Faculty mesAMIS Retirement

Introduction

As StFX strives to stay current with our student information and reporting commitments; on May 10, 2021, Faculty reports on mesAMIS will be permanently retired and its functionality transitioned to other systems. This change has been undertaken to improve the security and sustainability of St FX systems and provide a better experience for faculty.

Impact

At 9:00AM on Wednesday, May 10, 2021, faculty reports in mesAMIS will be permanently retired and their functionality transitioned to other systems. A complete listing of reports that will be retired and where they will be transitioned to is available below.

What Is Changing?

Note: Other reports not in this list will not be affected by this change and will remain available until they are transitioned to other systems at a future time.

The following reports will be retired and their functionality made available in other systems.

Report Description Transitioned To
Current StFX Timetable Provides St FX timetable information. This information is available on the St FX Registrar's Office site: https://www.mystfx.ca/registrars-office/
Exam Schedule Provides the faculty member's personal exam schedule. "Faculty_Exam_Schedule" report in X Reports.
Faculty - Class Email Form Creates a list of a faculty's student's email addresses to allow easy email communication.

Preferred Method: Use Moodle's Quickmail function to send emails to students. Details on this functionality are available in the following KB article: "Quickmail".

Other Method: A list of student emails is also available in the "Faculty_Class_List_Lookup" report in X Reports. This list can be copied and pasted into the "BCC" field in Outlook to send a class email.

Faculty - Class Enrollment Report Displays a summary of enrollment data for faculty. "Faculty_Class_Enrollment" report in X Reports under the "Faculty" folder.
Faculty - Class List Lookup

Displays a list of students within a class.

"Faculty_Class_List_Lookup" report in X Reports under the "Faculty" folder. 
Faculty - Grade Change Request Allows a faculty to request a grade change for a student from the Registrar's Office.

Functionality for this report will be available through a combination of the "Grade_Change_Request" report in X Reports and the "Grade Change Request" service in the Services@StFX Registrar's Office portal.

Faculty - Request a Classroom Change Allows a faculty to request a classroom change from the Registrar's Office. Functionality for this report will be available through a combination of the "Classroom_Change_Request" report in X Reports and the "Classroom Change Request" service in the Services@StFX Registrar's Office portal.
Registration - Course Co-requisites Displays a list of course co-requisites. This information is available on the St FX Registrar's Office site: https://www.mystfx.ca/registrars-office/
Registration - Course Prerequisites Displays a list of course pre-requisites. This information is available on the St FX Registrar's Office site: https://www.mystfx.ca/registrars-office/
Registration - Course Restrictions Displays a list of course restrictions. This information is available on the St FX Registrar's Office site: https://www.mystfx.ca/registrars-office/

What Can I Do To Prepare?

  1. Update your bookmarks to include X Reports​​​​​​, the Registrar's Office Service Portal, and the Registrar's Office website.
  2. Review the "How to" material for:
    1. How to Submit A Grade Change Request
    2. How to Submit a Classroom Change Request
    3. How to use the Quickmail function of Moodle to communicate with students

Questions or Concerns?

Please contact itservices@stfx.ca.

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Article ID: 89444
Created
Tue 3/2/21 11:46 AM
Modified
Thu 7/21/22 4:07 PM

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