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Changes Coming to Bannerweb

April 22, 2025

Ellucian, the company that owns Banner and Bannerweb, will limit support for version 8 of their products on September 30. Several features used at the University of Richmond will change or move to other applications as a result. Members of the Information Services (IS) Enterprise Applications team are already at work to create new ways for offices on campus to continue doing business while introducing as little change as possible for applicants, students, staff, and faculty.  

Senior Programmer/Analysts Rett Alexander, Ray Cargill, Tequita Hawkins, Alex Szymanski, Deb White, and Andrea Zinski will perform the work on the majority of the 76 changes that need to be made. The goal of their work is to minimize the impact for everyone affected by the changes. 

Changes include: 

  • Faculty and staff advisors often need to verify whether their advisees have waived their FERPA right to privacy before advisors can discuss student academic progress with the students’ parents. A flag indicating this permission will move from Bannerweb to another application that will require its own login. The link to view this flag will continue to be found in the advisor menu in Bannerweb. 
  • The Student Accounts Office delivers W-9 forms to students. Until now, students needed to first provide their SSNs through Bannerweb so Student Accounts could generate and send the forms. The Enterprise Applications team is creating a new process to identify and contact only the students who don’t have their SSNs on file.  
  • The way students with meal plans put additional Dining Dollars onto their accounts will change. The customized process for adding money to Dining Dollars will be rewritten in a new application. The process for adding funds to student, staff, and faculty Spider Cards will remain the same: just visit the Spider Card Deposit page and follow the instructions there. 
  • The process that students use to apply to graduate will change. Most information will be collected in the upgraded Bannerweb 9 environment, but some additional information will be gathered through a second website. 
  • The process that applicants to the Law and MBA programs pay their deposits will move from Bannerweb to an enrollment management application (Slate).  

The timelines for each of these changes varies, but all changes will be completed prior to September 30.