fam auto packaging and packaging plans - sbctc · 2016. 10. 4. · sbctc-it 1 september 2016 1...

56
Financial Aid System FAM Auto-Packaging and Packaging Plans

Upload: others

Post on 25-Apr-2021

2 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

Financial Aid System

FAM Auto-Packaging and Packaging Plans

Page 2: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 3101 Northup Way, Suite 100 Bellevue, WA 98004-1449 Phone 425.803.9700 [email protected] Documentation Index URL http://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/it-support/legacy-applications/fas/fas-document-index.aspx Printing History August 2008 June 2009 July 2010 September 1, 2011 February 29, 2012 April 8, 2015 December 2015 September 2016

Page 3: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT i September 2016

Table of Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................... 1

2 Features of Auto-Packaging ..................................................... 2 Selection of Students ............................................................................................................. 2 Overall Student Awarding Priority ........................................................................................ 2 Award Packaging Components ............................................................................................. 2

• Award Assignment Priority ............................................................................................ 2 • Percent of Need ............................................................................................................ 3

Budget Control ........................................................................................................................ 3 Award Exception and Prior Awards ...................................................................................... 4 Integration with Document Tracking .................................................................................... 4 Updating Award Code Authorized Amounts ........................................................................ 5

3 Steps for Auto-Packaging ......................................................... 6 1. Determine the institutional policy for meeting student financial need. .......................... 6 2. Table Setup ................................................................................................................... 6 3. Create packaging plans (FAM625) ............................................................................... 7 4. Assign packaging code on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page. ............................. 7 5. Enter any awards a student has from outside funding. ................................................. 7 6. Run the packaging program (FAM610). ........................................................................ 7

4 Adding Packaging Plan Data .................................................... 8 Prior to adding a packaging plan ....................................................................................... 8 To create a new packaging plan ....................................................................................... 9 To add an award to a packaging plan ............................................................................. 11 To add session distribution data to an existing packaging plan ...................................... 14

5 Updating Packaging Plan Data ............................................... 18 To update a particular field within a Packaging Plan ...................................................... 18 To update session distribution data ................................................................................ 20

6 Deleting Packaging Plan Data................................................. 22 To delete a packaging plan ............................................................................................. 22 To delete an award from a packaging plan (without deleting the entire packaging plan)23 To delete session distribution data .................................................................................. 25

7 Alternate Session Distribution ................................................ 27

8 Running Auto-Packaging (FAM610) ....................................... 30 To run Auto-Packaging ........................................................................................................ 31

Student Based ................................................................................................................. 32 Selection Based .............................................................................................................. 32 Prioritize By ..................................................................................................................... 33

Page 4: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT ii September 2016

9 Packaging Individual Students ............................................... 34

Appendix A: Packaging Plans Report (FAM620) ......................... 38 To print a list of the packaging plans that exist in your system ...................................... 38

Appendix B: Packaging Plans Field Level Details ...................... 39

Appendix C: Packaging Table Options ........................................ 43 Additional Table Options ..................................................................................................... 44

Specify Award Status Codes to Not Count in Student’s Need ........................................ 45 Package Over Student’s Need Up to Student’s Budget .................................................. 45 Exclude Student’s Missing Required Tracking Items from Packaging Report ................ 45 Flag Students with Blank Packaging Codes ................................................................... 45 Designate State Program ................................................................................................ 46 Assign Award Rounding Factor ....................................................................................... 46 Pell Grant Award Status .................................................................................................. 46 Exclude Designated Student Status Codes From Packaging ......................................... 46 Assign No Need Tracking Option .................................................................................... 47 Designate Award Programs for Budget Check ............................................................... 47 Post Award Entry for No Funds Situation ........................................................................ 47 Assign Packaging Plans with Activity Codes................................................................... 47 Sort Packaging Report in EFC Rank .............................................................................. 48 Specify EFC Cut-off for Specific Awards ........................................................................ 48 Exclude Ineligible Students from Packaging Report ....................................................... 48 Exclude No Sessions Remaining Students from Packaging Report ............................... 48 Assign Freeze Status When Student is Packaged ......................................................... 49 Package Ineligible Academic Status Students ................................................................ 49

Appendix D: Error Messages ....................................................... 51

Page 5: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016

1 Overview

Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to allow FAM to assign awards to students automatically. The module allows you to designate the percentage of need to be met, and the process attempts to do so by following the parameters established in the packaging plans.

Any number of packaging plans may be developed to meet the special requirements of various student populations. Typically, separate packaging plans would be created for state residents, non-state residents, and so forth. Generally, a packaging plan is required for any unique packaging variation. Some colleges create a separate packaging plan for students who do not want work study, loans, and so on. The packaging plan code may be assigned manually to each student on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page or may be associated with a student budget code on the Session Budget Edit page (FAM627).

Packaging ranks students by family contribution prior to assigning awards to the students. The student’s rank appears on the packaging report.

The Package Plan Edit page (FAM625) consists of four components that are added or updated directly on this page. They are: package code, description, federal award code (Pell Grant code) and alternate distribution code. Each packaging plan is further defined to include: the different awards assigned to the plan, minimum and maximum award amounts and other related data. Distribution must be added each year for packaging to work for the new award year. Changes or adjustments to the award details may be made as the year progresses and funds are expended. Only one subsidized loan and one unsubsidized loan award code can be specified in each packaging plan. The subsidized loan award codes must be prioritized first. For most colleges, the plan data will remain relatively stable from year to year but the distribution data must be added every year.

The Package Plan List (FAM620) reports all packaging plans on file. (See Appendix A for instructions on how to run the report.)

The Package Plan Search page allows you to perform searches and/or maintenance on the packaging plans and lists the first several packaging plans, if any are on file. There is also another page that is used in this program—Session Distribution. The Session Distribution page is used to indicate how the awards in the plan are to be distributed to the student.

NOTE: Until the new Pell Schedule is installed at all colleges the Automatic Packaging program will not package for the new academic year. Once Auto-Packaging has been run the award status and dollar amount will NOT be updated, even when packaging plan maximum & minimum amounts have changed.

Page 6: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 2 September 2016

2 Features of Auto-Packaging

Selection of Students

All student selections are based on the Session Start entered on the student Financial Aid tab (FAM503) for a student. You have the option to exclude students based on the following criteria:

• Specified student status codes on the Student tab (FAM501). See Appendix C for more details on this option.

• Packaging code of NA on the Financial Aid tab (FAM503).

• Previously packaged students.

