Pennant System Outage Overview

Most Pennant applications will be unavailable from Friday evening, February 9, through Sunday evening, February 11 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 self-service 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  
Curriculum Manager (CM) Curriculum management Available No integrations to/from Banner
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 student self-service 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

 

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

Course catalog system

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