Overview
What is Ellucian Banner?
Ellucian offers Banner educational ERP, including its student management system emphasizing control and reporting of process-oriented facets of education such as grading and attendance.
Solid foundation for my organization's data management, but we are shopping around for a new product
Ellucian Banner - Great for educational institutions
Excellent Review for Ellucian Banner
Useful but takes time to implement
A Bittersweet User Experience
Banner Could Stand Improvement.
You really can't escape it
Banner Student Review
The learning curve is steep, but the benefits are excellent!
Banner is a great One Stop Shop
Ellucian Banner 9 is a lifesaver for Academic Advisors!!!
Banner Functionality for Advisors
Colleges wishing to succeed and remain agile should look elsewhere
Banner makes campus life easier
Love it and hate it, but can't live without it
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Popular Features
- Online Registration Management (7)8.888%
- Class Scheduling (7)8.585%
- Student Data Security (7)8.484%
- Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology (8)7.777%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Features
Student and Faculty Administration
Aspects of student management that entail faculty or administration's management of student data and related regulatory requirements.
- 7.7Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology(8) Ratings
The student management system can send and receive data from other educational systems with little to no manual steps required.
- 8.8Online Registration Management(7) Ratings
The system supports administrative setup and management of registration processes, and allows students to register for classes online.
- 8.8District Communications, such as messaging and alerting(4) Ratings
The platform supports communications district-wide and/or with between specific individuals. Examples include alerts, announcements, and direct messaging between faculty and parents.
- 8.3Roster Management(6) Ratings
Faculty and administrators can view, edit, and update their class rosters effectively.
- 7.8Platform Customization(6) Ratings
The student management system can be adjusted or customized to fit specific or unique needs of the school.
- 8.5Teacher Self-Service(6) Ratings
Teachers can easily navigate and work within the system without requiring IT personnel or specialized skills for recurring activities.
- 8.4Student Data Security(7) Ratings
The system has security checks and technology in place to prevent unauthorized access to, editing of, or leaking of sensitive student data
- 8.4Community Support(6) Ratings
There are community resources from other users of the platform to help users troubleshoot and optimize their use of the system.
- 8.5Class Scheduling(7) Ratings
Administrators can easily set up and manage class schedules for the school prior to course registration windows.
- 9State and National-level Reporting(7) Ratings
The system provides prebuilt reports or build-your-own reporting tools for necessary state and national-level reports.
- 8.7Compliance Support(6) Ratings
The effectiveness of resources, tools, and in-platform processes for maintaining and demonstrating regulatory compliance.
- 6.9Teacher and Parent Mobile Application(5) Ratings
Teachers and parents can use a mobile application to access their students' data and update some information remotely.
Product Details
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- Tech Details
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What is Ellucian Banner?
Ellucian Banner Student: Manage critical student information and deliver services to keep them on track. Student can register on their own device and get a comprehensive view to help them, as well as their advisors, stay on top of attendance and grading.
Ellucian Banner Human Resources: A self-service platform that manages employee experience including employment, benefits, and leave plans. Also enables building out talent management and succession planning strategies
Ellucian Banner Finance: Institutional financial management that supports operations, budgeting, procurement, accounts payable, researching, and accounting. Ellucian Banner Finance can make actionable insights from real-time updates on data, and find efficiencies or cost savings when procuring goods and service across your institution.
Ellucian Banner Financial Aid:Institutional financial management for automation of financial aid processes. Funds are distributed accurately and data can be shared with students and staff.
Ellucian Banner Features
- Supported: Ellucian Banner Student
- Supported: Ellucian Banner Human Resources
- Supported: Ellucian Banner Financial Aid
- Supported: Ellucian Banner Finance
Ellucian Banner Technical Details
Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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Mobile Application | No |
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(58)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
Banner is a comprehensive software solution that is widely used across organizations, particularly in the higher education sector. Its primary purpose is to manage student functions such as registration, class scheduling, grades, and GPAs. Users can easily access information on specific students or classes, making it an invaluable tool for academic advisors, registrar's offices, and faculty members.
With Banner, universities can create programs and databases, allowing for seamless integration and data retrieval between departments. It helps keep everything organized and flowing smoothly, from managing student accounts and financial aid to tracking course enrollment trends and adding new class sections as needed. Moreover, Banner Student provides simple and easy data access, improving work efficiency for all departments involved in managing student and faculty data.
Beyond academic functions, Banner also serves as a central hub for various administrative tasks. It supports financial reporting, accounts payable, human resources management, alumni records, addresses, giving history, and faculty information. Additionally, Banner ensures compliance with educational privacy and financial aid regulations.
