Certifying students for graduation in Banner (SZADEGR)

Department representatives and NTC Advising certify students in Banner on SZADEGR. Faculty should use the Major/Minor Certification tool to certify undergraduate students.

On the first day of the final exam period, the Registrar’s Office will run the “roll to outcome” job which creates sought records in SHADEGR/SZADEGR. All data from SHAGAPP pushes to SHADEGR/SZADEGR, and once sought records are available, you can certify students.

Identify the record for certification

Enter the student’s ID. Click the lookup button on the Degree Sequence Field.

Open

SHADGMQ opens and all degrees applied for will display. See below sequence 1, student has applied for one degree. Identify the correct degree sequence and double click (or click the “select” button) . Click the Go button to be taken to SZADEGR.

Open

Students with multiple degrees and degree applications will have more than one record. See sample below, student has applied for 3 separate degrees simultaneously: 1=BSBSM_UG, 2=BSCER_UG and 3=BSMAC_GR. Remember certificates are processed as if they were standalone degrees.

Identify the correct degree sequence and double click (or click the “select” button), then click Go to go to SZADEGR.

Certify the degree

In the Learner Outcome Information block, in the Graduation Information section, update the Graduation Status.

Change graduation status from AG‐ Applied for Graduation to:

• CG=Certified for graduation -OR-

• NG=Not certified for graduation

Save.

Other graduation statuses

• WF=Walking FUTURE SPRING TERM‐Student earned degree prior summer or prior fall and will walk in the future‐ spring. (Do Not Code. Registrar’s Office codes in summer term and in fall term.) Normally, used for a student who earned the degree fall or summer before commencement ceremony.

• WP=Walking PAST SPRING TERM‐Student anticipates earning degree summer after commencement and will walk in the past spring. (Do Not Code. Registrar’s Office will code in summer term after commencement.)Normally, used for students who anticipate earning a degree the summer or fall after commencement.