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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2026-03-13
Steps: Mass Lock or Unlock Student Awards

Steps: Mass Lock or Unlock Student Awards

Set up award packaging.
You can lock or unlock student awards in bulk to prevent the award packaging process from making changes to them.
Workday can process up to 50,000 student awards for mass lock or unlock operations. You can also lock or unlock awards individually using the
Total Financial Assistance
report.
Mass lock and mass unlock operations don't apply to student applicant awards.
  1. From the
    Access to Segments
    prompt, select
    Lock or Unlock Student Awards
    . Add your security group to the
    Mass Operation Management
    domain.
  2. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes.
  3. Create Custom Reports.
    Create a custom report with a data source of
    Student Awards
    to retrieve the awards on which to perform the lock or unlock operation. To retrieve only active student awards, select
    Active Student Awards
    from the
    Data Source Filter
    prompt.
    Workday omits alternative loans from the report.
  4. From the
    Mass Operation Type
    prompt, select
    Lock or Unlock Student Awards
    .
The
Results
section of your lock or unlock mass operation displays information about
Report Output
,
Data Processed
, and
Data Not Processed
.
When Workday processes awards successfully, we:
  • Create a new package and award instance.
  • Update the student’s
    Total Financial Assistance
    report.
Workday doesn’t process awards:
  • That are inactive.
  • That are locked when you run a lock operation.
  • That are unlocked when you run an unlock operation.
  • That are alternative loans.
  • From a different award year than the one you select when you set up the operation.
  • That we repackage while the operation is in progress.
  • With multiple sequences when your custom report doesn’t include all instances from all sequences of the award.