When students are automatically packaged, a tracking code of AP with a Notation Code of NR is posted to each student packaged. The date the student was automatically packaged is entered in both the Date Due and Date Received field. Students with the AP tracking entry are skipped in subsequent runs.

Overall Student Awarding Priority

Eligible students are sorted from lowest to highest family contribution (major) and highest to lowest need (minor). Lowest family contribution with lowest EFC’s are packaged first. A packaging priority code is assigned to each student and is printed on the packaging report.

Award Packaging Components

FAM provides for unlimited award packaging plans. Each plan can contain as many award programs as needed. You may establish separate award packages for year in school, high academic students, incoming freshman, and so on.

• Award Assignment Priority FAM uses a two-position priority code to determine the sequence in which awards are applied to meet the student’s need. It is recommended that the priority be assigned with gaps in the sequence so that new programs can be inserted easily, for example 05, 10, 15 and so on. Awards are assigned beginning with the lowest number, progressing to the highest.

Page 7: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 3 September 2016

• Percent of Need Each award program included in the package carries a percent-of-need field that indicates the percentage of the student’s need that the award program can be used to meet. For example, if the percent of need is 25% and the student’s unmet need is $4000, then a maximum amount of $1000 is allocated to the student, provided the amount is within the minimum and maximum award limits.

You can specify multiple awards at the 25% level, but when the student’s need has been met to 25%, no additional awards are made at the 25% level. All awards made prior to the current award are totaled and deducted from the need before the next award is assigned. For example, assume the student’s need is $4000 and the award percent level is 25%, but the package has already assigned a Pell grant of $1290. In this case, there would be no award for the student at the 25% level since that level has already been reached by the Pell grant. If the Pell grant were only $645, the student would receive $355 of additional awards to bring him/her to the 25% level.

All prior awards, such as summer awards or manually entered awards, are included in the percent calculation. This feature can be used to limit the amount of awards from a certain category, such as scholarships or grants. These programs would have a low percentage of need while other programs, such as work study or loans, would have a higher percentage of need in order to have more of the student’s total award package made from work study and loans. The Pell grant and state entitlement programs, when included, are calculated as part of the percent of need met. When the percent is equal to zero, the maximum award is given to the student, provided it does not exceed his/her need. Should the maximum award exceed the remaining need, then the actual remaining need is used, provided it exceeds the minimum award. If the remaining need is less than the minimum award, no award is made.

Budget Control

The packaging program can stop the awarding process when the budget amount for particular award programs is exceeded. In addition, the award can be calculated and posted in a non-disbursable status. Both of these features are optional. You specify which award codes you want the budget amount checked and what non-disbursable award status is entered in SAF/PACKAGE Processing Table entries SAF610-BUD-CHK and SAF610-NF-STAT (see Appendix C for details). During preliminary packaging, the packaging is not stopped when the budget is exceeded. This is done so that you know the total amount to fund the awards. The calculated award amount displays on the Preliminary Automated Packaging Report with a message of ‘No Funds Available’. In the final run, the same message appears on the Automated Packaging Report. If a non-disbursable award status is entered in SAF610-NF-STAT, the award is calculated and posted to the student’s record. If there is not a non-disbursable award status entered or SAF610-NF-STAT does not exist on the SAF/PACKAGE Processing Table, the award is not posted if the budget balance is not sufficient.

Page 8: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 4 September 2016

Award Exception and Prior Awards

The FAM award packaging program initially checks for any awards that have previously been entered in the student’s record. You can manually enter any exceptional awards in the student’s record, such as a scholarship received directly from a provider. The automated packaging program deducts these awards from the student’s need prior to assigning the awards from the package. This deduction only occurs when the manually-entered awards have an award status code of 1 (offered) or 2 (accepted). Automated packaging also checks to determine if the student had a prior award equal to the award code in the package being processed for the session of distribution. If the student has an award already on file that is the same award code as from the package, the package award is not made. This applies regardless of the award status code. However, the award amount is only deducted from the unmet need on the Packaging Report when the award status is 1 (offered) or 2 (accepted). This feature allows you to override the package on an individual student basis. In addition, since FAM carries all refused or denied awards on file with a separate award status code, the refused/denied awards are not given again by the automated packaging program.

Integration with Document Tracking

If students have not submitted all required documents, they will not be packaged through this process. Students who do not have a Received Date entered in all required tracking items can optionally appear on the Automated Packaging Report with a message of ‘Missing Required Items’. To exclude students who have not submitted all required items from appearing on the report, add SAF610-NO-MISS to the SAF/PACKAGE Processing Table (see Appendix C for further information).

If the student was previously packaged, he/she is skipped in subsequent packaging runs. When the student is packaged using the automated packaging program, a tracking code of AP is posted to the student’s Tracking tab (FAM505). The date the student was packaged is posted to the Due Date and Receive Date fields.

Page 9: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 5 September 2016

Updating Award Code Authorized Amounts

FAM maintains tables of student awards by award program, by session, and by campus. Occasionally these totals may become out of balance due to the use of QUERY or a computer problem such as a power failure or system crash at a critical posting juncture. These totals should be periodically verified by running the verify program.

The program will total all of the detail awards and compare the calculated total with the internal total and correct the internal totals. The totals are then printed for each session, campus, and award code and any out of balance conditions are noted.

If there are excessive out of balance corrections, the Computer Center should be notified and the detail awards should be reviewed to determine if there is a problem with the hardware or an in-house program that may not be updating the database correctly.

Page 10: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 6 September 2016

3 Steps for Auto-Packaging

Complete the following procedure to automatically package a student or students:

1. Determine the institutional policy for meeting student financial need. In many cases, this may be more difficult than using the packaging program. You have the ability to establish the priority of awards to be applied to meet the student’s need and the amounts of these awards. The actual award amounts are determined by the percent of overall student need that is to be met with the specified award, and by establishing minimum and maximum award amounts. FAM applies the awards based on the assigned priority until the student’s need is met at a percent level that was assigned to the packaging plan. One exception is the Pell grant, which is applied before the awards designated in the packaging plan are applied. The Pell grant is calculated based on the cost of education for the student, the Pell index, and attendance plans from the FAFSA data. There is no limit to the number of packaging plans that you may establish.

2. Processing Table Setup There are three Processing Table entries that are required for Auto Packaging and additional optional entries. Here are the three required entries.

• Application Setup Processing Config Processing Table

System: SAF Table ID: PELL Value: AWARD-YR-ssss where ssss is the session start. Description: The award year in the format yy-yy where yy-yy is the award

year. For example, award year 2015-2016 would translate to 15-16. System: SAF Table ID: PACKAGE Value: SAF610-WA-PER Description: 100 for 100%, 075 for 75%, 050 for 50%, etc. This value determines how much SNG to package based on the percentage of

the students’ need.

