and direction. We want to deliver the kinds of solutions you need to support your student success initiatives, operate more efficiently, support transparency and accountability at your institutions, and, ultimately, deliver better experiences to students, faculty and staff. In this session we will provide an overview of the company’s commitments to you and explain how our continued investment in the primary solutions you rely on, along with a broader portfolio, community engagement, and accelerated innovation can help us create the kind of partnership you need to meet the future.

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Coffee Break

12:15 PM -1:00 PM

Preparing for Banner XE Development

Safinah B Technical, Architecture & Integration

Anantha Prakash Dhinakar & Aysha Hazna, Higher Colleges of Technology

Meyana Auditorium

Attendees will learn about how HCT has prepared for Banner XE development to include: Setting up the Development Environment, Transformation from PL/SQL developer to a Web Developer, and Courses offered by HCT/Ellucian on Banner XE development. Attendees will also learn about the Banner Extensibility Toolkit provided by Ellucian and how HCT has partnered with Ellucian to complete the proof of concept for extensibility.

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12:15 PM -1:-00 PM

Stretching Banner Self Service to Meet Student Needs

Student Success & Retention

Iman Megahed & Nermine Hashem, The American University of Cairo

Marasi A

Banner Self Service tools allow institutions to stretch the functionality of baseline Banner to a whole new level. From addressing a new advisor role to tracking international visas and co-curricular transcripts, AUC has customized Banner Self Service through Web Tailor and Self Service Engine to create additional functionality and optimize its investment in Banner.

12:15 PM - 1:-00 PM

The Impact of Using Online Course Evaluation on Quality of Teaching and Learning

Teaching & Learning

Esam Agamy & Muna Hussein, University of Sharjah

Marasi B

The University of Sharjah started using online course evaluation by students in 2011. The presentation gives examples of the positive impact of student feedback on improving the quality of teaching and learning.

12:15 PM - 1:-00 PM

What's New in Banner Human Resources?

Finance & Human Resources

Chris Eby, Ellucian

Marasi C

Do you know about the cool new features delivered in Banner Human Resources? Interested in what new enhancements are coming ? This session will take a look back at product enhancements delivered and what is on tap for the future.

12:15 PM - 1:-00 PM

PowerCampus Update

PowerCampus

Christine Hall, Ellucian

Rubaan Room

Join us for an update on PowerCampus by Ellucian. Learn what’s new and what the Ellucian Extensible Ecosystem (XE) means for you. Get details on recent releases and find out about new initiatives and functionality targets for the future.

12:15 PM - 1:-00 PM

IBM MobileFirst Helps You Deepen Relationships with Your Customers

Mobile, Portal & Process Management

Kalyan Sridhar, IBM

Marasi D

IBM MobileFirst begins with a mindset: Innovative enterprises see the opportunities gained by bringing all resources together to strengthen customer engagement–whenever and wherever the customer wants, and on the customer's favorite device, which is often mobile. IBM MobileFirst offers you true end-to-end mobile solutions. Some providers specialize in service offerings; some focus on platform and application development; some offer only mobile security; while others focus just on mobile device management. We bring it all.

12:15 PM - 1:-00 PM

Back to the Future – How Qatar University is using Admissions and enrollment data in its Enrollment Management planning

Recruiting & Admissions

Sean Dollman & Mai Mohamed Alaa Sleem, Qatar University

Dana Room

The presentation will focus on the information and tools that QU uses in its enrollment management process. The presentation will journey back in time providing a brief history of how this data was tracked and employed in strategic decision-making as well as glimpses into the future of data dash boards using Banner and Cognos highlighting QU’s enrollment management vision through a simple, predictive, and effective model. This presentation will be of interest to those in Admissions, Registrar, Enrollment Management, data junkies, the curious, people who frequently ask “why?”, and anyone interested in time travel. The presentation may be of little interest to IT Department staff as the tools used by the QU team do not require direct manipulation by IT Department professionals.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Instiutional Effectiveness Management System (IEMS)

