After serving the campus community for more than two decades, the legacy degree audit application for University of Wisconsin–Madison staff, DARSWeb, has been fully shut down.
Academic advisors and other staff members used DARSWeb to track students’ degree progress until last fall, when the new Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) Request Application launched. The new app brought a number of feature upgrades, including the ability for advisors to view student-run degree audits, as well as improved security. In practice, advisors now have more insights into students’ academic interests and can provide their advisees more tailored recommendations.
Staff members were able to access both apps for several months during a transition period. Most users shifted completely to the DARS Request App by April, with access to DARSWeb for a limited number of users lasting into early June.
Shutting down DARSWeb frees up development and support resources and will result in cost savings for the university.
A collection of step-by-step KnowledgeBase (KB) documents is available to help advisors and staff use the new app.
The student-facing DARS experience in Course Search and Enroll did not change as a result of this project.