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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

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

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

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

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

Academic Advising

 

  • 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

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

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.

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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