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Student Financial Aid
Discussion List
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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 … -
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… -
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… -
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…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: ISIR Discrepancy Corrections for Financial FieldsAs we start to dive into the 2024-2025 ISIR updates, we are working on updating our baseline configuration to support all the upcoming changes. As you may know, the new …
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System Updates that may impact Fall DisbursementsOracle understands that multiple institutions will be disbursing for the Fall in the next several weeks and wanted to inform you of an update that was made to increase r…
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How will SFP beign reporting Federal Work Study (FWS) wages to COD?Summary: Content (required): We are required to begin reporting FWS wages to COD in the coming months. In a webinar yesterday schools were stating that they will be usin…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Need determinations using the SAII wanted to provide an update on the topic of calculating need in packaging using the new Student Aid Index (SAI) value. The attached document outlines our approach with…
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Yearly FISAP UpdateThis year's yearly FISAP updates contain cosmetic enhancements to the file layout as well as updated dates within the report itself. These changes will be included in th…
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Updates to OAS SQL for “Failed to Load SQL” errorWhile testing the BI Publisher to OAS migration in 23C, an issue was discovered where certain data models received a "Failed to Load SQL" error. It was determined this w…
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July 11th 23C & Beyond CCC Event Q&A Follow UpThank you all for joining our last Cloud Connect Event where we where able to share details regarding the 23C Release, preview our upcoming Automated Selective Packaging…