Banner Faculty and Advisor Self-Service / User Guide / 8.4

1 Application Overview
Welcome to the Faculty and Advisor Self-Service User Guide. This manual provides
information needed by the staff members who support your Banner® Faculty and Advisor
Self-Service product, including operations personnel, DBAs, programmer analysts,
systems analysts, and other technical specialists. Staff members should be familiar with
the hardware system in use at your site and all should have a basic understanding of Oracle
products.
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “How to Use This Manual” on page 1-1
• “Accessibility” on page 1-3
• “Cascading Style Sheets” on page 1-5
• “Baseline and Local Records” on page 1-6
• “Information Text” on page 1-6
• “Functionality” on page 1-7
• “Accessing the Secure Area” on page 1-8
• “Static Display of Information” on page 1-26
• “Long Titles and Descriptions” on page 1-26
How to Use This Manual
This manual is organized into the following chapters.
• This chapter provides a summary of the functions of the Faculty and Advisor Self-
Service application and procedures for accessing the application.
• Chapter 2, “Course Catalog”, covers setting up and using your course catalog on
the Web.
• Chapter 3, “Class Schedule”, covers setting up and using your class schedule on
the Web.
• Chapter 4, “Faculty Information”, covers setting up and using the Web pages that
provide faculty information such as schedules, class lists, and assignments.
• Chapter 5, “Grades”, covers setting up and using the Web pages used for entering
and viewing grades, including the Electronic Gradebook.
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User Guide
Application Overview