SIS (Student Information Sytem)
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF TOOL
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The Maricopa Colleges' Student Information System (SIS) is a 
large-scale computerized systern developed as several 
diverse yet integrated computerized applications. SIS 
delivers the information essential to college operations and 
management for "students," facilities, personnel, 
Curriculum," while interfacing with many other large-scale 
computerized systems. The primary goal of SIS is accurate 
and timely recording, maintaining, and responding of 
information to provide essential support to college 
management for their effective utilization of resources. The 
SIS record keeping supports the annual flow of 180,000 
students in Maricopa's nine colleges, educational center, 
skill center and governmental reporting.

IMPORTANT FEATURES OF TOOL
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The Student Records area within SIS contains and refers to 
information which is used to support student registration 
and records functions. Some functions include a district-
wide Course Inventory, Schedule of Classes, Student 
Registration, Grading, Veteran Benefits, Transcripts, Social 
Security Benefits, Athletes, Honors, FTSE Reporting, and 
related system inteQctions. Additional sub-systems built 
within SIS to support the student include the following 
areas: Billing and Receivable, (BR) also known as Cashiers; 
Course Schedule, Allocation, and Monitoring (SAM); Flnancial 
Aid Management, (FAMS) also known as "Student Aid"; Job 
Placement, also known as "Placement; Monitoring Academic 
Progress, (MAPS) also known as "Degree Audit."

All SIS applications have the following commonly defined 
functional support features: a) extensive on-line and batch 
processes supporting large volumes of information, b) 
standardized on-line operations and screen design to 
simplify training process for persons who need to access 
multiple applications, c) on-line help available at four 
levels without interrupting opera77tors current operation, 
d) on-line printing of many special forms and any on-line 
screen at any printer within the MCCCD computer network


WHO WOULD USE THIS TOOL?
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Students, Faculy, Administrators, Financial, Research area, 
and anyone who needs information on students, courses, fees, 
facilities, etc.

HOW DOES THE TOOL SUPPORT EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING?
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As a database, SIS maintains college Records for students, 
courses, faculty, and facilities. The data maintained by SIS 
enhances ETL by serviing as an efficient means to schedule 
students and resources.

CONTACT PERSONS
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Gary Nusbaum,DIST/ITS    731-8865 
David Steele, DIST/ITS   731-8830