Oracle/PeopleSoft HRCS 9.0 Upgrade 1 LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE 9.0 NEW FEATURES & CHANGES / FIT GAP Agenda 2 Introduction PeopleTools 8.50 New Features User Interface Enhancements Menu Navigation/Dropdown Navigation Modal Prompt Pages and Modal Alert Dialog Boxes Favorites Menu Enhancements Type Ahead Processing Icon Changes Search Page Enhancements Query Enhancements Ability to add an in-tree criteria prompt Download query results to XML file Continuation: Agenda 3 HR Table Setup: New Features or Changes Template Based Hire Personal Modal Changes SA Table Setup: New Features or Changes: Academic Institution Table Academic Program Table Academic Plan Table Term Values Table Term/Session Table Define Transcript Type Transcript Type Transcript Security Student Group Security and Process View Student Groups by Group Course Typically Offered Service Impact Table Service Indicator Table Financial Aid- External Awards Financial Aid - Repackaging Financial Aid Item Types Continuation: Agenda 4 Self Service: Student Records Self Service : Financial Aid Self Service: Student Financial Modules Enhancements: Human Resources Self-Service for I-9 Mass Update Feature Credit Card Encryption HCM Event Manager Other Enhancements General HCM Enhancements Profile Management Payroll Base Benefits Garnishment Processing Integration with T&L Year-End Reports eBenefits (no license) ePay (no license) Continuation: Agenda 5 Campus Community 3C Communication Generation Service Indicator Student Records Flexible Transcript Class Permission Service Impact Student Group Self Service (Student and Faculty) Student Financials Self Service Financial Aid New External Award Processes New Repackaging Processes & Enhanced Mass Packaging Select Assign Awards to a Student & Aggregate Program Summary View Packaging Status Summary New Process Financial Aid Year-Batch Self Service NOTE: Complete and detail TEST SCRIPT is required if decided to implement new enhancements Introduction 6 This presentation will contain HCRS System 9.0 Version new features and changes for the following modules: Human Resources Payroll Campus Community Admissions and Recruiting Student Records Student Financials Financial Aid PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: User Interface Enhancement Menu Navigation/Dropdown Navigation 7 PeopleTools 8.50 offers floating drop-down menu navigation. Place your mouse over any section of the menu, the menu cascades to the right, revealing more components that you have access to view. Advantages of the new floating navigation are: You can sort the menu – Click the sort icon on the main menu to toggle between alphabetic ascending, descending, and portal sequence number presentation of folders. The menu is scrollable – Click the scroll arrows that appear at the top and bottom of the menu when the menu is too long for you to view in its entirety. When you find the folder or page, select it. You can search the menu – Enter a keyword or phrase and the search index will generate matching entries as you type. When you see a match, select the item in the list. The menu leaves breadcrumbs – As you navigate, breadcrumbs appear across the top of the page to inform you of your location. PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: User Interface Enhancement Modal Prompt Pages and Modal Alert Dialog Boxes 8 All Look Up (prompt) pages and alert dialog boxes are modal and appear in front of the primary page, which is grayed out while the prompt page is active. When working with these pages, you can: Resize the page. Minimize or collapse the page to the title bar. Close the page from the title bar close icon. PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: User Interface Enhancement Favorites Menu Enhancements 9 The Favorites menu has been enhanced to include a Most Recently Used (MRU) list. The last five (5) most recently accessed pages appear at the top of the Favorites list. The Favorites menu also includes the primary key as part of any Favorite that you save. For example, as a Security Administrator you can create a generic Employee user profile on the Copy User Profile page and save it as a favorite. When new employees are hired, you can navigate directly to this profile within the Favorites menu and quickly create a new employee. You are no longer taken to the search page. This is the new favorites menu showing the Recently Used list and the Base EE User Profile favorite in the My Favorites list: PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: User Interface Enhancement Type Ahead 10 Prompt Fields now include a type ahead text. As you type, the system searches in the background and matches entries in the record to the text you enter. Type ahead is configurable through User Personalizations, and appears on search pages and in prompt dialog boxes. This is an example of type ahead on a Maintain Schedule of Classes page where the user is searching for a “Subject Area” with the letter “m”. System displayed all subjects with letter “M”. PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: User Interface Enhancement Processing Icon Changes 11 The processing and saved icons have changed. The new processing icon looks like this: PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: User Interface Enhancement Search Page Enhancements 12 Search pages now include a Maximum number of rows to return field. When you perform a