Support Oregon prepayment of exam registrations
Target release | December 1, 2022 |
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Epic | https://aswb.visualstudio.com/Exam Registration Project/_workitems/edit/1785 |
Document status | planning |
Document owner | @Robert Adach |
Business POC | @Felicia Dennison |
Designer | @Robert Adach |
Developers | @Robert Adach |
QA | Exam Admin TBD |
Goals
Allow candidates approved by Oregon to register and not incur any registration fees.
Background and strategic fit
Oregon Health Authority has a $182,000 that it wishes to use to help Social Workers pay for their ASWB exam registrations. This is similar arrangement to the existing arrangement with Massachusetts DCF. except the Oregon arrangement has a set maximum amount of money allotted.
Assumptions
While this is being launched for Oregon, it is expected that other jurisdictions may wish to establish similar arrangements.
As of 8/15, the payment will apply to any Candidate with an approval for Oregon with no restrictions
Requirements
Title | Importance | Notes | Estimated duration (hours) | |
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1 | Legacy system will allow staff to process registration with $0 cost | Must Have | The system allows for any jurisdiction to have a registration as $0 | 0.5 (for code review) |
2 | Legacy system will accurately report the number of registrations for the jurisdiction with $0 cost registration | Must Have |
| 12 - 80
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3 | Legacy system or other facility will report approvals with state vouchers segregated by Jurisdiction | Should Have |
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4 | Legacy system or other facility will report registrations with state vouchers segregated by Jurisdiction | Should Have |
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5 | Legacy system or other facility will report completed exams with state vouchers segregated by Jurisdiction | Should Have |
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6 | The exam registration online system will allow Candidates to register at no charge | Must Have | No changes are needed | 0.5 (for code review) |
7 | The exam registration online system will display a pop-up message for jurisdiction candidates advising them of the $0 cost registration | Must Have |
| 1 - code is in place, time is to test solution for OR. |
8 | The online system will keep track of the amount of pre-payment remaining and disable “free registrations” at a specific threshold | Should Have | When funds available <= threshold by > 0, popup will direct Candidates to contact Exam Admin directly | 6 |
9 | The system will automatically assign a State Voucher number to the approval upon import | Should Have | If the system is able to support multi-jurisdiction state vouchers. | 8 |
User interaction and design
There are 2 design options we have discussed. The selection of a option will be based on the level of effort to implement, and the responses to the questions below.
Questions
Question | Owner | Outcome |
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Is this a prepayment process or post-payment |
| Pre-payment |
What, if any, restrictions are there on the Candidate’s eligibility to receive the free registration? | @Felicia Dennison | Any individual with an “OR” approval, No limit on how many times they register |
Are Candidates currently, but not approved eligible for the free registration? | @Felicia Dennison | We are not refunding registrations that were completed prior to the go-live |
What is the target release to production date? | @Felicia Dennison | December 1st, 2022 (activation into production) |
What should the pop-up message say (Header, text) if we require the candidate to contact Exam Administration | @Felicia Dennison | None needed |
What should the pop-up message say (Header, text) if we allow the candidate to register online | @Felicia Dennison | Felicia will provide text from OR, and we will determine where in the flow it is best to display this. |
Who is responsible for monitoring the usage of the payment | @Felicia Dennison | Exam Admin will monitor monthly and then more frequently as funds diminish. |
Task | Estimated Duration | Notes |
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Requirements meeting and documentation | 4 hours |
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Code Review | 2-4 hours |
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Required changes to legacy system for must have requirements | 2-10 hours | Dependent on Code review and final design |
Required changes to Exam Registration site for must have requirements | 2 hours | Development is needed to add the widget to the T&C page pass appropriate values to the Site Control popup to display the proper messaging. |
Required changes to legacy system for should have / nice to have requirements | 2-10 hours | Dependent on Code review and final design |
Required changes to Exam Registration site for should have / nice to have requirements | 15-45 hours | 8-40 hours - If reporting requirements for segmentation of voucher usage must be driven from within the Legacy system, this is a large undertaking. Recommend that we use an alternative report to handle these reports (requirements 3,4,5) 3-5 hours to develop the auto-disable feature (re |
Make sure existing voucher reports will capture the usage of the OR voucher | .25 hours | Existing reports will capture the vouchers but will not segment them; |
Implement system monitoring and proactive disablement based on fees available | 3-6 hours | Dependent on Code review and final design |
Durations listed for changes to systems include development, internal code reviews, and full QA testing by IT. It does not include time for the documentation of test cases if requested by the business line, or the time needed by the business line to complete testing
Out of scope
TBD
Project Notes
Date | Entered By | Note |
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Aug 22, 2022 | @Robert Adach | Per teams message from Felicia “..Hi Robert. I just wanted to let you know that we did speak to the folks over at Oregon Health Authority. Our expected "launch" for these candidates will be January 1(ish) 2023” |
Oct 24, 2022 | @Robert Adach | Discussed the project requirements with @Dan Sheehan , @Felicia Dennison and @Subrena Breeden . Outstanding questions from IT have been addressed and work on design documents/requirements/LOE will begin. |
Nov 9, 2022 | @Robert Adach | Targeted date to deliver final requirements and LOE to the team including if work will need to be done in EREG and EAP2 codebases. |
Supporting Documents
Technical Review (IT)
System / Area Affected
System | Area | Impact |
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crcManagement | Registration (NEW) | The system allows for any jurisdiction to be flagged to allow state vouchers |
crcRegistration | Registration (NEW) | The system allows for any jurisdiction to be flagged to allow state vouchers |
crcManagement | Reporting | All reports on Vouchers will pick up any registration with state voucher listed. The titles and line items for voucher reports are hardcoded to include Massachusetts or MA in the item. This can be easily updated. No report content currently breaks or lists state vouchers by Jurisdiction |
crcRegistration | Reporting | All reports on Vouchers will pick up any registration with state voucher listed. The titles and line items for voucher reports are hardcoded to include Massachusetts or MA in the item. This can be easily updated. No report content currently breaks or lists state vouchers by Jurisdiction |
crcApproval | Approval Entry | Need to automatically add State Voucher to approvals as they are imported/created in the system |
ASWBCentral | Exam Registration | Will be integrated into Phase 2 project. No immediate need to address |
Exam Registration | Basic Information Page | Add a popup to page to notify Oregon Candidate of registration process |
Exam Registration | Payment | Need to remove specific reference to State Voucher being MA only |
Other technical notes
Use the view dev_ExamRegGroupAccounts ON ASWBSQL2\ASWBSQL2\ASWB to locate accounts to use for testing