Release Notes for Regent Award version 4.6.0.0
- Emily Bivona (Deactivated)
- Heather Smith
- Erin Fincham (Deactivated)
- Serhii Sorokyn (Deactivated)
Release | Release 4.6.0.0 |
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Release Date | 01/31/2019 |
Document Updated | 02/01/2019 COMPLETE |
Executive Summary
Regent Education is pleased to announce Release 4.6.0.0 of the Regent Enterprise Financial Aid Management System.
This release addresses product defects as listed in the “Bugs” section below, and also enhancements including:
- SAIG Usability Improvements
- Self-Scheduling for Processes
- Pell Cost of Attendance Enhancement
- Disburse Pell on Attended Units Only
- Multiple Document Attachments
- Improved Management of Truncated Loans
- Data View Enhancements
- Required Updates for Ohio State Grant and NSLDS File Formats
- Task Usability Improvements
New Configuration Options
The following new configuration options were added in release 4.6.0.0:
- Under Institution Setup, Campus Setup and Program Setup added a new configuration option, "Criteria Used to Consider an MPN Linked to a Loan," to allow a school to chose whether or not a linked MPN must also have been accepted at COD in order for the loan to be included in an R2T4 calculation.
- Under Campus Setup, added new Pell COA Setup to replace the previous Pell COA field on Program Setup.
- Under Fund Setup, added the new configuration option "Award Only if ISIR Interested in Work Study" to allow a school to auto-package Work Study funds only for students who indicated on the FASFA that they are interested in receiving Work Study.
- Under Disbursement Schedule Setup, for term-based Pell Awards only, added Disburse on Enrollment Level Units in support of the ability to Disbursement Based on Attendance.
- Under Task Setup, the Triggering Funds configuration is now available to specify which funds will trigger for the "Review Overaward with Unpaid Disbursements" task.
- Under Permissions → "Student Permissions" → "Documents Tab"
- Added two new permissions related to deleting document attachments.
- Delete Attachments - Incomplete, Needed and Received Statuses ONLY
- This permission allows the user to remove an attachment from a document requirement in an "Incomplete," "Needed," or “Received” status.
- Delete Attachments Regardless of Status
- This permission allows the user to remove an attachment from a document requirement regardless of the document requirement's status.
- Delete Attachments - Incomplete, Needed and Received Statuses ONLY
- Added two new permissions related to deleting document attachments.
- Under Permissions → "Process Permissions," a new permission group was added: "Scheduled Processes." Within that group, the following new permissions were added:
- View Scheduled Processes - Allows the user to view the "Scheduled Processes" screen and Process menu item.
- Edit Scheduled Processes - Allows the user to have access to the "Edit" button on existing the "Scheduled Processes" screen.
- Edit / Add New Process Scheduled Process - Allows the user to have access to the "Add New Schedule" button and Process menu item.
- Delete Scheduled Processes - Allows the user to have access to the "Delete" button on the "Scheduled Processes" screen.
- Under Permissions → Campus Setup Permissions, three new permissions were added for the Pell COA Setup screen:
- View Pell COA - Allows the user access to view the Pell COA setup area.
- Edit Pell COA - Allows the user the ability to add and edit Pell COA Setups
- Delete Pell COA - Allows the user the ability to delete Pell COA Setups
- SNAP: New option "DocumentRequirement_AllowAttachments”" that determines whether or not a student can continue to add attachments to a document requirement after the document requirement status has changed to "Received."
