StudentRegistrar Birds of a Feather Gerry Donahue Cabrini

Student-Registrar Birds of a Feather Gerry Donahue – Cabrini University Mark Beck – Duquesne University

Discussion Topics • Swarthmore (Martin Warner) Asks: • What should schools know before implementing Banner 9 Student Self Service and Banner 9 Faculty/Advisor Self Service?

Challenges/Experiences with Self-Service Registration? • Crashes during peak times • Students / Faculty find searching difficult • Random, non descriptive errors • Having trouble implementing planning, it is confusing • Others?

Challenges/Experiences with Class Rosters, Faculty Grading, Attendance Tracking? Having trouble getting Drop Roster up and running Attendance tracking issues Course site can’t output a file for uploading to grade entry Faculty forget to select the correct term Want to add display fields, remove some from rosters and grade entry. There is no configuration file like student profile has. • Class rosters don’t show preferred names, faculty grading shows too much data • Others? • • •

Discussion Topics • Messiah College (Paula Maynard) asks: Other institutions where academic calendars between UG and GR programs do not align, each level with a different term start, end and break days: • How do you overcome challenges in: • coordinating registration • schedule production • assigning classrooms to sections (we use Accruent’s EMS product)

Discussion Topics • Messiah College (Paula Maynard) asks: Institutions with degree completion programs for non-traditional (or even traditional) students: Generally, what are your academic policies? Are there age limits for students to enroll, limits to transfer credits? Who evaluates and records the transfer credit? How is prior learning assessed and awarded? Who does that evaluation? Do you follow the traditional undergraduate calendar, or is one developed specifically for this population? • Do you allow traditional, residential students to enroll in online courses, and online students to enroll in traditional, residential courses (i. e. comingling enrollment) if they want? • • •

Discussion Topics • Messiah College (Paula Maynard) asks: For institutions who allow credits to be shared between an undergraduate degree and graduate degree, and credits to be shared between graduate degrees: • What are your academic policies? • Is there a limit to the number of shared credits? • Can credits be elective credit only, or can they count towards degree requirements?

Discussion Topics • Cabrini (Gerry Donahue) Asks: • Has anyone had any space utilization studies conducted recently on their campuses? • Was it done in-house or was there a consulting firm or vendor? • Were the results useful? Any unexpected insights? Any results that can be shared? • How was BANNER information accessed or did they use information from their scheduling package (EMS, Infosilem, Ad Astra, etc. )? • Is that package in use campus-wide, including events and conferences departments and other schedulers?

Open to the Floor • Questions • Comments

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