search using a transaction search page, you can determine the number of entries that the search can return. The maximum value and the default value are set in the Search Settings on the PeopleTools Options page. You can limit the number of search items returned by entering a lower value in the Maximum number of rows to return field on the search page; you can set the number of entries that the search returns to any value less than the maximum. If the search retrieves more than the maximum number of listings, the Search Results grid displays the total number of results above the search results. Sample Screen Shot Below: Rows to return is set to 10, the search results shows possible 11368 records but only 10 records are displayed. PEOPLETOOLS 8.50 New Features: Query Enhancements 13 Ability to add in-tree criteria prompt Download query to XML file After you click the XML link on the Query Manager or Query Viewer search results page, query results are downloaded to browser as web browser format and there are options that enable you to open, save, or cancel the downloaded file. If you click the Open button, XML formatted query result is downloaded to browser. The Download to XML link is also available on the Query Manager - Run page. In the Schedule Query component, there are two new formats XML and XMLP. XML produces web-row-set XML format result. XMLP produces XMLP format result. HR Table Setup New Features or Changes: Template Based Hire 14 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up HRMS > Product Related > Work Administration > Template-Based Hire > Template Creation Main Menu > Workforce Administration > Template-Based Hire Template-Based Hire (also called Smart-Hire) enables a template administrator to configure hiring pages according to an organization’s unique on-boarding processes that often differ by jobs, geographies, worker types, industries, and so forth. Configuration options include field and page layout, as well as security and automatic updates. Field attribution features include the ability to default and hide values, override defaulted values, or require fields at the user interface level. With templates that default all data common to a job, a person performing entry only needs to enter variable data such as name or address. This significantly reduces the time it takes to enter hire data, and ensures that the data saved to the database is correct and complete. It also is possible to allow or disallow users from overriding template data so that organizations can determine the level of policy flexibility granted to users HR Table Setup New Features or Changes: Personal Modal Changes 15 Navigation: Main Menu > Setup HRMS > System Administration > Database Processes The Person Model enables a single source of truth for employee data and work history. Staff productivity improves by entering data only once, instead of several times in multiple systems. Enhancements to Person Model include: Improved flexibility to support the growing contingent worker segment of the workforce Batch process for deleting Employee IDs supports the deletion of specific Employee Records giving organizations the flexibility to manage employee records at a more granular and accurate level, leading to better data integrity and reporting for terminations and turnover analysis Organizations have more options for the types of non-workers who can be paid or receive benefits. Possible Persons of Interest who may receive payments or benefits from an organization include surviving spouses or former dependents SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Academic Institution Table 16 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Foundation Tables > Academic Structure > Academic Institution Table Academic Institution 5: Added new field “Grade Match Option”. You can match a currently enrolled class with previous attempts by either the best grade or the worst grade Academic Institution 7: Added new page is to identify the advisement report types to be used in self-service SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Academic Program Table 17 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Foundation Tables > Academic Structure > Academic Program Table Academic Program page: Added new field “Last Prospect Date”. LBCC is currently not using PeopleSoft Prospect. Added new field “ Last Admit Term”. This field is optional. Enter the last term in which students can be admitted to the academic program. You cannot admit students to the academic program after the term that you specify. The system will compare the admit term used in the student's application to this last term valid value. If the admit term is greater than this value, the program is not available to the user. Use the new fields to ensure that discontinued academic programs, plans, and sub-plans remain active for current students, but are not available for recruiting and admissions processing. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Academic Plan Table 18 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Foundation Tables > Academic Structure > Academic Plan Table Academic Plan Table page: Added new field “Last Prospect Date”. LBCC is currently not using PeopleSoft Prospect. Added new field “Last Admit Term”. This field is optional. Enter the last term in which students can be admitted to the academic plan. You cannot admit students to the academic plan after the term you specified in the field. The system will compare the admit term used in the student's application to this last term valid value. If the admit term is greater than this value, the plan is not available to the user. