Posted on January 14, 2025

Who: Students, faculty, and staff
What: Planned downtime for Banner and associated applications, including UNCGenie, Schedule Hero, and Degree Works
When: Saturday, January 18, 6:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
Why: Banner module upgrades

What is Affected

The following services will be unavailable during the maintenance window:

Banner Upgrades

  • All services will be unavailable

UNCGenie

  • Student functions:
    • Course registration
    • Transcript requests
    • Advising information
    • Financial aid details and document uploads
    • Billing/payment
    • Majors/minors updates
    • Contact information updates
  • Faculty and staff functions:
    • Advising tools
    • Course/classroom scheduling
    • Course registration overrides/exceptions/approvals
    • Transfer articulation
    • Transcript requests
    • Hold management (Viewing/lifting)
    • Majors/minors changes
    • HR functions
    • All staff functions will be unavailable

Reporting

  • Banner/ODS reporting

DegreeWorks

  • Degree progress reports
  • “What If” reports

Schedule Hero

  • Fall and Spring course schedules
  • New registrations
  • Changes to existing schedules

CAT and CIM (Course Catalog)

  • Course and curriculum updates (New/amend)

Important notes

These upgrades are scheduled during non-business hours to minimize disruption. Key users in each department will test the system after the upgrades. Normal operations are expected to resume on Saturday, January 18, at 12:31 p.m.

If you have questions or need technical support, contact 6-TECH at:

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