FAQ | Student Sunrise | Washington University in St. Louis

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Will student activities (i.e., WUGO) be transferred to Workday?

What student-facing systems are staying?

How will pre-requisite overrides work?

Who will be able to create courses?

What’s the difference between a course and a course section?

Can there be a back-and-forth with the override process?

Will there be reports that advisors and/or registrars can review where a student may have received an error, or a restriction in enrollment who may have never taken action?

How will students registering for Summer 2025 (during Spring 2025) register?

How will enrollment work for courses with 0 limit (e.g., lab spaces)?

Is there a deadline for how long it takes a course to fill up? How are staff and instructors advised to manage this issue?

Will instructors receive email notification when they have a task awaiting action?

Is there a deadline for a student to initiate an override? What if a faculty member sits on the request? Is there a way to escalate this if it’s registration time?

How will we maintain information about students before 1970?

Will I be able to see a student’s entire academic record, even if they matriculated at WashU before we began using Workday Student?

What existing student data will be available in Workday Student?

Will we be able to report on former students in Workday?

How is Workday’s third-party access managed?

Does legal or preferred name go on diploma?

What name will show in Workday?

Why is it beneficial to have multiple academic records?

Will academic units in Workday Student be different from academic units in Workday HR/Finance?

Will there be separate landing/home pages for Workday FIN/HR and Workday Student?

If someone has both an advisor and an employer role in Workday, will they be able to filter their inbox to only show tasks that are relevant to one of those roles?

When will SIS disappear?

Who can see a student’s advising notes?

Will advising appointments be scheduled in Workday?

Will students have access to an unofficial transcript?

Will there be a list of reports so I know what’s available?

Will I be able to download a PDF of a report to share with others?

When will the SIS reporting database stop being functional?

Will we have access to older data on current students?

How is access to reports and report data determined?

How will I find the information I need?

Will I be able to build ad hoc reports in Workday?

What if I need help beyond the resources provided?

When will resources be available?

How do I know what training to take?

Who do I contact if I have questions on the project’s impact to me and my school or academic unit?

Why do so many different types of people need academic appointments in Workday?

Will old instructor data be in Workday?

Why are we doing this project now?

How was Workday Student selected?

When will I start using Workday Student?

Why is the Workday Student implementation timeline so long?

Which systems will the Student Sunrise project replace?

Will Workday mean more systems for me?

When will we get to see Workday Student?

When will training occur?

Will there be any fixes or enhancements to SIS between now and Workday Student go-live?

How does Student Sunrise connect to MyDay (the Workday HCM and Finance implementation)?

Will the Student Sunrise project differ from MyDay (Workday HCM & Finance implementation) in any significant ways?

Why is the project called Student Sunrise?

Who oversees the Student Sunrise project?

How was the Student Sunrise branding developed?

What is PowerFAIDS / the Financial Aid System project?

What does it mean to “go to the cloud”?

What is a “rolling go-live”?

Does the academic unit (AU) structure mean I report up to someone different when Workday Student goes live?

How will I get my reports that use academic units?

Is it possible to report on multiple academic units?

Will I be able to report on pre-2021 students from Workday?

Will high school students who come to WashU for pre-college programs be in Workday?

What is the difference between academic units and programs of study?

Why is it called a program of study?

Why do I have a primary program of study?

What is considered a program of study?

How many programs of study can I have?

Who will maintain programs?

Are the current grading bases being carried over to Workday?

Will the changes to our grading options affect a student’s GPA or transcript?

How do students choose the grading basis for a specific course?

Will students still be able to change a course from credit to pass/no pass and change it back?

What is the first term grades will be submitted in Workday?

Will grades for students no longer enrolled at WashU be in Workday?