Cloud Readiness / Oracle Student Management Cloud
New Feature Summary
  1. Update 19B
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
    1. Campus Community
        1. Redirect Self-Service Users to the Home Page
        2. Brand Your Cloud Interface
        3. Manage Person Details
        4. Self-Service: Viewing Communications
    2. Student Financials
        1. Manage Sponsorships
        2. Set Up Application Fees
    3. Student Records
        1. Create Transcript Types and Transcript Notes
        2. Associate an Academic Level with a Reporting Period
        3. Complete a Student Program
        4. Process Student Withdrawals
        5. Restrict Enrollment in Courses by Program
    4. Student Admissions
        1. Use Form Builder for Applications
        2. Create Admissions Activity Reports
        3. Manage Application Attachments
        4. Self-Service: Apply Online
    5. Advisement
        1. Design an Academic Plan Template
    6. Transactional Business Intelligence for Student Management
        1. New Subject Area: Higher Education - Admissions Applications Real Time

Update 19B

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes

11 APR 2019

Student Financials: Set Up Application Fees

Updated document. Revised feature information.

08 MAR 2019   Created initial document.

Overview

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.

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Campus Community

Oracle Campus Community includes everything that is shared among different Student Management product areas, whether person records or common setup objects for implementing Student Management.

Redirect Self-Service Users to the Home Page

Redirect users automatically to the self-service home page after they sign up and set their password. To enable this redirection, use the User Category Name field on the Manage User Role Mapping page. The User Category Name field contains the URL of the home page, and is set up through the Security Console.

Brand Your Cloud Interface

You can configure the student and administrative pages to fit your academic institution’s branding. Select a logo of the institution and a branding color for these pages. Preview the branding configuration, for both mobile devices and desktop, before saving the configuration.

Manage Person Details

Use the new person management pages to search, view, and edit an applicant or student's personal details, such as name, address, email ID, and emergency contacts. You can also view the communications sent to a particular applicant or student, such as an applicant admitted confirmation email, and resend a communication, if needed.

Self-Service: Viewing Communications

Students and applicants can tap or click the bell icon to view the communications sent to them. They can filter these communications, such as view communications that the academic institution sent to them during the last 30 days, last 60 days, or view communications for a specific date range.

Student Financials

Oracle Student Financials is a tool for higher education institutions to manage student receivables, billing, and payment collection. Using Student Financials, both staff and students can quickly find and use the financial information they need to make critical decisions. Staff can actively manage student accounts by performing functions such as creating charges, accepting payments, processing refunds, and generating receipts.

Manage Sponsorships

Simplify student bill-paying by assigning a sponsorship credit to a sponsorship agreement. A sponsorship agreement occurs between an educational institution and external organization. This allows the latter to manage the students who are eligible for sponsorship as well as determine whether to pay some or all charges that appear on a student's bill.

Set Up Application Fees

Automatically charge an application fee when a student submits an application for admission. Use the Manage Miscellaneous Fees page to set up the application fee.

Student Records

Oracle Student Records enables you to set up and maintain your academic structures, curriculum structures and items, and academic calendars. You can enter, track, and process all academic information – from the course catalog and schedule of courses to student programs. You can enroll, grade, and evaluate students.

Create Transcript Types and Transcript Notes

Create transcript types such as official and online. Create student-specific and curriculum-specific transcript notes.

Associate an Academic Level with a Reporting Period

Associate an academic level with a reporting period so that you can group and sequence reporting periods to display curriculum data in the student planner. Use the new Academic Level tab on the Academic Period page when the period category is academic reporting.

Complete a Student Program

Use the new Complete Program action to complete a program for a student. For example:

  • Complete a student program when the student completes a final credential so that the student's academic record indicates the program completion.
  • Complete one element of a student program such as a minor when the student has not yet completed a final credential.

Process Student Withdrawals

Withdraw a student from a reporting period, using the Student Results page: Period Statistics tab.

Restrict Enrollment in Courses by Program

Specify a program as a requisite for course enrollment. For example, restrict enrollment in an Economics course to students with an Economics major.

Student Admissions

Oracle Student Admissions enables users to enter, track, and process the submission of the admissions applications.

Use Form Builder for Applications

A new Relationships section allows an applicant to enter information about their relationships when filling out an application online, including name, contact information, and type of relationship. An admissions administrator can run reports on the fields and information the applicant provided in this new section.

Create Admissions Activity Reports

Administrators can now access reports for the admissions activity of a program, so they can better understand the data for that program.  The admissions-related reports provide specific information for:

  • Academic history
  • Recommenders
  • Extracurricular activity.

Manage Application Attachments

Administrators now have more options to add, edit, remove, or download attachments for an application.  They can:

  • Add attachments to an application after submission, no matter the status.
  • Add attachments to an application even when no attachment sections were configured on the form.
  • Edit, download, or remove all attachments.

Self-Service: Apply Online

The new applicant landing page includes more application-related information so students can complete tasks such as:

  • Continuing an in-progress application
  • Viewing a list of all applications that a student has saved and submitted
  • Viewing an application's status.
  • Viewing an admissions decision.

An applicant can now save their application progress and continue filling out the in-progress application at a later time, and the landing page now clearly communicates an application's status.

Advisement

Oracle Advisement provides the ability to build out a curriculum guided pathway for students. It also provides a student planner that allows students to plan and enroll in courses and track their own academic progress.

Design an Academic Plan Template

You now have more options when creating and modifying academic plan templates. You can:

  • Add or sequence courses in the academic plan without the need to leave the Add Program Requirements page.
  • Create full- and part-time versions of the same template with different program structures, for example different numbers of semesters or years of study.
  • Lock the academic plan, either overall, or for a particular period such as Semester 1, to ensure students can't remove or add courses to the academic plan for that period. This is useful for lockstep programs of study where students have to take all the courses within the program.
  • View a course details popup within the Academic Plan page that provides course information from the curriculum registry.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Student Management

Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making. Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides admissions coordinators, academic coordinators, registrars, bursars, academic advisors, and student services managers the critical information to analyze admissions, enrollment, course capacity planning, and student tuition billing accounts.

New Subject Area: Higher Education - Admissions Applications Real Time

Enhance your Student Management reporting with this new subject area. You can use this subject area to report on admission applicants, including application details, academic history, extracurricular activities, and recommendations. Details such as applicant name, applicant age, academic program applied for, and application status are available for reporting.