COD & Packaging Settings for Campuses
You can use the COD & Packaging tab to configure identification codes that may have been assigned to your school by divisions of the U.S. Department of Education. They are required if your school participates in Title IV student financial aid programs.
You can also configure the School Code, Pell ID, or Federal School Code listed on the school's ECAR (Eligibility and Certification Approval Report).
Prerequisites
You must have System - Settings - Campuses - Manage authorization.
To edit an item associated with more than one campus, you must have access to all the campuses. For example, if the item is configured to be available at three campuses and you only have access to two of the campuses, you can view the item but cannot edit it. When you add an item, you can only select campuses to which you have access.
You should be familiar with:
- Background for Other Grants
- Background for COD Processing
- Background for Awarding Financial Aid
- Background for Pell Grants
Access Method
COD & Packaging tab (Select the Settings tile > expand System > select Campuses > select the name of an existing campus on the list or select the New button, specify the required information, and Save the campus > select the Financial Aid tile. )
Procedure to Edit Items
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Select the COD & Packaging tab.
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Review, specify, or change the following values.
Note about School Code, Branch Number, and OPEID
Anthology Student supports institutions that use a numeric School Code and Branch Number, as well as institutions that use an OPEID.
If your institution uses a School Code and Branch Number, Anthology Student processes will append the 2-digit Branch Number to the 6-digit School Code (also known as Pell ID) and create the 8-digit OPEID.
The OPEID must be used instead of the School Code and Branch Number in the following processes:
- Clearinghouse Export
- COD Export
- Enrollment Reporting (SSCR Processing)
- FISAP
- Transfer Student Monitoring
When Financial Aid Automation is used and the School Code for your institution contains the letter G, B, or E, replace the letter with a 0 (zero).
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Under COD Entity IDs, review, specify, or change the following values.
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Under Packaging Status Promotion, review, specify, or change the following values.
Adhere to Constraints for adjusting Academic Year/Loan Period sequences
Allow Re-import of CommonLine Response File
Approve Awards for verified students only
Auto Recalculate Multiple Disbursements
Refer to Multiple Disbursement Policies.
Automated Disbursement Approval
Award Students with Recalculated EFC/SAI
Read Note
On July 30, 2024, the Department of Education announced that batch institutional corrections via the Electronic Data Exchange (EDE) will not be available in the 2024-25 FAFSA cycle. Any ISIR corrections saved and exported to the EDE system using Anthology Student will not be accepted by the Department of Education.
The correction functionality will still be available in Anthology Student, however, if an institution chooses to make ISIR corrections in the system, financial aid will not be awarded to students based on a recalculated EFC/SAI value. Regardless of whether the “Award Students with Recalculated EFC/SAI” option is selected or not, an SAI will NOT be recalculated for 2024-25 to display in Financial Aid > Awarding > Awards.
Carry over Estimated Aid to Enrollment
FA Administrator to be notified for Packaging Changes
Only Allow Author to Edit Academic Year Comment
Originate/Certify Estimated Awards
Prevent Aid & Student Payments if Zero COA
Prevent changing processing status to "Ready to Send when validation fails for CommonLine packaging
The items displayed on the page depend on whether the following advanced feature is enabled (refer to Advanced Features):
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Enable Advanced Auto Packaging
When you select Enable Advanced Auto Packaging
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The “Financial Aid Automation” section is shown presenting the “Financial Aid Automation Effective Date by Campus” field in the Student Web App only.
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Under Financial Aid Automation, review, specify, or change the following value.
Financial Aid Automation Effective Date by Campus The "Financial Aid Automation Effective Date by Campus" must be on or before the date configured in the "Automated Awarding Effective Date" field on the Automated Awarding Campus Settings form.
If the Pell grant, TEACH grant, and/or SEOG fund sources were awarded in the prior academic year (that is before the FAA Effective Date by Campus), and the student is eligible for additional disbursement(s) in the subsequent academic year (that is after the FAA Effective Date by Campus) for the same fund source (Pell, TEACH, and/or SEOG) and same award year, automated awarding will not award the student any funds in the subsequent academic year. This refers to the academic year immediately following the initial academic year being awarded. Any future academic years after this can be auto-awarded.
An exception is generated for any fund source already awarded in a prior academic year (which starts before the configured FAA Effective Date by Campus) and can't have additional disbursements awarded in the current academic year.
This functionality is specific to the student because a student who is not eligible for either of those three fund sources is awarded normally in the subsequent academic year.
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Select Save to save the changes.