Application Software Support - BU Office of Technology

Below is a brief description of the applications available for you. If you need assistance with using these tools, please feel free to contact the help desk at x4357.

CAPS Advisement - CAPS (Curriculum and Advisement Progress System) is a system that allows faculty/staff to view the progress a student has made toward completion of requirements for a degree program. It will list and count the students in a major and advisees for an advisor.
You will need to enter your FCINF ID and password to use this application.

FCINF - The Faculty Information System is a menu driven computer application allowing advisors access to certain course and student records. Transactions via FCINF include retrieving class lists, scheduling students, and entering grades.

Room Search - The Room Search tool generates reports including building lists, roomplots, course lists, department lists, section lists, instructor reports, and available room reports. Documentation for the tool can be found at: http://adminapps.bloomu.edu/roomplot/Documentation.pdf

Search Semester Courses Offered - This search tool allows you to easily view courses offered. Look up by department, by semester. Results will show course number, section, instructor, title of class, when class is held, credits and seating information.

GENERATE STUDENT LISTS / SEND EMAIL TO THOSE STUDENTS ~ Two Tools Available:

1) Class List Generator - Used by faculty and academic offices to generate a list of students in a specified department/course code and section number. List can be used to send a group email to students.

Learn how to generate a class list as well as use that list for email purposes here

2) BU Email List Application - Used to generate a list of students. Depending on the search criteria used, students may be viewed by: (1) program of study; (2) for an advisor; (3) area of advisement; (4) department; (5) minor; (6) career concentration; (7) expected date of graduation. The list can be used to send a group email to the selected students.

To use the system: Login with your FCINF ID and Password, select Lists, Documents and Addresses Menu, then select Advisement Address and Email.

To send an email to this group: Choose Excel. You will be prompted to open or save the Excel spreadsheet. Once it is open, you can copy all the email addresses and then paste them into the "To" or "Bcc" field in Outlook.

Why use the Bcc field? To maintain confidentiality of student addresses when sending an Outlook message. If you'd like to do this, address the email to yourself (in the "To" field). Paste all the student email addresses in the "Bcc" field. (If "Bcc" field is not available on your email form, click the Options tab in Outlook - then click "show Bcc.")