Safinah A Business Intelligence & Performance Management

Kannan Unnithan & Amina Manzil, Higher Colleges of Technology

Higher Colleges of Technology is a system of 17 colleges across United Arab Emirates. HCT is the largets higher education institution in UAE with enrollment above 18,000 students. HCT uses Student, Advancement, HR, and Finance modules of Banner. The higher educational institutions are typical organizations as they offer different courses, programs and educational services to meet the growing demands of labor market and society. Due to globalization, huge volume of students, higher number of institutions, diverse course offerings, funding constraints, etc, the modern-day higher educational system too faces all types of market pressures like other business organizations. Therefore, improving institutional efficiency and effectiveness to produce quality graduates is an important strategy to remain competent. Institutional Effectiveness is a continuous process of monitoring and assessing performance in order to enhance and upgrade operations of the institution. It is a continuous cycle which enables the administrators, faculty and students to have data-driven decisions, acts decisively, assess the results, and continually cycle back as part of a comprehensive process that begins with strategic planning and ends with specific follow-up. Integrating qualitative assessment and collaborative action of functional groups identifies the specific actions needed to overcome complex institutional challenges which constitute a major role of Institutional Effectiveness. The Institutional Effectiveness Management System (IEMS) is a web-based application, which has been developed in-house to support the Institutional Effectiveness process at HCT. In this presentation we will outline the Institutional Effectiveness process at HCT and will discuss the rationale and also cover the design and implementation of the IEMS.

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2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Student Complaint System


Mai Sleem, Qatar University

Marasi B

Since Qatar University is committed to a policy of fair treatment to its students in their relationships with the administration, faculty, staff and other members of the university community, we have developed a Complaint System utilizing banner capabilities to create an efficient process to be easily tracked, satisfy SACS requirements and provide fair action to the students.

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Banner Human Reources Roundtable


Chris Eby, Ellucian

Marasi C

This roundtable will include several topics brought forward by the client community to include Postion Control, Faculty Workload, and the Budget Development Process & Salary Planner.

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

The UAEU Mobile Learning Project

Teaching & Learning

Robert Whelan, United Arab Emirates University

Marasi D

How do you radically change the way you deliver your curriculum to more than 4,000 students within a few months? United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) brought mobile learning via Apple iPads into the daily lives of all students and faculty in their foundation and ESL programs in the Fall of 2012. Given the immense scope of the enterprise, implementation posed technical, logistical, and other challenges. This presentation will report on first outcomes and assessments, materials development, faculty training and preparation, challenges to the IT and classroom infrastructure, as well as on faculty and students’ perceptions of and responses to mobile learning and the move into a paperless, fully digitized learning environment.

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

PowerCampus Track: Ellucian Unified Portal

PowerCampus

Neveen Zayed, Ellucian

Rubaan Room

Ellucian is creating a single portal offering for PowerCampus and Colleague customers. Come learn about the strategy and direction around this offering.

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Building A Business Case for Cloud Services

Technical, Architecture & Integration

Wayne Bovier, Ellucian

Dana Room

Do you still have questions about why you should consider a cloud adoption strategy? Get your questions answered: Why should I consider the cloud? Which cloud is right for me? Where is the value? Learn how to build the business case for adopting cloud services for your organization. Deep-dive into the hard dollar cost reductions, cost avoidance, and value-added benefits that cloud services can offer, and learn how to custom build this analysis for your institution.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Ellucian Mobile: Supporting Your Anytime, Anywhere Digital Campus



Marasi A

Ellucian Mobile evolves the company’s previous mobile solutions into one that spans the three core administrative systems and unites the entire Ellucian customer community. This single new approach to help colleges and universities advance mobile initiatives faster and extend applications and services to a broad range of campus stakeholders. Delivered as a platform that supports both native and web applications, Ellucian Mobile offers both deep integration with Ellucian solutions and flexible options to help customers extend the digital campus to include non-Ellucian applications. Institutions can choose to implement an easily configurable pre-set package of applications that can be fully launched in hours or opt to build, customize and manage their own mobile environments. Come learn more about how either option affords deep integration with the data and services available in Ellucian’s core administrative system.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Gradebook - Monitoring Student Progress


Sapna Kalidas & Sabeena KM, Higher Colleges of Technology

Marasi B

HCT is using an E-Grade Book build on the strong foundation of Banner baseline Grade Book, with a web enabled front end and with added features like facility to set different roles for the system, integration with Curriculum management system for reading the assessment strategies, option to add sub assessments, submission and approval of assessment strategies, grade entry for teachers, grade submission and approval, auto updating approved grade into Banner etc.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Strategic Partnerships Not Vendors Critical To IT Success & Marketing

Business Intelligence & Performance Management

Rusty Bruns & Hussein Diab, American University of Kuwait

Marasi C

How vendor partnerships can lead to success internally and externally. Quantifying solutions can result in published case studies.

