Deleting learner records for declined admission or cancelled deposit
Learner records are deleted under specific circumstances:
To support enrollment management for new student orientation, students who have not deposited by May 1 must have their learner records purged. Admissions will send a list of non-deposited students.
Students who decline admission after they confirm/deposit. RSS (and others) receives these lists daily.
DO NOT REMOVE the learner record under these circumstances
If the student deferred to a future term (confirm in SAAADMS)
If the student has a learner record for a previous term
Background: Students notify Admissions of their cancelled admission. Admissions updates the cancellation in Banner. Cancellations are captured on a daily basis by a SLATE report, sent automatically the following day. Various university partners receive the daily SLATE report, including select staff from Registrar, Financial Aid, Advising, Housing
Tools: The running cancelled deposit spreadsheet in Box is used to record cancellations listed on the daily SLATE report
SLATE
Copy + paste the TUIDs listed on daily SLATE report to the running cancelled deposit spreadsheet in Box
Enter the date of the SLATE report in ‘Report Date’ column of cancelled deposit spreadsheet
SAAADMS
Enter TUID from daily SLATE report, leave term blank, select Go
Copy + paste the student name, located in top left corner, onto Name column of cancelled deposit spreadsheet
Copy + paste the Entry Term onto the same column of spreadsheet
Verify “CA” or “DC” code is listed next to Application Decision
If decision code is not CA/DC, notify Admissions partner (as of June 2025 Emma Sloan), who will update accordingly
SGASADD - Remove all student attributes
Enter TUID and Entry Term as term, select Go
Rare: If there’s a code in the Student Cohort block, make note and stop here.
In the Student Attribute block, highlight each attribute row and delete, then Save
SGAADVR - Remove all advisors
Enter TUID and term, select Go
Delete all advisors, then Save
SFAREGS - Remove courses, delete enrollment information, inactivate
Enter TUID and term. Enter OVR into Holds field, as they are likely to have registration holds, select Go
If there are no courses in the Course Information block, select Delete in upper right of Enrollment Information block. Banner redirects to initial SFAREGS screen
If courses are in Course Information, change Minimum to 0 in Enrollment Information block
Block down to Course Information and enter DD into Status field for each course, then select Delete for each course. Select Save twice to be redirected to initial SFAREGS screen
Alternate Tip: Check then box for Delete All CRNs. Next block down, confirm all courses delete, then select Save 3 times
Select Student Term tab, change the Student Status to IS (Inactive) and Save (???)
Select Registration tab, select Delete in the Enrollment Information block
SOAHOLD - Place hold
Enter TUID, select Go
Select Insert, enter RR under Hold Type. Tab once for Hold Type Description to populate. Tab again to enter Reason as “Admission cancelled [term]”, then select Save
Email Financial Aid
Send an email to designated Financial Aid staff (as of June 2025: Tess Passey and Al Gallardo). Copy +paste the following info from cancelled deposit spreadsheet: Report date, Name, TUID, Entry Term
Example email: “Hi folks - Here are the deposits for today/from the weekend, please let me know when ready to delete. Many thanks!”
Financial Aid will later reply confirming the learner records are ready for deletion. Record date in FA ‘Approval to Delete Date' column of cancelled deposit spreadsheet
STUDENT RECORDS ARE NOT REMOVED BEFORE APPROVAL FROM FINANCIAL AID
SGASTDN - Delete learner record
Enter TUID and term, select Go
Select Delete in the General Learner block
Pop-up message “Press YES to confirm deletion of the last record, NO to cancel” appears, select Yes
It’s common for errors to appear instead. Note the error and follow Troubleshooting directions below
Record date under ‘Learner Record Deleted Date’ column of cancelled deposit spreadsheet
Troubleshooting
It’s common for errors to pop up when deleting the learner record in SGASTDN. Follow the direction below for the applicable error message. If unable to resolve, reach out to Denise and/or IT to remove specific data from the backend
If you receive an error ‘Curriculum data may exist for this term, review curricula and delete if necessary’
Select Delete Learner
Message likely appears because student had deferred
If ‘Error* Enter an active primary major for the curriculum’ appears, confer with Denise
If you receive an error ‘Cannot delete student record, registration exists’, delete the registration record in SFAREGS
Enter the ID, term and Go
In the Enrollment Information block, click Delete to remove the registration record
Save
Return to SGASTDN to delete the learner record
If ‘ERROR Cannot delete student record registration exists’ after Enrollment Info is deleted
Look at SOAIDNS to view registration terms? For this population, there should not be any registration terms once we've cleared SFAREGS. If you see a registration term OTHER than the admission term, IT will need to remove the values in the back-end SFBETRM table for affected students
Reference ServiceNow ticket: INC0545285 for previous troubleshooting with our dept and IT
If you receive an error ‘Cannot delete student record, academic history exists’, remove credit-by-exam & delete term header in SHAINST
Removing credit-by-exam credit
Note the course credit in SHATCKN (Example: Note AP credit for Biology)
In SOATEST, select the corresponding exam. Click More Information. Change the Comment to N and Save
Delete grade in SHATCKN and Save
Delete term header in SHAINST
Enter TUID, term and Go
Click Delete, select Save
Return to SGASTDN to delete the learner record
If you receive an error ‘Cannot delete student record, Attribute records exist’
Go to SGASADD and delete the attributes again, then delete in SGASTDN
If you receive an error 'No student record exists for this person'
No action needs to be taken, consider the learner record to have been deleted and enter the date for Learner Record Deleted Date