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Student Information System
Office of Information Technology
1000 Faner Drive Mail Code 6535
Faner Hall
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
it-sis@siu.edu
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Our eLearning site will assist you in using the systems that makes up the Student Information Systems (SIS). All eLearning courses are online training courses. These courses are short PDF documents that will only take five to ten minutes to read. In addition, you can save or print the document and refer to it later.
The eLearning courses listed below are required and MUST be completed before requesting access to the product. When you have completed the eLearning material, you will need to record that the training has been completed. To do this, click on the link to record your completed training for each individual course. You will be asked to log in using your Network ID/password to confirm the course and the completion date.
Once training has been completed and recorded, access can be requested by clicking ‘Request Access to SIS’ under Login Quicklinks.
- Admin Pages (Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access)
- Review course Admin Pages Navigation Overview
- Record completion of training
- Request Access by clicking on ‘Request Access to SIS’ under Login Quicklinks and choosing the ‘Admin Pages’ module from the list
- Argos (Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access)
- Review course Argos Basic Training
- Record completion of training
- Request Access by clicking on ‘Request Access to SIS’ under Login Quicklinks and choosing the ‘Argos’ module from the list
- Degree Works (Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access)
- Review course Degree Works Navigation & Overview
- Record completion of training
- Request Access by clicking on ‘Request Access to SIS’ under Login Quicklinks and choosing the ‘Degree Works’ module from the list
- Navigate (Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access)
- Review course Navigate Overview
- Record completion of training
- Request Access by clicking on ‘Request Access to SIS’ under Login Quicklinks and choosing the ‘Navigate’ module from the list
- XTENDER (Recommended to complete prior to requesting access)
- Review training Module 1 and, if applicable, training Module 2.
- Request Access by clicking on 'Request Access to SIS' under Login Quicklinks and choosing the 'Xtender' module from the list.
Course:
Admin Pages Navigation Overview
Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access:
Yes
Description
The Admin Pages training has been developed to help you become familiar with navigating through the Admin Pages prior to any hands-on training that may be required.
To Obtain Access
Course:
Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access:
Yes
Description
Argos is a campus reporting tool that allows end-users to access and extract information from various databases in a report format. Argos Basic Training will show you how to run pre-defined reports.
To Obtain Access
Course:
Degree Works Navigation & Overview
Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access:
Yes
Description
Degree Works is a web-based tool that helps students and academic advisors monitor a student’s progress toward degree completion. Degree Works compares SIU’s official degree requirements with coursework completed.
To Obtain Access
Course:
Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access:
Yes
Description
Navigate is a platform integrating both Education Advisory Board’s Student Success Collaborative and Grades First functionality. Navigate combines technology, research, case management, and predictive analytics to help instructions positively inflect degree completion outcomes for students around a model that includes triage, assessment, and intervention.
To Obtain Access
Course:
Module 1: Reviewing and Retrieving Documents (Required for all users)
Module 2: Creating Documents and Batches (Required for indexing and scanning users)
Managing Documents and Batches (Required for indexing and scanning users)
Required to Complete Prior to Requesting Access:
No
Description
Xtender is our Document Management system. The Video Training will show you how to navigate through Xtender along with daily functionality. The video training is broken into two Modules. Module 1 is applicable to everyone. Module 2 will be helpful for those scanning or indexing documents.
To Obtain Access