BANNER New Student Information System FACULTY WEB

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

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.

Major Components of Banner Student Systems Banner Student System – Internet Native Banner (INB) Banner Web for Students Banner Web for Faculty & Advisors Banner Security

Tools Used 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… B anner Student Systems

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

What’s 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/Major. 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.

What’s 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 to individual / all students in his class. Cont. on next slide

What’s new in Faculty Web? (cont.) Advisors can send 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.

BANNER Requires Changes in Some Practices SIS PlusBANNER Departments sometimes request to cancel a section or change the timings of the class: 1. We used to change the sections/times of the section of the students registered wherever possible before making the changes (incl. TBA sections). 1. It is no longer possible due to the fact that BANNER assumes students are fully responsible for their registration (TBA sections are not allowed). 2. We can check number of students affected by the change 2. We can only drop the students. Some of our practices need to be changed, for example:

BANNER Requires Changes in Some Practices SIS PlusBANNER 3. Once the students are registered in the section, it is possible to change the timings of the section after checking for time conflicts. 3. 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. 4. Grades are submitted by the faculty through the Chairman 4. Grades are submitted by the faculty directly, Registrar Office will consider these as Pre- approved by the Chairman. 5. Grade confirmation is required. 5. Grade confirmation is not required.

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 s 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

Banner Web for Faculty (Demonstration)

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