What you need to know for Banner 9
Student and Financial Aid Focus
Improved user experience
- Modern, yet familiar, web user interface with standard controls
- Shorter learning curve for occasional users
- Enhanced usability and navigation for power users
- Ability to run in any modern browser
Significant reduction in time & cost to maintain Banner
- Ellucian Solution Manager
- Simplifies the upgrade process
- Minimizes system interruptions and risk
- Reduces time and cost for installation and deployment
- Less user testing required
- Modifications replaced with configurations and extensions –eliminates maintenance with upgrades, reduces testing required
Improved Student and Faculty Experience
- Student Advising Profile –saves times for students and advisors, enables personalized advice for better academic decisions
- Attendance tracking empowers faculty, saving time for registrars and financial aid
- Faculty Grade Entry streamlines grade processing including the ability to enter grades via spreadsheet
- Registration
- More intuitive, saving time for registrar and the IT office
- Seamless integration with Ellucian Degree Works
- Enables advisors to better plan their student’s success
- Better visibility into course demand for registrars
Self Service modules reduce administrative burden
- Employee Profile provides more self-service information for employees saving time for HR
- Position Description saves time in creation, editing, routing and approval of positions and makes posting to job search sites faster and more efficient
- Direct Deposit for staff and students reduces manual effort for employees, students and internal staff
- Purchase Requisition delivers faster procurement or products and services, saving time for the business office
- My Finance Query reduces reporting burden, enables better financial management
- Communication Management enables simpler and more efficient communications in areas such as financial aid award letters, past-due tuition notices, registration reminders and more
What’s Available in Banner 9
Administrative Applications
- Banner General
- Banner Student
- Banner Human Resources
- Banner Finance
- Banner Financial Aid
- Banner Student Aid
- Banner Advancement
- Banner Accounts Receivable
Self-Service Applications
Student
- Registration
- Student Advising Profile
- Attendance Tracking
- Faculty Grade Entry
- Class Roster
General
- Communication Management
- Personal Information
Finance & HR
- Purchase Requisition
- Direct Deposit
- My Finance Query
- Employee Profile
- Position Description
- Effort Reporting
- Labor Redistribution
The Student Experience
With Banner 9…
- Integrated academic plan and registration
- Mobile experience for increased engagement
- Streamlined support processes
Impact to Students
- Decreased time to graduation resulting in lower student debt
- Institutional information meets students where they are
- More quality time with advisor –less time spent gathering information
The Faculty Member Experience
With Banner 9…
- Holistic student profile
- Simplified grade entry and attendance tracking
- Composite employee profile
Impact to Faculty Member
- More connected to students and aware of situational issues
- Time savings to focus on teaching and learning
- Streamlined procedures make it easy to work for the institution
Banner 9’s New Look & Feel
- Tablet friendly- Banner on-the-go
- Supporting constituents on-the-go with all devices (Ellucian Solutions Incorporate Mobility and Web 2.0 into administrative systems architecture)
Release 9 Administrative Improvements
- Enhanced user interface
- Standard tools and logout information.
- Page navigation, total number of records and table and field information; can be used on tablet or desktop
- Application Navigation (Personalized Banner admin landing page)
- Add you institution name
- Set your own background
- Search for and open new and legacy Banner forms using normal language or seven character abbreviation.
- Registration (One institution saw a 47 percent decrease in call volume in regards to registration issues after implementing)
- Color coded calendar
- Lookup and register for courses all on one screen
- Course details
- Email schedule
- Easy to read on a mobile/tablet device
- Advising Profile –Mobile
- Combines data from 15 different Admin screens into one
- Advisor, Faculty and Student see the same information
- Ability to enter Notes
- Links to academic transcript and degree planning
- Those with appropriate privileges can update hold information
- Advising and Student Profile- More Time to Advise: Tablet
- After implementing one institution reclaimed 4 minutes per student per advising session to advise versus navigate through software
- Time Savings: 7500 enrolled meeting w/each student only 1 time/year using the new Advising Profile could reclaim500 advising hours (12.5 weeks) per year
- Data from 15 Banner 8 forms in one responsive design page
- Version 9.3 includes Hold release functionality
- Attendance Tracking
- Responsive Design
- Student photos displayed
- Excel Template for tracking and uploading attendance
- Faculty Grade Entry –Tablet
- Responsive Design
- Student Photo displayed when student selected
- Excel Template for tracking and uploading attendance
- Class Roster
- Communication Management
Key Features
- Features work across the Banner enterprise
- Manages transactional connections to your constituents using Banner data
- Set notifications or reminders to register for classes or when tuition is past due
- Personal Information Self-Service
- View, edit and update biographic and demographic information
- Will display first/middle/last and preferred name in Personal Details, yet support name display differently in Overview section
- Configurable using the Integration Configuration Settings (GORICCR) page
- Direct Deposit and Personal Information functionality merged into single application
- Easier to update and configure, by institution
More Information (Guides, Demos, User Community)