Viewing and managing student holds (SOAHOLD)
Understanding holds
Hold types
Registration – Prevent registration activity (adding/dropping)
Transcript – Prevent transcripts from being released
Diploma – Prevent diplomas from being released
Functional – Used to hide links in Gibson Online for various web tools
Some holds are applied to students automatically. Automatic holds will have an Origination Code of “AUTO.”
Viewing holds
In the SOAHOLD key block, enter the Student ID. Go.
Holds information displays.
Managing holds
Adding a hold
Click insert to add a row.
If you know the hold code, enter it, or click the Look up button to view and select values.
Adding a Reason is optional.
Tab to the From field. Today’s date auto-populates in the From field and a future date (12/31/2099) in the To field. Save.
Holds can be set to become effective in the future (for example, immunization holds) by setting the From date to a date in the future.
From dates cannot be later than the To date.
Releasing/lifting a hold
Holds are only lifted, not deleted. Holds can be lifted for a future date or on today’s date (effective immediately).
Select the hold by clicking on it. Enter the hold lift date in the To field. Save.
When a hold is lifted using today’s date, the change is immediate (no refresh time required).
On this page
To find out the activities affected by a particular hold, refer to STVHLDD - Hold Type Code Validation. It will show if the hold affects things like registration, transcript, graduation etc.
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Common hold types and their custodians
If you have access to update SOAHOLD, you have access to add or lift any holds. You should only add or lift holds within the scope your area’s responsibility.
DA Holds
When students submit a graduation application, the DA Graduation App Rcvd Reg Hold. When students indicate that they’ve been admitted to a graduate program or are in a 4+1 program preparing to go into their graduate (“+1”) term, they should be directed to the future-term program office.
The future-term program office should lift the DA hold so that these students can register when their time ticket opens.
SSE - Rosie Chavez
SLA - Ann Schumacher
BS - Carol Spansel
SW - program manager
AR - Angelle Keller
Grad Med - Kourtnie Robin
Law - Del Kirkpatrick
SoPA - academic advisor
Public Health - Susan Cantrell