2023.5

Released on November 17, 2023

FAFSA Simplification is here

Updates have been made across the application to support the extensive changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) made for the 2024-2025 award year, known as FAFSA simplification.

For more information about enhancements made across the system to support FAFSA Simplification, see our detailed guide here.

New standard report available for RNL Advanced FinAid Solutions (AFAS) users

This report provides student award information for a specified academic year formatted for the purposes of data sharing with Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) for those who use Advanced FinAid Solutions.

For more information, see RNL Advanced FinAid Solutions Report.

New options for the Increase Unsub Due to Health Professional field

With updates being made due to FAFSA Simplification, additional options were added for the Increase Unsub Due to Health Profession field within the Packaging Options and the system will allow you to package the Unsubsidized Loan at the associated value.

Student Information Import and Fund Import file layouts have been updated

The Student Information Import file layout has been updated to include six additional fields relating to the student, programs, academic years, and requirements.

Additionally, the Fund Import file layout has been updated to include three additional fields relating to system administration.

Student module

• When packaging a student with a Federal Pell Grant, multiple payment periods are now recognized.
• When a student is created with inactive payment periods using ISIR import, the Cost of Attendance field is now correctly calculating to zero.
• PDFs can now be properly generated from student communications.

Batch Processing module

• PDFs can now be properly generated to batch print letters.

Import/Export module

• When a student is created using the Student Information Import and the payment period token is set to False, the cost of attendance is now correctly showing the payment period as inactive.
• When loading a fund file with a large number of funds, all data points are now populating correctly on the created funds.
• When a student is created with inactive payment periods using the ISIR import, the Cost of Attendance field is now correctly calculating to zero.
• The ISIR Global Posting Options field-level help text is now displaying in the correct area of the UI.

Reporting module

• PDFs can now be properly generated for standard reports that offer a PDF format.

• Student module:The Dependency Model and Calculated SAI displayed on the header of the ISIR pages does not update after updating fields that impact these values.Use the application Refresh option to refresh the data displayed on the ISIR header.
• System Administration module: When editing an existing selection set, some changes do not enable the Save button. Make an additional change to enable the Save button, eg. make a minor update to the Description field text.
• System Administration module: Adding a Pell formula and Pell cost of attendance information to an academic year results in both an error and a success message. If the success message is received, the data was saved successfully and the error message can be ignored.

See all current Known Issues