MyVassar Fall 2026 Feedback Status

We’ve received a great deal of helpful feedback and suggestions from the community since the SIS Enhancement Initiative kicked off. To make them easier to browse, we’ve organized suggestions into categories, consolidated duplicates, and made minor edits for clarity and readability. Related but distinct suggestions have been kept separate. We’re still investigating some suggestions to determine whether they could become MyVassar enhancements, either before or after the January 2027 launch. Others have already been implemented! Keep an eye on the Community Guidance page for updates on our progress and how we’re responding to community suggestions.

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Fall 2026 Status Key: 

  • ✅ – Completed
  • ⏳ – In-progress and anticipated for January release
  • ℹ️ – Under review
  • 🚫 – Not available/possible at this time

Fall 2026 Status Summary:

  • ✅ 38/77 (49%)
  • ⏳ 9/77 (12%)
  • ℹ️ 21/77 (27%)
  • 🚫 9/77 (12%)
Administrative & Departmental Tools
  • ℹ️ Class Registration Report: Create a report for a department that shows who is registered in a class and all of their email addresses.
  • ✅ Export Formats: Provide all student lists and departmental reports in Excel/CSV format rather than PDF.
Department Chair View Enhancements
  • 🚫 Add a calendar of when all faculty in a department are teaching.
  • ℹ️ Add a report listing every student enrolled in a department’s courses, regardless of their declared major.
  • ℹ️ Add a report that shows only emails for all students in a major, with a filter for class year.
  • ℹ️ Add a third report for addresses that includes campus address and permanent home address (include graduated students).
  • ✅ Add student advisor information (and possibly correlate advisor too) to the Majors Card.
  • ℹ️ Add the ability to email all students in a major from a card without having to export to Excel and copy and paste into an external email client, if possible. Possible Future Enhancement
  • ✅ Change the class column in the Department Correlate Report so it shows only the year, not “Class Of…”
  • ℹ️ Display full student statuses, not just status codes.
  • ✅ Separate the student schedule from the student information on the department student information dashboard.
General Updates
  • ✅ Administrator/Department access
  • ⏳ Change Major Advisor
  • ⏳ Change of Major
  • ⏳ Declaration of Major
  • ✅ Diploma Name
  • ✅ Faculty/Advisor access
  • ℹ️ Health Insurance Waivers
  • ⏳ Non-Recorded Option
  • ⏳ Remove a Correlate Sequence
  • ⏳ Request for Correlate Sequence
  • ✅ Schedule of Classes Card for external use
  • ✅ Schedule of Classes Card for internal use
  • ⏳ Tuition Insurance Waivers
Institutional Nomenclature (Global Changes)
  • ℹ️ Calendar: Remove the empty VC holidays calendar. Consider replacing it with, or adding a card linking to, a Vassar religious holidays calendar.
  • ℹ️ Change Admin Assistant to Office Specialist: Update all titles for Administrative Assistants to “Office Specialist.”
  • ✅ Change Curriculum to Programs of Study: Rename the “Curriculum” section on the student profile.
  • ✅ Change Hours to Units: Change all references of “Hours” to “Units.”
  • ✅ Change Minor to Correlate: Change all references “Minor” to “Correlate” or “Cor Seq.”
Schedule of Classes & Registration
  • ℹ️ Enrollment History: Allow faculty to see historical enrollment trends for a specific course to advise students on the likelihood of a course over-enrolling.
  • 🚫 Grade Mode/NRO: Display the Non-Recorded Option (NRO) and Grade Mode/Type within the schedule of classes.
  • 🚫 Metadata Visibility: Hide “Campus” and “Term” (once selected) to maximize screen real estate, but ensure “Teaching Units” (from the “Other” field) are displayed.
  • ℹ️ Schedule Clean-Up: Remove “bracketed” courses and the “[Bracketed]” label from the active course view.
  • 🚫 Schedule Enhancement (Faculty View): Include class details(e.g. class room, time, etc.) on the main schedule view instead of requiring a click through to a different page.
  • 🚫 Schedule of Classes Enhancements: Freeze the header/top row for easier scrolling. Use the Subject Code instead of the Subject Description (example: AFRS instead of Africana Studies).
  • ⏳ Search Functionality Enhancement – Add an example for Course Number 9 (e.g. 101).
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Change “Part of Term” to “Six Week Course”.
