Student Financial Aid
Discussion List
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How is Oracle being prevented from accessing FTI?During our discussions of who can and cannot view ISIR FTI information internally, the topic of Oracle's access to FTI came up. Can you provide information about how Ora…
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Updated Product Reports, Letters and Data ModelsWith the 24A release we provided access to our new V2 views that pull in data from the 24/25 ISIR, and within 24B we will be delivering updates to our Data Models, Produ…
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Support of Department of Education's April 24/25 ISIR UpdatesOn April 3, the Department of Education delivered an updated Volume 4 – Record Layouts and Processing Codes and Volume 5 – Edits and Rejects () We have reviewed the upda…
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Optimizing the Housing Status Declaration Document Request (requesting collecting, and historical)?Summary: We are trying to determine the best way to optimize the requesting and collecting of Housing Status Declaration Documents for the 24-25 award year onward. Our i…
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Is the SEOG_Need_Based_Elig_Min in FAS_FUND_CONFIG used in packaging?Summary: MSU has FSEOG_Need_Based_Elig_Min set to 1 in the FAS_FUND_CONFIG workbook for the 2024-2025 FSEOG fund. We understand that $50 is the actual regulatory minimum…
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How does SFP round 24-25 Pell?Summary: We are finding some discrepancies between the federal regulations about rounding 24-25 Pell awards and how SFP rounds 24-25 Pell Awards. Here is what we are fin…
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How can I configure Okta SSO with OAS? Okta is an idP that uses SAML 2.0Summary: I would like to know the recommended way to configure OAS with Okta SSO. OAS has a web server that we access using Enterprise Manager. Is SSO configured here? C…
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Preparing for the 24A ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 24A release and wanted to share the Release Readiness resources available to assist with preparing for the release. In this release we ar…
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Environment Refresh - service option updateIn addition to supporting production -> non-production environment refreshes (P2T), we are updating our available environment services to accommodate customer requests f…
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DRAFT Student Financial Aid 2024-25 Award Year UpdatesThe FAFSA Simplification Act, enacted into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, represe…
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Self-Service Student Financial Aid MonitoringStudent Financial Aid (SFA) is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Use of SFA enables customers to leverage additional OCI capabilities (some at an additional co…
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Subscribe to Student Financial Aid Announcements on OCI ConsoleWe will be moving to Console Announcements allowing you to manage your announcement subscriptions within OCI Console. You will now be able to manage how notifications ar…
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24/25 Consolidated Appropriations Act ISIR Mapping and Configuration Approach UpdateWe are excited to post this announcement that continues our journey together through the 24/25 Consolidated Appropriation Act in Oracle Student Financial Aid! Our team i…
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Funds appearing on Latest Award Letter that are not on Latest PackageSummary: Looking for guidance on how to modify data model for Award Letter to prevent issues where Funds appear in letter that are not on latest package Content (please …
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When refresh happen on the TEST-PROD env some users are getting wiped out?Summary: Considering the planned refresh of any environment we are experiencing that users are wiped out and they don't have access to the application. What are the best…
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Does the 24A Release in SFP need to be coordinated with PUM 31 in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions?Summary: We are anticipating taking PUM 31 for our PeopleSoft Campus Solutions environment in February 2024. As of today (1/16/24), there has not been an announcement of…
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Event Follow Up on Document Owners and IASG/CFH for 24/25Thank you all for joining our event on Wednesday where we covered the updated functionality related to processing financial aid for the 2024-25 Award Year in Oracle Stud…
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2024-25 Initial ISIR Pre-ReleaseWe are excited to share that we will be having an early release for functionality related to processing financial aid for the 2024-25 Award Year in Student Financial Aid…
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Dept of Ed targets end of January for 2024-25 ISIRs, Our Contingency Plan SuggestionsWe wanted to make sure that the community was aware that the Department of Education published Update on the Simplified, Streamlined, Redesigned 2024-25 FAFSA (Updated D…
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Managing Students' packages with a DX NSLDS codeOver the last couple of months we have noticed an influx of NSLDS records with status code of DX (Defaulted, Satisfactory Arrangements, and Six Consecutive Payments). Th…
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Upcoming Maintenance - Autonomous DatabaseOver the next few weeks, you will be receiving notification for upcoming maintenance on your production and stage Student Financial Aid environments. Student Financial A…
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SFP managing SAI calculation is present in ISIR as both Manual and FTI-M fieldsSummary: When the field that impacts SAI calculation is present in ISIR as both Manual and FTI-M fields (for example AGI), how will corrections to the field values be ha…
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Preparing for the 23D November Maintenance PackWe wanted to share several resources available for the November Maintenance Pack for the 23D release, which will be deployed to your non production environments on Novem…
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24-25 ISIR File SamplesLast Thursday (9/28), ED published their first set of 24-25 ISIR file samples. Here is the link to the announcement: https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/…
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Optimizing PLUS LoansThe SFP product management team wanted to share additional set-up options outside of the product that should be considered to optimize PLUS and Grad PLUS packaging. Belo…
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Preparing for the 23D ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 23D release, which will be available October 9, 2023, and we wanted to share several resources available to assist with preparing for the…
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Oracle Analytics Server Static AddressEffective immediately, we have implemented a configuration change resulting in egress traffic sourcing from Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) deployments within Oracle Stude…
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What is the SFP OAS SQL for the ISIR used by student enrollment / package version / award year?Summary: How do I use SQL in SFP OAS to get ISIR fields for the ISIR that was used for a student enrollment's package version and award year? Content (required): How do …
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How can we change the time zone used by OAS?Summary: OAS uses GMT time. Our business operations and SFP are all based on Pacific time. The 8 hour difference causes gap in our Right to Cancel Letter generation and …
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Letter Impacts for ISIR FieldsAs we continue to review the Consolidated Appropriations Act effects on financial aid processing within SFP we are looking into possible updates needed for letter genera…