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Mistakes such as typos are part of human nature. As Theodore Roosevelt wrote, the only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. However, when you see a mistake in your personal student’s record, the first thing you want to do is to correct it immediately. The student’s self-service system […]

Career services should not be the first team to discover your integration stopped updating. Handshake has zero patience for “we just migrated.” For institutions running Colleague on the Ellucian SaaS platform, the core expectation stays the same: student demographic and academic data needs to arrive in Handshake reliably, on schedule, and in a format Handshake […]

Not every student passes every exam on the first try. When a student needs a second attempt in the UK, the retake is commonly referred to as a resit. These resit and course-repeat cases trigger exceptions, special checks, and additional communication that typically sit outside day-to-day student processing.   These workflows are not supported out of the box in Banner SaaS, […]

Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, and Jessica Alba left college before completing their degrees. Universities handle thousands of less famous exits, including transfers to another institution. The workflow matters because withdrawal stops financial liabilities immediately and may trigger credits or partial refunds based on timing and policy.  To address this demanding task, ABCloudz created an automated withdrawal workflow for a […]

If you have ever watched students fill out onboarding forms, you know exactly when their expression changes. Emergency contact? Easy. Trusted contact? Suddenly they pause. That pause is meaningful. It reflects the difference between who should be called in a crisis and who a student trusts to help them navigate sensitive wellbeing concerns. Institutions across […]

Many institutions struggle with paper-based processes. The situation becomes even worse when the process flow is poorly defined, and responsible parties are unaware that it’s time to act. Does this description of chaos sound familiar to you? Well, you’re not alone, as we have already mentioned, many institutions have the same pain. For those who […]

Do you remember the painful process of buying books for your next term? We’ve all been there — noting the title, edition, ISBN, and even cover color. Endlessly searching in the campus bookstores, comparing online prices and delivery dates, and desperately trying to agree on the deal with upperclassmen. Sometimes these tremendous efforts led us […]

Remember the times when you received exam results through physical mail? Checking the results on the bulletin board was never a pleasant experience. Long gone are those times. With online student portals, you can find the results in your browser once they are available. For one of our customers, the ABCloudz team created an exam […]

If you have ever tried to house thousands of students at once, you know the real problem is not the number of beds, it is the data that decides who is allowed to sleep in them. Room eligibility lives in Ellucian Banner, room assignments live in a separate accommodation system, and every autumn those two […]

HR data keeps every campus system moving, yet it is often supported by integrations that no one notices until they need to be rebuilt. As Ellucian expands its SaaS platform across Europe, the company is proactively modernizing the integrations that institutions have relied on for years in their on-prem Banner environments. Many of these long-standing […]

I came, I saw, I borrowed the book. Do your students enjoy visiting the library just as Julius Caesar enjoyed victories? To receive such feedback from all students, including freshmen, your library must serve them without a long wait in line. In real life, a routine check, such as for permissions to borrow specific medical […]

Many universities give freshmen symbolic keys at the new student convocation ceremony. This tradition stems from medieval practices and symbolizes a student’s freedom to access campus resources and participate in university life. In real life, new students want to receive their security ID cards to identify themselves when on campus and access the allowed areas. […]

You know a cloud migration is serious when it is not only about moving data but also about rethinking every hidden workflow that supports student life. Ellucian understood this long before institutions in Europe began shifting from Banner on-prem to SaaS. Graduation certificates were one of those quiet processes that seemed small from the outside […]

Anyone who has worked with Ellucian Banner at scale knows a familiar moment in every SaaS migration project. As soon as an institution prepares to move its student system into the cloud, any custom on-prem logic that relied on direct database access must be redesigned for a world that runs entirely through APIs and Ellucian’s […]

Alumni are the greatest asset of any educational institution. Every institution wants to stay in touch with its alumni, turning campus residents into a community of professionals. To achieve this goal, institutions use fundraising and alumni management systems. In turn, these systems work effectively and efficiently when institutions use relevant alumni information. This blog post […]