Beginning April 11, UCSB Human Resources “will no longer accept paper requests” for reclassification reviews or updated job descriptions, said Dayna Williamson, compensation manager for HR. Supervisors must submit all such requests online through a system known as OACIS.

Between 500 and 600 users of the Online Application and Classification Information System were trained in March—the last group went through on Friday—after a “very successful pilot project,” said Williamson (see the article in the 93106 issue of 7/19/2004). As overseer of the Web-based classification system that will soon encompass the whole campus, Williamson is satisfied that most of the bugs were worked out of the software during the pilot project.

Designed to be more efficient, convenient, and transparent than the paper process, the online system allows supervisors to create, update, and reclassify job descriptions, taking the guesswork out of the forms, she said. At the same time, a system that is available 24 hours a day, every day, is intended to speed up classification of new jobs or reclassifications while gathering approvals and building a job description library.

Nonetheless, tutorials used in training will be available after April 11 online at <http://hr.ucsb.edu> to refresh the memories of those newly trained in OACIS.