National Chung Hsing University Cuts Student Report Development Time from Two Weeks to One Day
 
 

National Chung Hsing University Cuts Student Report Development Time from Two Weeks to One Day

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Founded in 1919 as an agricultural college, the National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) has grown to become one of Taiwan’s leading educational institutions. The university has 18,000 students and 2,000 academic and administrative employees. Since 1971, NCHU has forged partnerships with local and international universities to enhance the quality of the education it offers.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from National Chung Hsing University

  • “With its modular, open standards design, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Community has improved student administration and enabled us to freely exchange data with partner universities. The system will support our aim of becoming a globalized institution offering high-quality education.” – Huang Der-Chen, Director, Computing and Information Network Center, National Chung Hsing University

  • Replace an aging student administration system that was difficult to use and lacked integrated functionality
  • Implement a solution that integrates student administration, curriculum management, accounting, and human resources functions to support the needs of multiple departments
  • Ensure reliable performance even when user numbers increase
  • Reduce the time required to develop student reports, as IT staff spent 70% to 80% of their time on this task

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Engaged Oracle Partner Mercuries Data Systems to build an education and student administration system based on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Community
  • Provided students with the information they need to make more informed course choices, including the ability to view completed courses and find out how many more credit points are required to complete the degree
  • Enabled administrative staff members to create student reports in one to two days, compared to two to three weeks in the past
  • Supported up to 12,000 concurrent users without performance degradation, ensuring lecturers and students have reliable access to course information  and other educational content
  • Accommodated students from different countries, as the PeopleSoft system has built-in multilanguage capabilities
  • Enabled NCHU to exchange data with partner institutions using PeopleSoft Campus Community, such as course credits points earned at NCHU that can be transferred to another university
  • Allowed administrative staff to set the course selection process based on availability, student group, and content, without calling on the IT department for programming assistance
  • Developed and launched the first phase of the student administration subsystem (used to manage details such as enrollments and course payments) in one month

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