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)8.787%
- 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.
- 8.7Online Registration Management(7) Ratings
The system supports administrative setup and management of registration processes, and allows students to register for classes online.
- 8.7District 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.
- 7.7Platform 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
- 8.3Community 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.
- 8.6Compliance Support(6) Ratings
The effectiveness of resources, tools, and in-platform processes for maintaining and demonstrating regulatory compliance.
- 6.8Teacher 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
- About
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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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
(1-8 of 8)- Detailed reports
- Simple Interface
- Ease of use for journal entries
- Limited functionality
- Reports are not easily customizable
- Basic compared to other ERP software
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.
- 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.
- Banner holds our data in an Oracle database well enough.
- The self-service page design is comparable to other software solutions with similar offerings; the self service back-end and upkeep is a different story.
- The most basic function of the software (inputting data and extracting data)is laborious at best in Banner. You must learn a special Banner-specific language to use the software. Most of the programmatic functionality of Banner was created in the early '90s and has not changed. Built-in reporting is virtually non-existent and wholly insufficient even for a small to medium sized school like ours. Ellucian must re-invent their product (banner) if they wish to survive the modern technological landscape.
- Bugs and dysfunction around every corner in Banner's interface. Banner cannot keep up with the bugs in their own software and have developed problems into their product. For example, imagine your Bursar needs a report showing how much different students have paid in a given semester, in order to do this she must navigate through four different pages to find a specialized form each named a nonsensical code, type in the term code (this is the only value for which you are permitted to search), and wait up to 20 minutes while a poorly programmed back-end procedure looks at every student ever enrolled until it finds the students who meet the criteria (the only way to access this data); additionally, the screen that is used to run this function is not capable of showing a status for the job so the Bursar must call a database or system administrator to examine a log file on the server to determine the status of the job.
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
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 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