Project FAQs
What is being implemented from CMS?
Campus Community |
- Maintain shared bio-demographic information about students, staff and faculty
- Maintain information on external organizations that relate to students including other secondary and higher education institutions
- Create and link checklists to identify and track steps in student processing
- Create and track communications to students
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Admissions |
- Interface with CSU Mentor to match and record student applicants and related information
- Evaluate and admit students based on campus criteria
- Report on campus admissions statistics and detail
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Student Records |
- Record course catalog and schedule of classes information
- Maintain student historical academic history for transcript production
- Record and articulate transfer courses
- Manage student enrollment including setting enrollment periods/appointments and registration
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Student Financials |
- Define applicable fees, formulas, waivers, processing rules and GL chartfields for student charges and credits
- Calculate and record student charges, process payments/credits and track billing on individual student accounts
- Interface student financial transactions in summary to GL
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Financial Aid |
- Load and process financial aid applications (ISIRs) from FAFSA data and link to existing students where applicable
- Define and budget formulas and processing rules for awards
- Generate financial aid awards
- Distribute financial aid awards including interface with student accounts for fee payment and refunds
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Academic Advising
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- Define articulation rules
- Define degree progress rules to evaluate academic history
- Maintain student-specific exceptions to these rules
- Produce degree progress reports for student’s current degree selection and allow for what-if-scenarios
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Self-Service
(all self-service functionality
will be available on the web
24x7 and will access realtime data) |
- Enable students to update selected bio-demographic information
- Enable access to search the class schedule
- Enable students to review the status of their admissions application, financial aid awards, term class schedules, grades, unofficial transcript, student accounts, degree progress reports, hold/to-dos, review registration appointments, enroll in classes and make payments
- Enable advisors to review student’s degree progress reports
- Enable faculty to review their course schedule and class rosters and post grades online
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What benefits can we expect from CMS?
The following are some of the known benefits of CMS Campus Solutions version 8.9 over our existing SIS+, TITAN Online and DARS environment. As our campus proceeds with the CMS implementation, we will discover more benefits and will add to this list.
24x7 Access |
Access to Campus Solutions including Self-Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week |
Completely web-based |
Access to Campus Solutions is completely web-based |
Expanded Self-Service |
Additional Self-Service functionality over what is available in TITAN Online includes:
- student access to view/update address data;
- faculty access to review their course schedule and class rosters and post grades online;
- faculty and advisor access to view student information including unofficial transcripts and degree progress reports.
- Access to search the class schedule data will be realtime and will include prerequisite information and exam schedule information.
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What is an IDP?
Interactive Design & Prototype (IDP) sessions are conducted for the CMS Campus Solutions implementation and are similar to the Fit/Gap sessions conducted for the CMS HR and Finance implementations. IDP sessions:
- Examine current business processes and identify how those processes will change in PeopleSoft
- Begin to identify and make modifications needed in PeopleSoft
- Setup of CMS tables, examples include:
- Careers, programs, plans, sub-plans (for our majors, minors, concentrations)
- Colleges, departments, subject abbreviations
- Degree audit rules
- Begin data conversion from SIS+
- Begin identifying critical reports and begin development of reports in PeopleSoft environment
- Will include end-users (academic department staff, faculty and students) as we move further into the implementation
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