1. Pennsylvania Banner Users Group 2008 Fall Conference
PHEAA and Attending Hours
Presented by: Akiyah Baugh & Dennis Lyons
Co-Presenter: Elizabeth Giampietro
Community College of Philadelphia
Monday, November 24, 2008
Hello my name is Akiyah Baugh and this is Beth Giampietro. I am PL/SQL Developer at the Community College of Philadelphia. When we submitted our presentations we were asked to combine 2 presentations into one time slot. Therefore, I will be presenting on the Banner PHEAA Enhancement process and my colleague will be presenting on the Banner Attending Hours, these two topics are not related in anyway. The Banner PHEAA Enhancement functionality that I will be talking about was developed by myself and Bob Pittenger a fellow developer at CCP and Norman Rahn our
consultant supporting Financial Aid in Banner.

2. General Announcements:
Please turn off all cell phones/pagers
If you must leave the session early, please do so as discreetly as possible
Please avoid side conversations during the session
Questions will be answered at the end of session after the Attending Hours Presentation
Thank you for your cooperation
First let’s start with the general announcements. Please turn all cell phones & pagers on vibrate. If you must leave please do so quietly. All questions will be answered at the end of the session after the Attending Hours Presentation.

3. Banner PHEAA Enhancement
Project Overview
Project Objective
Multi-Phase Project Approach
RWAPHED (PHEAA Grant Eligibility Form)
Project Summary
I’ll start with a quick project overview, the project objective, the multiple phased approach we took to complete the project, and the customized PHEAA INB form. No Changes to Banner where made during this process. The Community College of Philadelphia tries to stay as Baseline as possible.

4. Banner PHEAA Enhancement Overview
The Community College of Philadelphia needed to create a process for more automated processing of PHEAA State Grant awards
The College had purchased the Banner PHEAA module but that was no longer supported
Our Financial Aid Office needed a solution to address their needs for:
Estimated awards - using the Status Roster
Pre-disbursement roster processing - certifying enrollment
Actual Award posting - using the Disbursement Roster
After many discussions the Financial Aid Office decided that they would continue certifying awards using the PHEAA system so that process has not been automated but could easily be adapted to this enhancement
The Financial aid department was manually processing PHEAA awards in response to SungardHE no longer supporting the Banner PHEAA module. The Financial Aid Office needed a solution to address their needs for estimating awards, certifying enrollment, and posting actual awards.

5. Banner PHEAA Enhancement Project Objective
Provide automated processing capabilities to meet business process needs of Financial Aid office
Certain functions FA office wanted to continue as manual
Use the SungardHE provided APIs to populate the award tables
Design the functionality to work within Banner
The processes should be executable through job submission
Therefore, the main objective of the Banner PHEAA Enhancement was to provide automated processing capabilities. We decided the processes should be executable through job submissions and that we were going to use the SungardHE provided APIs to populate the award tables to ensure clean data.

6. Banner PHEAA Enhancement Multi- Phase Approach
Phase 1 - Populate an estimated Award (STATUS ROSTER)
Phase 2 – Certify enrollment for records on pre-disbursement roster (PRE-DISBURSEMENT ROSTER & CERTIFICATION file)
Phase 3 – Create PHEAA awards based on disbursement roster (DISBURSEMENT ROSTER)
We decided to take a Phased approach to automate the PHEAA processes. Phase 1 was to populate an estimated award; Phase 2 was to certify enrollment for records and Phase 3 was to create PHEAA awards based on the disbursement roster.

7. Banner PHEAA Enhancement Phase 1 – Status Roster
RWPPHES is the process created for Phase 1
This process was created as a job submission process in Banner
A space-delimited Grant status file is received from PHEAA and ftp’ed into the appropriate Unix directory (SG08DISB.****08.txt)
The RWPPHES process is run and the data is loaded using SQLLOADER into a local Oracle table (RWRPHES)
The procedure performs a matching process using the ssn from the data file and comparing it to the ssn on the RCRAPP1 table
Estimated PHEAA awards are posted to the Award (RPRAWRD) & Award schedule (RPRATRM) Financial Aid tables for the appropriate students
To load the awards to the award tables we used the RB_AWARD.P_CREATE & RB_AWARD_SCHEDULE.P_CREATE APIs
Financial Aid runs a process (RPRCNCL) to cancel EPHEAA awards before the actual award is loaded from the disbursement file
Phase 1: The RWPPHES job submission process was created in Phase 1 of the PHEAA process. A space-delimited Grant status file containing student records with estimated award amounts is received from PHEAA and placed into the appropriate Unix directory then the RWPPHES process is run and the data from the PHEAA Grant file is loaded through SQLLoader into local Oracle table. The procedure performs a matching process using the ssn from the Grant status file and comparing it to the ssn on the RCRAPP1 table

