Southern Illinois University

    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.

    Academic Advisement

    • Class Schedule in Slate
    • Student intention form
      • Allow advisors to "tag" students as not returning or taking a semester off
    • Recreate process for Check-in
      • Utilize Student ID scanning

    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 

     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

    International Education

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

    Registrar's Office

    • Certification Letters
    • Absence Notices
    • 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

    Slate Team

    • User Home Screen Revisions
      • Reduce overall amount of queries and homescreens through use of Pinned Filter queries

    Student Success

    • Multiple Staff Assignments
      • Assign students to Student Affairs or Student Multicultural Resource Center or Student Success contacts in addition to academic advisor

    Undergraduate Admissions

    • 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 

    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 portals

    Add a Project

    If you have a request for a new feature or enhancement that you don't see above, please submit the form below. Our team will review submissions and prioritize projects based on campus needs, feasibility, and impact.

    Submit a Project Request