Review Batches for Approving Disbursements

For batches that you created to evaluate and automatically approve disbursements or batches you created to review disbursement eligibility for approval, you can use the History tab on the Approve Disbursements to Pay page to:

  • Review the status of all the batches

  • Select batches to review the list of students and details about the disbursement approval criteria (DAC) 

  • Cancel batches that have been queued, but have not been executed and completed yet

  • Retry batches that failed

Prerequisites

You must have:

  • Common - Processes - View authorization

  • Either Financial Aid – Processes – Approve Disbursements To Pay – New Batch authorization
    or Financial Aid – Processes – Approve Disbursements To Pay – Approve Batch authorization

You should also be familiar with the Background for Approve Disbursements to Pay.

Access Method

Select the Processes tile > expand Financial Aid > select Approve Disbursements to Pay.

Procedure to Manage and Review

  1. Select the History tab.

  2. Review the status and values for the batches in the list.

    CreatedClosed The date and time the batch was created.

    Disbursements Closed The number of disbursements in the batch.

    DurationClosed The amount of time it took to process the job or batch.

    NameClosed The descriptive name of the item.

    Reviewed StatusClosed If your institution has a review status for the batches, the review status of the batch. If your institution requires that batches of disbursements be reviewed before they are posted, the review status. The values are Not Reviewed, Ready for Review, and Reviewed.

    Started Closed The date and time when the first job within the batch started executing.

    StatusClosed A status of Preparing indicates that the jobs in the batch are still being created or are waiting on the system resources required to create them. Started indicates that the batch has been started. (At least one job in the batch is Enqueued, Processing, Succeeded, or Deleted.) Succeeded indicates all jobs in the batch have been executed, and ALL job statuses are Succeeded. Completed indicates all jobs in the batch have been executed, some jobs may be in the Succeeded status, but at least one of the jobs is in Deleted status. Awaiting indicates the batch is awaiting the completion of a dependent job or batch. Deleted indicates that the batch has been canceled.

    Submitted ByClosed The name of the staff member who submitted the batch for processing.

    Total Closed The sum of the amounts of all the approved disbursements in the batch.

    TypeClosed The type of batch.

  3. Highlight the batch record in the Batches grid. Anthology Student displays the details for the batches in the Job Results grid.

  4. If the Reasons column contains View, Hold, or Failed, select the link in the column.

  5. Take the appropriate action.

    Task Action to Take
    Cancel batches that have been queued, but have not been executed and completed yet.

    1.  Select the Cancel Batch button.

    Retry batches that failed (Anthology Student follows the same process and does the same validations it does when you first queued the batch for approval.) 

    1.  Select the Retry Batch button.

    Review the list of students and the status of their approvals for batches that finished.

    1.  Select the record for the batch in the list. Anthology Student displays a list of the students in the batch.

    2.  Review the values in the list.

    AmountClosed The amount in dollars.

    Disbursement DateClosed The date that the disbursement was approved.

    Job CreatedClosed The date and time when the job was added to the background job queue.

    Job ResultClosed Indicates the processing result for job. If it was successfully processed, it displays Passed or Succeeded. Otherwise, it displays the reason why it was not processed.

    Job StartedClosed The date and time when the job was pulled from the queue and started executing. The start time for a job will be the same time or later than the start time for the batch.

    Job StatusClosed Select the program versions you want to use to filter. You must have selected one or more programs in the Program list to display the list of program versions.

    Student Closed The last and first name of the student. In some lists, the name of the student is highlighted. If it is highlighted, you can select the link and it will display the Student Profile or a page available from the profile (such as their Documents list in Contact Manager). To display the Student Profile, you must have Common - Student - View authorization. If the link takes you to a page available from the profile, you must have authorization for that page. For example, if it displays the Documents list, you must have Contact Manager - Student Document - View authorization.

    The remaining columns correspond to the values used to evaluate the disbursement approval criteria. N/A indicates that the criteria were not used in the evaluation.