(COD-21-08) Additional COD System Implementation for 2021–22 Award Year (December 2021)

Author
Federal Student Aid
Electronic Announcement ID
COD-21-08
Subject
Additional COD System Implementation for 2021–22 Award Year (December 2021)

On Dec. 12, 2021, we plan to implement Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System functionality that supports the Campus-Based programs and the processing of Federal Pell Grant (Pell Grant), Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant, Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant, and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) awards for the 2021–22 award year.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we complete this important activity.

COD System Outage Information

To implement the COD System functionality, we will suspend COD batch processing from 5 p.m. Eastern time (ET) on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, until 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Records submitted during this time will be held and processed after 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021.

In addition, during the outage—

  • Users will not be able to submit or retrieve data via the COD website.

  • Users will not be able to access the COD Reports area of the COD website.

Note: As a reminder, financial processing is on hold due to scheduled system maintenance and upgrade work to some of our financial systems. Information about this maintenance, occurring Dec. 9–12, 2021, was provided in a Nov. 4, 2021 Electronic Announcement.

Additional 2021–22 COD System Implementation Information

The attachment titled “Additional COD System Changes for 2021–22 (December 2021)” highlights the system changes we will implement on Dec. 12, 2021.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this announcement or its attachment, contact the COD School Relations Center at 1-800-848-0978. You may also email CODSupport@ed.gov.

Last Modified: 12/03/2021