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Welcome to the official web site of Stephen F. Austin State University’s Axcess project, the name given to the university’s 4-year long project to replace its core administrative system with Banner. Banner is the name of the product suite SFASU purchased from SunGard Higher Education. The intent of this site is to provide the SFASU community with highlights about the Axcess project during its 4-year life and to answer any questions you may have.
Announcements
November schedule of training:
| Date | Training |
|---|---|
| November 3-5 | Accounts Receivable Team Training Topic: General Consulting |
| November 3-5 | Student Team Training Topic: General Consulting |
| November 16-18 | Financial Aid Team Training Topic: FISAP, R2T4, Data Logging, Holds |
| November 17-19 | Technical Team Training Topic: Human Resource Initial Technical |
Upon completion of these trainings, our teams will have completed the following:
| Team | Training Completed |
|---|---|
| Finance | 18 out of 21 currently scheduled - 86% complete |
| Student | 34 out of 38 currently scheduled - 89% complete |
| Technical | 15 out of 15 currently scheduled - 100% complete |
| Financial Aid | 12 out of 15 currently scheduled - 80% complete |
| Human Resources | 3 out of 23 currently scheduled - 13% complete |
Successes
- 11/2009 – Student security classes created, assigned, and tested.
- 11/2009 - Catalog of classes loaded from TEST Banner 7 into PROD.
- 10/2009 - First mock registration completed which included departmental academic advisors
- 10/2009 - Beginning balances loaded in Banner and budgets brought forward.
- 10/2009 - October 1st and 15th payrolls loaded in Banner.
- 10/2009 - Using Banner to post all non-student deposits.
- 10/2009 - Using Banner to prepare journal entries and to transfer funds.
- 10/2009 - Daily processing of applications and transcripts in Banner.
- 10/2009 - First group of acceptance letters to students generated through Banner for Fall 2010.
- 09/2009 - BANNER FINANCE AND STUDENT ADMISSIONS IS LIVE!
- 09/2009 - Utilizing the Recruit Communication Flow in Banner for Admissions.
- 08/2009 - Began process for syncing data between PLUS and Banner.
- 08/2009 - Banner is LIVE – PROD instance in existence
- 08/2009 - 488,922 student records and 22,532 HR records loaded into PROD
- 07/2009 - Graduate Admissions security classes created, assigned, and tested.
- 07/2009 - BR feeds loaded and ‘feeding’ on a nightly basis with UC4’s Application Manager job scheduler.
- 07/2009 - Campus-wide finance end user training for navigation, requisitions, approvals, and budgets began.
- 07/2009 - Report writing began for student, finance, and financial aid utilizing WebFocus
- 06/2009 - Accounts Receivable security classes created, assigned, and tested.
- 06/2009 - Process for routing Banner Access Request Form to appropriate data custodians through ImageNow created and implemented.
- 06/2009 - Finance and Student Admissions security classes created, assigned, and tested.
- 06/2009 - First purchase order formatted and created with FormFusion.
- 05/2009 - 450,000+ student records and 24,000+ human resource records migrated from Plus to Banner and data validation began.
- 05/2009 - General Person data loaded in TEST
- 05/2009 - Clean_Address loaded in TEST and INB
- 05/2009 - Electronic load of TSI data loaded in TEST
- 05/2009 - Electronic load of faculty data loaded in TEST
- 05/2009 - Completed manual entry of courses in Catalog (previously called Course Inventory) in TEST
- 04/2009 - Electronic load of Test Scores loaded in TEST
- 04/2009 - Completed manual entry of Location Management data in TEST
- 04/2009 - Approval Tables loaded with ability to see the real approver names associated with requisitions in TEST
- 03/2009 - Initial data loads of student and finance data conducted and issues addressed.
- 03/2009 – Clean_Address setup complete and currently being tested against live data.
- 02/2009 - WebFOCUS training completed by ITS programmers.
- 01/2009 – Communication and End User Training Plans completed. These documents have been placed under the Project Documents link.
- 01/2009 - Initial load of STVSBGI completed.
- 11/2008 – Clean Address, UC4, and WebFOCUS software installed.
- 11/2008 - Project Definition Document completed and signed by Executive Steering Committee and Banner Implementation Team. This document is the “roadmap” for the Axcess Project.
- 10/2008 - Version 1.0 of Data Standards completed and baselined.
- 10/2008 - First Chart of Accounts and Vendor Load completed in the Banner test system.
- 09/2008 - Axcess Project web site launched.
- 05/2008 - Launching of Luminis and the new "mySFA" site.
Get to Know Banner...
(This Banner quick fact will change periodically. Watch for a new one to appear.)
CAPP, which stands for Curriculum, Advising, and Program Planning, is the name of the degree audit system that we will be using in Banner. A degree audit report in Banner is called a ‘compliance’ and will be available to faculty and students using mySFA. A CAPP compliance may be run on any student; the student does not need to be active or currently enrolled. CAPP only requires that there be academic history (from SFA or transfer) entered into Banner. The "What-if" option allows you to run an evaluation for any available program and major. CAPP processes the courses by chronological term, based on a "best fit" scenario and the way the requirements are defined. It will look through each of the courses, and then assign each course to the first requirement in the degree program that the course will fulfill.