Campus-Wide Initiatives

Cayuse

The Information Technology Division and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) have teamed up this year to obtain and implement a top-ranked eRA (electronic research administration) suite called Cayuse. This significant project has involved faculty and staff from across the University, bringing MTSU grant administration and research compliance to the forefront. With MTSU’s new elevation to the R2 Carnegie status, Cayuse is a tool that will provide the foundation for increased participation and grant awards, bringing further resources and national and international recognition to the University. Cayuse will be introduced to the MTSU community in fall 2022.

Ellucian Ethos

As MTSU continues enterprise resource planning modernization efforts, the implementation of Ellucian Ethos integration is laying the foundation. This platform will be the cornerstone of cloud technologies such as ILP (Intelligent Learning Platform), Experience, and integrations with many of our existing third-party applications. Ellucian ILP will provide real-time integration between Banner and Desire2Learn. Ellucian Experience will empower students, faculty, and staff with its centralized, user-friendly dashboard. Users will discover efficiency by being able to customize their own Experience with workflows and less time logging into multiple applications.

Self-Service Banner 9

When you’re using PipelineMT, most of the links you use are taking you into Self-Service Banner (SSB) whether you realize it or not.  Now that we’re using Banner 9 Admin Pages, which replaced INB, we have to work on our conversion to Self-service Banner 9, which is essentially phase 2 of the Banner 9 upgrade project.  SSB will require a lot more work out of ITD EAS staff and certain functional users because of the many MTSU customizations that have been done to SSB over the years.  All of that is being worked on now.  We are hoping that the new baseline SSB functionality will be an improvement and allow us to do away with some customizations but that analysis is still forthcoming.

 

Completed Projects

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

With more MTSU systems using single sign-on (SSO) services, it has never been more important to protect your MTSU account from unauthorized access. SSO services make it easier to access MTSU systems using a common user name and password. As a result, MTSU now offers Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) services to protect your MTSU account.