Application Statistics
3.1.GENERAL
a) This subsystem was originally developed to extract
information from the Academic Student Applications subsystem where the
application data is loaded electronically from a Central Applications
Office (CAO). This subsystem reads information from the Student
Applications Subsystem; therefore the reports discussed here are also
applicable to institutions which capture applications manually.
b) The system consists of programs, which generate
and store reports, and other programs, which print the stored reports
to show statistics of the applications data. Note that, apart from
choosing the correct option in order to print a report, the user should
also supply a unique request number in order to print out the correct
set of data. The request number is supplied as part of the output of
the generated programs.
c) The generate program options will extract data
from the student applications subsystem and place the data into
separate ORACLE tables. This means that the user can print the "stored"
data at any stage after it has been generated and that the "stored"
data wi l be "freezed" as it was at the date the generate program was
run. The "stored" data will therefore not be affected by dynamic
changes in the student applications subsystem, which occurred in the
meantime.
d) Note that any of the generate programs will
select a request number which is unique to the subsystem for a new
request and store this request number with the data it generates.
However, every generate program will also first check if another report
was previously generated by the same menu option and using the same
parameters. If one is found, the data from the previous request will be
deleted and replaced by the new request's data. If not, a new request
will be generated together with its new request number.
e) Also note that the qualification codes and names
supplied by the CAO will probably differ from the qualification codes
and names used internally in the ITS system of the institution. Also,
the institution may have some qualifications for which applications are
done through the CAO and some other qualifications for which they do
their own applications. Institutions must therefore make sure that
their internal qualification codes are linked to the CAO qualification
codes, where applicable, or else the system will assume that no
qualifications are linked to the CAO. All the generate programs allow
the user to indicate if only qualifications linked to CAO
qualifications (i.e. qualifications for which applications are done via
the CAO), or qualifications not linked to CAO applications, or all
qualifications (i.e. from both groups) should be included in an
analysis. Users from institutions, which do not use a CAO, may select
either "non-CAO" or "Both" as input parameters.
See Also:
History Of Changes
| Date |
System Version |
By Whom |
Job |
Description |
| 27-Mar-2008 |
v01.0.0.0 |
Magda van der Westhuizen |
t149068 |
New manual format. |