ROAD Team

01/23/2026 Update

• CS&E resource right sizing: The team is currently analyzing recent enrollment data to determine optimal capacity sizing for AWS managed services. This effort will further reduce infrastructure-related AWS operational costs. We also plan to leverage the newly announced Cloud FinOps solution, Cloudability, to support this initiative.
• CS&E legacy infrastructure de-provisioning: The team has completed the de-provisioning of the legacy AWS infrastructure following the transition to the new AWS environment in October. This aligns with our organization goal to remove any legacy infrastructure.
• WI Act 15 CAOS: The new WI Act 15 course attributes addition for CAOS is now implemented, but we haven’t deployed the changes to a test environment yet. The team is waiting on the go-ahead from the RO. The RO believes this can be done after Jan. 26, after the recommendations for the Implementation of the UW CGER from the Ad hoc Undergrad Education Committee are presented to and approved by UAPC (on Jan. 15) and UCC (Jan. 23).

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Status key
Discovery: Documenting and validating a request or use case.
Refining: Planning implementation and estimating effort.
Unreleased: Ready to sprint or sprinting has started.
Released: Completed and deployed to production.

Priority key
Now: Sprinting now or in the next 2 weeks.
Next: Sprinting within the next 1-3 months.
Later: Greater than 3 months away from sprinting.

Discovery, Refining & Unreleased

Name	Status	Priority	Product(s)	Start Date	End Date	Description
CS&E Security Remediations and Terraform Provisioning	Unreleased	Now	Course Search & Enroll app	11/13/2024	12/30/2025	Address Cybersecurity recommendations and add Terraform support for CS&E. This will enhance disaster recovery capabilities in CS&E.
Cybersecurity Evaluations and AWS Cost Analysis	Unreleased	Now	CAOS API, DARS API, DARS App	07/24/2024		Cybersecurity Evaluation and AWS Cost Analysis for CAOS, CS&E, Residency App, DARS
Migrate messaging SQS and evaluate external client migration to SQS	Unreleased	Now	AmazonMQ, CAOS ETL, Course Search & Enroll app	10/28/2025	02/03/2026	Migrate away from AmazonMQ to SQS. SQS will provide more reliability with sub-millisecond latency. Will be able to resolve issues quickly by removing the dependency on API Team (AmazonMQ).
CS&E Elasticsearch Upgrade	Unreleased	Later	Course Search & Enroll app			Upgrade to latest version of ElasticSearch(ES).
DARSX Migration and Updates	Unreleased	Next	DARS API, DARS App			Migration of the DARSX functionality into the DARS Request app, as well as DARSX functional improvements. This will be a replacment for the legacy DARSX app and will bring the user exeprience into the new DARS app.
WI Act 15	Discovery	Now	CAOS API, DARS API, DARS App, Course Search & Enroll app	11/11/2025		Generalize how general education credits are used. The outcome is student can transfer general education credits across various Universities of Wisconsin institutions without any issue.
Name	Status	Priority	Product(s)	Start Date	End Date	Description

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Released

Name	Status	Product(s)	Start Date	End Date	Description
DARS Post-Release Fixes	Released	DARS API, DARS Web	09/03/2024	04/15/2025	Bug fixes and updates for DARS Request App based on campus user feedback.
CSE Accessibility Updates	Released	Course Search & Enroll app	04/29/2025	10/28/2025	To address accessibility issues in CS&E. This will also address new ADA rule recommendation.
Deprecate DARS Web	Released	DARS API, DARS App, DARS Web	06/24/2025	07/22/2025	Migrate all users into new DARS app and deprecate DARS Web
Curricular and Academic API: Discovery, API Specification and Cost Estimation	Released	Curricular and Academic API	07/10/2024	12/10/2024	Work with users, stakeholders, partners to refine curricular and academic API use cases to identify the outcomes. The goal is to design the interfaces such that we can implement a scalable, robust, RESTful/JSON API that's exposed via Apigee. Produce the API specification for the resources. Provide a system design and cost estimation for the implementation.
Residency Application Fall 2024 Application Updates	Released	Residency app	05/28/2024	10/29/2024	Residency App updates for Fall 2024 application cycle.
Advisor/Staff DARS app	Released	DARS API, DARS Web	01/24/2024	09/17/2024	Implement the ability for Advisor/Staff to run DARS Audits.
Cybersecurity Recommendations	Released	Residency app	11/10/2021	01/11/2022	Address Cybersecurity recommendations for Residency Application.
Database Exadata 9 migrations and SIS table re-name	Released		03/01/2023	04/25/2023	Migrate away from synonyms for SYSADM and migration to Exadata 9.
Fall 2023 Updates	Released	CAOS API, Course Search & Enroll app	09/20/2023	12/12/2023	Infrastructure updates before Fall 2023 enrollment period.
Fractional Transfer Credit	Released	Curricular and Academic API	11/16/2022	02/07/2023	Provide a list of RESTful resources for CAOS.
Fractional(exact) Credit Support in CS&E and DARS	Released	Course Search & Enroll app, CAOS API	10/05/2022	04/25/2023	Implement the support for Fractional(exact) Transfer Credits in CS&E and DARS.
Migrate CAOS SOAP endpoint 1.8 to AWS	Released	CAOS API	04/12/2023	09/01/2023	Migrate CAOS SOAP endpoints to AWS managed services. This will free up more operational time from the team to focus on other efforts.
Migrate CAOS-ETL to AWS	Released	DARS API, CAOS ETL, Course Search & Enroll app	01/11/2023	09/01/2023	Migrate CAOS ETL process to AWS managed services. This will free up more operational time from the team to focus on other efforts.
Migrating into AmazonMQ	Released	CAOS API, Course Search & Enroll app	12/22/2021	02/22/2022	Migrate CAOS and CS&E to AmazonMQ from on-prem ActiveMQ. This will free up more operational time from the team to focus on other efforts.
NetID login/SSO for DARS Advisor Audit App	Released	DARS API, DARS Web	10/18/2023	12/26/2023	Implement NetID login for DARS Advisor site (either using AWS Cognito or Apache/Shib).
Non-matriculated students to run DARS Audits, DARS TI grades support and Apigee migration	Released	Course Search & Enroll app	12/22/2021	07/26/2022	This feature will add the ability for a non-matriculated (a student who can't generate a DARS Audit yet) student to generate DARS Audits. By enabling an admitted, non-matriculated student to run a DARS, they will be able to see exactly how their transfer coursework and AP/IB scores will count toward a specific major or certificate. This is valuable insofar as they will be able to see the degree applicability of their transfer coursework. As UW-Madison seeks to increase enrollment in Online undergraduate majors, the ability to show prospective, admitted students exactly how many credits they would need to take to complete the degree is an invaluable recruitment tool. This release will also contain Transfer-In-Progress(TI) grades support in DARS and also DARS API Apigee migration.
Residency app Fall 2023	Released	Residency app	06/28/2023	07/13/2023	Update residency determination logic and correct bugs in preparation for the upcoming fall semester.
Revalidate Cart when Holds are removed	Released	Course Search & Enroll app	03/16/2022	05/04/2022	Implement the functionality to revalidate the CS&E cart when holds are removed. This will reduce the number of support requests on RO.
Spring Boot and Critical Security Fixes v1	Released	CAOS API, Course Search & Enroll app	08/31/2022	12/21/2022	Upgrade Spring Boot version in CS&E and CAOS. This remove possible security vulnerabilities by upgrading to a newest version of a library that's used by CS&E and CAOS.
Spring Boot and Critical Security Fixes v2	Released	CAOS API, Course Search & Enroll app	06/14/2023	12/13/2023	Upgrade Spring Boot version in CS&E and CAOS. This remove possible security vulnerabilities by upgrading to a newest version of a library that's used by CS&E and CAOS.
uAchieve Server in AWS and DARS API Improvements	Released	DARS API, DARS Web	12/27/2023	05/14/2024	To set up infrastructure as code for DARS. This will provide disaster recovery for DARS infrastructure. And also ability to review changes to the same infrastructure. Refactor DARS API to remove NetID based authNZ model. Migrate uAchieve server to AWS.
Name	Status	Product(s)	Start Date	End Date	Description

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ROAD Team

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Staff

Lyle Hanson

Brian Hill

Nuwan Kumarasiri

Ben Nylund

Eric Schoville

Leja Thao

Julian Vandenberg