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Term Values Table 19 Navigation: Main menu > Set Up SACR > Foundation Tables > Term Setup > Term Values Table Added new page “Display in Class Search”. Added new page to define dates to control the availability of terms on self-service pages, both for students and faculty. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Term/Session Table 20 Navigation: Main menu > Set Up SACR > Foundation Tables > Term Setup > Term/Session Table Term Table page: Added “Display in Self-Service” group box. Define dates in this group box to control the availability of self-service enrollment and My Planner features by term. Enrollment & Shopping Cart Enter a range of dates to control the availability of this term in the Select Term field on student self-service enrollment and shopping cart pages. The student self-service Class Search & Browse Course Catalog also uses the date range to determine if the Select button should be displayed, which allows the student to add the class to their shopping cart. Student Planner Enter a range of dates to control the availability of this term for use on the student self-service My Planner SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Define Transcript Type 21 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Student Records > Transcript > Define Transcript Type This is a new component and page. Define Transcript Type is only used for transcript report, no Academic Advising Report, with FERPA information and allow XML output file. New added Pages: Test Scores – Define the print area s and details for display of test scores, Special GPA – Define the print areas and details for display of Special GPAs, and View Sort – Display the sorting order for how the transcript type information appears. Note: Campus needs to review current transcript type setup to differentiate transcript and advising reports. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Transcript Type 22 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Student Records > Transcript > Transcript Type Note: Transcript Type table setup is only used for Advising Report. Added new View Sort page. Display the sorting order for how the transcript type information appears SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Transcript Security 23 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Security > Secure Student Administration > User ID Transcript Report Security: Grant access for transcript report. Transcript Type: Grant access for advising report. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Student Group Security and Process 24 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Security > Secure Student Administration > User ID > Student Group Security New component and page. Set up the user ID security access for student groups. Modify a user ID’s student group security access by inquiry and update. Navigation: Main Menu > Records and Enrollment > Career and Program Information > Process Student Groups SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: View Student Groups by Group 25 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Student Records > Student Standing and Awards > View Student Groups by Group New component and page. Display student groups which user have access, by group. You can view data by selected effective dates: All, Most Current, Most Current Active and Most Current Inactive SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Course Typically Offered 26 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Student Records > Curriculum Management > Course Typically Offered New component and page. Typically offered values are institutionally defined within a typically offered setup page. They are then assigned to courses on the Course Catalog Offerings page Based on how Student Record-Self Service set up, the data appears on a variety of self-service pages, including Browse Course Catalog, Course Detail, My Planner, and My Academic Requirements SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Service Impact Table 27 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Common Definitions > Service Indicators > Service Impact Table Added new fields: Term and Date If the business process is term-based, select the Term check box for the system to disregard the impact automatically upon completion of the End Term. The end term is defined on the Add Service Indicator page, which is where you assign the service indicator to an ID. If the business process is date-based, select the Date check box for the system to disregard the impact automatically upon completion of the End Date. The end date is defined on the Add Service Indicator page, which is where you assign the service indicator to an ID. If the business process is both term-based and date-based, you can select both check boxes. For example, you might need to restrict enrollment activities for an individual for Fall Term 2010 but only once the Drops period has begun, which is two weeks into the term. The Service Indicator code with the appropriate impact is assigned with a Start Term value of Fall Term 2010, an End Term value of Fall Term 2010, and a Start Date of Dec 6. Selecting both check boxes would allow this impact to restrict enrollment activities only on or after Dec 6 and only for Fall Term 2010. A new service impact (DENR), No Drop Activity – Add Allowed, when attached to a service indicator that is assigned to a student, prevents the student from dropping any enrolled class without administrative override. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Service Indicator Table 28 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Common Definitions > Service Indicators > Service Indicator Table Added new group box “Attributes” with new fields “Person, Organizations, Default Start Term and Default Start Date”. Person and Organization boxes: Select the Person check box to allow assignment to individuals. Select the Organization check box to allow assignment to organizations. Select both check boxes to allow assignment to both individuals and organizations. Default Term and Date boxes: Select this check box to set the Start Term to 0000 (Begin Service Indicator Term) when this service indicator is assigned Select this check box to set the Start Date to <today's date> (current system date) when this service indicator is assigned. SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Financial Aid - External Awards 29 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Financial Aid > External Awards External Awards Type, External Award Source, External Award Cross Reference and External Award Search Match Rules Setup pages SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Financial Aid – Repackaging & Financial Aid Item Type 30 Repackaging: Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Financial Aid > Awards Repackaging Rule: Increase, Decrease, Original Plan, Validate Entire Package and Validate Item Type Financial Aid Item Types: Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Product Related > Financial Aid > Awards > Financial Aid Item Types Added new (Selection Box): Don’t Repackage SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Student Records-Self Service 31 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Common Definitions > Self Service > Student Records New group box: Additional Self Service Setup Display Typically Offered Data: Select this check box to display when a course is usually offered at the institution. If selected, the data appears on a variety of self-service pages, including Browse Course Catalog, Course Detail, My Planner, and My Academic Requirements. If you clear the check box, the system does not display typically offered data within self-service, but it continues to display it on administrative pages. Typically offered values are institutionally defined within a typically offered setup page. They are then assigned to courses on the Course Catalog - Offerings page. Note: New Course Typically Offered table setup is required if you selected the box. Show Student Photos on Rosters: Select this check box if you want student photos to appear on the class and advisee rosters in the Faculty Center. (Continuation) SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Student Records-Self Service 32 Added new field: Textbook Information for both student and faculty Added new group box: Student Textbook Information SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Financial Aid-Self Service 33 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Common Definitions > Self Service > Financial Aid > Self Service Options Inquiry Options page/new fields or boxes: Award Notification and View Award Notification Award Notification: Select this check box to display the FE Award Notification PDF link on the student's Financial Aid -Award Summary page and Financial Aid -Award Package page. View Award Notification: Enter a name for the link on the Financial Aid - Award Summary page and Financial Aid -Award Summary page. This link enables students to view and print their award letter and notification. (Continuation) SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Financial Aid-Self Service 34 Award Options page/new group box External Award Reporting Access from Award Inquiry: Select this check box to display a link to the Report Aid from Other Source component on the students’ Award Inquiry Self Service pages. Access from Accept/Decline: Select this check box to display a link to the Report Aid from Other Source component on the students’ Accept Award and Decline Award Self Service pages. Alternate Text for Reporting: Enter text that will be used as the link from the Award Inquiry and Accept/Decline page. Alternate Text for List View: Enter text that will be used as the page title for a student to report aid from an external source. (Continuation) SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Financial Aid-Self Service 35 New Page: Loan Options New Group boxes: FFELP Lender Section Setup and Entrance/Exit Counseling Setup FFELP Lender Section Setup group box Select the Display Lender Selection check box to display the lender selection on the students' self service pages. Entrance Exit Counseling Setup group box Display Entrance Interview URL : To turn on an entrance interview link for loan counseling, select this check box. The URL is defined on the Loan Counseling page. Display Exit Interview URL: To turn on an exit interview link for loan counseling, select this check box. The URL is defined on the Loan Counseling page. General Loan Information and Perkins Master Promissory Note