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3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Banner in Higher Ed, Redefining SIS!


Consulting Team, ITS

Marasi D

Banner SIS plays a vital role in the day-to-day operation in a Higher Education institute. In this session, the presenters will role play a day’s work in a University extending Banner outside of it’s normal operations demonstrating its tight integration with other systems in the university such as Portal, Learning Management system and more. The presentation will highlight the latest trends available in the market and will offer a unique opportunity for enthusiasts IT Personnel who are looking for innovative ways to expand their Banner Student Information System beyond the campus. The session will be lead by several consultants with over 35 years of companied experience in Banner and Higher Ed.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

PowerCampus Track: PowerCampus Advanced Scheduling Tool

PowerCampus

Maher Itani, IMS

Rubaan Room

Course timetabling requirments are different for different universities. Timetabling involves hard constraints such as classroom, curriculum, and several other variables. In addition soft constraints need to be considered, such as faculty preferences and availablity. Through the PowerCampus Advanced Scheduling Tool, learn how to optimize your schedules and make the timetabling process more efficient. We will also view the online web access and exam scheduling tool.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Revistalizing Your Digital Campus

Special Interest

Lorraine Bellamy, Ellucian

Dana Room

You invest substantial resources in running your digital campus. However, many customers overlook basic functionality and process enhancements as they perform upgrades. This session offers suggestions for efficiencies and reveals practical activities our customers are embracing to help you get the most out of your solution.

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Coffee Break

Safinah B

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Closing the Skills Gap


Brad Baumgartner, ConnectEDU

Marasi A

Aligning education with career opportunities is critical in helping close the skills gap. Students that understand the skills needed for a particular career are able to better prepare and consequently improve their employability post graduation. In this session, ConnectEDU will discuss how administrators can offer a rich network of career development resources for their students and alumni - empowering the next generation workforce.

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

The Banner XE Student Experience

Registration

Kari Branjord, Ellucian

Marasi B

This session takes a deeper look at the Banner Student XE modules (Course Catalog and Schedule of Classes, Faculty Grade Entry, Attendance Tracking and Event Management) that have been released to date. Banner Student XE provides architectural, functional, and usability improvements to both Administrative Banner and Self-Service Banner with the initial focus on the student advisor, and faculty persona. We'll discuss customer adoption and provide a glimpse of Banner XE projects in progress such as student registration and some common components.

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Text books to e-Text - An e-Resource Management System

Teaching & Learning

Mili Panavil, Clayton Menezes & Waseem Baig, Higher Colleges of Technology

Marasi C

This session will help you understand how HCT has transformed its system from handling hard copy texts books to e-Resource for Identification, Bidding and Ordering. In 2013, HCT decided to move away from hard copy text books and to have E-resources for students and teachers. A complete system was built which caters right from identification till distribution of resources. The features of the system includes integration with HCT Curriculum Management System for identification of e-resources, approval of the identified E-resources, estimation of the quantity and price for the resources, option to open for vendors to quote, facility for vendors to bid for the resources, integration with HCT Procurement system for awarding the vendor e-Learning system for distribution of E-resources to teachers and students.

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Argos Case Studies and Examples


Matt McLellan, Evisions

Marasi D

Hundreds of Universities and Colleges with Banner® by Ellucian and PowerCampus™ by Ellucian use Argos, the Enterprise Reporting Solution from Evisions, to solve their reporting and information access challenges. This session will go through examples from letter generation and basic reporting to data cubes and dashboards. Using client examples you will see how Argos can help you go beyond basic reporting and get access to the information you need quickly and easily.

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

PowerCampus Track: PowerCampus Core Tables How database administrators can write reports by extracting and joining data

PowerCampus

Reza Payandehnik, American University of Afghanistan

Rubaan Room

This presentation briefly describes how PowerCampus Database Administrators can develop many different customized school-specific reports to answer day-to-day needs of not only their school’s administrative departments including Registrar’s office, Admissions, Student Finance, Institutional Research, Faculty, Library, Student Affairs, etc. but also outside entities including the ministries or other governmental offices. AUAF has developed a report server using the SQL Reporting Service and created more than 200 customized school-specific reports categorized by enrollment, admissions, finance, student affairs, advising, general, grades, and more . The majority of our administrative offices heavily rely on data taken from these reports for day-to-day operations and report purposes. Come learn how you can develop reports like these!