System: SAF Table ID: PACKAGE Value: WA-PAC-DISTxx, where xx represents the packaging code Description: xx, where xx represents the same packaging code entered in the

Value field above. This value is required to be setup for all packaging codes that could

potentially award SNG to a student.

See Appendix C for the optional table options

Page 11: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 7 September 2016

3. Create packaging plans (FAM625) See Section 4, Adding Packaging Plan Data.

4. Assign packaging code on the Financial Aid Tab (FAM503). If no packaging code is entered, FAM uses the packaging code from the Session Budget data (FAM627) for packaging, if one exists. The Session Budget data may contain a package code that serves as the default packaging code when the student’s package code field is blank on the Financial Aid Tab (FAM503).

If there is no packaging entry in the Session Budget data, the packaging code must then be manually entered on the Financial Aid Tab (FAM503). To exclude a student for automated packaging, enter the package code NA on the Financial Aid Tab (FAM503).

Note: NA is most commonly entered into the Session Budget data and serves as a default “package code” to be automatically populated on the student’s Financial Aid Tab (FAM503).

5. Enter any awards a student has from outside funding. These are awards that are not added by the packaging program. Enter any exceptions to the awards that the packaging plan is to assign by manually entering the award code, award status, and dollar amount on the Award Tab.

6. Run the packaging program (FAM610). The packaging program is designed so that you may run it as often as required. FAM provides the ability to run a preliminary report to insure that the automated packaging program is awarding students in accordance with an institution’s budgets and award objectives. If the awards generated during the preliminary run are not correct, modify the packaging plans using Packaging Plan (FAM625). Once the preliminary data is consistent with your objectives, post the awards to the student’s records using the final option.

Page 12: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 8 September 2016

4 Adding Packaging Plan Data Package Plan Search (FAM625) Navigation: Application Setup New Year Packaging Plans

Prior to adding a packaging plan

Ensure that the packaging plan code to be entered does not already exist. To do so, type the package code you want to create in the Package Code field and click the Search button:

Page 13: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 9 September 2016

If the package code does not exist, the word “Empty” is displayed on the Package Plan Search page:

Another way to see if the Packaging Plan you want to add already exists is to click the Lookup icon on the Package Plan Search page, which opens the Package Codes window. Use the Package Codes window to search by Package Code or Description:

To create a new packaging plan

Complete the following steps to create a new packaging plan:

1. To add a new package code, click the Insert icon on the Package Plan Search page. The Package Plan Create page is displayed:

Page 14: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 10 September 2016

2. Complete the fields on the page as described below:

Package Code The package plan code is a unique code that is determined by the institution. It is suggested that you begin package codes with an alphabetic character that identifies the general group, followed by a number for variations. For example, S1 could be the code for the first plan for state residents, S2 the code for the second plan for state residents, and so on. Non-resident plans could be N1, N2, and so on. Codes may be alphabetic, numeric, or alphanumeric.

Description A description of the plan, for example, State Resident Plan or Non-resident Plan. This is for informational purposes when looking at the code list.

Fed Award Code This is the award code that had been defined for Pell grants (for example, 01).

Alt Dist Code This code is used to indicate an alternate distribution for specified awards. This would be the alternate packaging plan code for the plan that contains the alternate distribution. To use the same distribution for Pell as for other awards in this plan, leave the field blank. Refer to the Alternate Session Distribution section of this document for more information on alternate distributions.

3. After completing the fields, click one of following buttons:

• Save & Add More - Save the data and add additional records. • Save & Go Back - Save the data and return to the previous page. • Cancel - Do not save the data and return to the previous page.

Page 15: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 11 September 2016

To add an award to a packaging plan

Complete the following steps to add an award to an existing packaging plan:

1. Locate the packaging plan to which the award code should be added to. On the Package Plan Search page, complete the Package Code field and click the Search button. Or you can page through the list of package codes and proceed with Step 2.

2. After locating the packaging plan to which the award should be added, click the Edit icon associated with the plan.

Edit icon

Page 16: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 12 September 2016

The Package Plan Edit page displays:

3. Ensure that the award to be added to the packaging plan does not already exist within the packaging plan. To do so, look through the award codes listed in the packaging plan. If the award code does not exist in the packaging plan, proceed to step 4 to add the award code.

4. Click the Insert icon on the Package Plan Edit page.

Insert icon

Page 17: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 13 September 2016

The Award Assignment Create page is displayed:

5. Complete the following fields:

• Award Code (required) • Award Status (required) • % of Need • Minimum and Maximum Amount • Priority Code (two-digits, for example: 05) • Award Sub Code • State Residence • Match Award • Alternate Distribution Code • Cumulative GPA, and Curriculum Code.

See Appendix B on page 41 for more details and descriptions of each field.

6. After completing the fields, click one of following buttons:

• Save & Add More - Save the data and add additional records. • Save & Go Back - Save the data and return to the previous page. • Cancel - Do not save the data and return to the previous page

Page 18: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 14 September 2016

To add session distribution data to an existing packaging plan

Distribution data must be added to each packaging plan in order for the plan to work. The distribution data tells FAM how to distribute the awards in the plan to the student, for example, over two semesters, over three quarters, and so on. It is possible to have alternate distribution for the awards in a given plan. Alternate distribution is discussed in Alternate Session Distribution (Section 7).

Once a packaging plan has been created, it is necessary to create distribution data for each session in which the award(s) are to be distributed.

1. Click the Session Distribution tab from the Package Plan Edit page.

The Package Plan Session Distribution Search page is displayed:

2. Ensure that the Package Code and Session combination to which session distribution data is to be added does not already exist. To do so, complete the Package Code and Session fields and click the Search button. You can also click the Lookup icon for each field: this allows you to search for package codes by Package Code or by Description, and search for sessions by Session, Description, Begin Date, or End Date.

If the Package Code/Session combination does not already exist, proceed to step 3.

3. Click the Insert icon on the Package Plan Session Distribution Search page.

The Package Plan Session Distribution Create page displays:

Session Distribution tab

Page 19: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 15 September 2016

4. Complete the following fields: • Package Code (required) • Session (required) • % of Distribution-Other. This is the distribution percentage for aid other than

Pell. To include a fourth quarter of SNG and/or other aid listed in the package plan, enter the percent of distribution for all four quarters: 25.0, 25.0, 25.0 and 25.0, respectively (see sample below).

