Term Setup Data Elements
Overview
Below are the setup items to be used for each term that you configure in the system. If you only have non-term programs, then no setup is required in this section.
Term Setup - Top Grid
Field Name | Description |
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Name | Term Name, such as "Summer 2021" |
Unit Type | Unit Type, such as "Semester Credit" |
Academic Calendar | Academic Calendar Type, such as "BBAY2 - Borrower Based" |
Track | Track, if any |
Start | Term Start Date |
End | Term End Date |
Census | Term Census Date 1 |
External Term ID | External Term Id value |
General Subtab
Field Name | Description | Required/Optional | Type | Values | Business Rules |
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Term Name | Displays name for the term in the system, SNAP and for reports. | Required | Text box - 60 characters max | Alpha/Numeric |
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Display Name | When text is entered into this field, the Term Display Name is used throughout the portal. If this textbox is blank, the Term Name is displayed. | Optional | Text box - 30 characters max | Alpha/Numeric |
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External Term Id | SIS term Id used in the SBL to link the term in the course record to the setup items associated with it. | Required | Text box - 60 characters max | Alpha/Numeric |
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External Term Code | Additional external term identifier. | Optional | Text box - 60 characters max | Alpha/Numeric | Used to identify terms eligible for Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC). External Term Code will align with the MHEC term value + FAY (example: 232022) for matching. MHEC term values listed below:
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Inherit from Campus |
| Optional | Checkbox |
| If selected, the values are inherited from Campus setup. |
Academic Calendar Type |
| Required | Drop-down |
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Academic Period Type |
| .Required | Drop-down |
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Academic Unit Type |
| Required | Drop-down |
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Start Date | Start Date of the Term | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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End Date | End Date of the Term | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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Cross Over | Indicator if the term overlaps two award years. | Read only | Text box |
Calculated by Regent Award, using the rules provided. | Crossover occurs when an enrollment period is in two Federal Award Years. A Federal Award Year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30. An enrollment period that spans over these days is a crossover. |
Inherit from Campus |
| Optional | Checkbox |
| If selected, the values are inherited from Campus setup. |
Alternate EFC Months | Used to calculate the EFC for the term. | Required | Text box |
| If a decimal is included, standard rounding rules will be used to determine the number of months to use for selecting the term Alt EFC from the active ISIR. |
Accelerate Begin Actual for Registered Units | Allows you to set an enrollment level that will trigger packaging to use actual enrollment instead of anticipated enrollment. It will work similar to the Begin Actual Date flag, but based on an enrollment level status in instead of a date. No matter what value is chosen in this field, Regent Award will flip to actual under any circumstances on the Begin Actual Date. | Optional | Drop-down |
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Completes SAY? | Indicator to designate which term is the final term in the SAY for a program. Trailing terms will automatically complete the SAY. However, this indicator should be set on the last term (used for anticipating enrollment) in the SAY (i.e. on the Spring term) if you do not want to use anticipated enrollment for the Summer in the awarding process. | Optional | Radio button |
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COD Term Start Date Override | When selected, Regent Award will consume the Payment Period Start Date from the WB Response File and set a Payment Period Override Date to be used on subsequent COD Exports. | Optional | Radio button |
| This configuration option is permission-based and can only be modified by users who have the permission turned on. |
Is Header? | Define if a Term is a Header. | Optional | Drop-down |
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Track | Defines the track field. | Optional | Alphanumeric (up to 20 characters) |
| Displayed only when BBAY is selected. |
Allow Term to Start Anticipated AY | When this option is set to "Yes," Regent Award can use the term as the anchor (first) term in an anticipated BBAY1 or BBAY2. Anticipated AYs can start with this term, even when a student has no registration for that term. If this field is set to a value of "No," then the term will not start an AY unless the student has actual registered units in the term. | Required | Drop-down |
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Anticipate 0 Units for Term | When this option is set to "Yes," Regent Award will anticipate 0 units for the term prior to the Begin Actual Date. With 0 units anticipated, no awards will be made for the term unless the student has actual registered units. When this option is set to "No," and the Begin Actual date has not been met, Regent Award will anticipate using the Anticipated Enrollment Level Type defined for the student's program. | Required | Drop-down |
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BBAY Anchor Determination | Stipulates when Regent Award can "anchor" a term-based BBAY. Regent Award determines "anchor" eligibility based on a configured Term Date or when Direct Loans are greater than $0 in the term.
