As we announced in January, the University is transitioning from Banner Version 8 to Banner Version 9 Self Service. A new Employee Dashboard was just successfully released this past weekend. Next up are the new Student Dashboard and Faculty Dashboard, coming to you on March 6, 2020! This upgrade will deliver a fresh user experience with a modern look and feel, increased efficiencies, new tools and improved capabilities.
New Dashboard icons will appear on your Illinois Tech Portal in the top right-hand corner. See below for a sneak peek!
Student Self Service - New Student Advising Profile
Students can access the new Student Dashboard from any device and quickly and easily navigate to their Course Schedule, Academic Transcripts, Registration portal, Account Details, and more.
- The new Student Profile consolidates a student’s information and academic progress in one view. Advisors share the same view, allowing for truly personalized advice to help students make better academic decisions. From this profile, you can quickly and easily navigate to everything else available in Student Services.
- The Account Detail for Term page allows students to view, manage, and pay institutional charges, as well as keep track of their tax documents.
Faculty Self Service — Advising Student Profile and Streamlined Grade Entry
From the new Faculty Dashboard, Faculty members can perform their everyday class tasks using self-service functionality. Banner 9 offers an intuitive, responsive, mobile user experience that streamlines administrative management and accommodates the daily needs and experiences of faculty members.
- Advising Student Profile functionality lets advisors easily view their students’ academic details in a succinct profile view, helping them advise students in real time with timely academic insight. Complementing this functionality is Ellucian Degree Works™, which lets advisors seamlessly link degree auditing information together and propose courses for their advisees.
- Class List lets faculty members review their students’ academic profiles and schedules, communicate with students over email, print class rosters, and more.
- Faculty Grade Entry now offers faculty members mobile capability for entering assignment grades and posting midterm, final, and incomplete grades. The application can then automatically compute a final grade. To make things even easier, faculty members can also import grades directly from their existing spreadsheets or their learning management system.
Questions
The OTS and Registrar departments have been working hard on this upgrade and on making the transition as seamless as possible. Training materials will be made available and the OTS Support Desk (supportdesk@iit.edu) will be prepared to assist with any questions.