BANNER New Student Information System FACULTY WEB

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BANNERNew Student Information System FACULTY WEB
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Content

• What is BANNER?
• Major Components of BANNER System
• Accomplishments of Banner Implementation
  Activities
• Whats new in Banner?
• Whats new in Faculty Web?
• BANNER Philosophy Requires Changes in Some of our
  Practices
• Challenges Difficulties
• Banner Web for Faculty (Demonstration)
• Questions / Suggestions

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What is BANNER?

• BANNER is introduced as a part of the Enterprise
  Resource Planning (ERP) software for KFUPM
• BANNER is an Oracle based Student Information
  System and will replace the current legacy system
  SIS-Plus.

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Major Components of Banner Student Systems

• Banner Student System Internet Native Banner
  (INB)
• Banner Web for Students
• Banner Web for Faculty Advisors
• Banner Security

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Tools Used
Banner Student Systems

• ODS COGNOS - Data Extraction Reporting
  Management
• SQL Developer Data migration and Reporting
  Management
• Data Migration Toolkit Provided by Sungard
• Luminis Portal - for Banner Web integration
• Other tools such as ODBC, Microsoft Access,
  Excel, etc

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Accomplishments of Banner Implementation
Activities

• Built manually Undergraduate Graduate Course
  Catalog with Pre-requisites, Co-requisites,
  Restrictions, etc in Banner (1894 Courses)
• Populated manually more than 50 Validation Tables
  (College, Major, Degrees, etc)
• Defined all Academic Rules in Banner (Curriculum
  Rules, Academic Status rules, Student Honors
  rules, etc)
• Built manually over 40 degree plans and rules for
  all Majors in CAPP (Curriculum, Advising
  Program Planning)
• Implemented more than 15 crosswalk tables
  required for data migration from SIS Plus to
  Banner
• Prepared Data Standard document for KFUPM

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Whats new in Banner?

• BANNER has several improvements over SIS. Some of
  them are
• SIS required an emulator (Smart Term) to run,
  where as BANNER is Internet Native and does not
  require any additional software.
• We used to have max. of 7 pre-requisites in SIS
  for any course, where as in BANNER we do not have
  any limit.
• Better control over course registration
  restrictions according to College/Level/Class/Majo
  r.
• In SIS, there is no co-requisites restriction,
  where as in BANNER we can enforce the
  restrictions.
• In SIS (degree audit), the maximum number of
  electives / free-electives is 80, where as in
  BANNER CAPP (Curriculum Advising Program
  Planning) there is no limit.

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Whats new in Faculty Web?

• Faculty Web will be accessed through KFUPM portal
  via Single Sign-On.
• At present, most of the information seen by the
  faculty is through RegWeb, where as in BANNER
  information will be seen directly from the
  system.
• In BANNER, Faculty can add/maintain detailed
  personal information
• Advisors can view additional Advisee information
  such as Registration history, holds, etc.
• Faculty can send email to individual / all
  students in his class.
• Cont. on next slide

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Whats new in Faculty Web? (cont.)

• Advisors can send email to individual / all
  advisees.
• Presently, faculty can view his teaching
  schedule, where as in BANNER he can view
  detailed/graphical weekly teaching schedule.
• Faculty can search dynamic class schedules/course
  catalogs.
• In BANNER, faculty can update the Syllabus
  Information
• Faculty can add/maintain office hours through web.

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BANNER Requires Changes in Some Practices
Some of our practices need to be changed, for
example
SIS Plus BANNER
Departments sometimes request to cancel a section or change the timings of the class Departments sometimes request to cancel a section or change the timings of the class
We used to change the sections/times of the section of the students registered wherever possible before making the changes (incl. TBA sections). It is no longer possible due to the fact that BANNER assumes students are fully responsible for their registration (TBA sections are not allowed).
We can check number of students affected by the change We can only drop the students.
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BANNER Requires Changes in Some Practices
SIS Plus BANNER
Once the students are registered in the section, it is possible to change the timings of the section after checking for time conflicts. It is not possible to change the timings of the section as the students can only be dropped and they have to register the course again themselves in the new timings.
Grades are submitted by the faculty through the Chairman Grades are submitted by the faculty directly, Registrar Office will consider these as Pre-approved by the Chairman.
Grade confirmation is required. Grade confirmation is not required.
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Challenges Difficulties

• Launching of Banner Student System is linked with
  the readiness of Satellite systems
• Access to Banner Web by Students Faculty thru
  KFUPM Portal needs their KFUPM emails to be
  received loaded in Banner
• Unavailability of Sungard Consultants when needed
  
• Change of Sungard Consultants resulted in
  different opinions by them on Banner Issues
• Lack of Technical support to resolve various
  issues related to Banner which needs immediate
  actions
• Engagement of some team members in other teams
• Enormous implementation activities being
  undertaken by Registration team requiring lots
  of time and efforts
• Involvement of team members in Banner activities
  as well as routine office work puts additional
  pressure on them

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Banner Web for Faculty (Demonstration)
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Questions / Suggestions
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