Enrollment Reporting

All educational institutions are required to report the enrollment status of students who received Title IV aid to the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS). You can use the Enrollment Reporting page in Anthology Student to create Enrollment Reporting files for the NSLDS.

  • Use the Roster File tab to import and export a Roster file.

  • Use the Error/Acknowledgement File tab to import, edit, and export an Error/Acknowledgement file.

  • Use the History tab to view Roster and Error/Acknowledgement files that have been exported.

Financial Aid Processes File Management

Anthology Student version 22.0 and later enables customers to manage files in Azure File Storage using the Financial Aid Processes File Management form under Processes > System Administration. Without this form, users cannot upload or download files to Azure File Storage due to security restrictions. The file management functionality enables you to place files in the location where specific financial aid processes (e.g., Application Data Export/Import, Clearinghouse, NSLDS Reports, and others) expect to find the files. For more details, refer to Financial Aid Processes File Management.

Prerequisites

Permissions

You must have the following authorization:

  • Common - Processes - View

  • Common - Student - View

  • Financial Aid - Processes - Enrollment Reporting - Report Student Enrollment

Regulatory US 25.7.0 introduces campus-level security for the Enrollment Reporting so that the History tab displays only records specific to the logged-in user.

This enhancement requires the following configuration:

  1. In Settings > System > Campuses > Campus Groups, select a Campus Group (or create one) that only has the campus for which the user needs permission.

  2. In Settings > System > Staff, select your Staff member, and on the General tile, ensure the Campus Group for the user is the Campus Group from step 1.

Status Configuration

Before processing Enrollment Reporting files, perform the following steps to ensure that your institution is ready for Enrollment Reporting:

  • Select the applicable Student Status Reporting and Default Withdrawal Date Settings options in Anthology Student before processing the Enrollment Reporting file. For more information, refer to Enrollment Settings for Campuses.

  • Ensure that status codes are set up to map your institution's statuses to NSLDS statuses.

  • To verify that the statuses are mapped correctly, check the Date/Status of the Enrollment (Select the Students tile > select the name in the Students list > expand Academic Records > select the Enrollments tile.). The Enrollment Reporting process uses the enrollment status credits or hours when calculating enrollment status (not the academic credits hours). For more details, refer to Student Status History.

  • The logic that calculates enrollment statuses within the Enrollment Reporting and Clearinghouse processes by Term also supports Term Groups.

  • Prevent and, if necessary, correct status change discrepancies. Status changes are marked with an effective date and time. The enrollment reporting process checks the timestamps. Discrepancies can occur if a more recent status change has an earlier timestamp than a previous status.

    Example:

    A student is reported as active to NLSDS but the student has withdrawal dates. The status history shows that an Attending-Pending Graduate status was added on 7/30/2021 at 11:12 AM with the same effective date and time. Then, on the same day, the Withdrawn-Drop status was added with an effective date of 7/29/2021 at 12:00 AM. The effective date of the Withdrawn-Drop status should have had a later date and time than the Attending-Pending Graduate status. The Effective Date for the Withdrawn-Drop is the true date. You can perform the following steps to correct this discrepancy:

    1. Select Processes > Academic Records > Update Student Statuses.

    2. Search for and select the Student record.

    3. On the line with the Attending-Pending Graduate status on 7:30/2021, select the link in the New Status column.

    4. Change the Effective Date to 7/28/2021 which is one day before the withdrawal effective date and select Save.

      Now the withdrawal status will be reported to NSLDS since it has the most recent effective date.

    Anthology Student provides a report to identify similar status discrepancies. Refer to Status Change Discrepancies. You can run the report without parameters to review all of the discrepancies. We recommend that you export it to Excel for analysis.

Access Method

Select the Processes tile > expand Financial Aid > select Enrollment Reporting.

Procedure to Process Enrollment Reporting Files

Roster File Tab

  1. The Campus EDE Path of the user’s default campus is displayed.

  2. From the Roster File drop-down, choose the file to import.

    The processing of Enrollment Roster files from NSLDS uses the message class name of EFRFLEOP that allows Regulatory to generate files to be sent to NSLDS using the message class name of EFSFLEIN. The processing of an Enrollment Roster file generates a backup file named EFSFLEBK.

  3. Select the Exclude NDS Students check box to exclude non-degree-seeking (NDS) students from the Clearinghouse Extract file.

  4. Select the Queue Export button. A message confirms that the file is queued for export.

Error/Acknowledgement File Tab

History Tab

Regulatory US 25.7.0 introduces the "Enable Campus Level Security on Batches" feature. When this feature is enabled, the records on the History tab will be filtered based on the logged-in user and the set of campuses from campus groups associated with this user. The filtering of records on the History tab is based on the SyCampusId. Records with a NULL value in the CampusID field will be visible to all users. CampusID = NULL is assigned to records that are not in Succeeded status (e.g., Completed, Enqueued).

Files generated on the Error/Acknowledgement File tab are not subject to campus-level security filters. Therefore, all batches created here will be visible to all logged-in users on the History tab.

A clean-up script ensures that batches on the History tab, created before the implementation of the campus-level security feature, are filtered based on the new security measures. This script runs at the batch level for each process and assigns SyCampusId values to the records within the batch.

If the registry key setting "Enable Campus Level Security on Batches" is turned off under Settings > System > General, the History tab will load the records based on the default campus setting (Session Defaults).

The registry key setting is available in Anthology Student 25.1.0 and later.

 

This feature applies to U.S. compliance only.