See Anchoring a BBAY for more details. | Required | Drop-down |
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Use for Anticipation? | Designates when the Term should be used for anticipating enrollment. | Optional | Radio button |
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Begin Actual Date | The "Begin Actual Date" is the date used to specify when (prior to the census date) to use actual units in packaging a student. Prior to this date, anticipated units will be used. | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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Pell Recalculation Date
| Used to recalculate the enrollment status based upon all courses for which attendance has been reported by the Pell Recalculation date.
| Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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Reanticipate Academic Plan Date (Previous name: SAP Date) | This field is used to delay re-anticipation of courses that are not marked as completed for a closed term. If a student does not have their expected progression units marked as successfully completed before the end of a term, then normally, Regent will extend the student's Academic Plan to add on the missing units to the end of the Academic Plan. When this date is configured to be after the term's end date, Regent will not re-anticipate those missing units until the student is packaged on or after this date. Renamed from the previous label, 'SAP Date.' | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Default to term end date. Should be greater or equal than term end date. |
Full Term Census Date
| The census date is used based on ‘Census Date Option’ configuration for Campus Setup, to set the Pell "initial calculation" date which is often referred to as the census date. All courses enrolled on or before this date and are not dropped or withdrawn on or before this date will be included in the census units. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Will be used in conjunction with Multiple Census Dates configured (Census Date 1, Census Date 2, Census Date 3, Census Date 4) if one of the following is selected for 'Census Date Option' on Campus Setup:
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Census Date 1 | The census date is used for modular courses, based on ‘Census Date Option’ configuration for Campus Setup, to set the Pell "initial calculation" date which is often referred to as the census date. All courses enrolled on or before this date and are not dropped or withdrawn on or before this date will be included in the census units. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Required when ‘Census Date Option’ configuration for Campus Setup is anything other than ‘No Census Date’ or ‘Use Full Term Census Date Only’. Multiple Census Dates configured (Census Date 1, Census Date 2, Census Date 3, Census Date 4) will be used in conjunction with the 'Full Term Census Date' value if one of the following is selected for 'Census Date Option' on Campus Setup:
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Census Date 2 | When configured, Census Date 2, Census Date 3, and Census Date 4 fields will be used to determine if the current calculated term census date should be updated to one of the configured values, based on course attendance as of each date configured. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Enabled when Census Date 1 value is present. Validation ensures that date value entered is not less than Census Date 1 value. Required when ‘Census Date Option’ configuration for Campus Setup is anything other than ‘No Census Date’ or ‘Use Full Term Census Date Only’ |
Census Date 3 | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Enabled when Census Date 2 value is present. Validation ensures that date value entered is not less than Census Date 2 value. | |
Census Date 4 | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Enabled when Census Date 3 value is present. Validation ensures that date value entered is not less than Census Date 3 value. | |
Last Day for Drop/Add | This field can be used to provide the last date within the term that a school allows a student to drop or add courses for that term. Within Regent Award, this date will be used in SAP Calculations. Previously, Regent Award's SAP logic used the Census Date 1 value to included or exclude courses that were attended but withdrawn before that date, in the SAP attempted and cumulative units calculations. However, Census is a date used for Pell calculations. When it comes to SAP calculations and the determination as to whether to include or exclude withdrawn courses as attempted, schools use the "Last Day for Drop/Add" date. | Optional
| Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Note: This field was added in release 4.4.0.0; All existing customers had the new "Last Day for Drop/Add" value set to the same value as the current Census Date 1 for each existing term, at the time of upgrade. |
SAP Evaluation Start Date | Defines the first day when Regent will try to automatically calculate a SAP status for a term, at a school with a Calculated SAP policy. Regent recommends that schools configure this date to be after the last day when a class could be added for the term, to prevent prematurely calculating a SAP status that could change. If this date is set to before the Term's end date, Regent also recommends that the school enable the setting, 'Delay SAP Calculation Due to Missing Grades' in Institution Setup. | Required | Date | MM/DD/CCYY | The default value is the term's End Date. |
