Loyola University Chicago

The following LOCUS Training Sessions are available.  Please email LocusTraining@luc.edu with the dates and times you would like to attend.  A confirmation appointment will be sent to your Groupwise. 

Faculty & Staff Training / Faculty Training / Staff Training

FACULTY & STAFF TRAINING

LOCUS Basics covers basic navigation and LOCUS concepts.

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 FACULTY TRAINING

Learn to obtain class rosters, view photos, enter grades, and notify your students through LOCUS.

As a faculty member with adviseess assigned to you, there are many new features in LOCUS 2.0 that you can take advantage of in order to gather all of the information you need to assist you in advising students.

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STAFF TRAining

LOCUS Course Section Scheduling training covers how to schedule class sections as well as some more complex issues with course scheduling such as labs, and writing intensive/honors designations.  Note that only a select few users have security access to perform course section scheduling. 

LOCUS Graduation Processes Training covers how to enter, deny, withdraw and confer graduation applications as well as how the new feature for students to enter their application impacts LOCUS.

WebFOCUS is a reporting program that delivers standardized reports from LOCUS.  Depending on your department and job function you can use WebFOCUS to search student's academic standing, see if a student's registration is blocked, obtain information concerning a student's program/plan, and more. 

LOCUS Registration Processes covers how to perform various course Overrides, Term Activation, Appointment Times and more. 

Academic Records Management Training covers how to work with student contact information, service indicators (holds), viewing unofficial transcripts/transfer credit summaries/test results, work with student groups, view class rosters, student grades, term history and how to assign academic advisors.

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