Thanks to the feedback from early testers, the ProgDB now includes improved program printing and administrative notification.  Administrators can now choose to receive updates as they happen, or in a digest email once per day.

Printing

Until recently, the page format used for printing a program page was the same forma that was used for online viewing.  A simple program in this format might extend to 3 pages.  Although we hope that this tool will reduce your reliance on paper, if you do need to print a program report, the ProgDB now has a new concise page layout for printing.  The best part is that you don’t need to alter your practice or change to a different view – just print the page as you normally would.  Your web browser will know what to do.

Digest Administrative Updates

There are many actions which administrators need to know about, and email notification is sometimes the most immediate way to stay in contact with the group you oversee.  Before this update, an email would be delivered to administrators whenever a new user was added to the group, or a new administrators was assigned.  If an administrator oversaw 10 groups, this could create a lot of email.  Now administrators can choose on a per-group basis whether to receive these notifications in real time, or as a single email at the end of the day.

The ProgDB is designed to be a simple tool to help you collaborate and track your co-curricular programs.  This kind of feedback from people who are using it helps to refine it into something that is fun and easy to use.  Thank you Piya and Andy for helping make it better.

The ProgDB is currently being tested and finalized.  

As the final touches are being polished over the next few weeks, I’ll outline specific features of the programming database in separate articles.  Stay tuned.

If you would like to participate in testing, send me an email.  Our interest is in changing the way that higher education thinks about software and collaboration as a field.  We need some feedback in order to make that happen.