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November Update: Workday Student Project
The Latest on Progress, Readiness and What’s Ahead
Welcome to the November edition of the Window on Workday newsletter, your source for updates on 海角直播 Denver’s transition to Workday Student. In this issue, we highlight recent progress, share insights from the Mock Semester Experience, explore ways to build familiarity with Workday Student before it becomes part of everyday life at 海角直播 Denver, and provide upcoming opportunities to learn more about the future student experience. Together, these updates reflect the work underway to help ensure a successful transition for students, faculty and staff.
– Matthew Scott
Inside the November Update
Here鈥檚 a quick look at the topics covered in this month鈥檚 issue:
Building the Runway for Student Success: A New Student Experience Moves Into Its Next Phase
海角直播 Denver is preparing for a new way for students to access academic information, register for classes and navigate important milestones throughout their college experience using Workday Student, which will replace the University’s current Banner system.
For nearly two years, teams across the University have been working behind the scenes to explore, design, build and refine the future student experience. Now, the project is entering an exciting new phase as students, faculty and staff begin to see, experience and prepare for the changes ahead. As 海角直播 Denver moves through key milestones leading up to Fall 2027, the campus community will have increasing opportunities to engage with and prepare for Workday Student.
In October, the University reached an important milestone with the Mock Semester Experience, giving students a preview of the future student experience and helping the project continue building momentum toward the next phase of the journey.
Insights From the Mock Semester Experience
A Valuable Learning Opportunity
The Mock Semester Experience marked an important milestone in 海角直播 Denver鈥檚 transition to a new student experience. Students had an opportunity to experience some of the ways they will eventually use Workday to navigate their academic journey, including finding academic information, reviewing financial aid, planning coursework and registering for classes. Staff joined them to observe, answer questions and learn alongside students.
The experience gave us something particularly valuable: the opportunity to learn before these processes become part of everyday life at 海角直播 Denver.
What We Learned From Students
Overall, students showed encouraging levels of confidence while also helping us understand where additional guidance and practice will matter.
Getting around Workday felt intuitive for many students. Students who responded after the Getting Started activity described finding information and tasks as 鈥淓asy鈥� or 鈥淰ery Easy,鈥� and reported feeling 鈥淓xtremely Confident鈥� navigating Workday afterward.
Registration was also encouraging, with some important lessons. The majority of respondents described the registration activity as 鈥淓asy鈥� or 鈥淰ery Easy.鈥� Students appreciated features such as having information together and the ability to swap courses, while some needed more clarity about moving from academic planning into registration.
Advising showed us where familiarity will matter. Students responded positively to several features while also encountering unfamiliar terminology and needing time to understand the new Academic Progress Report experience.
One lesson came through clearly: readiness starts before training.
Getting Ready for Workday Student
You don’t have to wait for training to start getting ready.
Training will teach faculty and staff how to complete specific tasks in Workday. But becoming comfortable with a new system takes more than attending a class.
You can start building familiarity now.
Here are a few ways to get ready:
If you currently think of Workday primarily as the place you go for employment-related activities, start becoming more familiar with the environment.
Sign in periodically. Practice navigating the homepage, using search and noticing how information is organized. The goal isn鈥檛 to learn student processes that aren鈥檛 available yet. It is simply to make Workday itself feel less new when training begins.
Not everyone will use Workday in the same way or at the same time.
For example, faculty and staff responsible for course scheduling will begin preparing the Fall 2027 course schedule in Workday, while advisors will begin using Workday to access student academic information as 海角直播 Denver prepares for Fall 2027 advising and registration.
As you hear about upcoming changes, ask yourself:
- What will I do differently?
- What information will I need in Workday?
- Who will I support when this changes?
- What questions do I want answered before I have to do this work?
Bring those questions to training.
One theme from the Mock Semester Experience was the value of having someone available to explain the experience and answer questions. Students also told us that some activities would become easier after doing them a few times.