8. Banner PHEAA Enhancement RPRAWRD – EPHEAA Fund

9. Banner PHEAA Enhancement Phase 2 – Predisbursement & Certification
RWPPHED & RWPPHEC are the processes created for Phase 2
This process loads the PHEAA pre-disbursement or disbursement roster to a local Oracle table
This phase will also complete the enrollment certification if the file loaded is a pre-disbursement file
The RWPPHED process is run and the data is inserted via SQLLOADER into a local Oracle table (RWRPHED)
Since the file was loaded as a pre-disbursement file the records have been marked with a ‘P’ in the RWRPHED table
The RWPPHEC process is then run which evaluates the enrollment for the records on the RWRPHED table
A certification file is then created with enrollment level for each record on the RWRPHED table
The certification file is sent to PHEAA with the student enrollment information

10. Banner PHEAA Enhancement PHASE 3 – PHEAA Disbursement file
RWPPHED (Same process as in Phase 2) is the process created for Phase 3
After receiving the certification file from CCP – PHEAA sends the actual grant disbursement file
RWPPHED process is run to upload student award information from the disbursement roster into the RWRPHED table
Edits are performed on the records in the RWRPHED table:
Student’s Aid period
Any existing awards
No pidms & Duplicate pidms
Rcrapp1 record exists (this indicates that the student applied for financial aid for the aid year)

11. Banner PHEAA Enhancement PHASE 3 – PHEAA Disbursement file - Continued
The fund award amounts are inserted in the award (RPRAWRD) & award schedule (RPRATRM) tables (API’s are used for error control)
We only populate the RPRAWRD and RPRATRM tables as a result of the Financial Aid Office business process –The Financial Aid Office accepts the awards as part of their certification process which populates the RPRADSB table
We post term specific awards – a Fall PHEAA award and a Spring PHEAA award are posted to each record (If they are in a Fall/Spring Aid Period)
The RWPPHED process has the capability to load multiple disbursement rosters for the same aid period
The new records are loaded to the RWRPHED table and assigned a one-up sequence number based of the number of records for that student
If PHEAA awards already exist for a student and the amounts on the maximum RWRPHED record differ from the amounts on the award table the RWRPHED record is assigned a status of ‘U’ as an indicator to the users that this record needs to be reviewed and updated
Mention Brio reports

12. Banner PHEAA Enhancement RPAAWRD Offered Award

13. Banner PHEAA Enhancement RPAAWRD Scheduled Award

14. Banner PHEAA Enhancement PHEAA Grant Eligibility Form- (Custom INB Form)
This form provides a high level of data display for the Financial Aid Office to perform a more effective PHEAA Grant certification
This form is used to display information from the PHEAA Grant Disbursement table (RWRPHED) and other information from within Banner, such as total enrolled credit hours, total remedial hours, certificate program, and students attending all distance education courses
This form eliminated the need for the Financial Aid Office to use several Banner forms/ sessions to certify a student

15. Banner PHEAA Enhancement PHEAA Grant Eligibility Form – Continued (Custom INB Form)
The data will be displayed on two tabs:
Tab One- Eligibility and Demographics
This tab will contain a section for eligibility indicators and a section for the demographic information
Eligibility Indicators block will provide information for the Financial Aid staff to determine the student’s award eligibility
The eligibility section is used to display information such as:
Total enrolled credit hours
Total remedial credit hours
If the student is enrolled in a Certificate program
An indicator if all enrollment is Distance Education
Tab Two – Award Data
This tab will include the PHEAA Award information, updatable fields to indicate when a grant has been certified

