OASIS Scheduling Software
Health science and professional schools use OASIS for web-based scheduling and as a central hub for collecting information from and dispersing information to students and 
faculty. Standard features include academic history, course requirements, grades (including a GradeBook and GPAs), notices, and surveys. Additional modules offer evaluation and calendaring capabilities. OASIS can be configured to share information with data management systems used by other areas of a school or university.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
- Maintain entire system through the point-and-click administrative interface.
- Manage various levels of user access and control including Director, Course Administrator, Faculty, Student, Visiting Student, and Guest.
- Run and view real-time reports, such as missing grades and graduation requirements.
- Automate emails to students and departments based on certain scheduling events.
- Develop electronic checklists to facilitate sign-offs and approvals from multiple offices.
- Maintain complete access to course information and enrollment configuration.
- Conduct surveys.
- Facilitate creation of the dean's letter through centralized student information.
- Configure OASIS to share information with other school data systems.
LOTTERY AND SCHEDULING FEATURES
- Build, manage, and access a complete web-based course catalog.
- Allow department and course administrators to access and maintain their courses, including access to rosters, enrollment configuration, and more.
- Administer a full-featured course lottery that requires minimal attention once established.
- Offer and manage structured scheduling using the built-in "course grids" feature.
- Define and enforce academic requirements and course prerequisites.
- View detailed, up-to-the-minute course roster and add/drop reports.
- Configure multiple course locations and complex availability information.
- Adapt scheduling system for non-courses, such as CPR classes or pager sign-up.
STUDENT-CENTERED FEATURES
- Control and manage student access via a number of settings.
- Provide students with online orientation and other materials, reducing the risk of important notices being lost in the mail or delivered to the wrong address.
- Actively involve students in the process of selecting and requesting courses and building their schedules via the web.
- Support student waiting lists when courses are full.
- Support visiting student registration and scheduling.
- Upload documents, such as transcripts, certifications, and letters of recommendation, to student profiles.
- Maintain access to comprehensive, permanent student records from time of admittance through graduation and post-graduate work.
EVALUATION FEATUREs
- Collect and customize online evaluations of student performance, courses, and faculty.
- Automatically distribute standard evaluation forms.
- Create a “base evaluation” with common questions allowing for greater accuracy when data mining. Optionally, add questions tailored to course administrators’ own data collection needs.
- Use robust online analysis tools to view and analyze the evaluation data, or export data for analysis using other tools.
- Ability to require completed evaluations prior to releasing students’ final grades.
- Maintain full control over changing and customizing evaluations.
- Use automatic email notification to alert administrators of evaluation results requiring immediate investigation.
- Release evaluation results to students or faculty once specified criteria have been met.
CALENDAR FEATUREs
- Create a fully searchable electronic calendar, giving students easy access to day-to-day activities common in preclinical courses.
- Assign levels of access and editing rights.
- Create templates for events sharing common elements.
- Form student groups to ease maintenance of event rosters.
- Add school-specific metadata to each event, including objectives, keywords, instructional methods, assessment methods, horizontal themes and resources, to inform students of the topics which will be covered.
- Attach files for easy access to course materials, including ability to search file contents.
- Export the OASIS calendar to a desktop or to portable devices such as Apple's iCal or Outlook and to online calendars such as the Google or Yahoo calendar.
- Integrate the calendar with compatible electronic room scheduling packages.
- Link Objectives, Keywords, Competencies, Assessment Methods, Instructional Methods and Resources to events for curriculum tracking purposes.
Curriculum Mapping and Curriculum Inventory (CI) FEATUREs
- Build a complete curriculum map with linkable Objectives, PCRS, Keywords, Competencies, Instructional Methods, Assessment Methods and Resources.
- Create School Objectives, Course Objectives and Event Objectives at the program, course and event level.
- Link Event Objectives to Course Objectives and Course Objectives to School Objectives for curriculum tracking.
- Link Learner Assessment Methods, Instructional Methods, Keywords, Objectives, Competencies, Resources and other customized curriculum data to events using the OASIS calendar.
- To supplement the AAMC defined Instructional Methods, Assessment Methods and Resources, create school specific Methods and Resources and map them to the Curriculum Inventory for use in the CI Report.
- Generate an Objective Overview Report to display a complete map of where and how often Objectives are associated with Courses, Events, Instructional Methods, Assessment Methods and other Objectives.
- Build CI Reports using stored curriculum data.
- Generate CI Reports and upload Reports automatically to the AAMC CI portal.
