Users can access Ellucian GO on Apple, Android, and Kindle devices.

Ellucian Mobile can connect to the three Ellucian Student Information Systems (SIS): Banner, Colleague, and PowerCampus.

Ellucian GO is available in U.S. English, U.K. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Institutions that have licensed the Platform edition should download additional documentation.

The main components of Ellucian Mobile work together to deliver information to app users.

Hardware recommendations for Tomcat and Mobile Integration Server.

One of the most important features of Ellucian is your ability to style the application with your institution's colors, logos, and pictures. The following subsections will help you prepare for the branding procedure.

Apache Tomcat requires Java Development Kit (JDK) 8.

Ellucian Mobile has been tested on Apache Tomcat 7 and 8.

Install Banner software that supports Ellucian Mobile.

Install Colleague software that supports Ellucian Mobile

Install PowerCampus software that supports Ellucian Mobile.

Install the Web Application Archive (WAR) files for Banner, PowerCampus, or Colleague.

Set up the server configuration file.

As delivered, Ellucian Mobile stores your configuration information in an H2 datasource on the Tomcat server.

Sign into the Mobile Cloud using Single Sign On.

Create a configuration (a specific instance of the Ellucian Mobile app) and connect the configuration to your mobile server.

Connect the configuration to your SIS after creating the configuration and validating that it is communicating with the Mobile Server.

Give selected people access to modify specific elements of your mobile configurations.

Define the appearance of the Ellucian GO home screen and provide shortcuts to popular modules from the home screen.

Provide on-screen instructions to help Ellucian GO users log in.

Set background and text colors for Ellucian GO at your institution.

The About screen provides users with version information, your institution’s contact information, and a link to your privacy policy.

Set up beacons at the desired locations at your institution.

Create a beacon definition. After defining a beacon here, you can use it in location-aware Ellucian Mobile features.

Use this procedure to add an Ellucian application module to Ellucian Mobile and specify the standard settings that apply to all modules. You will also need to specify module-specific settings for most modules.

To help users find the modules that appear in the menu on their devices, you can divide the list into sections and put the sections and modules in any order. The module list in the Cloud Configuration tool reflects the way that sections and modules appear on the devices.

Use the Audio module to make audio clips available to users. For example, you can publish an audio clip that contains a message from the school president or your institution's fight song, with or without a static background image.

The Courses module allows students and faculty to view information about the courses that they are taking or teaching.

The Directory module allows users to search for people at your institution and get contact information for them. You can limit the search to certain groups of people, such as Students and Faculty. You can also control the contact information that is displayed for each person.

The Events module allows users to view upcoming events on your institution's calendars.

The Feeds module allows users to view news feeds from your institution. Users can view the full text and photos of the news items and share the items with other people. Your institution can have one Feeds module or multiple Feeds modules that focus on different categories of news.

The Grades module allows students to view midterm or final grades for all terms that have grades recorded in your information system. (The current term will not appear until midterm grades have been entered.) Users must be signed in to view their grades.

Colleague and Banner institutions that use the Ellucian Intelligent Learning Platform (ILP) can make information from supported learning management systems available to students through Ellucian Mobile. With ILP, students can view class assignments, events, and activities on their devices.

The Important Numbers module provides users with a directory of important phone numbers and other contact information that you select.

The Maps module allows users to view maps of your campuses and get directions. Campus buildings are marked with pins, which users can tap for more information about the building.

Mobile Administrators can add a module that launches a third-party native application from within Ellucian GO on iOS and Android.

The Notifications module allows users to view important messages from your institution.

The Registration module allows students to use their device to register for course sections.

The Student Financials module provides students with their overall balance and the most recent payment transaction information, with an optional link to a payment gateway or additional account information.

Use the Video module to make video clips available to users. For example, you might have a video to promote a new academic program or an upcoming fine arts event.

You can make any web application available as a menu item in Ellucian Mobile. The web applications should be optimized for use on mobile devices, and must be stored on a publicly available URL.

You can add a module in Ellucian Mobile that launches the app of an Ellucian partner from within Ellucian GO. The partner app can be either a native mobile app or web application.

Each Mobile Integration Server web service app can control only one active configuration at a time. Placing a configuration into test status registers that configuration with the mobile server and provides you with a device URL that you can use to access your configuration for small-scale testing purposes.

To improve performance, both the Mobile Integration Server web services app and the Colleague Web API cache information that changes infrequently during normal operation.

The final step to make a configuration available to users is to publish it. When the configuration is published, users can see it in the school list in the Ellucian GO app and begin using it.

If necessary, you can withdraw a configuration from Ellucian GO.

Replace a published configuration with a new configuration.

Set up a free Google Analytics account and customize it to collect Ellucian Mobile information.

Connect your Ellucian Mobile configuration to your Google Analytics account.

Usage data for your mobile app is displayed in Google Analytics. See the Google Analytics online help for information about viewing and interpreting usage data.

You can use the copy functionality to create a duplicate of an existing configuration.

You can export a copy of your complete configuration information to a JSON data file. You can send that file to Ellucian Technical Support for troubleshooting purposes or save it offline for safekeeping and recovery purposes.

Files that have been exported from the Cloud Configuration tool with Ellucian Mobile 4.0 or later can be imported into a new or existing configuration. Export files that were created before Ellucian Mobile 4.0 cannot be imported due to differences in data structure.

As delivered, Ellucian Mobile stores your configuration information in an H2 datasource on the Tomcat server. As an alternative, you can set up a dedicated SQL Server or Oracle database to store your Ellucian Mobile configuration.

To install new instances of Tomcat for your additional Mobile Server web apps you will need to either set up the new Tomcat instance on a different port or on a different physical server.

Set up additional Mobile Server web apps on an existing Tomcat instance.

Set up a new physical or VM Mobile Integration server.

On the Apple Watch, users tap the Ellucian Mobile app to display a list of all modules of type ILP or Maps from the app on a paired phone.

You can enter SIS configuration information in the <sis>-mobileserver-config.groovy file, as an alternative to specifying that information using the Ellucian Mobile Cloud Configuration tool.

Ellucian Mobile requires access to several Banner Oracle tables and functions, and uses an Oracle user to connect to the required data.

Ellucian Mobile multiple configurations diagram.

Ellucian Mobile supports Banner Multi-Entity Processing (MEP) environments. MEP Banner environments support clients who have multiple institutions/entities sharing the same Banner instance.

This section includes the Release Notes from previous Ellucian Mobile releases.