Future Slate Project Requests

As we continue enhancing our Slate system to better support campus needs, we’ve created this page to track upcoming project requests. Below, you’ll find a list of proposed enhancements and features that have been requested. This helps provide transparency on what’s being considered and allows campus users to see what’s in the pipeline.

Wishlist Items Divided by Unit Requestor

Items with strikethrough have been completed.

Academic Advisement

• Class Schedule in Slate
• Student intention form
  • Allow advisors to "tag" students as not returning or taking a semester off
• Rework logic to not allow a student to have multiple upcoming appointments
• Recreate process for Check-in
  • Utilize Student ID scanning
• Headshots in User Permissions

Academic Units

• Music Auditions
  • Create process for students to register for admission auditions and transparent process for students to be officially admitted to the Competitive/Selective program
• COBA Alternate Tuition Rate Admit Message

Chancellor's Office

• Dedicated community dataset

CESL

• Build data feed from Slate to Banner for CESL application, eliminating the need for FileMaker Pro
• Build "course" registration processes for CESL student to be self contained in Slate. This would have payments tied to it so CESL could eliminate the use of Quickbooks
• Build data feed to D2L for course creation

Financial Aid

• Satisfactory Academic Progress
• Pell Eligible
• Scholarship and Award Offer Communication
• Replace PDF forms on website
• Recreate Kiosk for Check-in

Graduate School

• I-20 Processing
  • Automate I-20 processing in Slate with forms
• Graduation Clearance
• Replace PDF forms on website
• Thesis Clearance Process
• 4+1 Application/Review/Approval Workflow
• Application: Replace Out-of-Box with Custom Forms
  • Recommendation Letters
  • Test Scores

International Education

• Chatbot
  • Request for AI chat bot to be included on CIE website

Registrar's Office

• Certification Letters
• Absence Notices
• Additional PDF forms from website
• Legacy Alternate Tuition Rate
  • Build process for form submission and processing in Slate
• Unified Graduate Survey
  • Surveys sent upon graduation by Career Development Center and Alumni Association (and possibly others) in addition to Registrar's survey

School of Law

• Application datafeed from LSAC/Unite to Slate. The Slate sends application details to Banner
• Automated messaging to School of Law students related to network id claim, congrats on admit, registration for classes now open, etc

School of Medicine

• DMSC Practicum Form & Communication
• SoM Realm
• SoM Email Template

Slate Team

• Implement Slate AI Identity Verification process
• Rebuild sections of the application for both Graduate School and Undergraduate Admissions that are still on the XSLT foundation. XSLT support is ending April 2026
• Ticketing system in Slate
• User Home Screen Revisions
  • Reduce overall amount of queries and homescreens through use of Pinned Filter queries
• User Portals
  • Advisor task center
• Find Image, URL, Name in Slate 
• Realm Queries
• Query Template Library
• Dashboard Revisions
• Payments in Slate
• Training Videos

Student Success

• Multiple Staff Assignments
  • Assign students to Student Affairs or Student Multicultural Resource Center or Student Success contacts in addition to academic advisor
• Math Placement Indicator
• Immunization Compliance Process
• Upon enrollment, send email to personal email informing of @siu.edu account and need to check it

Teacher Education Program

• Expand queries/reports to assist with yearly round up reporting to the state
• Data feed for TEP information in Banner?
• Student teaching portal that would allow real time feedback from schools where student a placed

Undergraduate Admissions

• Reworked Group visit registration/communication process. This project was never completed and remains in a 1/2 finished state even though it is in use. 
• Scheduler for Admissions Coordinators
  • Set up availability so prospective students can schedule meetings with their assigned recruiter just as current students can with academic advisors
• Event Name Badges
  • On-the-spot event name badge printing
• Application Pool Admission, Offer, Waitlist and Denial
  • Build transparent process for competitive/selective admission programs to offer admission, waitlist, and deny students to their programs 
• Feeder School Designation
  • percent of senior class, class size field
• Campus Visit Update
  • Visitor parking assignment field
  • Alumni Association notification
• Merge the application reason into communication
• Denial messaging
• Message for high school students who have completed college credit
  • Send college transcript
• Fraud
  • Audit, email and hard fail

University Communications & Marketing

• Slate Training Website
  • Site to host training Slate Manual and training videos
• Deliver Designer
  • Build drag and drop components in Slate to users to easily create visually appealing emails and portal
• Utilize Pong more heavily

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