We should expect the same for faculty and staff.
Learning Opportunities
Training
Training is the beginning of learning, not a test of whether you already know Workday. Come ready to explore, ask questions and practice.
Training starts in November
The first wave of role-based training begins as 海角直播 Denver prepares to build the Fall 2027 course schedule in Workday.
Creating Course Sections
Faculty and staff responsible for creating course sections can choose from four sessions:
- Wednesday, November 4 | 1-3 p.m.
- Friday, November 6 | 1-3 p.m.
- Tuesday, November 10 | 3-5 p.m.
- Thursday, November 12 | 3-5 p.m.
Participants only need to attend one session.
Professional academic advisors will also begin foundational learning in November and December, with additional preparation following as advising and registration draw closer. Keep an eye on updates from Advising Systems on how to participate.
Informational Webinars
Want to see what’s ahead? Join us for a webinar
We also want to create opportunities for the broader 海角直播 Denver community to see what’s coming before they are asked to learn how to do it.
Join the Workday Student Project Team for an upcoming webinar exploring the new student experience, key milestones ahead and what faculty and staff can do now to prepare.
Window on Workday Live: See What鈥檚 Ahead for 海角直播 Denver鈥檚 New Student Experience
- Monday, November 9 | 12-1 p.m.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
- Friday, November 20 | 12-1 p.m.
Audience: Faculty - Friday, December 4 | 12-1 p.m.
Audience: Staff
The webinars will cover project progress, insights from the Mock Semester Experience, upcoming student experiences, preparation timelines and ways to get ready.
No prior Workday Student knowledge is needed. This is an opportunity to build awareness before training begins.
Building Readiness, One Step at a Time
The Mock Semester Experience reinforced something important: people don’t become ready for change all at once.
We build readiness by seeing what’s ahead, understanding how our work connects to it, asking questions, practicing and eventually doing the work ourselves.
That’s the approach 海角直播 Denver is taking as we build the runway toward the new student experience.
Some members of our community are beginning training now. Others won’t need training for several months. Wherever you are on that timeline, there will be opportunities to see, learn, practice and prepare before the moment you need to use what we’ve built.
And that may be one of the most important lessons from Mock Semester: the earlier we give people an opportunity to experience what’s ahead, the more prepared we can be when the future arrives.
Planned Workday Outages
Preparing for Workday Student involves more than training and learning opportunities. It also requires important technical preparations behind the scenes.
As we prepare for the upcoming launch of Workday Student, 海角直播 Denver is entering an important phase of implementation activities. To support final preparation and ensure the University is ready for our first go-live milestones (Admissions, Financial Aid and schedule creation), Workday will be unavailable during four planned weekends.
Planned Workday Outages
Workday will be unavailable beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday through 7 a.m. the following Monday on the following weekends:
- Friday, November 20 鈥� Monday, November 23
- Friday, December 4 鈥� Monday, December 7
- Friday, December 11 鈥� Monday, December 14
- Friday, December 18 鈥� Monday, December 21
During these periods, Workday will not be available for normal University business. Faculty, staff and student-workers who need to complete time-sensitive activities in Workday should plan to do so before the system becomes unavailable on Friday.
These planned outages are necessary to support critical activities associated with the transition to Workday Student and our preparation for a successful launch.
There is no impact to students, staff or faculty accessing Banner, Banner Self-Service or Canvas.
What You Need to Do
Before each outage weekend:
- Complete any time-sensitive Workday activities before close of business on Friday.
- Plan ahead for activities that would normally be completed in Workday over the weekend.
- Watch for additional communications from the University regarding Workday Student go-live and any specific actions that may be required.
We recognize that this temporary disruption may require some adjustment and appreciate your patience and planning as we complete this important transition.
For questions or assistance, please submit a ticket for .
Thank you for your partnership as we prepare for the launch of Workday Student.
Resources & Contact Information
Workday Student Project Website
Workday Student Project
University Events Calendar