Product Vision

Kuali Student intends to deliver a student system that:

  • Focuses on the needs of all users
  • Is learner, learning and institution agnostic
  • Supports a wide range of academic and business processes

Technical Vision

To provide the potential benefits of a next generation student system, the technical design for Kuali Student includes:

  • Service-orientated architecture, implemented using Web services.
  • Service contract specifications published to allow the whole community to extend the core system.
  • Defined and published standards for development that can be used by others to develop services that are outside the scope of the core product.

Clear separation between the application layer and the infrastructure layer and keeping components in the infrastructure layer as independent as possible via standards (swappability).

 

 

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Functional Vision

To deliver this vision, Kuali Student includes the following critical elements in its functional design:

  • New, high level entities that make it easier to introduce new programs and approaches to learning
  • A concierge function that helps students by using information about their plans and accomplishments, available resources, and the institutions rules and opportunities
  • The use of workflow and rules engines to implement and improve business processes, make the system highly scalable, and allow the rapid investigation and evaluation of multiple scenarios, using agreed rules and criteria
  • The ability to configure the system, using the workflow and rules engines, to support your processes, rather than the generic “best practices” that characterize current generation systems
  • A modular, loosely coupled, standards-based architecture, that will allow Kuali Student to work with existing and new applications
  • Appropriate access to data and information, with services to make it simple for users to find and use the information they need, when they need it, in the form that is most useful to them
  • A system design that supports internationalization, i.e., the use of different languages and currencies, and provision for different educational models.