Well today we had a very rousing meeting regarding Departments, and the Campus Directory.
In the past we maintained and printed a paper directory for all of campus.
It was expensive.
It was time consuming.
It was inaccurate even before it was printed.
So we built an online directory so that information could be pulled from Banner each night, and displayed for all the world to see.
Anyway, there was a great deal of communication about letting folks update their information, or request it be updated, or ….
This ended up being short-lived as that information has to sync with Banner, hence come from Banner, hence it cannot be maintained/updated/displayed separately.
So, on to departments. You see, Banner doesn’t hold the phone # you call for a specific department. This is something we did manually on paper.
But the digital age (as you all know) comes with it’s own challenges and idiosyncrasies. In the end (after much discussion) we decided that we would come back to this question next week after we all gave it additional thought.