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Session 13. NSLDS Hands-On. Judy Martin and Jim Yoder | Dec. 2013 U.S. Department of Education 2013 FSA Training Conference for Financial Aid Professionals. NSLDS Hands-On. Using NSLDS for daily activities Aggregate Review Tools Enrollment Reporting Important Reminders
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Session 13 NSLDS Hands-On Judy Martin and Jim Yoder | Dec. 2013 U.S. Department of Education 2013 FSA Training Conference for Financial Aid Professionals
NSLDS Hands-On Using NSLDS for daily activities • Aggregate Review Tools • Enrollment Reporting Important Reminders • Organization Contacts • NSLDS Reports • Transfer Student Monitoring (TSM) • Online Submittal Process
Aggregate Review Tools • Aggregates displayed online are calculated when a student is retrieve on the NSLDS Professional Access Site (NSLDSFAP) • May differ from the last ISIR or last time student data was retrieved • Aggregate loan information is separated into undergraduate and graduate totals • Undergraduate and Graduate aggregate section will only appear if the student has received loans for those academic levels
Aggregate Review Tools • Undergraduate/Graduate Award Year is determined based on the “loan period begin date” from the most recently reported undergraduate/graduate loan for the student • The Dependency Status Indicator identifies the dependency status used in the student’s undergraduate/graduate loan limits determination
Aggregate Review Tools • Exceeds Loan Limits warning icons for graduate and undergraduate borrowers • Click the link for the Exceeds Loan Limit warning icon to display applicable loans attributed to the overage
Aggregate Review Tools Click the Link
Using Aggregate Review Tools • Your turn – Exercise #1
Enrollment Reporting Important Reminders • Enrollment Reporting Profile – Using a location as the Administrator • Reporting Students at Actual Attending (Enrollment) Locations • For more information see NSLDS Newsletter 39, 40, and 43 on IFAP
Enrollment Administration • Under the Enrollment Administration section of Profile page • Option for a single location of a 6-digit school OPEID to act as the Enrollment Administrator for other locations • Essential for schools using a servicer not set up for location reporting
Enrollment Administration on Profile Locations are set up initially to be self-administered
Enrollment Administration Update Change selections on Enrollment Administration Update Page
Enrollment Administration Changed Set up after updates
Enrollment Administration Setup • Your turn – Exercise #2
Report Students Where They Attend • COD disbursement records must include the “Enrollment School Code” • NSLDS places students on a roster based on location reported with Grants and Direct Loans • School (or their servicer) certify the enrollment data on the roster sent from NSLDS
Report Students Where They Attend • Student should be reported at two locations of the same 6-digit OPEID ONLY IF the student is actually attending both locations • If the student is not enrolled at both locations, report the correct location for the student • If a student appears on a roster of an incorrect location, use the “Move To” functionality to report the correct location and attendance period for the student
“Move To” Location Functionality • The location field - last 2-digits of the 8-digit OPEID • Schools that share the same 6-digit OPEID and share an Administrator, can “move” a student to the roster of the location where s/he attends • Helpful for students misreported at a location • Helpful for transfers between locations
“Move To” Location Functionality • You can move a student: • In a batch file • Field is “Move to School Branch Code” • On NSLDSFAP website • Field on Enrollment Maintenance is “Loc” (Location)
“Move To” Location Functionality • When “Move To” is used, NSLDS performs the action of stopping enrollment at one location and beginning it at another • NSLDS will use the status of “Moved” for the old locations and it will not have to be reported but once
Enrollment – Move To • Your turn – Exercise #3
Org Contact List • Provides contact personnel from your school • Keep it current!
Org Contact List – Add Contact • After submittal
Organization Contact • Your turn – Exercise #4
NSLDS Reports • NSLDS has three types of reports: • On-demand reports sent to the requestor’s SAIG TG Mailbox • Web reports with option of an immediate PDF or Excel file as well as a file sent to the requestor’s SAIG TG Mailbox • Scheduled reports that are created at specific intervals and delivered to a designated SAIG TG Mailbox • Reports requested in extract have layouts on IFAP, NSLDS Reference Materials - NSLDS Record Layouts • SAIG delivered reports are sent with a designated message class
NSLDS Scheduled Reports • Set up under the Org tab, School Profile page • Define the profile for the report • Reporting Type includes options for Comma Delimited, Fixed Width, or Report (pre-formatted) • For some Exit Counseling reports, when selecting Comma Delimited or Fixed Width Reporting Types, a user may also indicate an Extract Format of either NSLDS or Direct Loan
Reports – from Report List • Your turn – Exercise #5
TSM Time Period • Monitoring period can be set by school • Default period is 90 days • It can be changed to a value from 30 to 120 days • Designates number of days all the students are monitored beyond the Enrollment Begin Date
TSM Re-Populate • Re-populate the TSM list page of those students previously added to the Inform process and used during a prior monitoring period • Allows schools to select and update students from a web page • FAA can continuously add from one monitoring time period to another
TSM Profile • Your turn – Exercise #6
Enrollment Spreadsheet Submittal • The Enrollment Spreadsheet Submittal Format is posted in the "Software and Associated Documents" section of the Federal Student Aid Download (FSAdownload) website • There is also information in the NSLDS Enrollment Reporting Guide posted on IFAP January, 2013
Using Spreadsheet Submittal • Create a file • You can create your own • You can import a file to a spreadsheet, such as the Enrollment Roster file in CSV sent via SAIG • Make sure the first tab is named “upload file” • Save as a spreadsheet file with an extension of .xls or .xlsx (Excel format) • Open the Enrollment Submittal link under the Enroll Tab
NEED MORE HELP Visit the NSLDS Customer Support Team in the Resource Center Or Contact: Customer Support Center: • Phone: 1-800-999-8219 • Toll: 785-838-2141 • Fax: 785-838-2154 • Web: www.nsldsfap.ed.gov • E-mail: nslds@ed.gov