Campus Solutions Tips and Tricks

Sharing from original email sent by Christopher Roberts, Lead Academic Advisor for the Media & Information Department:

Hosted by the Professional Development Working Group and Patrick Beatty, Management Analyst and Function Lead on the SIS Transition and Operations team, the webinar below covers helpful tips for navigating Campus Solutions Student Information System. 

Click here for the Campus Solutions Tips and Tricks Webinar

Topics covered in order of appearance:

  1. “User Defaults” feature. The use of (and potential pitfalls of) this feature.
  2. Utilizing favorites in CS and how to manage/update them (include reference to new navigation features that came about the first week of March).
  3. How to have multiple browser tabs open in CS (and how not to).
  4. Walk through Student Services Center from a staff view, including reviews of things like holds, and to-do’s, and viewing current and past academic record information.
  5. Walk through a student’s landing page and navigation points, from a student’s view.
  6. Access to CS, the request process, and expectations (incorporating the new location for the eARM process).
  7. Talk about CS vocabulary and how that translates to day-to-day terminology, including the student life cycle from application to graduation.

Links from the presentation:

  1. Access: https://tdx.msu.edu/TDClient/32/Portal/Home/
  2. Access Guidelines: https://sis.msu.edu/_assets/documents/SIS-business-roles.pdf
  3. Glossary: https://sis.msu.edu/_assets/documents/SISProject_glossary_web.pdf
  4. Reporting Recent READ ME: https://michiganstate.sharepoint.com/sites/SISNews/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FSISNews%2FShared%20Documents%2FREADME%5FReporting%5FCenter%2Epdf&parent=%2Fsites%2
  5. SIS Email for Questions: sis@msu.edu