Review Students for Graduation

Follow these steps to generate a Cognos report that shows all students, who have applied to graduate, who need to be reviewed by a Chair or Director.

How to retrieve your report:

Log into The Nest and go to the Employee page

Near the bottom right, find the Enterprise Systems section and click on Cognos:

Enter your SJU username and password and click Log in:

Click on Search and search for “Graduation Status”:

Select current term ex: Summer 2023 for August 2023 graduates

 

Click “Next”

 

You will see this while the report is running:

 

The optional parameters will then appear.  Be sure to select “REV” from the Graduation Status option.  You can also select specific programs or majors, depending on what groups of students you are responsible for.

 

 

Scroll to the bottom and click on “Finish”.

The report will then run, and may take a long time, depending on the number of students who need to be reviewed.

Once the report is done, a list of students who need review will appear.

You can also save the report as an Excel.  To do this, click on the circle with the arrow icon.  Then click “Run Excel”.  

 

A new window will appear, letting you know that the excel is being saved to your computer:

 

Finally, a window will appear asking where you would like to save the excel:

Please make all exceptions/notes in DegreeWorks no later than the communicated deadline so we can ensure all updates are made prior to the degree conferral. 

If you are interested in seeing all of the students in your program that have applied for graduation, you can also select the OK, OKP, OKT, and RER statuses in addition to REV under the Graduation Status section within the Graduation Status report.



 

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