At Wednesday’s DSG meeting, representatives from Student Information Services and Systems (SISS) outlined the progress of the DukeHub 2.0 project.
Beginning this registration season as a limited pilot, Dukehub, and its 20-year-old platform—Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions—will switch to Dukehub 2.0, which runs on HighPoint Campus Experience, although the latter is built within Campus Solutions and is meant to make the original program more user-friendly.
Christopher Derickson, SSIS assistant vice provost and director, emphasized Duke’s role as a partner rather than a client in the development process.
“What is most exciting about HighPoint’s Campus Experience was the development and design part, as we had a say in the direction of the product’s development,” Derickson said.
Derickson also discussed the registration priority given to students who participated in the project’s pilot program, as they will be able to register earlier. Registration begins on Oct. 29, starting with senior participants in the pilot program.
The DukeHub 2.0 team also showcased several features of the new site. Students will now be able to directly access the waitlist tab from the homepage since it will no longer be under the registration tab. Bookbagging will also be obsolete—students now add classes to a “shopping cart.”
SSIS Senior Business Analyst Kathleen Carley explained why a direct drop/add feature has not been added.
“It is not available just now because Duke has the tradition of meeting with advisors to go over the bookbag and getting signed off,” Carley said.
This feature may be added later on if course registration procedures face change.
In other business:
The Senate unanimously approved $2,050 in funding for Mi Gente’s speaker event in the Center for Multicultural Affairs Resource Room.
The Senate also unanimously chartered Duke Applied Machine Learning, an interdisciplinary student group that aims to centralize all undergraduate and graduate machine learning activities at Duke.
The Senate also confirmed two new senators: first-year Ayaan Patel, senator for equity and outreach, and sophomore Kyle Melatti, senator for Durham and regional affairs.
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