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4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

What's New in Banner Finance?


Chris Eby, Ellucian

Dana Room

Join members of the Ellucian Banner Finance Development Team to learn about the release contents of Banner Finance 8.7 and beyond. Hear an overview of the enhancements delivered in the most recent releases of Banner Finance as well as get a sneak preview of the upcoming release of Banner Finance.

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Conference Reception & Gala Dinner

Events Arena

Tuesday 10 December, 2014 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

HCT Exam Scheduling System

Registration

Azhar Khan, Carmel Beeshow & Sabeena KM, Higher Colleges of Technology

Marasi A

This session will provide you a full view of our in-house built ‘Exam Scheduling Application’. Right from System wide assessments done centrally to campus based exams with options consider manual and auto scheduling, room booking, conflicts identification and resolution to publishing the schedules. HCT with 17 campuses, 18,087 students (Fall 2012) , 982 faculty (Fall 2012) and over 5000 sections running every semester, had versatile requirements for an Exam Scheduling system. We evaluated various external systems for providing us a complete solution which can address our requirements. HCT made a consensus decision to build an in house Exam Scheduling system which is to be used by all HCT Campus Exam Coordinators, Course Leaders and Department Chairs to schedule system wide and college based exams. The system caters for both manual and automatic scheduling based on set rules. The system is role based and fully configurable according to requirements for specific campus or course or type of exam. The system helped HCT in producing an efficient, conflict free exam schedule with less effort and time and minimized the time to achieve final exam schedule for all students and faculty.

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

The New Ellucian Client Support Center

Special Interest

Mohammed El-Dalaw, Ellucian

Marasi B

Finding the answers you need to keep your systems at peak performance means having access to the right resources. Whether you need solution information, want to research best practices, or need to resolve issues, the new Ellucian Support Center provides a vibrant community—and a wealth of resources—to help. With a flexible, intuitive interface, the Ellucian Support Center makes it easy to find all the information you need to keep your skills current and your systems running strong. This new site replaces the Customer Support Center and AnswerNet and is accessible through a new single sign-on portal, the Ellucian Hub.

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Banner XE Architecture & Extensibility Explained for All Audiences


Mike Agnew, Ellucian

Marasi C

Banner XE is based on a new architecture that provides an evolutionary path to a new web 2.0-based user interface, optimized delivery, and an extendable platform. Additionally, one of Banner XE's fundamental features is extensibility, and this session will present the new extensibility strategy. This session is for all audiences. It will not go so far into the technology that it goes over the head of the non-technical audience.

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

How Good is Your Schedule


David Lumsdon & Andrew Gale, Scientia

Marasi D

How to unlock the intelligence in your scheduling and resource management data. We will share some great examples of best practise in the quantitative analysis of data - and we will go further and discuss the more qualitative issue of what make a good timetable. Even if we accept that a good timetable is subjective and can change from one institution to another we will contend that the comparative analysis is worthwhile and highly informative. Scientia in collaboration with partner universities from around the world has developed a range of Key Performance Indicators with an associated analysis pack. The resultant graphical representation allows one university's schedule / timetable to be compared and contrasted with another university in the same city or on the other side of the world or an institution can compare one semester or one year with another. We don’t necessarily conclude what makes for a good or a bad timetable - but the results do make for an interesting discussion.

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

PowerCampus Track: IMS localizations for the Middle East

PowerCampus

Maher Itani, IMS

Rubaan Room

Through numerous implementations of PowerCampus, IMS has gathered and developed localizations to help address requirments specific to the Middle East. Join us to learn more abou the “Advanced Admission and Scholarship” tool, “Arabic Reporting Extension”, and specifications such as “Automatic Payment Plan”.

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9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Luminis 5 at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals


Mohammed Firasat, KFUPM & Sam Philip, Ellucian

Dana Room

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, recently upgraded their University Portal to the latest Ellucian Luminis Platform 5. Come and see how the new portal implementation has enhanced the user experience and provided a true one stop shop for all university services and resources. This presentation focuses around the services delivered via the new portal framework including: User Provisioning; Single Sign On (CAS and GCF); Newly developed Luminis Portlets integrating into university systems like, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Symphony Library System, Print Quota System, Health Care, Telephone Billing; Mail and Calendar Portlets; New Student Portlets; App Dashboard for easy access on smartphones and tablets; Integrating in-house developed apps into the Portal and CAS framework; and the new user experience.

