The CBORD staff member who originally came to train us to use their software (as well as set it up) came back this week on tuesday to help us with the Online Housing Application. It’s that time again. It kinda breaks down like this:
Next Academic Year Application:
– Application
– Roommate Match Tool
– Preferences Update Area
Current Academic Year Application:
– Application
Room Signups: (for folks choosing rooms for next year)
– Preferences Area
– Roommate Request
– Squatters, then everyone else Room Choice Tool
So there are three major areas of ‘the wou online housing application’. So that can make life complicated, but it’s not so bad. Our still-to-do list includes: LDAP authentication for access to the above system and online credit card payment.
Cool, huh?
Anyway, so the CBORD guy came and helped us run through scenarios and configure the tools to perform the required duties. We’ve never really had a non-paper process, so everyone’s really counting on me. I seriously hope that it all works. We are gonna setup a test run, and if that goes well I’m relatively confident that the room signup process will go well when it goes live.
Anyway, enough blogging – I’ve got WORK to do. This project has been ‘idle’ for awhile – now it’s crunch time. It’s gotta here. Here goes.