Remember: If you are packaging 4 quarters of SNG, you will need to update the Comment field for the WA tracking code on the Tracking Tab to reflect the 4 quarter amount (for example, $4,721 instead of $3,541 for the 2015-2016 award year).

Page 20: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 16 September 2016

• % of Distribution-Pell. This is the distribution percentage for the Pell Grant only. To include a fourth quarter of Pell Grant in the Package Plan, enter the percent of distribution for all four quarters: 33.3, 33.3, 33.4, and 33.3, respectively (see sample below).

The percent of distribution is normally determined by the way the academic year is established. For quarter colleges, the distribution might be 33.3% in the fall, 33.3% in the winter, and 33.4% in the spring.

5. After completing the fields, click one of following buttons:

• Save & Add More - Save the data and add additional records. • Save & Go Back - Save the data and return to the previous page. • Cancel - Do not save the data and return to the previous page

Page 21: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 17 September 2016

Session distribution added for F3 (B562, B563, & B564)

Page 22: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 18 September 2016

5 Updating Packaging Plan Data

To update a particular field within a Packaging Plan

1. Search for the package code to be updated. To do so, complete the Package Code field on the Package Plan Search page (FAM625) and click the Search button. Or you can click the Lookup icon to display the Package Codes window, where you can search for package codes by Package Code or by Description.

2. Click the Edit icon associated with the package code to be updated:

Lookup icon

Edit icon

Page 23: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 19 September 2016

The Package Plan Edit page is displayed:

3. Edit the information pertaining to the package code as desired. For detailed information about each field, see page 10.

4. To edit specific award code data within a packaging plan, click the Edit icon for the applicable award code.

5. The Award Assignment Edit page is displayed. Make the necessary changes by typing directly into the fields, or by clicking the Lookup icon and selecting a value. (See Appendix B on page 41 for details about each field.)

Edit icon

Page 24: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 20 September 2016

6. After editing the fields, click one of the following buttons:

• Save & Edit Next - Save the data and edit the next record. • Save & Edit Previous - Save the data and edit the previous record. • Save & Go Back - Save the data and return to the previous page. • Save - Save the data and remain on the current page. • Cancel - Do not save the data and return to the previous page.

To update session distribution data

1. Click the Session Distribution tab:

Session Distribution tab

Page 25: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 21 September 2016

The Package Plan Session Distribution Search page is displayed.

2. Locate the Package Code and Session combination for which session distribution data is to be updated. To do so, complete the Package Code and Session fields and click the Search button. You can also click the Lookup icon for each field: this allows you to search for package codes by Package Code or by Description, and search for the sessions by Session, Description, Begin Date, or End Date.

3. Click the Edit icon associated with the entry to be updated.

The Package Plan Session Distribution Edit page is displayed:

4. Edit the fields on the page as necessary.

Note: The percent of distribution is normally determined by the way the academic year is established. For quarter colleges, the distribution might be 33.3% in the fall, 33.3% in the winter, and 33.4% in the spring.

5. After editing the fields, click one of the following buttons:

• Save & Edit Next - Save the data and edit the next record. • Save & Edit Previous - Save the data and edit the previous record. • Save & Go Back - Save the data and return to the previous page. • Save - Save the data and remain on the current page. • Cancel - Do not save the data and return to the previous page.

Page 26: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 22 September 2016

6 Deleting Packaging Plan Data

This section describes how to delete an entire packaging plan, or delete particular award codes within a particular plan.

To delete a packaging plan

1. Search for the package code to be deleted. To do so, complete the Package Code field on the Package Plan Search page (FAM625) and click the Search button. Or you can click the Lookup icon to display the Package Codes window, where you can search for package codes by Package Code or by Description.

2. After locating the packaging plan to be deleted, click the Delete icon associated with the packaging plan to be deleted.

3. A dialog box is displayed asking you to confirm the deletion. Click OK to delete the package code or click Cancel if you don’t want to delete the code.

Delete icon

Page 27: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 23 September 2016

Note: Packaging plans cannot be deleted if they are associated with a student or student

budget data. This information would need to be deleted from those records first before being deleted from FAM.

To delete an award from a packaging plan (without deleting the entire packaging plan)

This might be necessary when there are no longer funds left for the award program that would be deleted from the plan.

1. Search for the package code to be deleted. To do so, complete the Package Code field on the Package Plan Search page (FAM625) and click the Search button. Or you can click the Lookup icon to display the Package Codes window, where you can search for package codes by Package Code or by Description.

2. After locating the package code from which the award should be deleted, click the Edit icon associated with the package code.

Page 28: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 24 September 2016

The Package Plan Edit page is displayed:

3. View the list of award codes and the associated data that comprises a packaging plan.

4. In the Award Code column on the left side of the table, locate the award code to be deleted from the packaging plan.

Delete icon

Edit icon

Page 29: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 25 September 2016

5. To delete the award from the packaging plan, click the Delete icon on the right side of the table.

6. A dialog box is displayed asking you to confirm the deletion. Click OK to delete the award code from the packaging plan. Click Cancel if you don’t want to delete the award code from the packaging plan.

To delete session distribution data

1. Click the Session Distribution tab.

Page 30: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 26 September 2016

The Package Plan Session Distribution Search page is displayed:

2. Locate the Package Code and Session combination for which session distribution data is to be deleted.

3. Click the Delete icon associated with the entry to be deleted.

4. A dialog box is displayed asking you to confirm the deletion. Click OK to delete the session distribution data. Click Cancel if you don’t want to delete the session distribution data.

Page 31: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 27 September 2016

7 Alternate Session Distribution

FAM allows you to designate an alternate session distribution for Pell awards, as well as any other awards that make up the packaging plan. This feature is especially useful, for example, for schools that may want to distribute the Pell & SNG awards over four quarters and the remaining awards over three quarters.

In order to establish an alternate distribution, it is necessary to establish a primary packaging plan that contains the alternate distribution code for each of the awards listed within that plan.

In this example, the goal is to award Pell and SNG for 4 quarters while other aid is packaged for only 3 quarters. Here, P5 is the primary package plan. (P5 would be the package code used on the students’ records.) By default, the package plan will award Pell & SNG. Here, FSEOG (award code 02) and a Subsidized Loan (award code 80) are added to the plan.

The Session Distribution for S5 is set to package Pell for 4 quarters by adding 33.3, 33.3, 33.4, and 33.3, respectively, to the “of Distribution-Pell” column and 25.0 for all 4 quarters under the “% of Distribution-Other” column for SNG. (Remember: You will need to update the Comment field for the WA tracking code on the Tracking Tab to reflect the 4 quarter amount; for example, $4,721 instead of $3,541 for the 2015-2016 award year.) This will package Pell and SNG for 4 quarters only.