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Banner XE Student Registration

Registration


Meyana Auditorium

The Banner Student XE Registration Planning session purpose is to provide customers with a deeper look at the registration planning function that is being added to Banner student registration. This session will look specifically at the new registration planning function which provides students and advisors with the ability to create either course or section level plans which can be saved as students work with their advisors to come up with an optimal schedule from which they can use to register for classes. The new function will also work with either CAPP or Degree Works to assist students and advisors in the registration planning.

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

eCertificates - Graduate Employability & Alumni Recruitment


Kevin Bassett & Georgina Lee, Advanced Secure Technologies

Marasi A

This session will demonstrate how universities are using web technologies to issue secure eCertificates and eTranscripts, creating online connections to both current graduates and past graduates, employers and other universities. Supporting key university initiatives of graduate employability and alumni recruitment, whilst ensuring all degree documents are protected against fraud.

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Smart Card Implementation at HCT for eAttendance, ePayment, and eAccess


Hanas Arakkal & Kanimozhi Krishna, Higher Colleges of Technology

Marasi B

Higher Colleges of Technology is a system of 17 colleges across United Arab Emirates. HCT is the biggest higher education institution in UAE with enrollment above 18,000 students. HCT uses Student, Advancement, HR, and Finance modules of Banner. In this presentation attendees will learn about how HCT has utilized the Smart Card technology and used it inside and outside the classroom: Using Smart Card for eAttendance in the classroom; Using Smart Card for ePayment in the Cafeterias and other college outlets; Using Smart Card for eAccess at the college gates for security. We will discuss the rationale and also cover the design and implementation for these applications. We will also discuss how these applications connect to Banner. A demonstration will be given on some of the applications.

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Ellucian Introduces Institutional Performance Management: A Unique and Powerful New Management Solution



Marasi C

Now an institution can make better, more timely decisions while also enabling and tracking strategic changes from top to bottom. Ellucian’s Institutional Performance Management solution blends Nuventive’s planning, tracking, and outcomes assessment management solutions with Ellucian’s extensive business intelligence solution portfolio to help institutions intelligently manage strategic planning, and improve academic and administrative outcomes using the same collaborative, action-oriented platform. Come hear about this powerful new offering

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

eProcurement Best Practices: Driving Efficiencies and Cost Savings with Automation


David Rimmington & Peter Hunt, SciQuest

Marasi D

During this session we will discuss how it is possible to significantly increase purchasing supply chain efficiencies and reduce costs through the roll-out of best of breed integrated e-Procurement solutions. The discussion will extend the definition of ‘e-Procurement’ to touch on Sourcing, Contract Life Cycle Management, Purchasing and Settlement as these are linked and have significant impact on the procurement supply chain. Real-world examples will also showcase the results SciQuest customers have achieved through these types of solutions.

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

PowerCampus TrackPowerCampus Track: PowerCampus Security, Auditing and Logging

PowerCampus

Sam Philip, Ellucian

Rubaan Room

Security, Auditing and Logging should be a concern and focus at every institution. Primarily focusing on technical audiences, this session gives you an overview of the security options available in PowerCampus, Self Service and Portal. This session will also cover auditing and logging options available in PowerCampus, Self Service and Portal, which will enable you to keep a track of changes and activity.

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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Shifting Digital Paradigms: From eLearning to mLearning

Teaching & Learning

Himanshu Joshi & Sarah Whittaker, Higher Colleges of Technology

Dana Room

This session provides an overview of one of the world's largest mobile learning implementations at the Higher Colleges of Technology that is transforming the teaching & learning environment through the adoption of innovative learning models and effective educational technology tools. The Higher Colleges of Technology with over 18000 students went through two major transformations last year. The first was replacing student Lap Tops with iPads and the second was replacing all printed textbooks with eTextbooks and online material. This session will provide you an insight into challenges faced during the project and the best practices, pedagogical & technological models that emerged as a result of this implementation. An important aspect of the session will be to cover the significance of Enterprise Systems like Ellucian and its integration capabilities with VLEs like Blackboard which helps in achieving overall efficiency for Higher Education Institutes.