group boxes are not new, they are moved from Inquiry and Awarding Options page s SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Student Financials – Self Service 36 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Common Definitions > Self Service > Student Financials General Options page/Self Service Options group box new fields: Allow Payment Plan Enrollment: Check to allow students to enroll in payment plans. This flag controls whether the Payment Plan option appears in the Other Financial dropdown in Student Center and whether the link appears at the bottom of the Account Inquiry page. Display Student Permissions: U.S. Department of Education regulations require that federal financial aid awards be used to pay only allowable charges for the period of enrollment covered by the aid year in which those funds were awarded. Regulations require schools to collect individual authorization from a student to allow funds to pay for non-allowable charges such as library fines and parking fees or for charges for the prior year immediately preceding the current aid year. Select this check box to allow access to the Grant Student Permissions option for students in this institution set. If the student wants to revoke permission, this can only be done by the administrator, not via Self Service by the student Accept Miscellaneous Purchases: Check to allow students to select and purchase items or services. This flag controls whether the Accept Miscellaneous Purchases option appears in the other financial dropdown in Student Center and whether the link appears at the bottom of the Account Inquiry page Display 1098-T Self Service: Select to display and to allow access to the 1098-T Self Service option for students in this institution set. This flag controls whether the 1098-T option appears in the other financial dropdown in Student Center and whether the link appears at the bottom of the Account Inquiry page Grant Student Permissions: Select to display and to allow access to the Grant Permissions option for students in this institution set. This check box displays only if Display Student Permissions check box is selected (Continuation) SA Table Setup New Features or Changes: Student Financials – Self Service 37 Navigation: Main Menu > Set Up SACR > Common Definitions > Self Service > Student Financials > Purchase Category or Purchase Items Purchase Category: Set up purchase category Purchase Items Set fee structure for purchase of miscellaneous items Modules Enhancements: Human Resources – Complete & Submit I-9 Form 38 Complete and Submit I-9 Form Navigation: Main Menu > Self Service > Personal Information > Complete and Submit I-9 Form To better comply with the United States’ Immigration and Nationality Act, we enable your company to collect and store all I-9 information. Features include workflow-driven self-service functionality to complete I-9 information, with the ability for employers to complete and submit the required sections Modules Enhancements: Human Resources – Mass Update Features, Credit Card and HCM Event Manager 39 Mass Update Features Mass Update feature enables you to make changes to the data of large groups of people. Mass Update Manager is the front end module where you define, create, manage, report, execute and delete mass updates. The Transaction Processor is the back-end module that consists of the Configure Processor component for setting up and managing system data that is available for mass updates and an application class that provides access to transaction processing functionality. The Execution Manager is a back-end module that is a mechanism in the batch mass update process. Credit Card Encryption Stronger credit card encryption solution that complies with the cardholder data protection requirements of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard and with Visa’s Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP). HCM Event Manager HCM Event Manager is a framework that enables you to define, implement, and run business logic for business events. Using the Event Manager framework, you can define the business events that the system raises when you change certain data in application components or run certain PeopleTools Application Engine processes. You can also define the event handlers that the Event Manager framework executes to react to these specific event instances. Raising an event is the act of creating an event instance. If an event is raised, the Event Manager framework automatically executes the business logic for the registered event handlers of the event. (Continuation) Modules Enhancements: Human Resources – HCM Event Manager and General HCM Enhancements 40 To make code reuse more manageable, we provide a registry that enables you to register HCM interfaces for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The HCM Registry holds all the interface specifications for available services. It stores contracts from service providers and provides those contracts to interested service consumers. The service provider registers the interface, the service consumer locates the interface in the registry and uses the information to bind and execute the contract between the consumer and the provider. Military Rank enhancements can be applied globally and provide considerable value to global military customers in several ways. A number of new and existing pages now display military-specific fields and sections