Most Pennant applications will be unavailable from Friday evening, September 22, through Sunday evening, September 24 to perform a scheduled system upgrade. During the outage, student information related to registration, financial aid, and billing in Pennant will be inaccessible. Path@Penn, Courses@Penn, Advising@Penn, and Pennant@Penn will be available with limited functions.
Please see the details on each application below. Questions should be emailed to SRFSComms@pobox.upenn.edu.
Pennant Financial Aid Applications:
| Application | Description | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
Feeder Application (Awards) |
Application to upload award data using a template to Banner |
Unavailable | Schools can prepare their CSV files and upload their files following the outage |
Graduate Funding |
Application to enter departmental awards and grants for graduate students |
Partially Available | Award data can be entered into the application, but no transactions will be posted to Banner |
Imaging |
Content and process management platform for storing critical content |
Unavailable | Not available |
Penn Institutional Methodology (IM) Tool |
Application to calculate student need based on institutional rules |
Unavailable | No query or update access |
Pennant Aid |
Banner application for processing student Financial Aid |
Unavailable | No access |
Student Accounts Applications:
| Application | Description | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
Cost of Attendance (COA) Workflow |
Form for collecting summer and academic year costs. |
Unavailable | No query or update access |
Pay My Tuition |
Application used for international and domestic wire payments |
Partially Available | Student can submit payments, but no transactions will be posted to banner |
Penn Pay |
Application through which students pay their bills |
Unavailable | No access |
Pennant Accounts |
Native Banner application for student accounts (charges/payments) |
Unavailable | No access |
Pennant Feeder Application |
Application to submit charges/credits to a student's account |
Partially Available | Transactions can be submitted via the application, but charges will not be posted to the student's account until after upgrade |
Pennant Student Account Summary (PSAS) |
Summary screen of student billing (charges, payments), and relevant academic program information |
Unavailable | No access |
Student Records Applications:
| Application | Description | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
Advising and Registration (PATH) |
Path Advising, and Student PATH Registration |
Unavailable | |
Advising@Penn |
Pennant advisor application |
Available | Links to Pennant systems may not be available |
Canvas |
Central University LMS |
Available | Available, but no updates to/from Banner |
Course Action Notices |
A communication tool that sends messages between instructors and students and includes students’ academic advisors |
Unavailable | |
Courses@Penn |
Pennant instructor application |
Available | Links to Pennant systems may not be available |
CourseLeaf Section Scheduler (CLSS) |
Course and section scheduling system |
Unavailable | |
| Degree Works | Access student degree audits and manage exceptions | Unavailable | |
External Course Approval (XCAT) |
External credit approval tool where students can request academic credit for external courses taken outside of Penn. |
Unavailable | No query or update access |
Feeder Application |
Application to upload records data using a template to Banner |
Unavailable | Schools can prepare their CSV files and upload their files following the outage |
InfoSilem |
System for room and exam scheduling |
Partially Available | Systems will be available, but no integrations to or from Banner |
| Path Forms | Forms to make requests related to academic programs and student records | Unavailable | No access |
Path@Penn |
Pennant advisor application |
Available | Links to Pennant systems may not be available |
Penn Course Evaluation |
Course evaluation application |
Available | |
Pennant Adding Levels |
System to allow adding course levels |
Unavailable | |
Pennant Records |
Banner student records system (Courses, Sections, Instructors Summer 2021 and beyond) |
Unavailable | No access |
Pennant Grade Submission and Changes |
System to submit and change grades |
Unavailable |
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Pennant@Penn |
Pennant Administrative application |
Available | Links to Pennant systems may not be available |
PLN |
Penn Literacy Network Registration |
Available | Systems will be available, but no integrations to or from Banner |
Slate/CollegeNET |
University admissions systems (graduate and undergraduate) |
Partially Available | Systems will be available, but no integrations to or from Banner |
Student Elections |
Application to support student elections |
Available | Systems will be available, but no integrations to or from Banner |
Syllabus Repository |
Provides instructors ability to upload syllabus |
Available | Available, but no updates to/from Banner |
University Catalog/Curriculum Manager (CM) |
Curriculum management and course catalog system |
Partially Available | No integrations to/from Banner |
Reporting Applications:
| Application | Description | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
Data Warehouse |
Reporting data collection for student records, Pennant account, Pennant aid, other student related data |
Partially Available | Data warehouse will be available for query access, but none of the primary date collections will be updated |
| Operational Data Store (ODS) | Reporting application for basic student queries | Partially Available | ODS reports will be available for query access, but the data will not be refreshed |
Pennant Reports |
Reporting application for basic student queries |
Partially Available | Pennant reports will be available for query access, but the data will not be refreshed |