Wendy Jerreld U.S. Department of Education 2012 Software Developers Webinar #3

Wendy Jerreld

U.S. Department of Education

2012 Software Developers Webinar #3

Common Origination and

Disbursement (COD) System Update

Agenda

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• COD Release 11.2 Update• COD Release 12.0 Update• Future Enhancements• COD Technical Reference Updates

COD Release 11.2 Update

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COD Release 11.2 Update Pell Experimental Sites

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With Release 11.2, the COD System will implement new COD Experimental Sites functionality for the ability to submit and accept Pell Grant records for students with a bachelor's degree that are enrolled in vocational or career programs.

• Only schools that have been approved for this experiment will have this capability

• Ability to process Pell Grants with the CPS Applicant Pell Eligible flag = No (N) when the award is submitted by a school that has an appropriate PEPS experimental site flag set

• Processing can be performed via batch or Web for the 2012-2013 award year and forward

COD Release 12.0 Update

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With Release 12.0, the COD System will implement the following functionality in late March 2013:

• New Award Year Set-Up for 2013-2014• Ability to Benefit (ATB) modifications • Direct Loan and TEACH SAS disbursement detail available On

Demand• Exit Counseling available on StudentLoans.gov

New value(s) in the <CounselingType> for Exit Counseling <CounselingType> values to be published in early Fall Exit Counseling data will be added to the existing COD Counseling

Report

COD Release 12.0 UpdateAbility to Benefit

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With Release 12.0, the COD System will implement modifications to Ability to Benefit (ATB).

• New valid values for <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag include: 06 = High School Diploma

07 = GED

• <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag required field• Reject Edit 994 will be triggered if the <AbilityToBenefitCode>

tag is not submitted on origination for any program• New warning Edit 199 when <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag value

submitted does not match the High School Diploma or equivalent value from the CPS Transaction Number

• For 2013-2014 and forward

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COD Release 12.0 UpdateAbility to Benefit

Also the Ability to Benefit modifications will include: • Reject Edit 198 if the <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag is submitted

on origination with values equal to 05 “Other” and 03 “State” for all COD programs (Pell, Direct Loans and TEACH) for origination and maintenance

• For award years 2011-2012 and forward

COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand

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Starting with the 2013-2014 Award Year, COD will provide schools the option to request TEACH and Direct Loan SAS Disbursement Detail on an On Demand basis.

• Grant Data Requests, DL Rebuild and SAS Disbursement Detail will be combined on one COD Web page

• New message classes will be created for the data requested DL and TEACH SAS files

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Users will have the following options for SAS Disbursement Detail On Demand:

• Direct Loan or TEACH Program• Award Year• Start Date/End Date, Month-to-Date or Year-to-Date • Format • Display Names of Borrowers • DL SAS Detail

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Activity Type Format TypeNew Message Class

Header

Month-to-Date Fixed-Length DSMFyyOP

Month-to-DateComma-Delimited

with HeadersDSMHyyOP

Month-to-DateComma-Delimited without Headers

DSMCyyOP

Month-to-Date Pipe-Delimited DSMPyyOP

Direct Loan SAS Message Classes

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Header

Date Range Fixed-Length DSRFyyOP

Date RangeComma-Delimited

with HeadersDSRHyyOP

Date RangeComma-Delimited without Headers

DSRCyyOP

Date Range Pipe-Delimited DSRPyyOP

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Header

Year-to-Date Fixed-Length DSYFyyOP

Year-to-DateComma-Delimited with

HeadersDSYHyyOP

Year-to-DateComma-Delimited without

HeadersDSYCyyOP

Year-to-Date Pipe-Delimited DSYPyyOP

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TEACH SAS Message Classes


Header

Month-to-Date Comma-Delimited TSOMyyOP

Year-to-Date Comma-Delimited TSOYyyOP

Date Range Comma-Delimited TSORyyOP

COD Future Enhancements

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For the 2014-2015 award year, COD will begin performing full XML validation.

• New validation will be based on the most frequent COD XML errors

• Example of common errors include general file formatting such as: Invalid character or invalid byte Content before the <?xml tag Opening tag exists but end tag is missing

• Please see the following slide for further examples…

COD Future Enhancements

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XML Error Type Error Description

cvc-maxLength-valid String is too long

cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1 Value is not valid for data type

cvc-attribute.3 Required attribute missing

cvc-minLength-valid String is too short

cvc-enumeration-valid Value not in set of valid optionscvc-type.3.1.3 Element not valid

cvc-complex-type.3.2.2Attribute 'xsi:schemaLocation' is not allowed to appear in element

cvc-elt.3.1 Required value missingcvc-complex-type.2.3 Element contains children, but is defined as element-only

cvc-length-valid String length is wrong (length has to be exact)cvc-minInclusive-valid Number is too small

cvc-pattern-valid String format wrongcvc-complex-type.2.2 Element contains no sub-element whereas one is expected

cvc-maxInclusive-valid Number is too large

COD Technical Reference Updates

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Date Technical Reference Updates

June 2012Revised Technical Reference was posted based on Summer and Fall 2012 system modifications

November 2012 Technical Reference to be posted without a new schema

Contact Information

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We appreciate your feedback and comments. We can be reached at:

Direct Loans: Wendy Jerreld

Phone: (202) 377- 4135

Email: [email protected]

Grants: Dan Sullivan

Phone: (202) 377- 3114


Contact Information

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COD School Relations Center


URL: http://www.cod.ed.gov

Phone - Grants: (800) 474-7268

Phone - Direct Loans: (800) 848-0978

Effective December 2012 New Customer Service Email Address

[email protected]

Wendy Jerreld U.S. Department of Education 2012 Software Developers Webinar #3

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