LibraryC4 Enablers4a Technology and systems
LTI-ENA-004
Establish a multi-campus degree audit transaction archiving database
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Mechanism
Every change to a degree audit record is archived instead of overwritten. Researchers can then see how credit applicability shifts after transfer, which is invisible in a system that only keeps the current state.
Preconditions
Centralized degree audit databases with automated export.
Owner, by role
Lead Data Scientist / Business Intelligence Director
Who can act
System, state or accreditor
Effort
Medium, 9 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Size and completeness of the historical credit applicability database
Failure modes
Inadequate storage capacity or poor API scheduling can lead to gaps in archived student transactions.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-ENA-003 Configure systemwide degree audit software to support multi-campus record queries