Administrative Computing Training
Staff members and faculty who will be in charge of removing Advisement Service Indicators (holds), enrolling students in classes, and printing unofficial transcripts will need to attend two 3-hour classes.
Introduction to Student Administration
Enrollment Express
Announcements about training sessions will be sent via e-mail to departmental staff.
Faculty Training
All faculty members will have access to Faculty Self Service to view and print class rosters and permission numbers, enter grades, and view student data for advising purposes. Web-based tutorials are available for these self service features.
No instructor-led training is required, although departments are welcome to contact Linda Perrotto to schedule an introductory session on Self Service.
Faculty members who will be in charge of removing Advisement Service Indicators (holds), enrolling students in classes, and printing unofficial transcripts will need to attend two 3-hour classes.
Introduction to Student Administration
Enrollment Express
Recruiting and Admissions Training
Introduction to Student Administration (Prerequisite for all other classes)
Admissions
Recruiting
Reporting (Recruiting and Admissions)
Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: A Windows or Mac Fundamentals class or equivalent knowledge
Description: This course serves as the prerequisite for all other ISIS Student Administration Application training. It combines lecture, demonstration, and hands-on activities to familiarize participants with the basics of the ISIS Application software. Specifically, users will learn: terms and concepts, practice navigating through menus, and learn how to use Global Search. Participants will also learn about access and compliance issues and be introduced to the available resources for getting help and information.
Admissions Classes
Viewing Admissions Data (AD 101) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Description: This course was designed for users who need to view and understand admissions data. Users will learn how to view data such as application data, communications, comments, test scores, and events.
Fundamentals of Admissions I (AD 102) - 4 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Description: This course was designed for users who will be using the Pre-App Materials panel (PAM) searching, and adding admissions data. Course content includes: Using the PAM panel, adding new admission applicants, updating admission data, entering test results, residency data, education data, and adding optional student data. Reports used within these business processes will also be covered.
Fundamentals of Admissions II (AD 103) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101) Fundamentals of Admissions I (AD 102)
Description:This course was designed for users who will be adding and updating admissions data and is a continuation of AD 102. Course content includes: updating applicant personal data, assigning and updating a requirements checklist, overview and printing of the missing requirements communications, and marking an application complete. Reports used within these business processes will also be covered.
Advanced Admissions (AD 201) - 4 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101) Fundamentals of Admissions I (AD 102)
Fundamentals of Admissions II (AD 103)
Description: This course is designed to provide relevant Admissions personnel with the advanced skills necessary to ready applications for evaluation, record application decisions, assign communications, process accepted applicants, and record post-acceptance data. This course also describes how to generate and print profile sheets. The course will reference appropriate reports throughout. Samples of the reports will be contained in the Appendix.
Understanding Admissions Data (AD 301) - 2 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to PeopleSoft Student Administration (SA 101)
Viewing Admissions Data (AD 101)
Description: This course is designed to help Query users understand the data that is used to build their queries. Users will learn about the PeopleSoft data structure, table joins and the Admissions denormalized tables. The data dictionaries and delivered public queries will also be covered.
Note : This course does not include any hands-on activities and may be conducted in a conference room.
Admissions Event Management (AD 303) - 2 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Viewing Admissions Data (AD 101)
Description: This course is designed for users who need to maintain post-acceptance events. First users will learn how to add a student to existing events that have been set up for each campus. Next, the user will learn how to access summary information for a specific event and summary information for an individual person. Finally, the user will learn to create a new event template to enable each campus to add and maintain events.
Recruiting Classes
Viewing Recruiting Data - Boston (RE 101 B) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Description: This course was designed for users who need to view and understand recruiting data. Users will learn how to view information such as Prospect data, communications, checklists, and test scores.
Viewing Recruiting and Admissions Data (RA 101) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Description: This course was designed for users who need to view and understand recruiting and admission data. Users will learn how to view information such as Prospect and Applicant data, communications, checklists, and test scores.
Fundamentals of Recruiting - Boston (RE 102 B) - 4 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Description: This course was designed for users who will be searching, adding, and updating recruiting data. Course content includes: setting Operator Defaults, adding new prospect records, updating prospect data, entering test results, and assigning checklists (communications).
Fundamentals of Recruiting - Dartmouth & Lowell (RE 101 D&L) - 4 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Description: This course was designed for users who will be searching, adding, and updating recruiting data. Course content includes: setting Operator Defaults, adding new prospect records, updating prospect data, entering test results, and assigning and printing communications.
Recruiting Communications and Checklists - Boston (RE 103 B) - 4 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Fundamentals of Recruiting - Boston (RE 102 B)
Description: This course teaches specialized users in the recruitment area the basic elements of the software and how to perform various tasks connected to the use of checklists and outgoing communications. They will learn checklist codes for their campus, how the Batch Scheduler and the Pitney Bowes interface run automatically for the assignment checklists and updating of checklist status, how to assign checklists to a record individually, and how to use the inquiry panels to view checklist status.
Recruiting Communications and Checklists - Dartmouth & Lowell (RE 103 D&L) - 4 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Fundamentals of Recruiting - Dartmouth & Lowell (RE 101 D&L)
Mail Merge
Description: This course teaches specialized users in the recruitment area the basic communication elements of the software and how to perform various tasks connected to the use of checklists and outgoing communications. They will learn checklist and communication codes for their campus, how the batch scheduler processes run automatically for the assignment of communications and updating of records, how to generate (print) the communications (letters/labels) using Mail Merge, how to assign communications and checklists to an individual record manually, and how to use both the checklist and communication inquiry panels.
Reporting Classes
Introduction to Query (SA 301) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Viewing Admissions Data (AD 101)
Understanding Admissions Data (AD 301)
Description: This course is designed for users who need a basic understanding of how to use query to extract data. This includes the ability to execute a public (delivered) query, to create and save a private (ad hoc) query and export and print the data using Excel.
Introduction to Crystal Reports (SA 302) - 5 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Viewing Admissions Data (AD 101)
Description: This course covers using Crystal Reports to create and format reports from queries. Users will be taught how to create a report, add graphics, perform summary calculations and add criteria and conditional formatting to their reports.
Advanced Query (SA 303) - 3 hours
Prerequisite: Introduction to Student Administration (SA 101)
Viewing Admissions Data (AD 101)
Understanding Admissions Data (AD 301)
Introduction to Query (SA 301)
Description: This course covers advanced techniques used to manipulate delivered queries as well as create a query from scratch using multiple tables. Users will be taught how to add criteria, create prompts, expressions and joins.