when the Military functionality is enabled on the Installation table. New components are defined to support the definition and make up of military services, as well as tracking and personal information of individual service members. This feature integrates with the Human Resources Manage Profiles business process to update service member worn rank changes through services defined in the HCM Event Manager. Contingent Worker/Person enhancements added to further take advantage of the 8.9 Person Model changes. We can now track security clearances, badges for all people in your PeopleSoft HCM database. The previous Job Summary has been enhanced for any person with a Job, and renamed to Workforce Job Summary. With the addition of several expiration dates, there is now an online expiration inquiry page, as well as a batch process to notify managers and other roles designated by the users. General HCM Enhancements A common document generation solution used throughout the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM suite that leverages Oracle's XML Publisher technology. (General HCM Enhancements may not apply to all products.) The new product now has a vastly improved functionality to automatically trigger workflow notifications to inform the next approver in the process of work waiting. It is user-friendly, configurable, easily maintained and upgraded, and consistent across all adopting HCM applications through the use of the Approval Workflow Engine. (Please note that general HCM Enhancements may not apply to all products.) Utilizing the Approval Workflow Engine, users have the ability to authorize other users to perform managerial tasks on their behalf by delegating authority to initiate or approve managerial transactions. (General HCM Enhancements may not apply to all products.) Modules Enhancements: Human Resources – Profile Management 41 Profile Management Key elements of the new profile management feature are: Track job/organization and person profile attributes with the newly designed, flexible-setup content catalog. The content catalog joins the existing competency management and job profiles data structures. Link job or organization profiles to a number of different entities such as job code, position, department, and so on. Also define entities based on your business needs. Streamline profile administration by copying items between profiles. For example, employee profiles can contain profile items that also appear in job code or salary grade profiles. Control who can view or change profiles by enabling profile approval processing. Use the security settings for each content section to control who can view and update the section. Perform targeted analysis through powerful search and compare tools. Integrate with ePerformance, Recruiting Solutions, and Enterprise Learning Management and other PeopleSoft applications, such as Financials and CRM. Modules Enhancements: Payroll – Manage Base Benefits and Garnishment Processing 42 Manage Base Benefits business process enhancements: Reorganized rate table functionality. One rate structure replaces the previous service rate tables. Common architecture standardizes rate table definition. Reorganized the Calculation Rules component, keeping only fields directly related to rate calculation. A simple interface for calculation rules contains fields that impact the coverage calculation. Centralized the attributes calculating life insurance and disability plan coverage in a common formula-based component. Select existing formulas to calculate life insurance coverage or create your own formula. Established simple Rate Plans to help you set up long-term care insurance, employee assistance plans, legal plans, and other types of insurances that only require an associated rate. Simplified many dependent relationships and mapped them to benefit eligible statuses. Streamlined several Savings Plan components to increase usability and flexibility to limit processing and overrides. Garnishment Processing Improved flexibility for garnishment processing by leveraging the Canadian rules-based engine to meet the ever-changing regulatory requirements in the United States. This gives customers complete control over all aspects of their garnishment calculations by providing users more flexibility in defining the applicable earnings and exemptions. These changes increase staff productivity by reducing the amount of manual labor required to compute garnishments, which also improves data accuracy. Business flexibility is also improved. Modules Enhancements: Payroll – Integration with T&L and Year End Report 43 Integration with T&L Enhanced integration between Payroll for North America and Time and Labor, including reconciling reported and payable time, payable time status and reason codes, Load Time and Labor filters, and check reversals. Year End Report Streamlined menu structure for year-end reports for ease of use. Modules Enhancements: Payroll – eBenefits and ePay 44 eBenefits Ability to associate certification questionnaires with certain dependent relationships or with certain plan types. Certificates are built using the Certification Definition page. Implement certifications using either Event Rules or Dependent Relationships. This certificate, if assigned to a particular benefit plan or dependent relationship, appears in eBenefits self-service to the participant. Optional workflow to help manage self-reported dependent