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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.
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- Online Registration Management (7)8.787%
- Class Scheduling (7)8.585%
- Student Data Security (7)8.484%
- Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology (8)7.777%
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What is Ellucian Banner?
Ellucian banner is an ERP tool used for school management, at the K-12 and college levels.
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 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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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.
Reviewers rate State and National-level Reporting highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Ellucian Banner are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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.
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April 14, 2022
A Bittersweet User Experience
We use Ellucian Banner as our SIS (student information system) to manage student functions like registration, but also to manage personnel, administer financial aid, and manage student accounts. I work primarily in the "S" pages of Banner, which have to do with the student experience on campus. My office directly manages registration, the class schedule, degree audit, graduation, transcript evaluation, standing, academic records, and other pieces of the student academic experience on campus. Banner is our primary tool for all these things and requires an intermediate to advanced level of knowledge to use efficiently.
- "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.
April 11, 2022
Banner Could Stand Improvement.
We use Banner for our student management information system; we use it for class searches, and purchase information. Students use it to register for classes. We can run reports on enrollment and class enrollment. We can use it to spot enrollment trends and projects when we need to add new sections of classes.
- 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.
April 11, 2022
You really can't escape it
Ellucian Banner contains all of our student data, which for a university is basically its lifeblood. Faculty and students use it for tasks including registration & advising; staff use it for financial and academic services. It also serves as a data source for near-real-time reporting. It handles financial aid, many communications (like financial aid award letter or enrollment verification documents, or transcripts), and admissions workflows. In addition, it interfaces to many other subsidiary programs that only handle a subset of business processes.
- 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.
November 22, 2021
Banner Student Review
Banner Student is being used across campus. We create programs for banner with our databases. One of the problems is banner the upgrade plan of banner. The banner upgrade process is to frequent. It seems like we are upgrading monthly. Banner is a good product for higher education, simply because of the format the data is in and the ease of pulling data from banner.
- 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.
November 15, 2021
The learning curve is steep, but the benefits are excellent!
Ellucian Banner is a student information software system that allows for the tracking of student educational, financial, and personal information for colleges and universities. We utilize it for the purpose of enrollment, registration for classes, financial aid review and awarding, bill pay, and degree progress auditing/graduation verification. The entire school utilizes Banner because it is the way to affect the changes students request on their record. Changes made in one department affect the processes of another department, so it is the main software for our School. It is collaborative and ensures compliance with all educational privacy, financial aid, and other various regulations in Higher Education.
- 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.
April 29, 2021
Banner is a great One Stop Shop
We use Ellucian Banner across our entire organization. Being a university, it helps keep everything integrated and flowing smoothly between departments since it is a one-stop-shop. One thing in particular about Ellucian Banner that I find to be very helpful is the ability to add and program changes within Banner. This has been very helpful this past year when we started using an automated account payable system.
- 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.
Ellucian Banner is used across our whole organization for course registration, holds, degree changes, graduation, honors, financing, billing, library, course entry, and transcripts. All departments use the Ellucian Banner system to enter holds for various students: provisional students, housing, advising, probation, athletic, library, advising obligations, admission obligations, financial, and registration.
Banner allows Academic Advisors and Registrar’s Office to override prerequisite test score errors for registration purposes; furthermore, it permits departments to few and place holds on various students, or to override various holds. Several departments place holds; therefore, having the ability to view the holds, permits departments to better assist our students.
Academic Advisors use Ellucian Banner daily to ensure catalog dates are correct, advising, course overrides and create graduation entry the students major, minor, and honors. Advisors are also permitted to view transcripts and previous degrees and course work from students which is a great benefit to properly advise our students. Ellucian Banner 9 is great program to work with and screens our simple and easy to read.
- 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.
December 17, 2019
Banner makes campus life easier
Banner is being used across our campus. Every department uses it. It is very helpful to all of us. When one person updates something we all immediately can see the changes/updates.
- Makes distributing information across the campus very easy.
- Keeps our employees and students records organized.
- The codes are a little difficult to remember.
November 25, 2019
Love it and hate it, but can't live without it
Banner is used across the organization to manage finances, student registration, alumni records, and transcripts. It synchronizes data across the school.
- 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.
February 18, 2019
Banner - A One Stop Shop for Student Data
It is being used across the entire organization from the administrative side and the student side. Students have access to information about their financial aid, class schedules, personal information, and employment information. It is our ERP of record and it is used to coordinate student success across our different offices and departments.
- 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