Student

October 2, 2026

Academic Advising

Set Up Academic Requirements Effective Dates Policies	In the Result section, clarified what the Requirements Effective value displays when the student has requirements configured at different nodes of the academic structure.
Reference: Academic Progress Report	In the Program of Study Requirements section, clarified the Requirements Effective row for when the student has requirements configured at different nodes of the academic structure.
Override Academic Requirements Effective Dates	In the Result section, expanded the bullet about the Requirements Effective field.
Create Academic Plans	Moved information about enabling the updated user interface from the Context section to Prerequisites. In the Status row on Step 2, moved information about possible statuses to About Academic Plans.
About Academic Plans	Renamed from Concept: Academic Plans. Added the Course Status on Academic Plans section.
Troubleshooting: Academic Plans	Added a section for Students can't register for courses that show Eligible to Enroll on the plan.

Financial Aid

Create Notification Schedules for Packages

Updated the Context section to note that these communications are only sent once per day.

Recruiting and Admissions

Steps: Set Up Student Sites

Updated Step 2 for accuracy now that it's no longer optional.

Student Records

Steps: Manage Student Registrations	Added information to Step 2 about the Put Student Course Registered Registration web service.
Troubleshooting: Student Can't Register	Added a row for students unable to register for courses that display Eligible to Enroll on their academic plan.

September 18, 2026

Academic Advising

Set Up Academic Requirement Configurations	In the Limit Type row on Step 8, added information about course and registration limits with examples. Added courses and course registrations to the Registration Criteria row.
Reference: Academic Progress Troubleshooting	Under Academic Progress Limits, added course registrations to the No. of Items Used row.

Financial Aid

Maintain Federal Student Aid Program Policies	In step 4, added a row for the new Use typical attendance pattern for start of packaging period for summer trailer check box. In the Next Steps section, added information about the new check box and report fields that you can use to report on packaging periods.
Reference: Student Nightly Job Orchestration	Added information about the Find Student Nightly Orchestration Job Runs report.
Correct Academic Periods for Disbursement	How to correct academic periods for disbursement that Workday removed from the Total Financial Assistance report.
Steps: Initiate and Review SAP Appeals	Added information about the Initiate Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeal task that students can use to start SAP appeals for themselves.
Concept: Satisfactory Academic Progress	Added a new SAP Appeals section.

Recruiting and Admissions

Add External Transcripts

n the Student External Transcript Designations row on Step 3, added information about creating and viewing external transcript designations.

In the Next Steps section, added information about tracking the status of transfer credit evaluations on the external transcript.

Student Data

Steps: Set Up Student Data	New step 14: Configure access to Student Reporting Record History.
Steps: Set Up Friends and Family	In Step 1, added the Manage: Third Party User Accounts domain to the list. In the Result section, added a bullet with information on how administrators can look up a Friends and Family account to see linked students and permissions.
Steps: Set Up Third-Party Access	In Step 1, added a Note about enabling policy restrictions on the security policy. Moved original Step 6 before Step 5. Added a new Step 6 to describe how to configure help text for the Add Friends and Family and Manage Third Party Permissions tasks. In Step 7, updated bulleted information. In Step 8, updated task access information. In Step 9, added a note about the Student Onboarding Event process.
Relink Third-Party Permissions	New topic for relinking third-party permissions.
Update Student Residency	Updated the Context section to mention that you can use date controls to control when academic periods are available.

Student Financials

Setup Considerations: Accounting and Worktags for Student Financials	In the Questions to Consider section, added a row addressing which optional balancing worktags to set on student charges, student waivers, student awards, and student sponsor contracts to ensure both sides of the journal carry the same optional balancing worktag. In the Tenant Setup section, clarified tenant setup requirements for required balancing and the default Fund for excess payments under "Worktag Balancing," and noted that optional balancing worktags can be added or removed at any time.
Concept: Optional Worktag Balancing on Student Transaction Journals	Provides additional information about optional worktag balancing on student transaction journals
Concept: Real-Time Student Accounts	Deleted real-time exceptions for web services and course registrations past a student's expected completion date.
Setup Considerations: Student Sponsor Contracts	In the Reporting section, added the Find Pending Student Sponsor Refunds report
Create Student Sponsor Contracts	Added details on contract sort order to specify that Workday displays the most recently created contracts first.
Steps: Refund Student Sponsor Overpayments	In the Result section, added details on refund sort order to specify that Workday displays the most recent refund dates first.
Maintain Write-Off Reasons for Student Charges	Created new topic to be linked from the Write Off Student Charges topic.
Write Off Student Charges	In the Prerequisites section, updated the write-off reasons link to go to the new Maintain Write-Off Reasons for Student Charges topic.

Student Records

Steps: View Student Reporting Record History	New topic detailing how to view student reporting record history.
Concept: Reporting Record	Add new section: View Student Reporting Record History.
Setup Considerations: Curriculum Management	Added an example to the Security section.
Roll Over Course Sections	In the Context section, added information about rolling over more than 10,000 course sections.
Steps: Set Up Student Registration	Added a new Step 9 to include information about custom objects for student registration.
Steps: Manage Student Registrations	Added additional info under step 5 for modifying assigned academic period record for a registration.
Reference: Drop Students from Courses	Added a new row with information on how to drop course sections during course swap.
Reference: Student Registration Errors	For clarity and accuracy, removed information about not being able to swap course section clusters from the Course Registrations section.
Steps: Manage Academic Standing For Students	Added addt'l detail under step 3b for academic standing values.
Steps: Manage Historical Academic Records	In Step 7, updated the security domain.
Evaluate and Manage Transfer Credits	Renamed from Steps: Evaluate and Manage Transfer Credits. Expanded and reorganized the Steps section. In the Result and Next Steps sections, added information about fields that track the status of transfer credit evaluations on external transcripts.
Create Custom Notifications for Grade Events	Added step 3: config BP complete step.
Steps: Manage Student Transcripts	In Step 1, updated the domain name.
Steps: Manage Completion Honors and Awards	In Step 3, updated the task name and security domain.
Steps: Set Up Program Completion	Step 5, information for configuring security for program completion reporting fields.
Apply Students for Program Completion	Added Anticipated Academic Period for Completion details; updated Expected Completion Date behavior, documented report fields.
Manage Program Completion Applications	Included details for Edit My Program Completion Application and anticipated period/conferral date.
Steps: Correct Academic Records	Added new correction task and notes that moving a registration deletes any existing cumulative GPA overrides for that registration.
Steps: Override Academic Period Record for Registration	New topic for overriding academic period records for registration.
Steps: Set Up Academic Period Record Overrides	New topic for setting up academic period record overrides.
Articulate Internal Credit	Updated the security domain in Prerequisites.
Concept: Academic Period Record Overrides	New topic for overriding academic period records.