How do students access the web-based inventory and how do institutions pull this data into FastTrack. Where would the survey reside—on the institution’s server?
The web-based inventory system can be housed on your institution’s web server or on the Polaris Research Associates’ server. Students would be directed by your staff or faculty to the website, where they would be asked to enter basic identification information (campus code, student number). If the inventory system is housed on the Polaris server, the inventory data would be exported as a .csv file to your institution, where it would be loaded into the FastTrack database by your IT staff or, if you prefer, by Polaris technical staff (service bureau fees would apply in this case).
