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
(1-5 of 5)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.
- Banner Student
- API for scheduling
- Banner 9 now allowing cloud versatility
- Grade Book Management
- 90%9.0
- Student Background Records
- 90%9.0
- Student and Parent Portal
- 80%8.0
- Transcript Management
- 80%8.0
- Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
- 70%7.0
- Online Registration Management
- 70%7.0
- Student Data Security
- 90%9.0
- Class Scheduling
- 80%8.0
- State and National-level Reporting
- 70%7.0
- 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.
- Registration
- Degree Works
- Scheduling
- Scheduling
- Banner Student
- API's for students and advisors
- cloud banner
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- Third-party professional services
- end user push back
- training
- no training
- banner forms
- banner student
- API's for banner once setup correctly
- I would just think not knowing your way around
- Degree Works
- Workflow
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- ETL tools
- campus wide was able to use it and benefit from the new features
- cloud
- new look and feel
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 maintains all of our current and legacy student academic data
- Banner is secure and provides enhanced FERPA protections
- Banner works seamlessly with DegreeWorks, our degree auditing software
- Student Attendance Tracking
- N/AN/A
- Student Health Information
- N/AN/A
- Grade Book Management
- 80%8.0
- Student Background Records
- 80%8.0
- Student and Parent Portal
- 90%9.0
- Transcript Management
- 80%8.0
- Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
- 70%7.0
- Online Registration Management
- 90%9.0
- District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
- N/AN/A
- Roster Management
- 80%8.0
- Platform Customization
- 50%5.0
- Teacher Self-Service
- 70%7.0
- Student Data Security
- 90%9.0
- Community Support
- 70%7.0
- Class Scheduling
- 80%8.0
- State and National-level Reporting
- 80%8.0
- Compliance Support
- 90%9.0
- Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
- N/AN/A
- 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.
- Faculty grading/record keeping
- Student Registration and information record keeping
- Academic program completion/degree awarding and record keeping.
- We use Banner to determine course offerings based on student need
- Banner helps us with important HR/employee reminders like leave reports and time sheets.
- utilizing workflows to create data loops to report out student milestones and needs.
- adding in more ellucian products into the fold
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- 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.
- 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
- Makes distributing information across the campus very easy.
- Keeps our employees and students records organized.
- The codes are a little difficult to remember.
- This product is well worth the investment.
- Banner has made us more efficient.
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.
- 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.