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

HCT e-Advising & e-Registration

Registration

Sapna Kalidas, Shajana Sharaf & Waseem Baig, Higher Colleges of Technology

Marasi A

This session will give you a full idea on how student advising is implemented and how HCT utilized Banner Flexible registration to provide a mechanism for planning and registration for various courses for undergraduates students. In Fall 2012, HCT management decided to the enhance academic advising process and to involve students more in their program and course selection decision process along with their advisors and to build a strong relationship between advisors ad their advisees. In order to accomplish this, various features from Banner like curriculum information, catalog information, advisors and advisees information, registration and academic history of the advisees, academic status of the advisees etc. were brought together under one umbrella and enabled an online advisor approval form with e-signature solution which tracks advisor and advisee decisions on the academic career. Having a strong advising base, HCT decided to move away from Block Registration and to launch Online Registration for its Bachelor students. This was achieved usingthe Banner Flexible Registration system where campuses have the flexibility to set up their own catalogs for different sets of students according to their campus offerings and students can register online from the HCT Portal to their advised courses.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Introducing Banner Data Defense



Marasi B

Data security and protection should be a concern and focus at every institution. Learn about Banner Data Defense, a new package of Ellucian services, scripts, and documentation plus Oracle solutions that provide defense in depth at all levels of your database environment. This session is primarily for technical audiences. In this session, we will provide an overview of Oracle Advanced Security for securing data using transparent data encryption (TDE) and strong network encryption as well as the Ellucian scripts and best practices for implementing on a Banner database. You will also learn how you can proactively monitor for suspicious behaviour and satisfy complex compliance and auditing regulations using Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. We'll review the threat detection and consolidated auditing features of Audit Vault along with Bannerspecific policies, alerts, and reports that can be implemented easily at your institution.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Student Recruitment: Maximize Every Opportunity in Your Student Recruitment Funnel



Marasi C

Your admissions office is working to identify and move the best-fit students to an accepted status. Recruiter helps you target and focus your energies on the prospective students most likely to accept and succeed at your institution. When paired with Ektron Web Content Management System, your institution can build a relationship with a prospect before they come to campus.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Ellucian Payment Center by TouchNet


Klaus Huber & Terry Unress, TouchNet

Marasi D

Payment Center is a centralized payment system that will help higher education institutions streamline and manage their payment processes. Campuses throughout the world will now be able to offer synchronized and secure payments through a new payment engine.

Safinah B

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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Luminis Community Networking Session


TBA, Ellucian

Dana Room

The main aim of this session is to foster communication amoung Luminis users and take advantages of best practices in the Lumins community. We will also have an open discussion on the specific needs of Luminis users in the Middle East.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

PowerCampus Track: Ellucian Mobile - Supporting Your Anytime, Anywhere Digital Campus

PowerCampus


Rubaan Room

Ellucian Mobile evolves the company’s previous mobile solutions into one that spans the three core administrative systems and unites the entire Ellucian customer community. This single new approach to help colleges and universities advance mobile initiatives faster and extend applications and services to a broad range of campus stakeholders. Delivered as a platform that supports both native and web applications, Ellucian Mobile offers both deep integration with Ellucian solutions and flexible options to help customers extend the digital campus to include non-Ellucian applications. Institutions can choose to implement an easily configurable pre-set package of applications that can be fully launched in hours or opt to build, customize and manage their own mobile environments. Come learn more about how either option affords deep integration with the data and services available in Ellucian’s core administrative system.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Tableau Implementation for Institutional Research


Hunain Kochra & Waseem Baig, Higher Colleges of Technology

Marasi A

HCT implemented Tableau Software for Institutional Research. A set of intuitive dashboards were made available to users allowing them to instantly visualize and gain better insight from data. The dashboard worked as a single point of access converging information from different sources. The dashboards were implemented leveraging the capabilities of HCT’s data warehouse. The presentation talks about the benefits HCT has gained by implementing this data visualization solution.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Preparing for Banner XE


Mike Agnew, Ellucian

Marasi B

This session provides an overview on software and hardware requirements for Banner XE, the skills needed for managing and maintaining Banner XE applications, and git repositories and Banner XE installer.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Middle East On-Line Admissions (MEOLA)


Yazid Abuamer, Ellucian

Dana Room

A new Middle East localization built using the Banner 8 framework to enable the universities to automate the online admissions processes which includes managing the applications, eligibility, scoring, selection and offers. It will allow clients to create their own online applications that will capture the data elements and evaluate the applications based on the defined seats/offers, scoring and eligibility rules for each study preference or applicant category. The online application will allow uploading documents and will allow merging data uploads received from external organizations.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Banner Document Management


