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
• Rework logic to not allow a student to have multiple upcoming appointments
• 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 

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

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

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

Student Success

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

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 

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

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