Featured Projects
Alamo Colleges ITS has multiple information technology initiatives underway on an ongoing basis. The Featured ITS projects represent technical projects that are at the forefront of the department's efforts at this time.
SoftChalk Lesson Builder
SoftChalk Lesson Builder is intuitive and easy to use. It allows instructors to create lessons, activities and quizzes with a standard professional design.
Content can be entered in Lesson Builder and uploaded into a Learning Management System such as Blackboard or WebCT. Students will be able to view the lesson with any standard web browser.
Microsoft Office 2007
The Latest version of Microsoft Office was released in January 2007. Alamo Colleges License with Microsoft allows employees to use Office 2007 application both in the office and home computers. The purpose of this project is to rollout MS Office 2007 at the District Offices. Installation of software upgrade is expected to continue through August 2008.
PALS
PALS portal replaced the ePortal application January 2006, providing a front end and a single point of contact to many of the enterprise applications and services. PALS in addition to the applications, provides a lot of collaborative tools, such as, groups, chat, email and calendar tools.
Document Management System
For several years, the Alamo Colleges have been using the Digital Document System to digitize, manage and archive paper documents. Under the TITAN project, the Digital Documents system will be upgraded to a newer version allowing the system to be interfaced with the Banner administrative system.
TracDat
The purpose of this application is to assist Alamo Colleges users with strategic planning and program assessment. TracDat is a unifying instrument that helps to document goals, objectives and report on outcomes and assessment.
SPM
SPM stands for Strategic Performance Management. SPM is a web based application for designing, building, managing scorecards, dashboards and strategy maps. Using the Extract transform load processes, data metrics can be measured against institutional databases.
CrimeStar
CrimeStar software is a completely integrated, flexible and powerful information management tool for law enforcement and public safety. Crimestar computer aided dispatch system and records management tool is currently in the process of being implemented at the Alamo Colleges and will support the needs of our Alamo Colleges public safety department.
Web Content Management System
The Alamo Colleges has implemented a Web Content Management System. The WCMS will facilitate content creation, content control, editing, and many essential web maintenance functions. The WCMS provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease of use.