While Banner is widely praised for its functionality and ease of use, some users have experienced challenges with its design complexity. Extensive customizations and additional purchases may be required to tailor the system to specific organizational needs. Nonetheless, many users appreciate the ability to add program changes within Banner itself, such as implementing automated accounts payable systems.
Overall, Banner is an indispensable tool for institutions of higher education that rely on it to manage student data effectively across multiple departments. Its user-friendly interface and extensive capabilities make it a reliable solution for streamlining administrative processes and maintaining accurate records.
Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-18 of 18)Solid foundation for my organization's data management, but we are shopping around for a new product
- Data storage
- Searchable
- Organization's file system
- More user friendly.
- Newer interface would help.
- Direct option for easier data input.
- Detailed reports
- Simple Interface
- Ease of use for journal entries
- Limited functionality
- Reports are not easily customizable
- Basic compared to other ERP software
Excellent Review for Ellucian Banner
Banner was the solution which satified all the above requirement.
- Student Registration
- Student Portal
- Faculty Portal
- Automated Student Admission
- Defenelty the user interface needs to be enhanced alot to be more appealing
- Application upgrades needs to be managed easily
- Students would like to see more notifications regarding there progress and courses
- More communications methods to be intergreated like SMS, whatsapp
The whole admission process can be easily automated from application to acount creation which helps the helpdesk save a lot of time.
The application is less suited for organization such as high school as I am in doubt weather it is wise to implement such an expensive solution for schools. The application can have a cutom tuned one for schools which would see a great impact.
Useful but takes time to implement
- The user experience is pretty clean
- The user experience has a lot of resources
- The support team is fairly good about getting back to you
- The data can be hard to report
- The major delays are handled quickly but some upgrades are slower
- The team seems to change a lot
A Bittersweet User Experience
- "Quick Flows" allow me to create a chain of pages that automatically flow from one to the other. This is very helpful when I have to do the same thing repeatedly. It saves on typing and having to think about where I'm going next.
- Validation tables show all values that can be used in a particular field. This can be very helpful when needing to reference, add, or clean up values.
- In CAPP, using attributes to easily code changes in a student's curriculum is a dream. It's a great way to avoid having to make custom changes to a student's area, which means that changes made to the base area will always copy forward. I only use attributes when a change is common, so that I'm not multiplying attribute unnecessarily.
- The Banner 8 to Banner 9 (aka Banner Pages) transition was really rough. The speed of the system dropped by at least half. It has gotten better, but it's still not what it was.
- Banner Pages seems to preference mouse users. As someone who works with a lot of data, I loved how smoothly Banner 8 allowed a person to get around with just their keyboard. With the version change, some of the keystrokes changed, which I adapted to, but then pages were changed or added that don't have as many keyboard-friendly options. This seems short-sighted.
- There are parts of Banner logic that seem unnecessarily clunky. For instance, we have two different types of non-matriculated students that have two different credit ranges allowed. Credit ranges are controlled in a page called SFAMHRS. It seems to me that if both groups shared the non-matriculated type number, but one group had a unique student attribute and the other didn't that that would be enough to differentiate which range they get. Unfortunately, it's not. We have to code BOTH groups in SFAMHRS AND each individual student in SGSADD with an attribute because Banner pretty much ignores the one with the attribute if the other doesn't have one too.
- One of the reasons why the Banner 8 to Banner Pages transition was so hard and why the speed of the system dropped was because Ellucian decided to try to make it more "pretty". I'm a pragmatist when it comes to a database. I need fields that are easy to find and navigate. I really couldn't care less what the form looks like. In that preferencing of aesthetics, I believe significant function was lost.
Banner Could Stand Improvement.
- Class sections are displayed in an easy to read format.
- We can run reports by instructor, location or level (grad or undergrad).
- All university functions are located in one software.
- Degree progress could be improved.
- Printing function needs improvement.
- Direct option for smoother data entry.
You really can't escape it
- It stores data and manages users well.
- It interoperates with other Ellucian products well.
- It offer good role-based security, which supports compliance.
- Important Oracle features like Data Guard and data encryption are well-supported.
- It still runs on COBOL: the code base is getting stale.
- The company's web portal is based on stale software stack, with little visible development.
- Updates are slow and often interlocked with seemingly-unrelated modules.
- Print output formatting is nearly nonexistent, requiring use of an expensive post-processor.
Banner Student Review
- Ease of querying data from the Oracle database.
- Allows users to get data fast and effective.
- Also, is a very good source of data for the student to pull his or her information.
- Definitely, upgrading frequency.
- Also, better documentation on the Ellucian website.
- I would say also, addressing bugs within the program instead of doing a full upgrade.
