Academic Departments - add field for Faculty/School
Academic Departments within institutions often sit under Faculty or School groups. This is currently not represented in Alma or Leganto. Could we have a new (optional) field added for School/Faculty both to the Academic Department area and have it available in Analytics.

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Chris Jones commented
Hi, apologies for delay in commentiing - yes it would still very much be useful. I suppose there will be a few aspects to consider:
1. At the most basic, a category-type analytics field which allowed groups of depts to be associated with a custom category might work for many folks and give flexibility on dashboards for example, assuming Depts>Schools or Depts-Faculty type models.
2. However there will be 'ontological oddities'; some folks have more precise needs with (dept>school>Faculty) equivalents - not suggesting the Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO) is a good fit, but flags some of the known issues.
3. slightly slippery slope would be other course analytics people want to/could capture (more practically useful than hours for example!)- which would be useful for admin/level of study, mode of attendance (Distance learning, part-time, and am sure many other issues.
Would be with a survey or discussion to pick out workarounds people adopt now (searchable Ids and Section ID fields being used for 'structural' organisational information.
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Eva Reblin commented
Yes, this would be still very helpful. Thank you! Eva
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Kael Driscoll commented
This would be helpful, Jessie. Having two fields to group Schools together into Faculties would be great for reporting. Thanks, Kael
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Chris Jones commented
An update here would be useful (also admin may need to review/remove some spammy comments from last year)
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Peta Hopkins commented
I see this was going to be added to the roadmap back in Dec 2018. An update on this would be great.
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AdminMiriam (Leganto BA, Ex Libris) commented
Hi,
This will be developed as part of Leganto road map.
We posted idea exchange with high level design:We would like to get your feedback on this.
Many thanks,
Miriam, Leganto BA -
Michael Stanning commented
Having two tiers of academic organisation would be very useful to the browsing of lists in Leganto and the management of lists.