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ATLAS April 2026 Status Report

May 12, 2026 by Brian Edmond

Upgrades

  • Added athlete, international, honors / accelerated honors, pre-professional, and veteran attributes to student list filter
  • Student Schedule -Custom refund/drop deadlines clearly displayed for each student’s schedule
  • Schedule bugs corrected
  • Accessibility tweaks made to improve both usability with screen readers
  • Added campus to detailed search and West Plains academic information
  • Student Schedule – enhanced Detailed Schedule View for improved readability
  • Improved Student List filters:
    • Added multi select capability (e.g. now able to search for more than one option, such as freshmen and sophomores)

ATLAS student filter showing multiple selection capability for student class.

    • Improved keyword search for academic programs in filters, replacing the long drop-down list. This accommodates searching by program description or code. 

ATLAS student filter showing multiple selection capability for student academic programs.

    • Reorganization of academic programs in Student List so that all majors/minors, and certificates will be displayed appropriately and rewriting the selection process so that all academic programs are displayed (formerly limited to 2, and certificates were grouped with majors). 

Student list showing multiple majors, minor, and certificates in a single column.

Steering Team Meeting

  • Beginning this summer, our team will communicate ATLAS enhancements in a blog, so subscribers will be notified of all improvements and issues in timely fashion. Steering team members will host an advisor forum in fall with updates and training.

  • Team agreed upon institution provided data elements to display in the Insights tab.

    • GPA history and trends

    • At or nearing indication of not maintaining satisfactory academic progress with financial aid

    • Financial holds preventing registration for next term

    • If receiving a university scholarship

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ATLAS, Status report

Term Block Filters Added to ATLAS

May 8, 2026 by Brian Edmond

New first and second block filters have been added to the student list filter options on ATLAS. This was requested by a advisors needing to remind students about the start of second block. The new filter option can be found under the “Academic Term Information” section.

Student list filter page showing addition of first and second block semester filter options.

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: ATLAS

ATLAS Search Multi-select and Program Display Updated

April 30, 2026 by Brian Edmond

Most student list filters can now have multiple value selected:

ATLAS student filter showing multiple selection capability for student class.

Additionally, you can search for academic programs instead of scrolling through a long list.

ATLAS student filter showing multiple selection capability for student academic programs.

We also reorganized the student list to list all multiple majors, minors, and certificates into single columns (rather than Major 1, Major 2, etc.).

Student list showing multiple majors, minor, and certificates in a single column.

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: ATLAS

ATLAS March 2026 Status Report

April 28, 2026 by Brian Edmond

Upgrades

  • Added ability for staff to print all notes from the application for an individual student. Can also show deleted or edited notes in the print note feature.
  • Created Insights badges for BearPower and ASCEND students.
  • Added link to a modality explanation page to Student Schedule.
  • Added ability to embed hyperlinks in Student Notes.
  • Added new filters for Student List to filter by honors, veteran status, international, athletes, and pre-professional students.
  • Rich text capabilities added to the Note creation page.

Example note post showing rich text features of bold, italic, hyperlinks, ordered, and unordered lists.

  • Boomer Bot (EdSights) student voice data added to the Insights page.

Screenshot of ATLAS "Insights" tab showing the new Boomer Bot feedback scores.

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ATLAS, Status report

ATLAS Search Results and Enhanced Schedule Updated

April 28, 2026 by Brian Edmond

Enhancements to ATLAS have been released!

A campus column and West Plains academic data have been added to the student search results.

Student search results showing West Plains campus and academic data.

Also, the detailed schedule information has been formatted.

Student schedule with detailed information in a grid format.

Enjoy!

 

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: ATLAS, Class schedule

Welcome to the Student Information Applications Blog!

October 29, 2025 by Brian Edmond

Welcome to the Student Information Applications (SIA) blog. We’re glad you stopped by!

This is your gateway into news and updates about our student information applications, including ATLAS and Banner. We’ll post about new features and enhancements, updates, outages, and just general news related to these applications.

If you have comments, suggestions, questions, feedback of any kind, or need to request access to a system, we have a feedback form that will accommodate all of these things. We’re particularly interested in hearing about your experiences using our custom applications. We can control these since we created them! We also want to let the team know their hard work on these custom applications is appreciated! 🙂

You can tell an application is custom by looking for this logo at the top-right of your screen:

Image showing "Designed by Computer Services" text and logo.

Be sure to hit the “Subscribe” button on the lower-right part of your screen to be notified via email about any new posts!

Screenshot of blog showing the location of the "Subscribe"button with a bold, red arrow.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Advising, ATLAS, Banner, Grades, Registration, Self-service, Student information, Web applications

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