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Enhancements for Canadian schools

Janet Starks

July 26, 2011 12:49

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As a new user, in Canada, I'm finding some areas of Populi that are American-based and therefore not as user-friendly. e.g. the Student's Dashboard map shows only US states; the Data Slicer options lists only US states. Would it be possible to add to these options to allow Canadian users the same reporting options as US users?

The format of collecting/reporting race/ethnicity data to satisfy IPEDS does not seem to be relevant to Canadian schools. There has been some adjustment so that it is non-Canadians who are shown as non-resident aliens, but this isn't really helpful - and is even not a term that's used in Canada.

Even though we're a Canadian school, we have a lot of American students. In drop boxes, e.g. Home town, could USA be second in the list?

Thanks so much!

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  Christal Fehr August 25, 2011 16:25

  I agree... especially the reporting functions, like having a Canadian map. The map would be big project, I'm sure... but so useful.

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  Patrick Friesen September 01, 2011 02:33

  When exporting addresses Populi seems to assume that we are in the US because it adds the country code. We can't select that in the fields so it means manually taking out the country code "CA" on every address.

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  Kurtis Habecker September 15, 2011 22:35

  Perhaps Populi could suppress the export or printing of the Country when the Country matches the Country of the Institution's Primary Address. That would include in the Recipient Address variable used in printing. That might be helpful for both United States and Canada based schools