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Summary: Availability of the 2004-2005 School Electronic Process Guide

Publication Date: November 14, 2003

Author: General Manager: FSA Students Channel

Summary: Availability of the 2004-2005 School Electronic Process Guide


Posted on 11-14-2003

TO: Financial Aid Administrators
FROM: U.S. Department of Education
RE: Availability of the 2004-2005 School Electronic Process Guide
DATE: November 14, 2003

The U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the availability of the 2004-2005 School Electronic Process Guide (formerly the EDESuite Process Guide). This guide is designed to meet the reference needs of financial aid administrators (FAAs), programmers, and data processing staff. The guide is available as an attachment below or on the Department's Federal Student Aid Download (FSAdownload) Web site, located at http://FSAdownload.ed.gov.

The following updates and enhancements for the 2004-2005 processing cycle are described in the guide:

*What's New for FAA Access to CPS Online*
*Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) Datamart*
*What's New for EDESuite (32-bit Windows PC software)*
*EDExpress for Windows---Global, Application Processing (App Express), Packaging, Pell and Direct Loan functionality*
*Direct Loan (DL) Tools*
*SSCR*
*Return of Title IV Funds (R2T4) on the Web*
*ISIR Analysis (IA) Tool---Look for additional information at a later date*

We recommend you review all of the information provided in this guide related to the products and services you use, as some enhancements may require you to modify your office procedures and systems operations. Please refer to the release schedule for these products (pages 4 and 5) for more details on their anticipated availability.

To download the guide from FSAdownload:

1) Go to fsadownload.ed.gov.
2) Click on the "Technical References and Guides" link.
3) On the next page, click on the "2004-2005" link under the "School Electronic Process Guide" heading.
4) Click on the "PDF Format" link on the next page to view and/or print the document
5) To save the document, click with your right mouse button on the link and a pop-up menu appears. Select "Save Target As…" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As…" (Netscape) from the menu, then browse to the folder where you want to save the file.
6) Once you have saved the file, open it using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

To view or download the guide from IFAP:

1) Click on the link below.
2) To save the document, click with your right mouse button on the link and a pop-up menu appears. Select "Save Target As…" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As…" (Netscape) from the menu, then browse to the folder where you want to save the file.
3) Once you have saved the file, open it using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you have any questions regarding the information contained in this document, please contact CPS/WAN Technical Support at 800/330-5947, or via e-mail at cpswan@ncs.com.