Admin and User Guide Updates
As part of the 4.6.0.0 Release, the following Admin Guide pages were added/updated:
- Institution Setup Data Elements
- Campus Setup Data Elements
- Program Setup Data Elements
- Pell COA Setup NEW
- Pell COA Setup Data Elements NEW
- Program Setup
- Program Setup Data Elements
- Fund Setup
- Fund Setup Elements- General Subtab
- Disbursement Schedule Setup
- Disbursement Schedule Setup Data Elements
- Task Management
- Task Setup Data Elements NEW
- Regent Award Task Triggers
- Permissions List
The following User Guide pages were also added/updated:
- Auto-Task Assignment and Auto-Task Escalation Process
- EST Validation Error Codes Guide
- Summary Tab
- Importing Transfer Monitoring and Financial Aid History Records from NSLDS
- NSLDS Transfer Monitoring (TSM) And NSLDS Financial Aid History (FAH)
- Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG)
- Wisconsin Grant - Private Non-Profit (WG-PNP)
- Return to Title IV (R2T4) Funds NEW
- Including Funds in the R2T4 Calculation NEW
- Processing an R2T4 in Regent Award NEW
- R2T4 for Modules NEW
- Failure to Return Within 180 days for Non-term Students
- Direct Loans
- Non-Term Payment Periods for Short Remaining Periods of Study (RPS) NEW
- Year Round Pell (YRP or 150% Pell)
- View a Student's Scheduled And Actual Disbursements
- Disbursement based on Attendance NEW
- Viewing Documents And Requirements
- Attaching Received Documents
- Student Submission Of Documents From The Portal
- Document Tab
- Managing Documents And Requirements
- Pell COA Override NEW
- Awards Tab
- SAIG Mailbox Integration
- SAIG Credentials Screen
- Message Class Setup Screen
- SAIG Send/Resend Files; View Sent and Received Files; Import Unprocessed Files Screen
- SAIG Receive Files
- Process Scheduling
- Saving Process Parameters Sets
- Scheduled Processes Screens NEW
Enhancements
The following enhancements are included in this release:
Key | Product Selection | Functional Area | Release Note |
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RS-14500 | Regent Award | Awarding | Title: Enhancement to the Treatment of Direct Loans in Closed Payment Periods Tickets: RS-14500; RS-14520; RS-14527; Description: This enhancement applies to Direct Loans only (DL Sub, DL Unsub, Grad PLUS, and Parent PLUS), for both term-based and nonterm payment periods. For more information, see the User Guide topic: Direct Loans |
RS-14446 | Regent Award | Awarding | Title: New Pell Cost of Attendance Configuration Ticket(s): RS-14562; RS-14578; RS-14579; RS-14580; RS-14581; RS-14582; RS-14600; RS-14563; RS-14588; RS-14589; RS-14590; RS-14591; RS-14592; RS-14593; RS-14594; Description: When each school upgrades to the 4.6 Release of Regent Award, the current Program-level COA setup will automatically be moved to the new Pell COA configuration. By default, all programs with the same Pell COA value (based on the previous Program level setup) have been grouped into a single Pell COA Setup configuration. The configuration was then named to reference that Pell COA amount. For example, if 68 programs have a Pell COA setup of 28995, the Pell COA setup name created will be Pell_COA_28995, and all of the programs with this Pell COA value will be associated to this new setup. This setup will include FT and LTHT Pell COA values for each housing status, for the 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 FAYs, all using the value 28995. Schools may then go in and customize the name of each Pell COA setup record, and any additional data within that setup that they choose. Note that each year, schools will need to configure a new Pell COA setup prior to awarding Pell for the new FAY. In order for Regent Award to estimate Pell awards for future FAYs, a school must configure the estimated Pell COA for those future FAYs. For more information, see the following Admin and User Guide topics: |
RS-14691 | Regent Award | COD | Title: SAIG Credentials Screen Improvements Ticket(s): RS-14691; Description: For more information, see the User Guide topic: SAIG Credentials Screen |
RS-14481 | Regent Award | COD | Title: Apply NSLDS Pell Grant Data from Other Schools for Year Round Pell Tickets: RS-14264; RS-14471; Description: For more information, see the User Guide topic: Year Round Pell (YRP or 150% Pell). |
RS-14348 | Regent Award | COD | Title: Process Scheduling Enhancements Tickets: RS-14348; RS-14491; RS-14730; RS-14750; RS-14913; RS-13298; Description: Schools must have their currently scheduled processes disabled before setting up new schedules via the UI, to ensure that processes are not inadvertently executed multiple times. For more information, see the User Guide Topics: |
RS-14828 | Regent Award | Data Views | Title: Data View Updates to include Linked MPN Data Ticket(s): RS-14828; Description:
Note: These views are new as of the 4.6 release For more information, please see the Customer Zone Knowledge Base article: Regent Award Data View Data Dictionary. |
RS-14721 | Regent Award | Data Views | Title: Dataview Updates to dataExtract_StudentAddress_View Ticket(s): RS-14721; Description: The primary key for the new view is addressId. Since this is a Student Data View the studentId field is also present. The dataExtract_StudentAddress_View is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The Data View Data Dictionary has been updated to reflect the new view version. It can be found at the following location in the Customer Zone Data Dictionary: Regent Award Data View Data Dictionary. |
RS-14534 | Regent Award | Data Views | Title: Data View Extracts Updated for Configuration Related Items Ticket(s): RS-14534; RS-14679; RS-14680; RS-14695; RS-14696; RS-14697; RS-14698; RS-14699; RS-14700; RS-14701; RS-14702; RS-14703; RS-14704; RS-14705; RS-14706; RS-14707; RS-14708; RS-14729; Description: |
RS-14533 | Regent Award | Data Views | Title: Data View Updates to Fund_Config_View Ticket(s): RS-14533; Description: The following new versions were created:
The dataExtract_Fund_Config_View is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The Data View Data Dictionary has been updated to reflect the new view versions. It can be found at the following location in the Customer Zone Data Dictionary: Regent Award Data View Data Dictionary. |
