Flexible Registration for Community Education

Dottie MarronDelivery Center Manager

Student Administrative Services Consulting Center

Implementing Flexible Registration

• A Customization for the Baseline Banner Student Component System

• Flexible Registration interface – personalizing the experience

• Pre-requisites for Flexible Registration

• Implementation Methodology

Flexible Registration Banner vs. Flexible Registration Catalogs

• Banner Catalog– Credit, Non-Credit and Community Education courses are created and

maintained in the Banner Catalog module• Flexible Registration ‘Catalogs’

– Community Education sections are created and maintained in the Banner Schedule module

– Existing class sections can be selected to create Flexible Registration ‘Catalogs’

– Flexible Registration catalogs access:• Open-ended available to any customer• Password protected only available to customers with password

information

• Define multiple catalogs specific to Flexible Registration processing

• Allows creation of links to individual catalogs with different sections in each

• Mark specific catalogs as secured, requiring a password to view catalog sections

• Provide ‘Shopping Cart’ functionality to add and remove class sections prior to checkout

• Registration error checking is performed to notify students of time conflicts, closed sections, duplicate sections or holds

• Ability to build a schedule and look at meeting patterns before finalizing schedule

Flexible RegistrationCatalogs, Schedules and Registration

Flexible Registration - Users

• Search a catalog and manage cart without signing in

• Common Matching rules applied for new users based on their personal profile captured within application

• Institutional control of required and optional profile fields captured for new users

• Returning users use their Banner ID and PIN

• Can change their Banner PIN from within their profile

Flexible RegistrationFee Assessment, Discounting and Payments

• Baseline Fee Assessment is used to calculate fees during checkout

• Fee attached to class sections will display as course base price

• Discounts are rule-based and can be applied to all courses, or specified courses in the Flexible Registration Catalogs

• Learners may pay registration fees by Credit Card or Purchase Orders

• Learners can review schedules, print invoice, and review transactions of their prior invoices

Search Classes

Advanced Search

Class Details

Add to Cart

Login Process

Create Personal Profile

Check Out

Security Question

Using Coupons

Payment Options

Purchase Order Payment

Review Receipt, Schedule and Invoice

Review Receipt, Schedule and Invoice,

Banner System Pre-requisites

• Banner Student Modules– Catalog– Schedule– General Person– General Student (Learner)– Registration– Accounts Receivable– Student Self Service

• Banner General – Common Matching

Flexible Registration System Components

Flexible Registration

Flexible Registration

Student

Accounts Receivable

IdentityManagement

Payment Gateway

Web Browser

Web Site

Flexible Registration

Shopping Cart

Application

Web Site Banner

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Software / Hardware Requirements for Flex Reg 8.5.2

– Banner General 8.4.1– Banner Student 8.5– Banner Student Self Service 8.5– Banner Accounts Receivable 8.3– Web server to host learner interface of Flexible Registration– Oracle 10g (10.2.0.3)– Oracle Application Server (10.1.3.1)– Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J) must be installed on application

server

Strategic and Functional Pre-requisites

• Flexible Registration Strategy– Defined goals and metrics

• Banner Catalog and Schedule– Courses and Classes are entered and ready to be used

• Payment Gateway– Baseline Banner gateway support is in place

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