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A Program in VIAS is defined as a set of required courses needed to earn a diploma, certificate, or degree at the institution. Adding new programs for your institution is very exciting. Congratulations!
1. Go to Academics > Programs.
2. Click on Add a New Program.
3. If your school has multiple campuses, choose the campus the new program will be running. If the program is running at multiple campuses, the new program will need to be added to each campus.
4. Program Code: enter the code you’d like the program to publicly referred to in VIAS ( or as stated in your institution's catalog), i.e. DMA could be the code for a Diploma Medical Assistant Program.
5. Program Name: enter the full name for the program
6. Award Type: select the award from the drop-down list (This award will appear on the transcript.)
7. CIP Code: enter the CIP Code (Classification of Instructional Programs) for the program as referenced from your catalog.
8. Marketing Group: enter the Program Code you used.
9. Effective Start: Select the start from the drop-down list at least two terms before the term the program will begin to be offered.
10. Terminating Start: this field is used to expire programs no longer being offered by the institution; choose a start when your school's last graduating class of the program will be completely finished.
11. #Terms: the length of the program in number of terms
12. #weeks: the length of the program in number of weeks
13. Terms/Year: the number of terms for the year for this program
14. Credit Hours: enter the number of credit hours the student will earn by the completion of the program
15. Clock Hours: enter the number of clock hours the student will complete by the end of the program (for clock hour programs only).
16. Combine Program Code: leave blank
17. Beginning Enrollment: leave blank
18. Method of Delivery: Choose if the program will be blended, on ground, or fully online.
19. Clock to Credit Hours: check this box if Financial Aid must do the clock to credit hour conversion - Do not check this without talking to your FA Manager.
20 Clock Hours: check the box only if your FA Manager instructs you to.
21. Term Type: Quarter or Semester - Talk with your FA Manager to determine which one choice your program needs.
22. Non-Term: check the box for non-term if your FA Manager instructs you to.
23. Publish: This box has no functionality in this current version of VIAS.
24. Is Active: Check the Yes box if the program is a current program. Check no if the program is not active.
25. Save your program.
