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Banner Systems

Information System Descriptions and Account Information

Southern Oregon University uses the Ellucian Banner System to administer student, finance, and human resource information. Banner is a secure administrative software system that supports the full range of functions necessary for student, finance, and human resource administration including registration, admissions, advising, recruiting, accounts receivable, housing, scheduling, payroll, tracking employee personnel records, and tracking departmental budgets and expenses including creating purchase orders, invoices, institutional JV's, and the reports showing these transactions.

In addtion to the Banner administrative system, we have several other related systems (Self-Service, VMS, Data Warehouse) available with different interfaces for different purposes such as running reports. All related systems pull data from the Banner database.

Below is a description of each system and the information it provides. For documentation associated with each system, please click on the system link. We offer training classes for the systems listed below. To sign up for a training class, or get an account request form, please contact our Faculty & Staff Help Desk at 2-6900.

 

MySOU
Description: MySOU provides one-stop access to Banner Self-Service (SISWeb), Moodle, email and much more. MySOU is packed with features that will make your day more efficient and entertaining. You'll find easy access to campus services, information, and communications with only a single login. And... you'll be able to personalize the portal to include items that you like or use the most. MySOU includes custom Banner Self-Service channels as well as access to the full Banner Self-Service menu.
Available To: All current faculty, staff and students.
To Get Account: To get a faculty/staff MySOU account, please fill out a network account request form. You will get an SOU network and email account in addition to the MySOU account. MySOU accounts are automatically created for all enrolled and newly admitted students.

Banner Information System
Description: Southern Oregon University uses the Sungard Banner System to administer student, finance, and human resource information. Banner is a secure administrative software system that supports the full range of functions necessary for student, finance, and human resource administration including registration, admissions, advising, recruiting, accounts receivable, housing, scheduling, payroll, tracking employee personnel records, and tracking departmental budgets and expenses including creating purchase orders, invoices, institutional JV's, and the reports showing these transactions. The Banner Information System (SIS) is the software system used to administer student, finance, and human resource information. Other related systems such as the Data Warehouses and Self-Service pull data from this system. It supports the full range of functions necessary for student, finance, and human resource administration including registration, admissions, advising, recruiting, accounts receivable, housing, scheduling, payroll, tracking employee personnel records, and tracking departmental budgets and expenses including creating purchase orders, invoices, institutional JV's, and the reports showing these transactions. Most student, finance, and human resource data entry is done in this system. Banner consists of menus and forms (an online document where you can enter and look up information in a database). You can do all data maintenance functions in this system except enter grades. Self-Service for Faculty (SISWeb) must be used by faculty to enter grades. In Banner, you can change a student's advisor and/or major; assign a junior or senior plan to a student; print unofficial transcripts; view student information such as academic history, registration, demographic, and admission; view class rosters; view faculty schedules; view course enrollment, and more.
Available To: All faculty and staff with a need to view and/or maintain student, financial, or human resource information.
To Get Account: To get a Banner account, please fill out an account request form and be sure to check the Banner box.

Banner Self-Service for Faculty (SISWeb)
Description: Banner Self-Service for Faculty (SISWeb) s a web system that allows faculty to enter their grades via the web as well as view student and class information. Banner Self-Service for Faculty does not provide as much information as Banner but you can enter grades, view/print class rosters and wait lists; view/print your faculty schedule; view/print unofficial transcripts; view student addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses; process registration overrides; and process student registrations.
Available To: All teaching faculty
To Get Account: All teaching faculty have an account automatically set up for them using their 9 digit faculty ID. No account request form is needed for this system.

Student Data Warehouse
Description: The Student Data Warehouse is a subset of data from the Banner system combined with a user friendly, graphical query/reporting tool (Cognos). In this system, you can perform queries on the student data and format the results as reports, mailing labels, or ASCII text to be exported to other applications.
Available To: All faculty and staff with a need to query or report on student information.
To Get Account: To get a Student Data Warehouse account, you need to have an active Banner account and to take a Student Data Warehouse training class.

Banner Reports and Jobs Menu
Description: The Banner Reports and Jobs Menu is a menu located on the Banner main menu that contains student information related jobs and reports. In this system, you can get printed reports of class rosters, section tallies, majors, advisees, enrollment counts, and more.
Available To: All faculty and staff with a need to run jobs or reports from the Banner system.
To Get Account: You must have a Banner account in order to run reports from the Banner Reports and Jobs Menu. To get a Banner account, please fill out an account request form and be sure to check the Banner box.

Banner Self-Service for Student (SISWeb)
Description: Banner Self-Service for Student (SISWeb) is a web system that allows applicants to apply for admission, students to register for classes, view their grades, view their account balance, make credit card payments, get unofficial transcripts, and more.
Available To: All students who have ever taken a credit class here except those who attended prior to 1989.
To Get Account: All students, who have taken at least 1 class for credit since 1989, have an account automatically set up for them using their 9 digit student ID. To have your PIN reset or enabled, contact the Help Desk. No account request form is needed for this system.

VMS Operating System
Description: The VMS Operating System is the operating system of the servers that host the Banner database. VMS is used to do file transfer and to write sql queries on the Banner database.
Available To: All faculty and staff with a need to do file transfer or write sql queries.
To Get Account: To get a VMS account, please fill out an account request form and be sure to check the VMS box.  If your VMS password has expired, or you do not remember it, call our helpdesk at 2-6900 to get your VMS password reset.