CBORD UGC 2008 - Sessions At-a-Glance

Ask the Housing Veterans

This is a roundtable/panel of experienced CS Housing and Odyssey HMS users. Come ask the question to which you always wanted the answer.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): Odyssey HMS, CS Housing
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Scott Gluntz, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; Susan Teggatz, University of Illinois at Chicago; John French, University of Tennessee
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Room: Travis D

Beyond the Technology—an Assignments Roundtable
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Where are assignments going? Is the trend toward more manual assignments? Ever wonder how others are handling their assignments? This session will offer a roundtable to discuss the ever-changing role and future of assignments.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): Odyssey HMS, CS Housing
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Tracey Kane, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 2:45 PM–3:45 PM
Room: Travis C

Beyond the Technology—Examining How We Do Business

This session will offer a roundtable discussion of how we all do business within housing.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing, Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Susan Teggatz, University of Illinois at Chicago; Aaron Lucier, East Carolina University
Day/time: Saturday, 10/11/2008 — 8:00 AM–9:00 AM
Room: Travis A

Connecting Odyssey HMS, Web Module, and API

Thought you’d done all you could online with WebStudent or the API? What if there are additional ways to expand your services, taking advantage of the technology at hand? Discover what’s available and how you can serve students in their medium of choice.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Eric Den Braber, University of Colorado at Boulder
Day/time: Friday, 10/10/2008 — 3:15 PM–4:15 PM
Room: Travis D

CS Housing Automated Placement
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This session will cover an overview of CS Housing Automated Placement from the planning stages to implementation and finial testing and making adjustments to your rules. It will be an open presentation encouraging others to interject tips, suggestions and pit falls.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Mel Matulewicz, Northern Michigan University
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
Room: Travis C

CS Housing Billing

This session will discuss the automated billing process in CS Housing, including automated billing for the semester for on-campus students and monthly billing for apartments. Individual automated billing will also be discussed. Bring your billing questions and join us in this session.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing
Level: Intermediate
Presenter(s): John French, University of Tennessee
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
Room: Travis C

HMS Contact Management
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This session will cover overcoming common obstacles in contact management, including email setup, document and email templates, and more.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Sarah Hardy, CBORD
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
Room: Travis D

HMS Financial Transactions

A detailed step-by-step guide to setting up and using proration in the Financial Transactions module.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Kevin Goodman, CBORD
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
Room: Travis D

Housing Product Road Map

What’s up with Housing? This session will be an overview of the housing product calendar and road map. The housing products include ResCenter, Odyssey HMS, and CS Housing. We will review the product versions that have been released over the past year and look at what will be coming in the future. A question and answer session will be included.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): ResCenter, Odyssey HMS, and CS Housing
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Nancy Oshiro and Phil Parrish, CBORD
Day/time: Thursday, 10/9/2008 — 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Room: Bonham B

Making Meaning out of Judicial Management

Ever wish you could really get your arms around your judicial situation? Maybe you just want to know more about what’s going on, how long it takes, and how to make it better? This session is for you. Look beyond the trees; learn how CU Boulder is seeing the forest.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): Odyssey HMS Judicial
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Eric Den Braber, University of Colorado at Boulder
Day/time: Friday, 10/10/2008 — 9:15 AM–10:15 AM
Room: Travis D

ResCenter Overview
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Come see the beginnings of our next-generation housing solution. ResCenter is built on .Net technology, and Work Orders is our first release. ResCenter is currently being built as an add-on to our Odyssey system so current clients can take advantage of the new functionality. The ResCenter Work Order system will be demonstrated, as well as the upcoming Room Inspection module.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): ResCenter
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Tom Goodman and Nancy Oshiro, CBORD
Day/time: Friday, 10/10/2008 — 8:00 AM–9:00 AM
Room: Travis D

Roundtable Discussion on Learning Community Placements and Auto Assign
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Come to this discussion to share best practices on handling learning community assignments within HMS utilizing the auto-assign process. Information from Indiana University’s process will be shared as a jumping-off point. Issues to discuss will include collaboration with faculty members and other campus departments, managing roommate preferences for multiple communities, and marketing of programs.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing, Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Sara Ivey-Lucas, Indiana University
Day/time: Saturday, 10/11/2008 — 9:15 AM–10:15 AM
Room: Independence

The Haves and Have-Nots—Housing with and without IT Staff

As needs continue to change within each of our housing units, the demand for doing more with less increases. This roundtable will explore how some housing operations are able to do more with an in-house IT staff, and others are able to do the same, without an in-house IT staff. Come share how you are asked to do more!

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing, Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Matt Miller, University of Illinois–Chicago
Day/time: Saturday, 10/11/2008 — 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Room: Independence

To Infinity and Beyond—CS Housing Web
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This session will take you from a paper-based housing contract process to an online housing contract for your first-time, first-year students and returning students. We will also outline how we have changed our room selection process to an online process using the CS Web application/contract and CS Housing lottery system.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): JoAnne Moore, University of Vermont
Day/time: Friday, 10/10/2008 — 3:15 PM–4:15 PM
Room: Travis C

To Infinity and Beyond—Web Roundtable

What is the future of the web and beyond? How can this be of importance to housing? Should housing be on the cutting edge and, if so, in what directions could we go?

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing, Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Scott Gluntz, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Day/time: Friday, 10/10/2008 — 4:30 PM–5:30 PM
Room: Independence

We Are Family!

We are family! As various systems within our campuses continue to sprout up, we all have to determine how we will either integrate or collaborate with these various systems. Come share your stories of how you collaborate with the various systems on your campus.

Market(s): Colleges and Universities
Product(s): CS Housing, Odyssey HMS
Level: Basic
Presenter(s): Jeffrey Clark, Skidmore
Day/time: Saturday, 10/11/2008 — 10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Room: Independence