Hello Everyone,

As we wrap up the semester (and 2023!), we hope this semester and year has provided you with new knowledge, great memories, progress and success. We wish you a wonderful December filled of celebration with your colleagues, friends, and family. We're grateful to have a space to interact with you as we progress through this extensive and impactful project, and encourage you to share your feedback and questions here.

In this edition, we keep it light - with a helpful Workday tip, a reminder of our upcoming event for administrative assistants and program specialists, and several updates on the project at this time. More insight into Workday Student implementation and its impact, featured crosswalk terms, helpful tips, and other important updates will be coming your way in January 2024!



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Because you’re a part of Instruction/Academic Affairs at ACC, you’re receiving this newsletter to learn more about the Workday SIS implementation, which will affect your daily work in the future.

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Workday Student Updates

Workday returned on site in mid-November to work towards completion of Workset A in the Architecture and Configuration (A&C) phase.

By completing Workset A, we can continue forward building the informational structiure and testing framework to begin Workset B at the start of the new year. Workset B is the second of four phases of production in the A&C phase.

Our team is working with our consultants to determine the best security roles/access for Academic Affairs. By providing a well-defined structure for security roles and access, we can assign employees appropriately from the jump - before Workday Student officially launches.

We're in the process of vetting our Academic Unit structure for accuracy and wrapping up faculty eligibility in the current workbook this month. We will need to establish a new faculty eligibility process for Workday Student.

The SIS team is putting focus on Change Impact and how best to handle a transition of this scale. Change Management workstreams have been created to support success in several key areas of change, such as Training, Communications, Readiness & Acceptance, and Leadership.

ACC Fac/Staff InfoHub has started providing updates on the project if you would like to check out both Instruction/Academic Affairs and Student Affairs' Workday Student newsletters.

Our website is LIVE and we look forward to using it as a space to share project information and updates with you! Check it out here.

Dean - DC Meeting Session Requests

On December 1st, we met with our first Dean Area to give a live update on the Workday Implementation Project! The Dean of Health Sciences Division opened their monthly Department Chair Meeting to us and we showed up to give a short briefing on the following topics surrounding the Workday Student Modernization Project:

•  Who we are

•  Why we’re doing this

•  What we’ve done

•  What’s next

•  How to reach out to us

If your Dean’s Area would like us to come and present at one of your Department Chair/ Divisional Meetings, please let us know and we will schedule a visit! You can reach out to our Faculty Analysts for scheduling at sisinstruction@austincc.edu.

Tips of the Month

**This section provides valuable tips based on our team's experience in SIS training. The following feature is currently available on our Workday employee site.

 TIP: Viewing Organizational Hierarchy



This tip is already well known among many of our current Instructional employees, but it's an excellent reminder that you can find all ACC faculty, staff and their leadership hierarchy easily within Workday.

If you are searching to contact an administrator for a particular supervisor, or need to know key information about a colleague's role, you can find it by searching a particular person (or within your own personal profile), and clicking on the "Team" icon below "Actions." You can also find this information by entering "View Org Chart" in the search bar.

 TIP: Tasks - “Find” v. “Create” v. “View”

Use these keywords to assist you in narrowing down tasks in the Workday search bar. Using the terms: "Find," "Create," and "View" can direct you in your navigation.

Find will help you search for employees, students, and specific reports. Create will allow you to begin a task/ business process. View will allow you to look up key statuses and up-to-date information about a report, task, or function.

Video: Engaging Students - Workday Mobile Site

(Last, but not least)

Happy Holidays!!

Wishing you a relaxing, abundant, and beautiful semester break and New Year. Cheers to 2024!

From all of us in the SIS Modernization Project Team!

Contact Us

If you have questions about the instruction component of Workday SIS, inquiries concerning faculty engagement, or have training suggestions, please contact sisinstruction@austincc.edu.

Please note that this newsletter is for Instructional faculty and staff only. For feedback, requests, or other information for Student Affairs employee training, please contact sasisteam@austincc.edu.