BG@100 PeopleSoft

Campus Solutions (CSS)

On-Line Training

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Classes will be offered to CSS users by on-line training available through MyBGSU. Offering classes in this manner will allow users to proceed through the material at their own pace and users are invited to return to the course material as often as desired to review information and details.

Each class will present information on the designated topic and will also include a quiz component.  For each class, completion of the quiz with a score of 80% or higher is required prior to requesting CSS security.  The class material and quiz may be repeated as many times as the user desires.  It is also possible to stop progressing through the material as needed and to return to the same point at a future time.

A user may request enrollment in a course by sending an email message to BGat100@bgsu.edu.  The information to include in the email message is the name of the person to be enrolled, their BGSU username, and a listing of the requested courses for enrollment.  Once the enrollment request has been processed, the user will receive an email message confirming that the classes are now available to them in MyBGSU.

  

Prerequisite Courses - Completion of the following four classes and successful completion of each associated quiz with a score of 80% or higher is required by each user requesting CSS security access.  Follow this link for access instructions.

• CSS 110: Introducing Campus Solutions
  • This class provides basic information about CSS including the reasons why BGSU is implementing a new system as well as defining the four key components to Campus Solutions.
• CSS 120: Understanding Academic Structure
  • This training program details the hierarchy of the terms CSS uses to organize the components of an educational organization.
• CSS 130: Campus Solutions: Learning the Basics
  • In this class users are introduced to CSS components, pages and types of data fields; CSS navigation; basic and advanced searches; how to set user defaults and add to favorites; and how to perform searches.
• CSS 140: Understanding Campus Community
  • Campus Community is used to maintain biographic and demographic data.  This class introduces participants to Campus Community while also defining the key fields used to identify individuals in CSS.

 

General Information Courses - These courses provide general information that will be useful to those using CSS, and are provided for a better understanding of CSS.  They are not a requirement for access to CSS or a prerequisite to other courses.

• CSS 010 - Overview of BGSU’s Academic Support Units
  • The Overview of BGSU's Academic Support Units course provides a basic understanding of the Campus Solutions (CSS) modules by:
    • showing how the Admissions module supports the admissions process
    • showing how the Student Records module supports the registration and records process
    • showing how the Financial Aid module supports the financial aid process
    • showing how the Student Financial module supports fee and tuition billing
  • This course does not require enrollment and may be accessed by selecting this link.
• CSS 020 - Course Catalog View Access
  • The Course Catalog is an inventory of all courses at BGSU.  It defines all of the rules used to enroll students.  The Course Catalog is maintained by the Office of Registration and Records.  
  • This training course is designed for those who have CSS view access to the Course Catalog and will use the Course Catalog to search for Courses and Classes.  
    • this course will provide a basic understanding of the Course Catalog
    • this course will provide users with an understanding of how to navigate through the Course Catalog components to view course and related class details
    • using the Course Catalog Search page will provide information on Units, Grading Basis, Course Components, and Description
  • This course does not require enrollment and may be accessed by selecting this link.

 

Student Records

• SR 010 - Submitting Grades Using Blackboard  -  access instructions
  • This tutorial is designed to demonstrate a step-by-step method for entering grades in the Grade Center section of Blackboard and submitting them via the Faculty Self Service component of Campus Solutions (CSS).
  • This course does not require enrollment and may be accessed by selecting this link.
  • SR 010 may be accessed on a Windows machine using Internet Explorer 6.0 / 7.0 or Firefox 2.0 or on a Macintosh machine using Firefox 2.0.
• SR 020 - Submitting Grades Using Faculty Self Service  -  access instructions
  • This module is designed to demonstrate a step-by-step method for entering and posting grades using the Faculty Self Service component of CSS.
  • This course does not require enrollment and may be accessed by selecting this link.
  • SR 020 may be accessed on a Windows machine using Internet Explorer 6.0 / 7.0 or Firefox 2.0 or on a Macintosh machine using Firefox 2.0.

 

 

Function Specific Courses - Prior to requesting CSS security access, users may be required to complete one or more of the following courses and associated quiz.  The courses to be completed will be dependent on each user's job duties and responsibilities.  Follow this link for access instructions.

View Access Courses

Admissions

• AD 210 - Undergraduate Application Processing View Access 
  • This class provides the user with a basic understanding of the Undergraduate Admissions System as it relates to PeopleSoft,   It provides the user with information regarding the navigation of the Student Admissions component to view the progress of an applicant's application, and provides the user with an understanding of how to identify an applicant's academic program, external test scores (ACT or SAT) and previous education data.  Users who currently view applicant data on the APPL screen in SIS or a user who views test scores for applicants on PVED and TEST in SIS will want to take this course.