16. Banner PHEAA Enhancement PHEAA Grant Form (RWAPHED) –Tab One

17. Banner PHEAA Enhancement PHEAA Grant Form –Tab Two (Award Data)

18. Banner PHEAA Processing Enhancement Summary
PHEAA Project Summary
This enhancement facilitates PHEAA Grant processing for the Financial Aid Office:
Gives them the ability to own and run the process
Without such a enhancement all PHEAA awards would need to be manually posted
Ensuring clean data by use of the APIs
Easier certification process

19. Banner Attending Hours History
CCP wanted to leverage the “Use Attending Hours” functionality available in Banner Financial Aid within current Business processes
Attendance reporting is required at CCP
In the past Financial Aid was not paid until all attendance had been reported for a student for the semester
This resulted in delayed payments to students and a lot of record manipulation by Financial Aid staff to prohibit aid from paying until all enrollment had been reported for a student
Requirements were assigned to records where all attendance had not yet been reported to prohibit aid from paying
There was also a substantial amount of record clean-up required at the end of a semester to cancel/waive requirements for students who did not attend
CCP could not use the baseline processes related to Attending Hours since we do not pay when the classes start but rather when the attendance has been reported
A custom process was requested that would mimic the baseline attending hours functionality but that would work with the College’s requirement for attendance reporting
This process should use the baseline tables to minimize maintenance issues with upgrades
The process should allow for multiple runs within a semester due to multiple parts of term with various start dates and late reporting of attendance

20. Banner Attending Hours Overview
Use course attendance to control disbursement of aid
RFRMGMT – Use Attending Hours indicator is checked for all disbursable funds
Course attendance will be determined by the students satisfactory/unsatisfactory attendance reported at the 20% census period
Allow for partial disbursement
Remaining aid would be available to possibly be disbursed if attendance changes at a later time

21. Banner Attending Hours Project Objective
Create Banner job similar to RSRENRL, the Banner enrollment freeze process, incorporating the 20% census reporting check. Job is called RWPENRL
Create PL\SQL package, RWKENRL, to perform insert and update records in RORATND and RORENRL
2 reports created for review and verification
RWPENRL_XXXXX.txt
RWPENRL_ADJ_HR_RPT_XXXXX.txt
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

22. Banner Attending Hours RWPENRL
Banner job submission process
Parameters include
Aid Year
Term Code
Sorting Sequence
Selection ID
Application ID
Creator ID
User ID
Load Term Enrollment Option
Load Attend Enrollment Option
RWPENRL.shl calls PL\SQL package RWKENRL
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

23. Banner Attending Hours RWKENRL
PL\SQL Package
Specifications of main cursor
RORSTAT_AIDY_CODE = job parameter entered
Population selection must exist
Student must be registered in SFRSTCR for the term parameter entered or student exists in RORENRL for the term parameter
Skips students who are identified in RORENRL with a manual record for the run term.
Perform inserts or update to RORENRL and RORATND as needed
1 record per term in RORENRL
After 1st run the Financial Aid Adjusted hours are updated to the total hours reported for the 20% census period at that point in time.
Multiple records per term in RORATND based on the run date and the latest reported 20% census period reporting date.
New records are create if 20% census data had been reported since the last run of the job
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

24. Banner Attending Hours RWKENRL
Screen shot of ROAENRL – RORENRL section
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

25. Banner Attending Hours RWKENRL
Screen shot of ROAENRL – RORATND section
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

26. Banner Attending Hours RWKENRL
RWPENRL_XXXXX.txt screenshot
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

27. Banner Attending Hours Conclusion
Leverage “Use Attending Hours” functionality
New process incorporating students satisfying 20% attendance a the college
Populate ROAENRL with attendance with total hours of positive attendance
Disbursement run after attendance has been reported and RWPENRL has been run
Allow for partial aid
Multiple runs to allow for disbursement of future aid within the same semester
The process will include the elimination of manual functions imposed by the original PHEAA module such as:
Requesting a paper copy of the roster
Having to manually go through different forms to award one record.

28. Thank You Any Questions / Comments?
Feel Free to contact us later if you any code specific detailed questions.
Contact Information
PHEAA Enhancements
Akiyah Baugh
Attending Hours Processing
Dennis Lyons