Intermediate and Advanced Courses are ideal when you want in-depth knowledge of a specific area of PowerFAIDS. While these courses are informative no matter what your skill level, you'll benefit most if you're already familiar with PowerFAIDS basics.
Automating Packaging
PowerFAIDS provides your institution the capability to automate many of your institutional packaging processes. This provides a more efficient and consistent method for packaging funds for your students. This seminar will provide a philosophical and conceptual process explanation on how to convert institutional packaging philosophies and practices into packaging formulas. The
session includes examples that use algorithms and can be paired with Constructing Algorithms for an effective training experience.
Constructing Algorithms
PowerFAIDS has tools to provide you more control, more flexibility, and more power in constructing budgets, QC rules and packaging process. This
session provides a practical, how to overview on the uses and constructions of algorithms. The mechanics of writing effective algorithms that can specify an operation or calculation on one or more student data fields will be highlighted with examples during the session.
Creating Custom Reports
PowerFAIDS comes with a group of standard built in reports, but in order to increase your reporting powers, PowerFAIDS
gives you the capability to create custom reports specific
to your institutional needs. Discussions will cover how to
create simple customized reports, complex customized
reports, and effective reporting formats to use in exporting
report data for research or use in other campus systems.
This two-day course provides a complete review of the
administration parameters that can be used to implement
financial aid processing and business rules in PowerFAIDS.
This course provides training to financial aid staff who are
responsible for automating financial aid guidelines and
overseeing the treatment of financial aid applicant data.
This course is ideal for aid administrators who have
inherited PowerFAIDS or just purchased PowerFAIDS and need
to understand how it can be customized to manage federal and
institutional financial aid policies and procedures.
Managing FFELP Loans from A to Z
PowerFAIDS provides all the tools your institution needs
to manage the FFELP process electronically. From
Administrative Parameters (Funds, Lenders, Guarantors, etc)
to Exporting Applications, Importing Responses, Authorizing
Disbursements, and Change Transactions, this seminar will
provide a conceptual and practical process explanation on
how to manage your FFELP loans within PowerFAIDS. The
session includes hands-on practice with loan exports,
response imports, change transactions send files, and loan
disbursement authorizations (simulations and real). You
should have basic knowledge of how to create selection sets
prior to taking this class.