The learning curve is steep, but the benefits are excellent!
- Banner does a good job creating snapshots of students' current, future, and career-based educational history. It applies coursework to pre-built educational audits to assist students in tracking progress toward a degree.
- Banner is good at being up-to-date with policies for educational privacy, financial aid awards, and other areas of regulation on the industry of higher education.
- Banner is highly collaborative. Changes made to a student's schedule that affect a student's full-time status will update the student's billing and financial aid eligibility in real-time.
- Banner is term-based, which means that an inexperienced user could have issues navigating the data. It works largely on an SQL framework, storing data in tables, and reporting it out with a GUI that builds the queries with clicks instead of defining terms and composing SQL code, but being in the wrong academic term could return an outdated educational program or coursework that is not reflective of the student's current goals.
- Banner's administrative platform, Internet-Native Banner, is far clunkier than the more slick, student-facing front end - Self-Service banner. INB speaks directly to the tables where data is stored but does not have a robust assistance feature. Without good training, the learning curve is fairly steep toward becoming a casually effective user.
- Banner's reporting tools are lacking. It is good at recording and storing data, but there are very few prefabricated reports that are able to provide a level of customization via the user-defined parameters that can return valuable data to be used for analysis. A user should be well versed in basic SQL and a reporting tool such as Argos or Access to query the data contained within Banner's tables.
Banner is a great One Stop Shop
- Adapt to changes
- Easily integrate new programs
- One stop shop for our entire organization
- It tends to not be user-friendly
- The accounting side is a little outdated.
- Exporting data to spreadsheets is not very customizable.
- Registration: Advisors can quickly register students and override prerequisite errors.
- Record keeping: Update catalog years, change majors, and/or minors.
- Graduation entry: Process or create graduation applications.
- Holds: Permits Academic Advisors to view student holds.
- One thing I miss from the previous version of Ellucian Banner, is the control + page down. I struggle with alt + page down.
- I love the Ellucian Banner favorites; however, it is a little difficult to navigate.
- I can honestly only think of 2 things that could be improved. I use Ellucian Banner daily.
Love it and hate it, but can't live without it
- Sync information well across multiple platforms: Banner speaks well with SRM and other reporting systems.
- Integrate information for various needs, including school transcripts, grades, tuition, finances, graduation reporting, etc.
- The coding is cumbersome and sometimes difficult to navigate.
- The interface is outdated and clunky.
- Which one do I press? Execute or enter? I don't know so it's a hit or miss, trial and error. This is one example of other command keys that are not helpful and not explained well.
Banner - A One Stop Shop for Student Data
- Central database
- Customizable
- Powerful
- Easy to use
- Custom reports and data integrations
- Creates easy channels of communications across multiple departments across campus
- Save hours of phone calls by providing transparency to students and parents
- Hard to learn
- Hard to implement
- Items are sometimes hidden
- Not extremely functional on mobile devices
- Does not connect with all of our campus systems
- Quite expensive in terms of an ERP
Historical data is awesome
- Collect student data
- Provides a detailed record of each inquiry
- Ease of access for end-users when you know the codes
- Learning the codes can be cumbersome
- There is no auto spelling and grammar check in the free text field. For example, there is no auto spelling and grammar check between “&" and "and” so searches can be a headache.
- The GUI can use some improvements for ease of use
Efficient student registering and records
- Easy to identify what form you should be using.
- Fast and browser centered, reducing connection times and increasing accessibility.
- Cross referencing of forms helps identify better ways to do your tasks.
- Students have complained of issues with registering; I believe this to be a connectivity or compatibility issue.
- Names of forms are gibberish or worse.
- No auto sign out
Banner Student User
- It is easy to add classes. Also easy to make certain changes to classes.
- Banner Student help users to schedule classrooms and will alert you when you have scheduled more than one class in a classroom.
- Banner Student also warns you about faculty schedules.
- This issue has been addressed with Banner Student 9, they have made access to Banner easier.
Banner: Great for Student Tracking
- I think it's great to use if you are tracking grades for certain classes, especially if you'd like to see how students do, comparing midterm to final grades. If you have the permissions, you can see both.
- It's also good to track students individually. You can look up a certain semester, and see how they did in that particular time frame, but you can also see their cumulative gpa, or even look up their entire course history.
- It can be cumbersome. It's definitely improved, but it can be slow as you have to fill in only some information and then wait for the rest to populate before you can do anything else.
- I think the acronyms for different functions are not intuitive or easy to remember.
Banner review
- Easy user interface
- Customizable within our own web portals with functional links
- Exports easily to our advancement database
- Better hands-on support
- More training documentation
- Mobile interface friendliness