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CONTACT:  Niles P. Dally

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HEADLINE:  Paine College Tutoring Center uses NuVision One Card

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Napa. CA -  October 28,2005 -  NuVision Networks extends their integrated campus concept at Paine College in Augusta, GA by providing the Tutorial and Enrichment Center a solution for their record keeping.

The Paine College TEC center is required to maintain accurate and detailed records of usage to fulfill the requirements of a Title III grant.  They progressed from a few notebooks to a homegrown stand-alone sign in program using Filemaker Pro.  When NuVision Networks, Corp became the college’s one-card provider, they modified some of their software to accommodate the colleges’ needs.  Now, using their direct access data integration to the College’s Jenzabar Data System, they are able to automatically handle the operation. 

Users of the Paine TEC center simply scan their card in a computer, choose the faculty member, course, and tutor and click a sign in button.  To sign out the cardholder simply swipes their card again and presses the sign out button.  NuVision also includes functionality for non-classroom tutoring, A/V equipment sign out or computer program sign out.

The iAMECS Advanced System is also being used by the TEC Center to efficiently record workshop attendance.  Ms. Carol Overton, Director of Paine’s TEC said, “the system has made record keeping much less cumbersome.  We are able to pull up a variety of reports very easily and we are able to quickly extract data.”

NuVision Networks, Corp modified that program for the LRC (Learning Resource Center) to allow cardholders to sign in for rooms with various prescribed options or for a particular faculty member and class.  NVN also created a number of reports to allow the college administration to use the data collected.  

Most of these cross campus applications are possible because NVN has direct integration to many of their customers’ Information Systems including Sungard SCT Banner, PeopleSoft and Jenzabar.   Sungard SCT PowerCampus and Datatel integration will be available shortly.  Ms Overton also stated, “Since the NuVision system is connected directly to our college system we no longer have to manually add students or faculty, which was a very time consuming job.”

NuVision intends to expand their Integrated Campus program to provide more Web access through their Campus Center portal as well as providing more card access and data to various departments.