Alt Dist Code

Page 32: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 28 September 2016

The Alternate Distribution plan (S4) consists of the award code(s) from the primary packaging plan (S5) master data.

The Session Distribution for this Alternate Distribution plan would be for only 3 quarters. Enter 33.3, 33.3, and 33.4 respectively under the % of Distribution-Other column only (see below). FSEOG (02) and Sub Loan (80) will package for 3 quarters based on an alternate distribution code of S4.

Page 33: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 29 September 2016

Basically, the primary package code (S5) is used to package Pell and SNG for 4 quarters. The alternate package plan/code (S4) is used to package other aid at only 3 or less quarters.

Sample Results:

Page 34: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 30 September 2016

8 Running Auto-Packaging (FAM610) Default page title: Automated Award Packaging Navigation: Award Processing Award Packaging The Automated Packaging program (FAM610) allows you to run packaging by student, budget, or both. When packaging individual students, FAM does not rank students in order by family contribution. Students are packaged according to the awards in the packaging plan assigned to the student. Only when packaging students in batch will FAM rank students in order by family contribution and package accordingly.

The student packaging report shows all of the awards assigned by the automated packaging program, as well as any prior awards that were assigned to the student manually. All awards that come from the automated packaging program carry the designation NEW immediately to the left of the award code. All students are listed on the report in alphabetic order. Each student carries a Rank number that shows the order in which they were packaged for that run.

The budget report indicates the program budget, the amount that has been allocated to date either through manual packaging awards or previous automated packaging runs, and the packaging allocation, which is the amount that will be authorized if this packaging run was finalized and posted to the student’s record. The report also displays the balance and reflects what the budget balance would be if this packaging run was posted. If the program being packaged does not have a budget on file, the budget amount will be zero. Should this packaging run be posted, a budget entry is automatically generated by the program with a budget amount of zero. Programs that have a dollar sign ($) on the left side of the report are the programs for which you do not want the budget allocation to be exceeded.

The funding analysis report shows previously-awarded amounts and newly-awarded amounts, and also provides the EFC and ID number of the last award, in the event the award was restricted due to budget limitation. On preliminary runs, the EFC and ID number allows you to see at which student funding would stop due to budget limitations. You could then alter packaging plans to attempt to fund more students.

Page 35: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 31 September 2016

To run Auto-Packaging

Complete the following steps to run Auto-Packaging:

1. On the FAM Main Menu, select the Award Processing menu and click the first item, Award Packaging.

The Automated Award Packaging page is displayed:

2. Click the radio button for a report option: Student, Budget, or Both.

3. Click the radio button for a mode: Prelim or Final. FAM will run either a preliminary or a final automated package.

4. Specify the Need Amount and % Of Need. You can specify up to 25 levels of need amount and the percentage that the program should attempt to meet for each level. For example, you could specify that zero percent should be met for students with need up to $500.00 and then specify that 50% of need be met for students with need between $500.00 and $1000.00. Students with need over $1000.00 would have 100% of their need met. To do this, type 500 in the Need Amount field, type 0 in the % Of Need field, and click the Add button. Then type 1000 in the Need Amount field, type 50 in the %

Page 36: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 32 September 2016

Of Need field, and click the Add button. It is not necessary to specify a level to meet 100% of need for students over $1000.00 as FAM automatically assumes 100% of need for all entries over the previous one. Enter the Need Amounts and % Of Need in order from lowest to highest, for example, 500, 1000, 2000, and so on, or the program will reject the entry. If a defined level is incorrect or needs to be deleted, click to select it and then click the Remove button.

5. Complete the Start Session field or click the Lookup icon to open the Session window. Use the Session window to search for the desired session by Session, Description, Begin Date, or End Date. The packaging program uses the session start to select students for automated packaging. Based on the specified start session, the auto-packaging program searches for those students who have a matching Session Start on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page. It is important that all students for a given academic year have the same session start for Financial Aid data.

6. Select the radio button that corresponds to the desired run type (Student Based or Selection Based, not both).

Student Based

To run packaging based on one or more students, complete the Student ID field. Or you can click the Lookup icon to the right of the field to display the Student ID window, which allows you to search for the student by Student ID or by Name. Then click the Add button.

To run packaging based on Package Code, complete the Package Code field. Or you can click the Lookup icon to the right of the field to display the Package Codes window, which allows you to search for the desired package code by Package Code or Description. Then click the Add button. If an entry is incorrect or needs to be deleted, click the entry to select it and then click the Remove button. You may specify up to 20 Student IDs/Packaging Codes to be run. If the Package Code is left blank, the Package Code for the student on the Financial Aid tab will be used.

Selection Based

To run packaging based on Institution Code, complete the Institution Code field. Or you can click the Lookup icon to the right of the field to display the Institution Code lookup window, which allows you to search for the institution code by Institution Code or by Institution Name.

Page 37: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 33 September 2016

To run packaging based on School Year Level, complete the School Year Level From and To fields or click the Lookup icon to the right of each field to display the Year In School window.

To run packaging based on Date Required Items Completed, specify a date range by completing the From and To fields (in MMDDYY format) or by clicking the Calendar icon to the right of each field.

Prioritize By

The output of your report can be sorted on three different levels with three different options: Lowest EFC, Highest Unmet Need, and Date Required Items Completed. You can select any combination and order of priority by selecting from the three drop-down lists.

Once you are satisfied with your selections, click the Schedule As Task button to schedule the Automated Packaging process (FAM610) based on the parameters you have specified, to run on a background server. FAM generates an email when the process is complete.

Page 38: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 34 September 2016

9 Packaging Individual Students Default page title: Automated Award Packaging Navigation: Award Tab To manually package students individually, complete the following steps:

1. On the Awards With Financial Aid Data page, click the Edit icon associated with the award year session in which you would like to package the student:

The Award Data page is displayed:

Edit icon

Package button

Package Button

Page 39: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 35 September 2016

2. Click either Package button to display the Automated Award Packaging page:

3. In the Package Code field, type the applicable package code. (If a package code has already been entered in the Package Code field on the Financial Aid Tab, this field is automatically populated with that code.)

Note: If a package code is not already specified on the Financial Aid Tab and you enter one here, you will need to update the Financial Aid Tab to include the package code since this process does not automatically do that for you.

4. Click either the Prelim or Final radio button.

5. Click one of the Report Options radio buttons: Student, Budget, or Both.

6. Click the Package button to complete this process or click the Cancel button if you decide not to package the student at this time.

