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• LMS: endorsement from APSC and ITSC and presentation at April faculty meeting; create a cross-campus evaluation group, led by Jill and Renee; begin to survey campus community on needs (current and future) 

• MCI: develop working group and share plan with campus community; begin collecting feedback, researching implementation strategies and preparing timeline and communications plan 

• CSM: Vendor demonstrations to the selection team and campus community; assessment and selection of the solution 

• LMS: Continue to gather feedback from campus community on needs (current and future); evaluation group to review platform options 

• CSM: Contract negotiations and finalization 

• MCI: Implement and test software delivery solution; strategize operational implementation plan; prepare for Fall 2024 test pilot group 

• MCI: working group meeting to discuss implementation, develop FAQs (financial aid for high-need students, loaner laptops, streaming software); facilitate small software streaming pilot; work with departments on appropriate classroom system reductions 

• LMS: Hold community product demonstrations and feedback sessions. Announce decision toward end of semester and begin onboarding/create implementation plan 

• CSM: Pre-implementation activities for finance, human resource services and IT. This phase involves small working groups collaborating with Workday to get a head start on 1) providing key information about Dickinson, and 2) mapping this information to the Workday structure.

• MCI: messaging to campus community and incoming class about fall implementation; facilitate large software streaming pilot; build loaner laptop pools; work with departments on appropriate classroom system reductions 

• LMS: Technical implementation; tech training for Academic Technology team; recruit faculty for soft launch 1 

• CSM: The planning stage begins in January for finance and human resource services. The team's key deliverable is the Workday Foundational Tenant—a preliminary configuration of Workday using Dickinson’s data. Mid-spring, we begin the architecture and configuration stage.

• MCI: removing computers from classrooms; messaging to campus community and incoming class about fall implementation; prepare for student personal computer support roles 

• LMS: faculty training (small group soft launch of 15-20 faculty) 

• CSM: Continued configuration and testing of Workday for finance and human resource services business operations.

• MCI: full implementation; messaging about computing resources/support 

• LMS: Soft launch 1; recruit and train faculty for soft launch 2

• CSM: Continued testing of finance and human resource services operations, development of user documentation, training and preparing for go-live by the end of the calendar year

Spring 2026 

• LMS: Soft Launch 2: half of the faculty transitioned to new platform 

• CSM: Three months will be spent configuring and testing Adaptive Planning, the Workday budgeting and reporting module. Also, spring is the start of post-implementation support and fine-tuning configurations for finance and human resource services

Summer 2026 

• LMS: Full faculty training

• CSM: Continued post-implementation support for finance and human resource services, and the start of preparation activities for student-related business areas

Fall 2026 

• LMS: Full transition to new platform complete 

• CSM: Implementation start for student business functions, with phased delivery of features in 2028.