Ready for another round? Animo.sys may be up for its second run for the third term enrollment of AY 2013-2014.
With pre-enrollment for the third term of AY 2013-2014 slated for November 13, the Enrollment Council will be deciding on the enrollment service provider to be used through a ‘stress test’ of the Animo.sys platform to be conducted tomorrow, November 9 at approximately 3 pm. Selected students with advanced enrollment have been asked to log on to the Animo.sys site at http://www.animo.sys.dlsu.edu.ph tomorrow to check whether the system is ready for use by the entire student body.
The University is set to replace the 13 year-old server, the My.LaSalle System (MLS), with the Oracle-powered server, Animo.sys, for the longer run. The Oracle server, the same used in international universities such as the National University of Singapore and Stanford University and touted to be able to accommodate a heavier user capacity, is a product of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Project by the Information Technology Services (ITS) office that is set for deployment at the soonest possible time.
According to University Student Government (USG) President Migi Moreno, the stress test for advanced enrollees tomorrow afternoon is not the only stress test set to be conducted, as selected USG officers were set to test run the server this afternoon.
“ITS has not given any feedback on the initial testing that is currently being made now with selected USG officers which is merely a familiarization test to ensure whether the enrollment process will be efficient and time-saving,” states Moreno. “Once ITS has given feedback on this, only then will we be able to inform the advance enrollees about the stress test which is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
Moreno cites that the test run today, however, may not have been executed as planned. “We are experiencing difficulty in coordinating the initial test since classes were called off today. The original plan was the initial test will be conducted in school to be supervised by ITS and the Oracle Team.”
Enrollment Council student representative and Legislative Assembly Chairperson for Students’ Rights and Welfare Gregg Tolentino shares, “Since there will be a stress test on Animo.sys tomorrow, we will request for data from ITS and feedback from the students [who were part of the testing]. In the event that Animo.sys will run smoothly, we will approve the use of the system. Otherwise, if it fails or works worse than MLS last term, we will attempt to have MLS for the meantime, again.”
Students and other stakeholders largely criticized the Animo.sys server during its unsuccessful first run earlier this May, when students jammed the server whose capacity of 2,500 users per timeslot is supposed to be an improvement from MLS’ 1,200 user capacity. In a previous interview with The LaSallian, University Registrar Dr. Voltaire Mistades stated that an unexpected volume of 4,000 students tried to log on even if it was not their registered timeslot, 60 percent more than the expected number.
The Enrollment Council is arranged to meet a last time before officially announcing the final enrollment scheme for the third term.
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How did Animo.sys fare last time? Read our headline last June here: https://thelasallian.com/2013/06/11/animo-sys-failure-results-to-mls-return/
The enrollment schedule may not be as you remembered. Read about the student-led revisions in the enrollment schedule in our feature here: https://thelasallian.com/2013/07/27/revised-enlistment-scheme-to-take-effect-this-coming-enrollment-period/