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
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- 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 |
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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
(1-21 of 21)Solid foundation for my organization's data management, but we are shopping around for a new product
- Data management.
- Hefty price tag, searching for more affordable option.
- Used across various departments/units.
- Easy to use system helps productivity
- More accurate financial information
- Decrease in training costs
Excellent Review for Ellucian Banner
- There is positive ROI on the product overall. It had reduced or allowed us to focus our staff members on something which is very use and it does the job in the background.
- The application has supported in a lot of ways in saving resources and utilizing them in very productive & efficient manner
Useful but takes time to implement
- Long training times
- Months to implement
- Includes all levels and areas of the school
A Bittersweet User Experience
- When Banner was first implemented, it was miraculous to have everyone in the same system. We were all looking at the same thing and speaking the same language, which saves a lot of time and energy. However, one of our primary offices recently found a product that better suited them and are no longer using it. I worry that Ellucian isn't staying competitive and that, if more offices leave, we'll be back to speaking different languages, writing interfaces to try to get our various programs to communicate.
- When students are oriented to Self-Service Banner, most find it to be helpful for referencing information pertaining to their academic experience. The information it lists is basic, but it's nice that it is available nearly 24/7. I think that is increasingly becoming an expectation, rather than a perk, but students who engage in this way generally seem to do better academically. They retain and graduate, which are metrics we want to support!
- While I don't think we've quite used it to its fullest potential, reporting on outstanding requirements in CAPP has helped departments be more intentional with their offerings. If we know what students need to take to graduate, then we can make sure to offer those sections. This can become a money-saver when it comes to faculty salaries, because then part-timers and adjuncts are only hired when they are truly needed.
Banner Could Stand Improvement.
- Good data for class enrollment.
- Providing data to spot enrollment trends.
- All functions within one software.
You really can't escape it
- It allowed the university to retire a mainframe, which was quite expensive.
- It added web access to student data, which was a big win, and since has also added a mobile app.
- It processes many things in real time, which the mainframe had to run as a nightly batch.
Banner Student Review
- Definitely, both positive and negatively.
- Positive would be the ease at which the student can access data and also the developers that use the data.
- Negative - Upgrade frequency and poor documentation.
- Overall, Banner Student is a good product and I would recommend it to another school.
The learning curve is steep, but the benefits are excellent!
- Banner was already in place when I arrived at my current school, but the centrality of Banner and its constituent applications contained therein has been far more integrated into the common business practices of the various disparate offices and their charges on campus. A hodgepodge of software that incongruously fits together by force of will or lack of other options seemed to rule the day for most other schools I've worked at. It was often someone's job to migrate data manually from one area to another just to get everything to work.
- I think Banner's limitations extend from its ubiquity, utility, and centrality. At this point, moving from Banner to an entirely different Student Information System would be like tearing out all of the water pipes in your house. We're an Ellucian school, and by hook or by crook, they're going to be a part of the student, faculty, and staff experience for some time.
- from what I know about the previous system used, it was an outdated system, based on very old software. Updating to Banner over 10 years ago meant that the school was able to accomplish far more with far less. This is not unique to Banner, but it is something that Banner is responsible for in our instance.
Banner is a great One Stop Shop
- It get the job done and is reliable.
- It has definitely provided a good ROI.
- We will likely use this for the foreseeable future.
- Ellucian Banner allows departments to have the resources needed for increased enrolment.
- Enrollment in our college is currently up; however, it is a nonprofit.
Banner Functionality for Advisors
- More autonomy for departments
- The only positive that I can think of is that Banner has created some job security for those of us in the IT department who have to keep it alive.
Banner makes campus life easier
- This product is well worth the investment.
- Banner has made us more efficient.
Love it and hate it, but can't live without it
- We are a non-profit educational organization, so the financial impact is not as quantifiable, as the number of students who graduate from the multiple graduate-level programs offered. Banner has helped to process grades, and manage finances, for over 500 students each year from the largest Evangelical seminary in the United States.
Banner - A One Stop Shop for Student Data
- Saved a lot of time
- Simplified a lot of processes
- One stop stop for all information
- Reduced the number of systems on our campus by 30%
- Sped up data transfer between departments
- Solved the FERPA issues by creating a portion for proxy access
Historical data is awesome
- We have been using Banner Student for many many years so the historical data is awesome
- Being able to run the appropriate reports has been invaluable
- Allowing end users to learn and know the system allows them to effectively use their time
Efficient student registering and records
- Reduced time spent by employees assisting students with registration
- Reduced time accessing records
- Increased efficiency
Banner Student User
- Banner Student is a much needed tool in the college environment. Administrators are able to run reports that give an accurate view of student statistics.
Banner: Great for Student Tracking
- It's been great for the college to keep track of students and courses.
- It's also been a great help for scheduling classes.
- It could improve by not being quite as slow.
Banner review
- Data from Banner used in Advancement
- Data in banner processed for Alumni relations feedback
- System has been in place for a while so team familiarity is plus