data. ePay Available options with ePay. Navigation: Main Menu > Self Service > Payroll and Compensation Enhanced Payroll for North America and ePay functionality to enable customers to use XML Publisher (XMLP) to produce paychecks in PDF format. The system creates and stores data in XML format and builds the PDF file for display on demand using XMLP templates. We deliver paycheck report templates that customers can modify to add their company logo, as an example. Employees are then able to access, view and print an electronic version of their paycheck details through Self Service, including YTD hours and amounts for each check. A separate view is provided for payroll administrators to access employees’ paychecks for verification or reprint purposes. Enhanced Payroll for North America and ePay functionality to enable customers to use XML Publisher (XMLP) to produce W-2, W-2c, T4 and T4A forms in PDF format. This functionality creates online as well as paper forms in PDF format, and provides employees with access to an electronic version of their year-end forms through Self Service. The system creates and stores data in XML format and builds the PDF file for display on demand using XMLP templates. Employees are then able to view or print the forms. A separate view is provided for payroll administrators to access employees’ forms for verification or reprint purposes. The payroll administrator is able to view forms for all employees, including forms for employees who have not consented to receiving their forms electronically. To assist with the process of obtaining employee consent for online forms, new pages, workflows, notifications, and reports are provided. Modules Enhancements: Campus Community – 3C Communication Generation and Service Indicator 45 (3C) Communication Generation The new Communication Generation process provides a more streamlined way to produce multiple types of communication in a variety of formats The Communication Generation process does not replace the existing Letter Generation process or communication structures, but instead provides greater power and flexibility for creating communications. The Communication Generation process does everything that the Letter Generation process does, but with additional flexibility The Communication Generation process relies on: Communication Data Source Template Report Definition Letter Code XML Publisher Service Indicator End date and end term consistency: All feature implementations of Service Indicators treat date and time periods the same way You can use service indicators to provide or limit access to services at your institution for organizations as well as individuals A user's security determines which indicators appear You can use the Population Selection process to mass assign and mass release service indicators Enhancements to Service Indicator Audits functionality include the expansion of the search criteria and the display of search results in a sort able grid. The Service Indicator Audits feature also captures history for organizations Modules Enhancements: Student Records – Flexible Transcript, Class Permissions and Service Impact 46 Flexible Transcript A new Application Engine process replaces the COBOL-based engine traditionally used to generate transcripts after they have been requested. Oracle's XML Publisher is delivered as the application that produces the transcript document More data is available from which to produce a transcript and it is stored in a series of specific transcript tables Delivered templates allow your institution to take advantage of new designs without having to create them. You can also design templates Transcripts in PDF format are available to administrators The new Define Transcript Type component includes three new pages – Test Scores, Special GPA, and View Sort In a readable grid format, Transcript Request Inquiry enables you to access the student’s history of transcript requests, filter them by transcript type, sort the results, and personalize the sequence of grid columns Class Permissions (Needs integration testing with A&R and AS Dept) Permissions can be defined to override all or some of the following conditions: Closed class section Requisites not met Consent required Career restrictions Time period restrictions You can record information about when and by whom a permission is issued. You can also save comments about the permission The new Permission to Drop page is available Service Impact A new service impact (DENR), No Drop Activity – Add Allowed, when attached to a service indicator that is assigned to a student, prevents the student from dropping any enrolled class without administrative override Modules Enhancements: Student Records – Student Group 47 Student Group Use the new Process Student Group component to assign a group of students to a student group View student groups by student or by group The new Student Group Security page ensures greater control of sensitive student group data Student Groups page: Added new “Last Update Date/Time, Updated By and Type” fields Modules Enhancements: Student Records – Academic Data 48 Academic Data Navigation: Main Menu > Records and Enrollment > Student Term Information > Term History Term History-Term Statistics and the Term History-Cumulative Statistics pages are redesigned to include statistics taken at the home institution and for transfer credit Repeat checking logic: The Grade Match Option field