RS-14532 | Regent Award | Data Views | Title: Data View Updates to DisbursementSchedule_View Ticket(s): RS-14532; Description: The following new versions were created:
The dataExtract_DisbursementSchedule_View is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The Data View Data Dictionary has been updated to reflect the new view versions. It can be found at the following location in the Customer Zone Data Dictionary: Regent Award Data View Data Dictionary. |
RS-14540 | Regent Award | Documents | Title: Support of Multiple Attachments for Student Document Requirements Tickets: RS-14540; RS-14552; RS-14553; RS-14585; RS-14554; RS-14556; RS-14754; RS-14610; RS-14683; RS-14684; RS-14686; RS-14685; RS-14633; RS-14661; RS-14662; Description: For more information see the following User Guide topics: |
RS-14070 | Regent Award | EST/Disbursements | Title: Disburse based on Attended Census Program Applicable Enrollment Level Tickets: RS-2087; RS-14070; RS-14236; RS-14238; RS-14239; Description: Attended Census Program Applicable Units will be calculated each time attendance is added to an additional course, and will use the Campus Enrollment Level setup to establish the Attended Census Program Applicable Units Enrollment Level (ACPA EL) for the student. The ACPA EL will then be used to determine the amount of Pell Award that can be disbursed to the student based on the Pell tables for the Federal Award Year (FAY). To account for the additional Pell disbursements for the ACPA EL, a new configuration option has been created on the Disbursement Schedule Setup to allow for incremental disbursements by enrollment level type. This configuration option will only be available for Pell Disbursement Schedules. For more information, see the following Admin Guide and User Guide topics: |
RS-14367 | Regent Award | Packaging | Title: Updates to the Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG) Eligibility File Format Ticket(s): RS-14273; RS-14367; Regent Award has been updated to support the updated Ohio State format for the Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG) Eligibility file. With this update, the new file format implemented by Ohio State can now be imported and processed in Regent Award for the successful awarding of OCOG. For more information, see the Regent Award User Guide topic: Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG). |
RS-14289 | Regent Award | Packaging | Title: Updates to the Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG) Disbursement File Format Ticket(s): RS-14289; Description: For more information, see the Regent Award User Guide topic: Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG). |
RS-14054 | Regent Award | Packaging | Title: Fund Configuration Option: ISIR Response to "Interested in receiving Work-Study?" Tickets: RS-12526; RS-14054; RS-14055; RS-14056; Description: If "Yes" is selected, only students with “Yes” (1) in the ISIR field “Interested in receiving Work-Study?” will be considered eligible for this fund. If "No" option is selected, this fund will not be auto-packaged regardless of the value provided in ISIR field “Interested in receiving Work-Study? If unselected (default), this fund will be awarded regardless of the value in the ISIR field “Interested in receiving Work-Study?". For more details, please see Administrator Guide Topic - Fund Setup Data Elements. |
RS-14859 | Regent Award | Process Log | Title: Improvements to Wisconsin State Roster Disbursement Matching Ticket(s): RS-14859; Description: Only terms with an External Term Code value will be considered for matching. Terms that have a blank external term code will not be considered. The remaining current matching logic will stay in place. For more information, see the User Guide topic: Wisconsin Grant - Private Non-Profit (WG-PNP) |
RS-14622 | Regent Award | Process Log | Title: Batch Packaging Process Log Parameters Tab Enhancement Tickets: RS-14622; Description: |
RS-14631 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Title: Updates to Withdrawn Courses for Modules in an R2T4 Period Tickets: RS-14631; RS-14087; RS-14640; Description: Regent Award logic has been improved to always count withdrawn courses in the denominator in Modular R2T4 cases unless the student withdrew from the unattended course before any of the student's courses started for the term, or if the student was attending another course when the student withdrew from the unattended course. For more information, see the User Guide topic: Return to Title IV (R2T4) for Modules |
RS-14507 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Title: Master Promissory Note (MPN) required to include Loans in Return to Title IV (R2T4) Tickets: RS-14507; RS-14670; RS-14674; RS-14676; RS-14681; RS-14828; Description: The new configuration option is titled "Criteria Used to Consider an MPN Linked to a Loan." The selected value inherits from Institution to Campus, and from Campus to Program. For more information, see the User Guide topic: Including Funds in the R2T4 Calculation |
RS-14369 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Title: R2T4 Module Logic - Updates for Inclusion / Exclusion of Courses for the calculation of Breaks Tickets: RS-14369; Description: |
RS-14301 | Regent Award | Tasks | Title: Task Setup - New Triggering Funds Tab for "Review Overaward with Unpaid Disbursements" Task Tickets: RS-13456; RS-14301; RS-14302; RS-14303; RS-14577; Description: On the Triggering Funds tab, administrators can optionally select specific funds to trigger the "Review Overaward with Unpaid Disbursements" Task. The system will only trigger the Task if an over-awarded loan period contains at least one unpaid disbursement from a selected fund, whenever that loan period has an overawarded amount or a change in its overawarded amount. For example, an administrator might configure the Task to only trigger for selected disbursable funds. The configured Task will then trigger once per over-awarded loan period, whenever the loan period contains at least one unpaid disbursement for one of the selected funds and the Task has not already triggered for that overawarded amount. If the loan period has a combination of disbursable and non-disbursable funds, and the loan period's overaward amount is changed, the system will still retrigger the Task due to the unpaid selected funds. If all the unpaid disbursements are only from non-selected funds, and the overaward amount is changed, the system will not retrigger the Task. During the initial upgrade, if a school already has the Task configured, Regent Award will keep the current Task behavior to trigger for all funds. The upgrade will automatically select the checkbox for “Select all funds…” (default setting) in the Task’s configuration. After the upgrade, the school may optionally configure the Task for specific Triggering Funds. For more information, see the Admin Guide topics: |
