Enhancing FAA Access: Unlocking Features and Functionality for 2006-2007

1. Session 9 So, You Think You Know FAA Access? Ginger Klock Misty Parkinson

2. This session will focus on: • Current functionality and specific features that you may not be aware of • Enhancements for 2006-2007 • Open forum – what FAA Access tool(s) can’t you live without?

3. Let’s start at the beginning…

4. Student Inquiry

5. What is it? • A tool that allows FAAs to view • a student’s SAR information, including the EFC (and intermediate values) • NSLDS information • SAR comments • FAA information

6. Yeah, but what else can I do with it? • Enter a student’s DRN to view a transaction without your school code • Print an individual SAR (in HTML or PDF) • Determine if a transaction is in signature hold status • Compare two transactions for the same student

10. HTML

11. PDF

12. Application Status This one tells you there are missing signatures

16. Sort by Differences Sort by field

17. Sorted by Differences

18. What’s New for 2006-2007? • Field labels modified • SAR comments displayed • Electronic Signature Process • Student Identifiers added • Signature Hold reduced from 14 to 7 days

21. Application Entry

22. What is it? • A tool that allows FAAs to enter a student’s FAFSA, Renewal FAFSA, or Correction data and submit it to the CPS for processing.

23. Yeah, but what else can I do with it? General Entry: • Save an application to submit later • “Run Final Check” • view/print alternate EFCs and intermediate values • submit from that page or return to application

25. Yeah, but what else can I do with it? Correction Entry: • Report FAA Adjustment • View/print List of Changes • Real-time corrections

28. Links to SAR

29. What’s New for 2006/2007? General Entry: • Field labels modified • “Please wait” message removed • Enrollment question more prominent • Run Final Check renamed Calculate EFC • Change to the edit process

30. More prominent

32. What’s New for 2006/2007? Renewal Entry: • Paper Renewal Applications discontinued • FAAs can file Renewal FAFSAs for students from the Pacific Islands • Certain values will no longer carry forward from the prior year

33. What’s New for 2006/2007? Correction Entry: • Tax calculator enhanced • Step Links added to top of screen • Both Assumed and Submitted values display

35. Verification Tool

36. What is it? • A tool that assists FAAs with verification of a student’s processed ISIR.

37. Yeah, but what else can I do with it? • Message lets you know when a correction is required • Difference column allows you to easily see differences • Can link to submit corrections right away, or make corrections later • Can print results or save to file

38. Enter values from tax returns and verification worksheet, then click on “Calculate”

39. This column appears and shows differences

41. Save to a file

42. What’s New for 2006-2007? • Dependency override considered • No longer required to enter values in all fields • Message text will be clearer that a correction is required • Worksheet C added and labeled as “optional for verification”

44. ISIR Request

45. What is it? • A tool that allows authorized users • to request specific ISIRs from the CPS • Users can specify ISIRs • by specific SSNs • by using a variety of selection criteria alone or in combination with other criteria

46. Yeah, but what else can I do with it? • Upload an SSN file to request ISIRs only for students that are enrolled at your school • Multiple requests can be made each day • Criteria used can be “described” in the request title • Title is returned in the first line of the resulting ISIR file

47. Enter identifying title

49. What’s New for 2006/2007? • The DPA can assign ISIR Request rights to others

50. Other Features