Student Records

• SR 210 - Schedule of Classes View Access  
  • This class will instruct the user on how to use the Schedule of Classes to view class sections for a college or department, view the instructor for a class, view meeting patterns and times, view the topic for a variable title, view the enrollment capacity, view wait listing and capacity options for a class, view class notes, and review the classes in the system.  Users who currently view data on the CLAS and/or CTIM screen in SIS for a college of department will want to take this class.
• SR 215 - Program Plan / Term Activation  
  • This class will cover the following topics:  (for Program/Plan) what program/plan is; how program/plan records are created; who maintains program/plan; navigation of program/plan; how to change a program; adding an additional plan; components (pages) of program/plan records including Student Program, Student Plan, Student Sub-Plan, Student Attributes and Student Degrees; and key elements of program/plan including Audit Term, Requirement Term, Expected Graduation Term, Effective Date and Program Actions.  (for Term Activation) what term activation is, term activation terminology and navigation, understanding the term activation process, and other processes that term activation affects.  Those who view data in SIS using the STU1, ALUM, or TSUM screens will want to take this class.
• SR 220 - Student Records View Access  
  • After completing this class users will understand the different CSS pages that support the enrollment functionality of Student Records.  Those who view data in SIS using SAST, SGPA, TOOK, or STU1 will want to take this class.
• SR 230 - Faculty Self-Service Access
  • This information is being offered in the form of an Overview - please follow this link to play - enrollment is not required
• SR 231 - Advisor Self-Service Access  -  access instructions
  • This class will acquaint those who advise students with the functions that are available to them through the Self Service component of Campus Solutions (CSS).  Content covers such areas as academic information, emergency contacts, enrollment appointments, unofficial transcripts, transfer credit reports, and how to remove a mandatory advising hold.  Advising staff wishing to have this access must submit a Student Records security form signed by their supervisor requesting the role BG_ADVISOR.
• SR 235 - Service Indicators 
  • Service Indicators are comparable to a Hold in SIS.  A SIS hold would be found on the HOLD screen.  Service Indicators can be viewed using the Biographical Details page in CSS.  After completing this class, participants will have a basic understanding of how Service Indicators are added and removed from a student's record and will also be able to identify the details of the service indicators placed on a student's record.

Advanced (Maintenance) Access Courses

Student Records

• SR 310 - Courses and Classes  - access instructions
  • This class will be completed by those who will be maintaining the Schedule of Classes.  This class contains six tutorials:  Navigation of Course Catalog, Searching the Course Catalog, Class Search, Schedule New Course, Update Sections of a Class/Adjust Class Associations, and Print Class Schedule.  Each tutorial has an associated quiz for completion by the user.  Those who update data in SIS using the CLA9, CTI9, CLN9, or CIN9 screens will want to take this class.
• SR 320 - Enrollment  - access instructions
  • Using User Productivity Kit (UPK) users will be guided through several processes relating to enrollment.  Topics include but are not limited to:  add/drop a class, quick enrollment, class search by schedule of classes and browse catalog, setting up a class for wait list, add a student to wait list, drop a student from wait list, class roster, change grading option/number of credit hours, overriding student in a full class, overriding a student with unit load error and prerequisite errors.  Those who register students in SIS using the RMEN, and use WAIT, WAIX, or ROST screens will want to take this class.
• SR 325 - Add Advisor to a Student Record - access instructions
  • In this class approved users will learn how to add an advisor to a student.  This class is for anyone who maintained data on ADVR or on the ODAT screens for athletics, honors, CMAI, and Student Support Services as it pertained to student advisors.  
• SR 335 - Service Indicators - access instructions
  • In this class users will learn how to add/remove service indicators.  This User Productivity Kit (UPK) also guides users through the process of viewing an audit of what service indicators have been placed on a student's records.  This audit allows users to see all service indicators that are in add status, changed status, and delete status.  This class is for anyone who in the past maintained non-financial hold information for college offices or support services offices.  Those who view or update non-financial holds in SIS using the HOLD OR HOL9 screens will want to take this class.

Student Financials

• SF 310 - Student Financials Posting Maintenance - access instructions
  • This class will provide information on the manual posting of charges to student accounts.  Such charges include items such as library fees, most fines, and lost photo ID charges.  This course will focus on posting charges, removing charges and reversing charges and payments for student accounts.  In addition to taking this class users will need to contact the Bursar's Office (Tawn Williams-Nell or Vicki Sulken) for approval of the fines and fees prior to assessing - to be sure they are compliant with University policy.  
  • Documentation for SF 310
    • Posting a Single Transaction (Individual Post)  
    • User Defaults

 

If you are unable to see the Campus Solutions (CSS) courses by following the access instructions, it is possible that you have not yet been enrolled.  To request access, please send an email message to mailto: bgat100@bgsu.edu.

 

CSS Training Documents - Follow this link for access to documentation prepared for use in conjunction with CSS training.

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last updated 11/5/09