Overview of General System Features

Personalized Navigation & Security

• Function ownership
• Function access and type of access
• Direct navigation or selection from menu
• Display alphabetically or in groups
• Ability to personalize function codes
• Ability to define your own groups
• Search descriptions
• Standard PF keys throughout system

Business Control of Valid Values

• 'Generic' Tables -- Codes and corresponding descriptions
• Code-to-Code references
• Default values
• Ability to retire a value that is no longer in use
• Table ownership
• Table access

On-Line Access to Records

• Maintenance/Viewing of individual records
• Browsing of lists of records

On-Line Help

• All fields marked with '*' provide value selection help using PF key
• Element description available using PF key
• Function documentation available using PF key
• Ability to define and show documentation of related business topics
• Business control over links between topics
• Chaining of topics

Business Control of Rules

• Business maintenance of records that define business practice
• Effective date or term ranges to support changes in practice
• Ability to record complex selection logic without writing programs

Some Specific System Features

Demographics

• Information about the Person, independent of relationship with the university
• ID number independent of SSN, with option to make it the same
• Multiple relationships with the university
• Relationships with other individuals
• History of name changes and reasons for change
• Personalized name format
• Multiple types of address: Residence, Business, Campus, Telecommunication
• Multiple addresses of each type, with history
• Support for international and E-mail addresses

Curriculum

• Business-maintained master list of Academic Awards and Programs
• Distributed Class Ordering
• Distributed maintenance of Course Master Catalog
• Electronic Course Approval with option to delegate authority
• Maintenance of all Instructional Facilities
• Multiple grading systems, under business control
• Flexible publication control feature
• Rollover of Classes from term to term
• Support for multiple term formats and dates
• Management of prime time slot allocations for Class scheduling
• Support for both general purpose and private classrooms
• Support for multiple campuses and multiple scheduling areas within a campus

Admissions

• Business-maintained control over size of incoming class per program
• Comprehensive Prospect Management
• Application processing for undergraduate and graduate programs
• Automated management of required admissions credentials
• Automated admission decision option
• Recommendations for Alternate Programs
• Coordination of Admission Decisions with Decision Letters
• Complete History of interactions with Student/Applicant
• Automated assignment of admissions counselors to applications
• Transfer Credit Management
• Contact Management
• Complete Correspondence Management system
• Correspondence Tracks
• Maintenance of standardized tests
• Maintenance of College and High School transcripts, optional specific courses

Records/Registration

• Registration via mainframe or Web. Option of touch-tone
• Complete audit of registration activity
• Free-Form Comments with access security
• Business-maintained master list of Academic Awards and Programs
• Support for priority-based pre-registration and demand analysis

Student Accounts

• Business-maintained account transactions
• Business-maintained charging groups
• Business-maintained billing rates and assessment rules
• Business-maintained refund schedules
• Business-maintained waiver rules
• Student Waivers with authorizing person identified
• Posting of individual transactions
• Adjustment of individual transactions
• Mass posting of transactions of the same type
• Force posting of individual transactions
• Browsing of individual student account by date or term
• On-line display of student bill
• Browsing of student charges
• Service blocks
• Sponsor contracts
• Mass student contract authorization
• Browse sponsor bill summary
• Browse sponsor contract students
• Integration with Admissions, Registration, Financial Aid
• Contact Management

Financial Aid

• Integration with Financier financial aid package
• Management of Stafford Loan Processing

Degree Audit

• Standard Credit feature to establish course equivalencies
• Integration with DPA