Setting Up Academic Advisement Self Service

This chapter discusses how to:

Set up self-service features for Academic Advisement..
Define self-service installation settings.

Setting Up Self-Service Features for Academic Advisement

To set up self-service Academic Advisement features, use the Academic Advising setup (SAA_SS_RPT_OPT) component.

This section discusses how to define Academic Advisement setup.

Page Used to Set Up Self-Service Features for Academic Advisement

Page Name	Object Name	Navigation	Usage
Academic Advising Setup	SAA_SS_RPT_OPT	Set up SACR, Common Definitions, Self Service, Academic Advising	Enable self-service features and define behavior for self-service Academic Advisement functionality.

Defining Academic Advisement Setup

Access the Academic Advising setup page.

Enable real-time processing

Select to instruct the system to automatically generate an advisement report when students access the My Academic Requirements page.

Enable the course what-if option

Select to enable students to run a course what-if scenario in self service using the Create What-if Scenario page. Clear the check box to disable this ability.

Defining Self-Service Installation Settings

To define conditions under which an advisement report is generated for self service, use the Academic Advisement installation (SAA_INSTALL_AA) component.

This section discusses how to define installation settings for Academic Advisement.

Page Used to Define Self-Service Installation Settings

Page Name	Object Name	Navigation	Usage
Installation Academic Advisement	SAA_INSTALL_AA	Set Up SACR, Install, Academic Advising Installation	Disable on-demand report processing and enable the system to track which students need to have new reports generated, based on changes made to their academic history.

Installing Self-Service Academic Advisement

Access the Installation Academic Advisement page.

The check boxes on this page determine under which conditions a student's academic history will cause the system to generate an advisement report for a student. If the institution has enabled real-time processing (on the Academic Advising Setup page) and selected check boxes on this page, a new advisement report will be generated when a student accesses the My Academic Requirements page. If the institution has not enabled real-time processing, the institution can use the conditions to “trigger” a batch process to run and generate advisement reports at predefined intervals. To run the advisement reports in batch based on these synchronization options, your institution will use the Generate Report Requests and Generate Advisement Reports components.

Selecting a check box causes the system to set a synchronization (sync) flag for that change. In turn, the flag cues the institution to rerun the advisement report. Here are the actions for each check box that set a sync flag:

Enrollment Records	Adding, deleting, or modifying any enrollment records through Enrollment, Enrollment Requests, Quick Enrollment, or Grading.
Transfer Credit Records	Posting or unposting any transfer credit.
Internal Degree Records	Awarding, revoking, or modifying any degree record through the Student Program/Plan, Degree Maintenance, or Batch Graduation Processing pages.
External Degree Records	Adding, modifying, or removing any externally awarded degrees through the External Education pages.
Student Planner Records	Adding, modifying, or removing any records from the student’s planner.
Academic Structure Records	Adding, modifying, or removing any values from the student’s Records Program stack. This also includes admissions matriculation.
Student Group Record	Adding, modifying, or removing any advisement student group values for a student.
Academic Level Records	Making any changes to a student’s academic level, either by automated processes from grading and enrollment or through manual override in term processing.
Milestone Records	Adding, modifying, or removing any milestone values for a student.
Shopping Cart Records	Adding, modifying, or removing any records in the student’s Shopping Cart.

Example

An institution selects the Enrollment Records check box. A student has an advisement report dated May 10, 2006. The current date is July 18, 2006 and the student has just enrolled in a summer school class. The change to the student's enrollment record sets a synchronization flag. The institution nightly runs a batch process to generate new advisement reports for students for whom the synchronization flag is set to "Y." On the following day, the student looks at his My Academic Requirements page. The advisement report that appears there will be up to date (with a date and time stamp as of the previous night's batch process).

Alternatively, if the institution has selected the Enable real-time processing check box on the Academic Advising Setup page, then when student enrolls in a class then the system automatically generates the report to automatically (in real time) when the student next accesses the My Academic Requirements page. The student will immediately see the course he's just enrolled in.

Enable real-time processing	Select to instruct the system to automatically generate an advisement report when students access the My Academic Requirements page.
Enable the course what-if option	Select to enable students to run a course what-if scenario in self service using the Create What-if Scenario page. Clear the check box to disable this ability.