7. Once the packaging process is complete, the report selection page is displayed:

8. Chose a format for your report by selecting from the Format drop-down list.

9. Click the Submit button. Sample of final Packaging Report for an Individual Student: Page 1 of 2

Page 40: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 36 September 2016

Page 41: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 37 September 2016

Sample of final Packaging Report for an Individual Student: Page 2 of 2

Once a student is packaged, the tracking code AP is automatically posted to the student’s Tracking Tab:

AP Tracking Code

Page 42: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 38 September 2016

Appendix A: Packaging Plans Report (FAM620) Default page title: Package Plan List Navigation: Reports Application Config Packaging Plans Rpt

To print a list of the packaging plans that exist in your system

1. On the FAM Main Menu, select the Reports menu and the first item on the menu, Application Config, and then click Packaging Plans Rpt to display the Package Plan List page.

2. Complete the Package Code field or click the Lookup icon to find packaging plans for a particular package code.

Note: To obtain a complete list of packaging plans for all package codes, leave the Package Code field blank.

3. Click the Get Report button to display the Package Plan List page:

4. Chose a format for your report by selecting from the Format drop-down list.

5. Click the Submit button.

Page 43: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 39 September 2016

Appendix B: Packaging Plans Field Level Details

Award Code

Description: The code to be assigned to the award program

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 2

Award Status

Description: The award status code to be assigned to the award. Normally this is a 1 for an offered award. Only awards with a status of 1 (offered) or 2 (accepted) are deducted from the award program budgets when the awards are posted to the students' records. However, awards with a status of 1 (offered) or 2 (accepted) are deducted from the students’ award packaging and shown in the packaging reports as awarded. This must be a valid award status code as entered on the table master (Validation Config) under SAF_AWD_STAT.

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 2

% of NEED

Description: The percent indicates the percentage of the student’s need that this award program will attempt to meet. For example, if the percent of need is equal to 25% and the student’s need is $4,000, then a maximum award of $1,000 is allocated to the student (provided the award maximum amount allows this). Multiple awards may be entered at the 25% level, but when the student’s need has been met to the 25% level no additional awards would be made at the 25% level.

Data Type: Numeric

Field Length: 5

Page 44: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 40 September 2016

Minimum Amount

Description: The minimum amount is a dollar amount and is the minimum award amount that will be funded for the award periods covered by the FAFSA data.

Data Type: Numeric

Field Length: 5

Maximum Amount

Description: The maximum amount is the upper limit on an award to a student for the award periods covered by the FAFSA data. If the percent of need exceeds the maximum amount, then the maximum amount will be used. If the maximum exceeds the student’s unmet need, then the remaining need will be used for the award, provided it is greater than the minimum amount.

Data Type: Numeric

Field Length: 5

Priority Code

Description: The priority code must be numeric. It indicates the priority of the indicated award for the assignment of funds. The priority code should initially be established with gaps such as 10, 20, 30, and so on, to permit insertions without having to change any other award priority codes. The awards are assigned beginning with the lowest priority number, working up to the highest priority code.

Data Type: Numeric

Field Length: 5

Award Sub Code

Description: The sub code can be used to designate work study assignments, banks for loans, scholarship providers, and so on. When the sub code is entered, it must be a valid sub code as entered on the sub code master.

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 6

Page 45: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 41 September 2016

State Residence

Description: The state residence code is the residence code that the student must be assigned to in order to receive the award. If the residence code for students from your state is CA, and you have an award available only to California residents, then this would be CA. This must be a valid state code. If the award is available to all students, regardless of their state of residency, leave the field blank.

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 2

Match Award

Description: This entry can be used to limit the award you are adding to students who have the specified award. For example, you may want students to get an SEOG award only if they have a Pell award. When adding the SEOG award in the packaging plan, the matching award would be the award code assigned to Pell. Note that the matching award must be an award code that has a higher priority (lower priority code number) in the packaging plan than the award you are currently adding, that is, it has already been assigned to the student. The Pell award is assigned before any other award. In the example above, if the student did not have a Pell award, the SEOG award would appear on the packaging report but it would be noted with the message NO MATCHING AWARD and the award would not be added on the student’s award page when packaging is finalized.

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 2

Alt Dist Code

Description: Used to indicate an alternate distribution for Pell grant. This would be the packaging plan code for the plan that contains the alternate distribution. To use the same distribution for Pell as for other awards in this plan, leave the field blank.

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 2

Page 46: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 42 September 2016

Cum GPA

Description: Used to limit the award to students with a Grade Point Average (GPA) equal to or greater than the specified GPA. FAM finds the cumulative GPA entered on the Academic Data page for the last session that is on file for that student. When the student’s GPA is equal to or higher than the GPA specified in the packaging plan, the award is packaged. When it is lower than the GPA specified in the packaging plan, the award is not given to the student. Use the format WDDD where W stands for one whole number and DDD for a maximum of three decimal places, such as 3.725

Data Type: Numeric

Field Length: 5

Curric Code

Description: Used to limit the awards to students within a particular field of study. The packaging program looks at the entry on the Student Data page and matches it to the Acad Plan field on the page. When the student’s plan matches the one designated in the packaging plan, the award is packaged. When it does not match, the award is not given to the student.

Data Type: Alphanumeric

Field Length: 6

Page 47: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 43 September 2016

Appendix C: Packaging Table Options

Complete the following steps to specify or change table master entries related to auto-packaging:

1. On the FAM Main Menu, select the Application Setup menu and then select the sixth item on the menu, Processing Config. Then click Processing Table to display the Processing Table Search page:

2. Type SAF in the System field.

3. Type PACKAGE in the Table ID field.

4. Click the Search button.

5. Click the Edit icon to view all the table values associated with auto-packaging.

The Auto-Packaging Options table is displayed:

Page 48: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 44 September 2016

• To edit specific table values, click the Edit icon for the value.

• To insert new values, click the Insert icon .

• To delete values, click the Delete icon for the value.

Additional Table Options

The following are additional features you can include in your packaging plan:

Page 49: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 45 September 2016

Specify Award Status Codes to Not Count in Student’s Need Automated packaging normally looks at all awards that the student has had entered on the Award Data (FAM502) page, including manually entered awards, and deducts these from the student’s need. FAM provides the option to specify certain award status codes that would not be included in the student’s need during packaging.

Value: SAF610-NO-COUNT Description: A maximum of 20, two-character award status codes. Awards with these statuses would not be included in the student’s need.

Package Over Student’s Need Up to Student’s Budget Package over the student’s need amount, up to the student’s budget amount for designated award programs. This option is normally used for loan programs.