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Consolidate the keyword search: there are currently 5 different options, and most seem redundant.
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Remove “Duration” and “Sessions” – we are not using these fields on SSASECT.
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Remove “level” since all courses are undergraduate.
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Search by course attribute.
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Search by day and time of class offering.
  • ✅ Search Functionality Enhancement – Search by open classes.
  • ⏳ Search Functionality Enhancement – What is the source for “Department” – is it the home department?
  • ✅ Terminology Updates: Replace “Hours” with “Units”.
  • ✅ Waitlist Visibility: Clearly identify when a class is full and show waitlist status.
Student Dashboard & Experience
  • ℹ️ Advisor Card: Add a card with the student’s advisor information, with the ability to email the advisor from the card.
  • ✅ Centralized Links: Create a “Student Resources” card for JOT forms (Registrar/Dean of Studies), Health Services, and Student Employment.
  • 🚫 Course List Pagination: Increase the number of classes shown per page (the current limit of 50 is too low for some users).
  • ℹ️ Create a Slate Card
  • ✅ Financial Aid: Add a card to get to the financial aid portal.
  • ℹ️ Financial Balance: Add a card that displays the student’s account balance without requiring a redirect to Touchnet (possibly make this change on the pay my bill card).
  • ℹ️ Library Integration: A card showing library loans, including books checked out and due dates, without requiring a Primo login.
  • ✅ Major GPA: Students would like to see their major GPA without having to click through.
  • ✅ Moodle: Add a Moodle card.
  • ✅ Parchment: Add a card or add a link to request a transcript in Parchment. Or a link to the registrar webpage that has all of the transcript ordering procedures.
  • ✅ Quick Glance Schedule: Display the specific class times in the “Quick Glance” course view.
  • ✅ Quick Launch Card: Add a card with forms that are commonly saved on webpages. Such as: Registrar JOT forms, Dean of Studies JOT forms.
  • ℹ️ Student Employment Calendar: Create a card that displays a feed of the student employment calendar.
Student Records & Advising
  • ℹ️ Advising Holds: Add a dedicated card or functionality for faculty to release advising holds directly. Functionality is a future enhancement needed for Pre-registration.
  • 🚫 Advising View: Provide a unified advising view combining: semester-by-semester history, degree progress (DegreeWorks), major and correlate advisees, and transcript access.
  • ℹ️ Athletics Faculty Role: Create a role for athletics faculty (coaches) and add a card with a report listing students and their GPAs for Athletics.
  • ℹ️ Class Roster: Add teaching units and include emails in the Excel spreadsheet export.
  • ✅ Combined Advisee Lists: Display both major advisees and correlate advisees in a single, unified view and make it exportable to Excel.
  • ✅ Correlate Visibility: If lists are not combined, provide a clear method for faculty to access their correlate advisees.
  • ✅ Dining Card: Add a card that shows what is offered in the main dining hall.
  • ℹ️ Email Advisor: Add a “email advisor” link or button on the student-facing advisor card.
  • ✅ Faculty Quick Links card: Add a link to the course catalog.
  • ✅ Historical Data: Ensure academic history and course enrollment data is available back to 2006.
  • 🚫 My Advisees Card: Modify the “My Advisees” card to display the advisees without requiring a click to open it.
  • ✅ Recommendation Letters: Add the ability to view historical class rosters and grades from the “My Classes” card.
  • ✅ Restrict NRO Visibility: Instructors should not see NRO.
  • ✅ Semester-by-Semester Progress: Maintain the specific “semester-by-semester” academic history view currently found in AskBanner.
  • ✅ Student Photos: Include student photographs on the class roster/profile views.
  • ✅ Student Resources Card: Add a card with links to student support resources.
  • ℹ️ Transcript Access: Faculty need the ability to view transcripts for all students, not just assigned advisees, to assist with recommendation letters and undeclared students.
  • 🚫 Transcript and Schedule View: Make a card that shows the student’s transcript and their schedule on one page.