Workday Student’s release in March begins the final phase of Simmons Workday implementation, joining human resources and financial functions already processed in Workday. Students and faculty in traditional “on-the-ground” programs will begin using Workday in March with Fall 2021 registration. New students starting in Fall 2021 will begin their Simmons academic careers in Workday. Some online programs will begin using Workday at this time with all transitioning by the end of their 2020-2021 academic year.
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Strategic Change
Simmons move to Workday Student represents a major change in the way we perform our student related business. We are making this move not for the sake of change — but strategically — implementing an advanced, extendable system based on academic best practices. In moving to Workday Student, Simmons benefits from the experience of other institutions who have gone before us, including Wellesley, Bentley, and California College of the Arts. As an early adopter of the platform, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with other institutions and Workday on the development of the system, ensuring the product meets our particular requirements. In deploying the product, we have leveraged our internal expertise gained through our implementations of Workday’s Human Resources and Finance applications. Bringing these together with Workday Student will provide one cohesive, integrated experience for academic and administrative computing.
Enabling IT Transformation with Workday Student
What to expect in Workday Student
For Students
- Registration, grades, and transcripts
- Mobile device access
- Academic plan development
- Degree requirements progress tracking
For Faculty
- Class rosters and grading
- Mobile device access
- Roster photos
- Unified Workday experience with HR and Finance
For Staff
- Student academic and financial records processing
- Applying and removing student holds
- Improved process routing between student facing offices
Stay tuned for opportunities to learn more about Workday Student including demos, Q&A sessions, brown bag lunches, and more. For questions about Workday Student, please reach out to [email protected].
Simmons is moving to Workday Student!
This September, Simmons will reach the first major milestone in our Workday Student implementation. The Workday Student project is deployed in four stages — Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum — and will roll out throughout the remainder of the academic year. Each stage delivers a new set of functionality that builds on prior work. These phases follow methodology recommended by Workday to maximize design and testing time and minimize the need for rework. The Bronze go-live in September includes the foundational, non-transactional elements which serve as a framework for the new student information system.
The Bronze implementation lays the foundation for the rest of the Workday Student project in production and has no immediate impact on the Simmons community’s day-to-day work. No active transactions will be taking place and no student records will be in Workday. This foundation allows for the Simmons community to prepare for testing of registration and other functions later this fall so that the Silver implementation in March goes smoothly.
The Workday Student project implementation is a complex, multiyear collaboration between the Simmons Technology project team and more than 30 representatives from across the Simmons Community. Workgroups have been meeting regularly for the past 18 months to identify requirements, clean data, configure, and test the system to meet the needs of Simmons students, faculty, and staff.
Once complete, Workday Student will replace Colleague/AARC — which has been our student information system for over thirty years — with a platform that is current, flexible, highly integrated, and able to meet the Community’s changing needs.
For questions regarding the Workday Student Project, please contact Jane Ritt.