What are IS-technicians good for?

The faculty IS-technician is a consultant in the use of the IS in all departments of the respective faculty, and can support administrative staff and teachers in the use of the system. He/she can provide support in the form of:

• consultation (face-to-face, email and online),
• creating written help or instructions on how to use the applications, supplementing existing Help in the IS,
• training for individuals and groups of users,
• presentation of the possibilities of using the IS administrative agendas,
• processing and forwarding suggestions to the Development Team.

Contact your is-technician preferably at istechfimunicz. To speed up communication, please include your university's identification number (i.e. učo) and the faculty you work for in your email.

List of IS-technicians and their assignment to faculties: https://is.muni.cz/podpora/istech/.

Course Catalogue

• Editing basic or additional information of the courses,
• entering attributes,
• editing prerequisites,
• creating registration or control templates.

Office for Studies

• Entering data into the Academic Records or checking study,
• usage of bulk operations in the Office for Studies application,
• entering scholarship data,
• you need to send out a letter to students based on certain criteria using bulk selection,
• working with the Thesis/Dissertation agenda, creating a Thesis/Dissertation Archive, entering reports,
• preparing final state examination dates using electronic report validation,
• printing various types of lists, reports, certificates, diplomas; exporting information from the IS.

Topic Lists

• Working with non-course/course topic lists,
• you need to set up the validation of official assignments for theses/dissertations,
• listing theses topics.

Document Office

• You wish to convert to electronic form a process that has previously only been done on paper,
• you create files, enter tasks, and continue to manage your agenda through the document office,
• you want to process a file that has been handed over to you or sign a document that has been sent to you,
• you need to generate electronic decisions, modify existing decisions or otherwise modify actions in a particular agenda,
• you need to designate a representative to act on your behalf in your absence.

Supervisor

• You supervise or read students' final papers – entering course evaluations, uploading reports,
• as a member of a programme board, you want to view a list of students in a particular program, view the full text of a supervisor's evaluation, or get a list of grades and credits with an overview of a doctoral student's publications.

Publications

• You enter and manage publication activity in the Information System,
• you need to edit a publication record,
• you want to get information about all publication records according to specific criteria,
• you are looking for a specific employee work in the University Repository.

Guarantor

• You want to edit the program characteristics, information about the degree programme and study plan,
• you need to edit and export personnel sheets required for accreditation,
• you are interested in statistical data about the guaranted program.

Management Data

• You want to export data about the study fields (self-assessment reports),
• you want to get statistical data on the number of students in individual faculties, programs or fields of study,
• you need to get information about teaching or pedagogical performance,
• you want to get an overview of your teaching activities.

Shopping Center

• You are organising a conference or workshop and want participants to pay the fee through the Shopping Center in the Information System,
• you want to set up the sale of a service or product according to specific requirements.

Admission Procedures

• You are preparing the runs of the admission procedure,
• you need to collect sections in the e-application form,
• you want to generate invitations for admission examination or enrolment in e-application through the document office,
• you're preparing protocols for PhD admissions examination dates.

Other

• Personnel Groups – you need to create an alias for a group of people; you want to automatically maintain a list of people or an access point based on different rules,
• File Manager – you want to place files on a document server, on your web, or in your file repository, or other users' file repositories,
• Regulations – you want to make your workplace employees aware of mandatory guidelines and measures,
• EVAK – you plan to conduct an evaluation of academic staff using automatically calculated indicators,
• Employee evaluation – you plan to conduct evaluation of non-academic staff using pre-prepared evaluation forms,
• Surveys – you want to create a questionnaire or survey with advanced setup options,
• Rights – you need to consult on the scope and implications of explicit access rights,
• You have a suggestion for a new application or functionality that the IS could provide.