is added to the Academic Institution 5 page. For multiple repeated classes, you can match a currently enrolled class with previous attempts by either the best grade or the worst grade Transfer credit grade recording: Use the new Default Grade field to indicate how you want the Transfer Credit process to determine the grades for internal equivalent courses Modules Enhancements: Financial Aid – External Awards Processes 49 New menus and pages Manual External Award Process: Add External Awards by Type Add External Awards to Student View and Update External Award Data before Processing: Manage External Award Data Manage External Award Data by Type Manage Awards by Status Manage Student External Awards – manual posting by student ID Batch Process Posting and Validation Data: Process External Award File View Data File Staging Results Load External Awards External Award Load Summary External Awards Load Detail Process SF External Award Modules Enhancements: Financial Aid – Repackaging Processes & Mass Packaging Select 50 Repackaging Processes: New menus and pages Select Students to Repackages View Selected Student Students View Assigned Repackaging Plans View Assigned Plans Process Batch Repackaging View Batch Repackaging Summary View Batch Repackaging Details View Batch Repackaging Errors Mass Packaging Select: Added new Population Selection update tools Modules Enhancements: Financial Aid – Assign Awards Student & Aggregate Program Summary 51 Assign Awards to a Student: Added “Repackaging Plan ID field, Repackage button and EA (external award) select box Aggregate Program Summary: New page Modules Enhancements: Financial Aid – View Packaging Status Summary & Process Financial Aid Years 52 View Packaging Status Summary: Added “Repackaging Plan field and Self Service External Award Access select box” Process Financial Aid Years: New batch process page to (Aid Year Activation) Modules Enhancements: Student Records – Self Service (Student and Faculty) 53 Self Service (Student and Faculty) The Student Center provides students a single entry point from which to begin navigation to student related transactions. It also presents to students, in one location, information such as their class schedule, enrollment dates, and account information New class search functionality enables students to access class search from several places within Self Service, and select classes directly from class search, even if they do not access class search through enrollment navigation Shopping cart functionality enables students to plan enrollment in class sections for a particular term. Students can validate their class sections to check for time conflicts and prerequisites A step-by-step wizard guides students through the enrollment processes of adding, dropping, swapping, and editing classes The My Academics page provides students with their current program and plan information and also provides a set of links to academic information such as transfer credit and graduation Faculty Center provides instructors a single entry point from which to begin navigation to instructor-related transactions - for example, view teaching schedules, search for classes and access Grade book Note: Self Service – Student and Faculty detail presentation will be provided separately. Modules Enhancements: Student Financials – Self Service 54 Self Service The Account Summary pages are redesigned to present more useful information to students about the status of their accounts New functionality is available in the Make a Payment Wizard: Students can make payments towards their account using either credit card or eCheck tender Students can change the payment amount throughout the payment processes Students can allocate their payment by term Students can make miscellaneous purchases using Self Service Students can sign up for a Payment Plan Students can view and reprint a substitute copy of the U.S. 1098-T after having received a paper copy through postal mail Modules Enhancements: Financial Aid – Self Service 55 Self Service Improved navigation and a standardized appearance for the Financial Aid self-service pages The Update Totals button is available on the Financial Aid - Award Package page The Reporting External Award component allows students to provide information regarding any external awards that are not already reflected on their award package A self-service option allows students to select a FFELP (Federal Family Education Loan Program) lender or to change a previously assigned lender The following functionality assists your institution to comply with federal loan counseling requirements: Expanded administrative pages to track the completion of both entrance and exit counseling by loan program for each student Setup pages to define those loan programs requiring counseling and the effective dates for displaying exit-counseling dates Links appear on self-service pages if the student has not already completed the required counseling Authorizing application of Financial Aid for non-allowable charges: Functionality in Student Financials enables students to provide authorization through Self Service View and Print Award Notice The Perkins eMPN process supports the requirement that schools use the Perkins Master Promissory Note (MPN) and provides the option for students to complete and sign their Perkins MPN electronically Note: Self Service – Financial Aid detail presentation will be provided separately.