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By Thom Hanford on Nov 25, 2008

In order to provide additional services to the campus community, we have made some changes to the Banner website to protect proprietary data, screenshots and videos. By doing so, we are able to better communicate policy, processes and system changes to the campus community. You will notice that some parts of the Banner website are now behind .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Nov 20, 2008

Check us out on Twitter, a real-time short messaging service that you can subscribe to and view on the web, your phone, your handheld...or a multitude of other devices. We use Twitter to syndicate our blog, and send out informal notes to Banner users all over campus. Subscribe today, and receive notes, status updates and more via Twitter. .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Nov 20, 2008

We've developed a support service we are calling Banner House Call, in order to provide additional support and personalized service for Banner users across campus. The Banner Support Office will provide in-person or virtual assistance with Banner business process development, retraining, in-service training, troubleshooting and other business .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Nov 19, 2008

We've launched a new request tool to give campus community members the opportunity to make formal requests for Banner Enhancements, changes and modifications. As we move from an implementation phase to a development and support phase we can now begin to focus our efforts on refining and extending Banner to suit our campus needs. The entire .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Oct 27, 2008

We've updated the Course Explorer to include our Spring 2009 Schedule of Classes. There are a few new things on the explorer to make note of. First, we've been working with the Google API to add a new mapping feature to the schedule. While current students are used to our cryptic two-letter codes, and the layout of campus, our new students .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Oct 15, 2008

The course explorer, once in beta on BU BRAIN is now online, revamped and publically available. In the coming weeks, the Spring schedule will appear on the Course Explorer. As before, the Course Explorer is a tool for researching courses using our new schedule of classes. .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Oct 10, 2008

Today we are conducting some additional tests on our new release of Luminis, the tool that powers BU BRAIN - our campus portal. Between the hours of 11:30am and 3pm, you may notice some system slowdowns in Self Service Banner and INB. We anticipate any slowdowns to be slight, being that the students are away on the holiday, resulting in reduced .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Oct 1, 2008

With grading for mini courses coming up soon, we've developed a new training session for course instructors, which will soon be posted on the University Center for Training and Development (UCTD) site. The grading process in Banner is relatively straightforward. Like a standard grade book, it arranges .... (Read More)

By Thom Hanford on Sep 30, 2008

The B-Number was introduced to reduce our reliance on the Social Security Number as a primary identifier. It is not based on your Social Security Number, your date of Birth or any other common identifier. The B-Number, on its own, is only a University-specific identifier that cannot be used outside of Binghamton University as an identification .... (Read More)


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