Our campus is in the process of implementing a new student system. After a lengthy assessment, we selected PeopleSoft and we are now in the early stages of implementation. During the assessment, I was a vocal advocate for selecting a product that was both usable and accessible.
This week I was sent the online training materials to familiarize myself with PeopleSoft. I’ve been using Chrome as my browser the last couple of weeks and when I opened up the link to the training materials, I got the following message:
“The Player requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.”
I tried to open the site using Firefox, Opera and Safari, and got the same message. (Yes, It works fine in IE.) I have a very bad feeling about this. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come with our student system.
If anyone of you have experience with PeopleSoft, I’d love to hear from you regarding how valid their code is. I sure hope that people won’t be forced to use IE.
I use Peoplesoft from the user side just fine in Firefox. Hopefully that’s an isolated situation.
The University of Missouri system (all four campuses) became PeopleSoft users six or seven years ago. We’re using it for student services, HR, financial, etc. People hate change, so people hate PeopleSoft. I don’t interact with it much myself. But it’s one of the big “enterprise-level” or whatever you want to call it systems.
Good luck.
Or, as King Arthur said to his knights when he encountered the Rabbit: “Run away! Run away!”
I guess I’m a bit late to be responding to this article, but, I’m a college student writing a paper about how much students hate PeopleSoft. I have used it in two different universities now, and during both experiences, other students have commiserated with me about how much they hate PeopleSoft, and how much they wish the university had not switched to it.
The User Interface is hard to understand, and there are many features which were meant to be helpful but end up being annoying and not useful. Not only do students dislike PeopleSoft, but administrators do too.
http://www1.umn.edu/enterprise/docs/emails/1213letter.htm
Anyway, some people are ok with it because they really don’t use it for a lot of things. Most students who are forced to use it to sign up for classes hate it, and try as hard as they can to not use it for anything else, so their features like email are hardly ever used.
It’s probably too late for you, since this post is over a year old, but there are my two cents anyway.