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What is Ellucian Colleague?
Ellucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.
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College of the Desert (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
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Ellucian Colleague is used as the main ERP system for our college. We have in use many of the modules that are available, such as Core Student, Human Resources, Purchasing, Student planning, and ETHOS. It handles the student registration process, employee management, student record management, business office functions, and also integrates with many third-party systems.
- It encompasses many areas needed to support our students
- Ellucian Colleague offers solutions that make it easy to unite our staff with students and alumni
- Its a versatile solution and adaptable with third-party solutions as well
- Their portal technology is outdated; they still currently use SharePoint 2013.
- Engagement from Ellucian customer representatives
- Recruiting module needs to be updated to match other solutions in the industry.
- Self-service features
- Integration with third-party solutions
- Ability to customize to fit our needs.
- Positive return on student impact and engagement
- Positive relationship between our alumni and development staff
- Consulting engagements do get costly with Ellucian professional services
Ellucian Colleague has been in use at my institution for over 20 years. We have recently reevaluated the solution and, from a financial perspective, it was our decision to stick with it for the future as well. We have realigned our budget working with Ellucian and partnering for the future by adopting early access to new modules and providing feedback.
November 28, 2018
Colleague: A product of yesteryear
Ellucian Colleague is the main student system used by Elon University. The system is connected to a host of disparate systems across campus. The enterprise wide system is used to track the life-cycle of the student.
- The system retains comprehensive baseline modules covering majority of challenges an institution would face.
- Flexible enough to customize to meet the needs of the institution.
- System flexibility to connect to "other" systems preferred by the institution.
- Develop API's that are vendor agnostic rather than selecting specific vendors (Clearinghouse, ImageNow).
- Colleague tends to be to reactionary to the changing needs in higher education rather than developing the future.
- Hound clients to pay extra for consulting (consultants are usually bad), rather than helping institutions to use the product. Seems to be the first thing help line personnel jump to rather than working with clients to figure out creative solutions.
- System flexible enough to develop "X" screens for new transcript types.
- Development of planner is good, but lacks flexibility and feels clunky.
Workday's cloud based system has more flexibility than Colleague Student. While it seems Ellucian is responding with developmental efforts, the company waited too long to begin the process.
November 28, 2018
Helpful in Most Cases!
Colleague Student is being used across various departments (Enrollment Services, Admissions, International Student Office, etc). It helps provide an overall scope of student that includes his/her educational background, demographics, history, and so forth.
- Gives me overall academic history of a student.
- Has a note section that I often read regarding a particular student.
- Has the immediate contact of student when pulling information from the record.
- Sometimes it gets confusing on which buttons to click on to exit and go back to the previous page.
- Too many buttons to click on, sometimes it gets annoying.
- Doesn't always register certain data (aka nicknames of student).
- I prefer the old version of Colleague; seems more intuitive and user-friendly.
- Being able to see the same information as Enrollment Services.
- Learning to see how information is archived and noted by other departments.
- Being able to handle a lot of student data all at once digitally.
Best way to keep all student data in one place and seeing how information is being kept consisted. Overall, it is helpful for us advisors to be able to keep track of things that our files wouldn't be able to note since there is a lot of information on there, including departmental notes.
November 21, 2018
Colleague Student is our SMS choice
We currently use Colleague Student to store and track all of the student's demographic information which includes current and former contact information as well as relatives and their current and former demographics. We also manage academic records from creating a course to when students register and enroll for courses. All of their transcript information is kept by Colleague, too. We receive payments on their student accounts and track their financial aid. We also store and track campus organizations with their membership as well.
- Colleague Student does a good job of creating a core of data that can be accessed across multiple Colleague applications from HR to managing alumni once the students graduate.
- We customize Colleague Student by creating computed fields that are accessible on screens as well as reports. We also customize delivered screens as well as create our own custom screens.
- We are able to easily give users permission to only what they need to see and keep them from accessing areas outside their purview.
- Ellucian had made good progress with its UI, but it still could be a much better experience.
- The programming language used to create screens and computed columns was created by the company, then Datatel, now Ellucian. It is a bit of a learning curve.
- By keeping student's academic work, financial aid, and accounts receivable information in one location we are able to report without the need for data aggregation.
- Colleague's web applications allow the students themselves to perform tasks such as enrollment without assistance from staff members.
- Using customized rules that we can set up in Colleague we can trigger events to happen as data is entered. This eliminates the need not only for someone to remember to perform an additional task, but it also saves the time of performing the actual task.
I have not personally used any other SMS systems.
November 18, 2018
Colleague Student was our choice
Colleague Student is being used across the university as a whole by all students, traditional, adult and online. The software can do many different features including budget management, and keeping up with student data and course data. After you have mastered certain features, it is very easy to input data and have it available for everyone who needs it in the organization.
- User experience is common-sense.
- I can look up a student and their academics, level, degree, and current coursework.
- Students can access their financial aid information in a user friendly environment.
- Students have the ability to allow parents full or limited access to the student account.
- The lack of an easily accessible list of forms in the program
- Step by step tutorials would be great if available
- You have to hop between multiple screens sometimes to find the right information
- When moving to Colleague, we were able to reduce the number of applications we had to integrate together
- Fewer applications to pay service and support for each year
- We were able to reduce headcount due to better workflows and efficiencies
We were previously on PowerCampus for 10 years before migrating to Colleague. We had just outgrown the capabilities of PowerCampus and needed a more integrated product that we didn't need to bolt on other applications. CampusManagement's product wasn't ready for production at the time of our decision.
Colleague met the needs we had asked the vendors to show us.