The Patriot Project

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The Patriot Project

• Banner Student Implementation

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Why Replace SIS?

• Resides on an end-of-life mainframe
• Registers, grades, and bills only on a
  traditional semester basis
• Lacks the capability to process web-based
  application, registration, and payments

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Revolutionizing Administrative Systems

• More flexible technology
• USERS RULE!

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What kind of user are you?

• Back-office user Internet native
  application
• End user Self-service products

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Target Dates
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Implementation Teams
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Approach
SCT trains implementation teams
Teams define how module will work
Teams convert data and test module
Teams train end users
GO LIVE
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Success Factors

• Essential student functionality
• New self-service capabilities
• Best practices
• Privacy
• Security
• Performance
• Trained users
• On time and within budget

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Communication

• Patriot Project web site - http//www.gmu.edu/Patr
  iotProject/
• Town hall meetings
• Teams and committees
• Student and faculty advisory groups

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Joy Hughes

• Vice President
• for Information Technology and CIO

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Shared Person Table
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Real-time checking of Pre-requisites for
Registration

• May be defined by
• Student level
• College
• Classification
• Major
• Program
• Degree
• Test Score

• Can check
• Equivalent Courses
• Course Ranges
• Groups of Courses
• Test scores
• Minimum Grade point average in a group of
  pre-requisite courses
• In-progress Courses

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Pre-requisite Example

• Have taken ENGL 110 and earned at least a C or
  scored at least 500 on the SAT Verbal Test
• Set Sub Subj Crse Crse Req Req
  Min Test Min Max
• Set Low High Crd
  Crs Grd
• A10 010 ENGL 110
  1 C
• A10 015
  S01 500 800

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Pre-requisite Example2

• Have taken 15 credits or 5 courses in lower-level
  English with a GPA of 2.5 and no single grade
  lower than a C in the used courses
• Area General Requirements 2.5GPA
• Detail Requirements
• Subj Crse Crse Req Connect Req
  Min
• Low High Crd
  Crs Grd
• ENGL 100 299 15 or 5
  C

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Shared VISA Codes HR and Student
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Self Service Registration
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Self-Service Class Search
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Self-Service Registration
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Student Registration Form
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Well All Be Changing

• Staff in functional offices will be writing
  rules, specifying processes, and maintaining
  tables.
• Students, faculty and staff will be using new
  self service and work flow processes.
• Programmers will be managing data warehouses and
  sophisticated report generators rather than
  writing COBOL code.

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May you live in interesting times
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Jim Dye

• Account Consultant
• Professional Services, SCT

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Beth Brock

• Project Leader
• Banner Finance and HR

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HR/Finance Update
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Questions?
Wendy Payton Director of Special Projects for the
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs MSN
3A2 3-8679 wpayton_at_gmu.edu