RS-13561 | Regent Award | Tasks | Title: Process Log Transactions for the Auto-Task Assignment and Auto-Task Escalation Processes Tickets: RS-13561; RS-13590; RS-13591; Description: For more information, see the Regent Award Administrators Guide topic: Auto-Task Assignment and Auto-Task Escalation Processes |
RS-12862 | Regent Review | Tasks | Title: Auto-Close the "Review Student Message" Task Tickets: RS-12862; Description: |
RS-13354 | Regent Access | Workflow/Questionnaire | Title: Verbiage Update to Student Family Clarifications Section Tickets: RS-13354; RS-14821; RS-14822; RS-14823; RS-14827; Description: For the "student's household number of family members" question, the verbiage was added stating "Do not include your parents or siblings unless you are providing more than half of their support and they live with you" For the "student's household number in college" question, the verbiage was added stating "Do not include your parents or siblings unless you are providing more than half of their support, they live with you, and they meet the college enrollment requirements" |
RS-13292 | Regent Access | Workflow/Questionnaire | Title: Persist Student/Parent Updated SSN from Access to Regent Award Tickets*: RS-13292; RS-14856; RS-14857; RS-14858; RS-14860; Description: |
RS-14733 | Regent Award | Not Applicable | Title: Updates to the Process Type Selection on SAIG Screen Ticket(s): RS-14733; Description: For more information, please see the User Guide topic: SAIG Send/Resend Files; View Sent and Received Files; Import Unprocessed Files Screen |
RS-14732 | Regent Award | Not Applicable | Title: Update to Saved Parameter Sets Screen "Active" Checkbox Ticket: RS-14732; Description: For more information, see the Regent Award User Guide topic: Saving Process Parameter Sets |
RS-14511 | Regent Award | Not Applicable | Title: Support for new NSLDS File Layouts Effective 12/23/2018 Ticket: RS-14511; Description:
For more information, see the User Guide topics: Importing Transfer Monitoring and Financial Aid History Records from NSLDS and NSLDS Transfer Monitoring (TSM) And NSLDS Financial Aid History (FAH). |
RS-14254 | Regent Award | Not Applicable | Title: Message Classes for Disabled Processes Excluded from Message Class Setup Screen Tickets: RS-14254; Description: For more information, see the Regent Award User Guide Topic on the Message Class Setup Screen |
Bugs
The following bugs are resolved in this release:
Key | Product Selection | Functional Area | Release Note |
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RS-14632 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14570 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14558 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14477 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14443 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14417 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14371 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14370 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14366 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14365 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14364 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14326 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14325 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13766 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13720 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13666 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13572 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13484 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14571 | Regent Award | COD | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13861 | Regent Award | COD | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13774 | Regent Award | Data Views | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14463 | Regent Award | Documents | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14923 | Regent Award | Enrollment | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-11933 | Regent Award | EST/Disbursements | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14564 | Regent Review | ISIR Processing/Verification | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14307 | Regent Award | ISIR Processing/Verification | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14672 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14535 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14525 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14444 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14442 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14248 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14081 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-11626 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-3515 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-15034 | Regent Award | Process Log | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14886 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14609 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14308 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-13692 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-3628 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14790 | Regent Award | Reports | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14920 | Regent Award | SAP | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14368 | Regent Award | SBL | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14634 | Regent Award | User Interface | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-14964 | Regent Access | Workflow/Questionnaire | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |