The following remarks have been made about the system and you can decide for yourself whether they sound promising or not:<\/p>\n
“Why haven\u2019t I heard about the system before \u2026 grrrr.” NAO is the abbreviation for Nagraadse Akademiese Ondersteuning\/Postgraduate Academic Support; a web-based system designed specifically for staff members involved with the management of postgraduate students.<\/p>\n Honestly, you can get rid of the spreadsheets you have used year after year to keep track of important information, because everything you need is \u00a0available via NAO, fresh from the central system every single morning.<\/p>\n Excel reports are available with as little effort as a mouse click, to enable you to do further data crunching,\u00a0 filter options will narrow down your searches to only the records you are interested in and data on the screen can be sorted by clicking column headings.<\/p>\n At a glance and without lifting a finger the system shows whether a student<\/p>\n Something extra about the system worth mentioning, is that e-mails can be sent to groups of students.\u00a0 Just create your own wording in both English and Afrikaans and e-mails will be sent to students in the correspondence language which they have chosen at registration. The same wording can be used year after year, for example to remind slowcoaches to register before a certain date to avoid paying a fine!<\/p>\n You will be able to create your own notes per student (e.g. John was out of action for a certain time as a result of influenza), get access to full study records, check funding to make sure departmental bursaries were awarded and get hold of lots more information.<\/p>\n The best news of all is that Study Leaders and Thesis Titles can be captured to the central system via NAO, which will spare you a lot of worrying about your hard drive crashing and destroying all your hard work of the past 6 months!<\/p>\n If you need more information, click here<\/a> to see a Powerpoint presentation. Send email to Rita de Jager, Head: Postgraduate Academic Support\u00a0at <\/span>rd@sun.ac.za<\/a> to be given access, scheduled for a training session or to ask further questions about NAO.<\/span><\/p>\n [Article by Rita de Jager with much appreciated input from prof Keith Palmer, Dept of E & E Engineering]<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Die bestuur van nagraadse studente is baie werk, maar NAO kan jou help. \u00a0Het jy al ooit gewens dat jy op \u2018n maklike manier inligting van jou Fakulteit of Departement se nagraadse studente in die hande kan kry?\u00a0 As jy nog nie met NAO kennis gemaak het nie, is dit dalk nou die tyd om meer uit te vind en jouself in die toekoms baie moeite te spaar.<\/span><\/p>\n Die volgende opmerkings is al oor die stelsel gemaak en oordeel maar self of dit nie belowend klink nie:<\/p>\n “Hoekom hoor ek nou eers van die stelsel\u2026 grrrr .” NAO is die afkorting vir Nagraadse Akademiese Ondersteuning; \u2018n webstelsel wat spesiaal vir personeel ontwerp is om hulle lewe makliker te maak wat die bestuur van nagraadse studente betref.<\/p>\n Eerlikwaar, jy kan maar ontslae raak van jou eie sigblaaie waarmee jy jaar vir jaar probeer tred hou het van belangrike inligting, want jy kry elke oggend alles wat jy nodig het, vars uit die sentrale stelsel via NAO.<\/p>\n Excel verslae is beskikbaar met \u2018n muisklik sodat jy verdere verwerking van die data kan doen, filteropsies kan gebruik word om groepe studente te verklein en data kan gesorteer word deur op verskillende kolomhofies te klik.<\/p>\n Met \u2018n oogopslag en sonder om \u2018n vinger te verroer wys die stelsel vir jou of \u2018n student<\/p>\n \u2018n Ekstra lekkerte van die stelsel is dat jy e-pos aan groepe studente kan stuur. Stel slegs bewoording in Afrikaans en Engels op en elke student ontvang sy\/haar e-pos in die korrespondesietaal wat by registrasie vasgel\u00ea is.\u00a0 Dieselfde bewoording kan jaar na jaar gebruik word, byvoorbeeld om laatslapers te herinner om betyds te registreer en sodoende \u2018n boete vry te spring!<\/p>\n Jy kan jou eie notas maak ivm studente (byvoorbeeld Jannie was vir \u2018n sekere tydperk buite aksie a.g.v. griep), volledige studierekords bekyk, befondsing kontroleer om te bepaal of \u2018n departementele beurs reeds toegeken is en nog baie meer.<\/p>\n Die beste nuus van alles is dat jy Studieleiers en Tesistitels sentraal via NAO kan vasl\u00ea en nooit weer bekommerd hoef te wees dat jou hardeskyf gaan oppak en al jou werk van 6 maande lank tot niet maak nie.<\/p>\n Indien jy meer oor die stelsel te wete wil kom, kliek hier<\/a> vir die Powerpoint-voorlegging.\u00a0Stuur epos aan Rita de Jager, Hoof: Nagraadse Akademiese Ondersteuning\u00a0\u00a0by <\/span>rd@sun.ac.za<\/a> om toegang te kry, in te skakel by \u2018n opleidingsessie of sommer enige vrae oor die stelsel te vra.<\/span><\/p>\n [Artikel deur Rita de Jager met gewaardeerde \u00a0insette van prof Keith Palmer, Dept E & E Ingenieurswese]<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Managing postgraduate students is a lot of work, but NAO can help you.\u00a0 Have you ever wished that information about postgraduate students of your Faculty or Department was more readily available?\u00a0 If you have never used NAO before, now is the time to to find out more and save yourself a lot of trouble in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-students"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 06:38:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“NAO is the best thing that has happened in my career during the past few years!”
“Wow! Now I never have to hunt for a student number again \u2026\u00a0“<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2014\/05\/1380083_highlighter.jpg\")
Below is a list of various types of information available to make your life a bit easier:<\/p>\n\n
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“NAO is die beste ding wat die afgelope paar jaar in my loopbaan gebeur het!”
“Nou hoef ek nooit weer \u2018n us-nommer van \u2018n student te soek nie \u2026”<\/p>\nHieronder is \u2018n lys van verskillende tipes inligting beskikbaar om jou lewe \u2018n bietjie makliker te maak:<\/p>\n\n
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