SAP Evaluation End Date | Defines the last day when RNA will try to automatically calculate a SAP status for a term, at a school with a Calculated SAP policy and using 'Auto-Generate SAP Node from Student GPA.' Regardless of the SAP Evaluation Period End Date, Regent will still always calculate a new SAP status if a new SBL SAP node is received for the term on or after the term's SAP Evaluation Period Start Date. Regent recommends that schools configure this date to the last day when grades could be posted for the term, and prior to when a new GPA is posted for the next term. | Required | Date | MM/DD/CCYY | The default value is the term's End Date. |
Financial Aid Determination Date | Defines a specific, point-in-time date for a Term. Regent Award can check a student's enrolled units as of this date, for use in Custom Fund Rulesets. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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| The system looks at the student's units as of this date. | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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State Grant Census Date 1 | This date will be used to calculate attended remedial qualified units and attended program applicable units. It will exclude courses that have a withdrawn date after this date. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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State Grant Census Date 2 | This date will be used to calculate attended remedial qualified units and attended program applicable units. It will exclude courses that have a withdrawn date after this date. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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State Grant Census Date 3 | This date will be used to calculate attended remedial qualified units and attended program applicable units. It will exclude courses that have a withdrawn date after this date. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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State Grant Census Date 4 | This date will be used to calculate attended remedial qualified units and attended program applicable units. It will exclude courses that have a withdrawn date after this date. | Optional | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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Programs Subtab
Field Name | Description | Required/Optional | Type | Values | Business Rules |
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Available Programs | Available Programs to assign to term. | Optional | Multi-select list box |
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Selected Programs | Programs assigned to the term. | Optional | Multi-select list box |
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Program Type |
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Enrollment Level |
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Modules Subtab
Field Name | Description | Required/Optional | Type | Values | Business Rules |
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Name | A unique name for the Module. | Required | Text box - 60 characters max |
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External Module ID | A unique identifier for the Module. It should be unique across Campuses. This value needs to match the field sent in the SBL file for, externalModuleId. | Required | Text box - 60 characters max |
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Start Date | The start date of the Module. | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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End Date | The end date of the Module. | Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY |
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Freeze COA Date |
| Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | This field allows for an additional freeze option other than the census date. Schools may adjust costs when a student attended and then dropped all courses in a module. They need Regent Award to allow for the COA to be adjusted based on the actual time the student attended the course. Schools now have the ability to freeze a student's COA when the student actually dropped the units (after add/drop period - census date.) The Freeze COA Date field is set for a term, and it is pushed down to the module level. If no attendance is sent on the SBL file by COA freeze date, costs are frozen. Therefore, if attendance comes in after the COA freeze date, the user must manually perform adjustments in COA wizard. |
Expected Attendance Date |
| Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | Regent Award is expecting to receive attendance for a course by this date. This field allows Regent Award to identify periods of non-enrollment. Regent Award will reflect the periods for when a student is actually enrolled. This allows Regent Award to adjust duration COA items and EFC calculations based on when the student is in attendance. |
Last Day for Drop/Add |
| Required | Date picker | MM-DD-CCYY | This field specifies separate Drop/Add periods associated with each configured Module. If provided, Regent Award will exclude courses that are withdrawn on or before this date from any aspect of the SAP calculation, regardless of attendance. |
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