Peyman Javaheri, Ellucian

Marasi D

A Smarter Way to Manage: Streamlining business processes, controlling costs, and improving data security are all very good reasons for your institution to consider a document management solution. Learn how the Banner Document Management Suite (BDMS) can help departments across your campus—from finance to human resources to the registrar—capture paper-based content and convert it into electronic images — significantly reducing the cost of managing complex paper trails and dramatically lessening your carbon footprint. Learn how to reduce costs by capturing paper-based content and converting it into electronic images. How to minimize inefficiencies by making information converting it into electronic images. How to minimize inefficiencies by making information easier to find and share. How to reduce risk through automated archiving and back-up of managed content.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

PowerCampus Track: PowerCampus Community Networking Session

PowerCampus

Neveen Zayed, Ellucian

Rubaan Room

The PowerCampus Community Networking offers an opportunity to meet the Ellucian employees and partners that work with the PowerCampus products and services as well as an opportunity for Ellucian employees and customers to engage in an open forum which allows them to meet and greet within Ellucian Live Middle East. Come gather in an informal setting with fun activities to get know people from other campuses with similar roles and responsibilities in their use and implementation of PowerCampus solutions.

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Session Title

Track

Speaker

Room

Description

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Improving the Adoption of Learning Technologies

Teaching & Learning

Rick Van Sant, Blackboard

Marasi C

21st Century teaching and learning requires that learning technologies hold a central place in a modern school. Creating the culture that embraces new technologies can be challenging. This session will provide strategies and tools to help any learning organization become more agile at adopting educational technologies

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Plenary Session: Client Awards & Solution Portfolio Update

3:45 PM - 4:45PM

Education Re-Imagined. What Today’s Trends Tell Us About the Future of Learning.

Special Interest


Marasi A

At a time when educational attainment is a global priority, the need to re-imagine the education experience has never been greater. Institutions like yours face new challenges—and new opportunities—that will require you to collaborate, innovate, and connect in unprecedented ways. In this session we explore some of the challenges facing higher and further education today and consider some of the factors that will change how we conceive, deliver, and assess higher education. We will consider how the new austerity brings into sharp relief questions about resources, institutional performance, and accountability; how demographic shifts influence how we reach, engage, and support diverse new student populations; whether new educational practices such as MOOCs and alternative credentialing disrupt traditional education practices, and how transformative technologies such as mobile are shifting our ideas about teaching and learning.

3:45 PM - 4:45PM

Luminis Platform Portlet Development


Sam Philip, Ellucian

Marasi B

This Course introduces Luminis developers and administrators with the tools and techniques that are associated with Luminis Platform Portlet development. Developers will see how to develop Portlets for the Luminis environment. Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to: Have an understanding of how Portlets work in Luminis Platform 5, How to develop Portlets using JSR 286 standards, How to deploy Portlets to Luminis, How to develop portlets that access database resources, How to use the Spring Framework to develop portlets.

3:45 PM - 4:45PM

Banner Student Communication Plans: To Admissions and Beyond



Marasi C

Communication doesn’t stop with the admissions application. Banner’s baseline communication plan provides the functionality for communication management throughout the student life cycle. This course will take the participant from start to finish of a communication plan, including setting the goals and planning the materials to configuring Banner and testing the output. Whether you need to start from the beginning or revamp your current communication plan, this workshop will meet your needs.

3:45 PM - 4:45PM

Banner Human Resources/Student - Faculty Load and Compensation


Chris Eby, Ellucian

Marasi D

This course will walk clients through the set up and use of Faculty Load and Compensation. The Faculty Load and Compensation module, has been created to capitalize and draw upon the information residing in both, the Banner HR and Banner Student systems, to deliver a contiguous, comprehensive business process that gives institutions the power to automate the derivation and calculation of appropriate compensation packages for their full-time or part-time employed faculty members based on their individual workloads.

3:45 PM - 4:45PM

Role of VLEs in the mLearning World

Teaching & Learning

Azim Ahmed & Sean Dowling, Higher Colleges of Technology

Dana Room

The role of VLEs is changing with mobile learning becoming an ubiquitous affair in the way content is being created, delivered and consumed. The session covers the 'why and how' of HCT's own mobile learning initiatives (for its student and faculty cohort) involving the institution's enterprise VLE (Blackboard Learn) to facilitate the delivery of digital courseware.

Safinah A

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