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DegreeWorks With BannerGeorgia Summit 2007September 20, 2007Michael FoxAccount ExecutiveVashon Island Office, SunGard Higher Educationwww.sungardhe.com
QUICK NOTES ABOUT DEGREEWORKS Comprehensive academic advising servicesWeb self-service using Luminis or other portalsEasy-to-use intuitive interfacesMulti-formatted advising worksheetsStudent Educational Planner (SEP)Curriculum Planning Assistant (CPA) for reportingFull-featured “What If’s” and “Look Ahead” featuresUnlimited advisor notesWeb-based exception processingNatural language catalog definitionsDegree audits in batch or dynamic modeADA 508 compliance
DEGREEWORKS COMPONENTSDynamic or BatchDegreeWorks InstanceBannerStudent/Course Dataand Validation TablesCPA ad hoc reportingXML erLuminisFacultyAuditor EngineStaff
BANNER DATA FLOW – INTERACTIVE OR BATCHDegreeWorks ServerDTSBridgeClientBuiltBridgeBIF FilesBIF FilesBIF FilesBIF FilesUCXTablesBanner D41Real TimeDegreeWorksData StorageUsersNativeBridgeBatchWEB10DAP10Web ServerCGI/SocketsTransitBannerDatabase
BANNER TABLES ACCESSED BY DEGREEWORKS Student, Advisor, Staff Primary DataSPRIDENGOREMALSGRADVR Student AcademicsSGBSTDNSARADAP (pre-student only)SORLCURSORLFOS Current Classes, Course CatalogSFRSTCRSSBSECTSCBCRSESSRATTRSCRATTR Historic ClassesSHRTCKNSHRTCKGSHRTCKLSHRGRDESHRATTRSHRATTC Test ScoresSORTEST Student Level Function F CLASS CALC FNC Transfer ClassesSHRTRITSHRTRCRSHRTRCESHRTRAMSHRTATT Course EquivalentsSCREQIV Transfer Institutions (ETS)SOBSBGISORBTAG Validation VLEVLSTVMAJRSTVRSTSSTVSBGISTVSTYPSTVTERM
WEB ACCESS FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY
ADVISING WORKSHEET WITH DRILL DOWN TO CATALOG TEXT
ADVISING WORKSHEET WITH DRILL DOWN TO OPEN SECTIONS
CURRICULAR PLANNING AND RESEARCH CPA Tool A powerful reporting data store of advice and academicplans. The CPA allows academic planners to quickly andeasily query aggregate DegreeWorks data to ascertainwhich students are approaching graduation or gaugefuture demand for registration by campus, discipline,department, and other variables, including individualeducation plans for each student. CPA interoperates with virtually any SQL-compliant ad hocreport writers. An example of a user inquiry is shown on the next page.
SAMPLE CPA REPORT
DEGREEWORKS COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS DegreeWorks audits include advice that is easy to read and understandfor students, faculty, and staff presents advice in scripted, user-defined formats that canbe altered to meet institutionally-specific needs includes a student educational planner (SEP) permittingstudents and advisors to lay out a recommendedsequence of registrations and have that sequence easilyvalidated against remaining program requirements provides for curriculum planning, future scheduling, selfstudies, accreditation and related research activities includes an easy-to-use “what if” feature allowing studentsto quickly ascertain on the web where they would stand ifthey switched to any other program within the institution provides exception, substitution, and waiver processingthrough the Web using electronic routing and approvals
DEGREEWORKS COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS DegreeWorks includes unlimited free-form advising notes for authorizedusers, sensitive to FERPA guidelines includes a “look ahead” feature allowing anticipated futureacademic results to be incorporated in advising worksheets incorporates transfer credits in an understandable manner utilizes dynamic evaluation of test scores for rule fulfillmentand placement includes multiple GPA calculators retains a history of advising contacts, as well as a history ofadvice, with counselors having the ability to go back in time toaccess prior advice, which may have been provided by otherstaff members provides the Scribe interface for easily updating catalogchanges
TO SUMMARIZE Web advice and self-service .Web student education plans .Aggregate advice & education plans to data store .SQL reporting tools for curricular planning .RESULTS .DegreeWorks a vital part of enrollment management Significantly enhanced advising services Improved curricular planning Academic offerings matched to student needs by term Enhanced retention Increased enrollments Stronger tuition revenue stream
PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS Kootenai River,NW MontanaDegreeWorks Or FlyFishing?I’d Love To DiscussEither Or Both Michael FoxSunGard Higher Education206-463-8320mike.fox@sungardhe.com
DegreeWorks With Banner Georgia Summit 2007 September 20, 2007 Michael Fox Account Executive Vashon Island Office, SunGard Higher Education. QUICK NOTES ABOUT DEGREEWORKS Comprehensive academic advising services Web self-service using Luminis or other portals Easy-to-use intuitive interfaces
