BANNERNew Student Information System FACULTY WEB.ppt

BANNERNew 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 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… 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 restricti