Value: SAF610-TO-BUD Description: A maximum of 20 award codes that may be packaged up to the budget amount. Type the award codes in a string with no spaces or separators between them.

Note: Awards that may be packaged up to the budget amount must be at the end of the priority list in the packaging plan, that is, the last awards applied to the student.

Exclude Student’s Missing Required Tracking Items from Packaging Report Exclude those students who are missing required tracking items from the packaging report. These students normally appear on the report with the notation MISSING REQUIRED ITEMS. However, at times during the award year, there are more students missing tracking items than are packaged, so it is helpful to exclude them from the report.

Value: SAF610-NO-MISS Description: Not required, but can be included for informational purposes within the Auto-Packaging Options table. For example: “Exclude missing tracking from rpt.”

Flag Students with Blank Packaging Codes Typically, the packaging program does not package students who have not been assigned a packaging code, either manually on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page or associated with their student budget code on the Student Budget Code (FAM627) page. These students would not appear on the packaging report. However, some institutions may wish to know what students have not yet been assigned a packaging code. FAM provides a table option that would cause students who have not yet been assigned a packaging code to be printed on the packaging report with the notation PACKAGE NOT ON FILE.

Value: SAF610-BLANK-IN Description: Not required, but can be included for informational purposes within the Auto-Packaging Options table. For example: “Print missing PAC codes on package rpt.”

Page 50: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 46 September 2016

Designate State Program Used to designate WA State Need Grant

Value: SAF610-STATE Description: RR-AA-SS • RR = State of residence (for example, WA) • AA = Award code for WA State Need Grant • SS = Award status code to be assigned to state grant (When assigning a one-

position award status code, be sure to leave a space following the code.)

Assign Award Rounding Factor Establishes a rounding factor for the annual award calculation. For example, if the awards are to be limited to $10.00 increments, the rounding factor would be 010.

Value: SAF610-ROUND Description: The first three positions would contain the rounding factor which must be three numeric positions, for example, $10 would be 010.

Pell Grant Award Status The award status the Pell grant should be packaged with.

Value: SAF610-PELL Description: The status that is to be assigned to Pell awards.

Note: Pell awards should not be packaged in any status other than 1 (offered) or 2 (accepted) since these are the only categories deducted from the student’s need and from the program budgets.

Exclude Designated Student Status Codes From Packaging Excludes specified student status codes, as found on the Student Data (FAM501) page of the student’s record.

Value: SAF610-EXCLUDE Description: A maximum of 20, two-character student status codes that are to be excluded from the automated packaging process. Type the status codes in a continuous string, with no spaces or separators between them. To accommodate those schools who might have more than 20 student status codes to be excluded from packaging, use the Processing Table Maintenance (CTL051) to create the following entry:

Value: SAF610-EXC-EXT Description: Up to 20 additional, two-position student status codes for exclusion from packaging.

Note: Please be sure to use the SAF610-EXLUDE option prior to using the SAF610-EXC-EXT option. The two table entries permit a total of 40, two-position student status codes to be excluded from automated packaging.

Page 51: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 47 September 2016

Assign No Need Tracking Option Automated packaging has two options to assign tracking codes to students. When the student has no need (but still may be eligible for a Pell grant), FAM assigns that student the tracking code for no need. When the student has no need and is not eligible for Pell, FAM assigns the tracking code for no need/no Pell.

Value: SAF610-NO-NEED Description: The tracking code used to designate no need, followed by a dash (-), followed by the tracking code for no need/no Pell grant. For example, NN for no need and NP for no need/no Pell.

Note: The tracking codes for the no need and no need/no Pell situations must exist under SAF_TRACK_CODE on the Tracking Code table (Validation Config. Table).

Designate Award Programs for Budget Check Allows you to designate award codes that cannot exceed the budgeted allocation. The allocation is entered in the Budget Amount field for each session on the Award Code (FAM623) page. On the preliminary packaging run, all awards are treated as funded so that the entire budgetary impact can be determined as a guide to potential modification of the packaging parameters. However, on the final run, the awarding stops when the program budget is exceeded. Award programs subject to budget limitations are noted on the packaging budget report with a dollar sign ($) in the far right position.

A message of ‘No Funds Available’ appears on the Automated Packaging Report for awards where the budget has been reached..

Value: SAF610-BUD-CHK Description: A maximum of 20, two-character award codes that would be subject to the budget check. Enter the award codes in a string with no spaces or separators between them.

Post Award Entry for No Funds Situation Generates an award entry when the no funds situation occurs as described above in the “Designate Award Programs for Budget Check” section. When this option is set and a no funds situation is encountered, FAM generates an award entry with an award status code that would indicate that no funds are available, along with the calculated amount

The amount generated is not deducted from the student’s need so that subsequent awards can attempt to meet the unfunded need.

Value: SAF610-NF-STAT Description: The award status code that has been designated as no funds available. It cannot be status 1 (offered) or 2 (accepted).

Assign Packaging Plans with Activity Codes Allows you to determine a group of students to be assigned a packaging code based on activity codes posted on the Activity Data tab (FAM508). Be sure to add activity detail records for groups of students where the first two characters of the activity code are the

Page 52: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 48 September 2016

same for all students (we recommend PK) and the second 2 characters are the packaging code to be assigned to these students. Assign the same activity code to groups of students having similar attributes and who are to have the same packaging plan.

Value: SAF610-ACT-PAC Description: A two-character prefix used to designate the activity codes for packaging plans. When this option is used, Packaging Program (FAM610) looks at the activity code assigned to the student on the Activity Data (FAM508) page to obtain the student’s packaging plan. Students who have an activity code with a packaging plan are packaged using that plan rather than any package code they might have had on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page or associated with their student budget.

Sort Packaging Report in EFC Rank There are two kinds of reports that are produced by the Packaging (FAM610) program: the Student Report and the Budget Report. With this table option, the Student Report can be ordered by priority, then student name.

Value: SAF610-RPT-SEQ Description: P sorts by priority, then by name, any other value (or if the table entry is not found) sorts by name. The Budget Report is always sorted by session/award code. This allows you to view the order in which students were packaged more easily.

Specify EFC Cut-off for Specific Awards FAM provides the option to allow an EFC cut-off for specified award codes. For example, this entry would allow you to award the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) only to students with a zero EFC.

Value: SAF610-EFC-MAX Description: 9999-cdcdcd • 9999 is the EFC cut-off • cdcdcd is up to 17 award codes for which the EFC cut-off is to apply

Exclude Ineligible Students from Packaging Report Excludes students who are ineligible for packaging due to their student status from printing on the packaging report.

