Return the Overall Status for Assignments to Draft

You can use the Assignment Manager page to return the overall status for assignments from Finalized to Draft.

When the Advanced Feature flag Enable Load BankingClosed The Advanced Feature flag "Enable Load Banking" can be set to Yes to allow an institution to bank loads for full-time faculty members for later applications. Load banking is not used for adjunct (part-time) faculty members. The load banking feature includes the FTE Bank Load Limit configuration functionality and any related database tables. Once the feature flag is enabled, it remains enabled permanently. is set to Yes (refer to Advanced Features), the assignment actions Delete, Reset Assignment Statuses, and Return to Draft will remove the banked loads from the bank.

If Anthology Student is integrated with an external human resources (HR) and payroll system (for example, Anthology Finance & HCM or any third-party HR and payroll application), you must use Anthology Student to manage the items (such as generating or exporting earning lines, and so on). 

Prerequisites

You must have:

  • Common - Processes - View authorization

  • Faculty Workload - Processes - Assignment Manager - View and Manage authorization

The assignment must have a value of Finalize for Overall StatusClosed Indicates the overall status of the assignment. The values are Draft and Finalized. For example, if your institution requires the load validated and earning lines to be exported, Finalized indicates the assignment is final..

To integrate with an external payroll system, your institution must have configured Yes under Settings > Faculty Workload > General for the feature: Export Payroll Earning Lines from FWMClosed Select whether you want to export payroll earning lines to the Azure Service Bus (ASB). If Yes, it will be sent to the ASB. If No, it will be exported as a file.

Access Method

Select the Processes tile > locate Faculty Workload > select Assignment Manager.

Procedure to Return the Overall Status for Assignments to Draft

  1. Select the record for a non-teaching assignment.

  2. Select the Assignment Actions menu option Return To Draft.

    Anthology Student displays the confirmation dialog with the message For the selected assignments, Overall Status will reset to Draft. Do you want to continue?

  3. In the dialog, select the Return To Draft button.

    Anthology Student redisplays the grid with the value Draft in the Overall Status column.

Implications of Selecting Return to Draft

If your institution has configured integration with an external payroll system and even if an assignment has one earning line with the value of Integrated for Status, you cannot reset the Overall Status to Draft.

If you select Return to Draft for an assignment record with a banked load, any assigned load, overload, or banked load will be removed from the bank.