Value: SAF610-NO-STAT Description: Not required, but can be included for informational purposes within the Auto-Packaging Options table. For example: “No ineligible status on report.”

Exclude No Sessions Remaining Students from Packaging Report Excludes students who have no remaining sessions from the packaging report. The remaining sessions are defined by the session eligibility range found on the Student Data (FAM501) page. Should a student be assigned a packaging plan for the current year, but his/her ending session of eligibility is prior to the current year, that student is normally noted on the report with a message indicating that s/he has no sessions remaining.

Page 53: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 49 September 2016

Value: SAF610-NO-SES Description: Not required, but can be included for informational purposes within the Auto-Packaging Options table. For example: “Exclude no session remaining.”

Assign Freeze Status When Student is Packaged Freezes the data on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page during the automated packaging process. Once the Freeze Status of Y is assigned, the FAM503 data will no longer be updated through the FAFLOAD process either for ALL data on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page.

Value: SAF610-FREEZE Description: Y (The Freeze status code used to freeze data on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page.)

Package Ineligible Academic Status Students Ignores academic progress ineligible statuses for purposes of automated packaging. This means that, even though the academic progress program has determined the student is ineligible for awards, you wish to override and allow automated packaging to assign awards to the student.

Value: SAF610-NO-ACAD Description: Not required, but can be included for informational purposes within the Auto-Packaging Options table. For example: “Ignore acad status.”

Validation table entries needed for Auto Packaging Application Setup Validation Config

Note: these entries have already been established and are provided for informational purposes.

• SAF_PAC_CODE - This entry permits the addition of packaging codes using Packaging Plan (FAM625).

• SAF_PAC_PER - This entry permits packaging percents to be added using Packaging Plan (FAM625) and establishes the percents as numeric entries.

• SAF_PAC_AMT_MAX - This entry sets the packaging maximum amount as a numeric entry in Packaging Plan (FAM625).

• SAF_PAC_AMT_MIN - This entry establishes the packaging minimum amount as a numeric entry in Packaging Plan (FAM625).

• SAF_PRIORITY_CODE - This entry sets the package priority code as a numeric entry in Packaging Plan (FAM625).

• SAF_MATCH_AWD - This entry establishes the need base indicator with either a Y or N value. However, this option is not currently used.

Page 54: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 50 September 2016

• SAF_FED_AWD_CODE - This entry lets FAM know what award code is the Pell award as assigned on the Award Codes. The entry on the right half of the page would be the Pell award code as established by the institution.

• SAF_SUPPL_AMT - This entry establishes the supplemental amount field as a numeric entry. The supplemental amount is found on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) page.

• SAF_TRACK_CODE - This entry establishes the tracking code for the automated packaging program. FAM enters this code into the student’s record on the Tracking Data (FAM505) page when the student has been automatically packaged.

• SAF_PELL_ENRL_CODE - This entry establishes the valid enrollment codes for Pell grant. These codes are determined by the Department of Education.

Page 55: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 51 September 2016

Appendix D: Error Messages The following are some of the messages you may encounter during the packaging process:

START SESSION IS REQUIRED – Failed to enter a valid Start Session.

STUDENT BASED OPTIONS REQUIRES AT LEAST ONE STUDENT ID The Student Based option was selected and failed to include at least one Student ID.

LIST OF INVALID % of NEED – Specified % of Need that exceeds 100%.

MISSING PROCESSING TABLE ENTRY FOR SAF PELL AWARD-YR-XXXX Processing table entry to indicate the valid Year in School for Session XXXX is missing

LIST OF INVALID STUDENT ID Entered Student ID does not exist in FAM.

INVALID VALUE The value entered is not a valid entry.

LIST OF INVALID PACKAGE CODE Package Code does not exist in FAM.

INELIGIBLE STD STATUS The student’s status code (ex: OV) as assigned on the Student Data (FAM501) screen is not eligible for packaging due to the table master to exclude specific status codes from packaging or the student has an academic eligibility status of A1 through A6.

MISC AWARD STATUS MESSAGES When there is a prior award on the student’s record with an award status not equal to 1 or 2, the description associated with that status code is printed on the report as an information item. No award is made by the packaging program for that session. However, the award amount of that prior award is not deducted from the amount of student need that the packaging program attempts to meet.

MISSING REQUIRED ITEMS This message is printed when the student has a tracking item on the Tracking Data (FAM505) screen with a tracking status of RQ (Required) and the date completed is blank. This applies only to tracking items that are equal to or less than the starting FAFSA session used for packaging. Future tracking items do not affect current packaging. To eliminate the message and package the student, the tracking item must be completed by either typing a date completed or by changing the RQ status to any other valid tracking status code and leaving the date blank.

Page 56: FAM Auto Packaging and Packaging Plans - SBCTC · 2016. 10. 4. · SBCTC-IT 1 September 2016 1 Overview Auto-Packaging provides the capability for you to establish various plans to

SBCTC-IT 52 September 2016

NO ELIGIBLE SESSION REMAINING The ending session of the student’s session eligibility range as specified on the Student Data (FAM501) screen occurs before the sessions to be packaged. The student would not be packaged unless the user changes the session range on the Student Data (FAM501) screen.

NO MATCHING AWARD A matching award for a packaging award has not been established. The student does not have the matching award. The award appears on the report but is not included in the totals and would not be added to the student’s award data when the packaging run is finalized.

NO PACKAGE DETAIL ON FILE The package code is on file but no awards were assigned to the packaging plan.

NO PACKAGE DISTRIBUTION The packaging master and packaging detail data are on file but there is no session distribution data for the packaging plan. If the error message is listed for the SNG award, verify that you have the proper SNG distribution values entered on the Processing Table as listed below.

System: SAF Table ID: PACKAGE Value: WA-PAC-DISTxx, where xx represents the packaging code Description: xx, where xx represents the same packaging code entered in the Value

field above.

PACKAGE NOT ON FILE The student’s financial data on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) screen or the default packaging code on the student budget master does not have a matching packaging code on the packaging master. There are three different ways to control this:

1. Specify the packaging code information on the packaging master. 2. Type the correct packaging code on the Financial Aid Data (FAM503) screen for the

student. 3. Specify a valid packaging code as part of the student budget master.

PREVIOUS AWARD ON FILE The student had a prior award on file for an award that the packaging program was going to make. The prior award takes precedence. No award is made by the packaging program for the session of the prior award. No corrective action is required as long as the prior award is correct. The award that would have been given by the packaging program is shown for informational purposes. If the prior award is incorrect, it should be corrected using manual packaging on the Award Data page (FAM502).