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The Course Grade Distribution dashboard is now available only to people with access to restricted student dashboards.  We will replace it in June 2024 with a more generally available version named the Class Grade Distribution dashboard. If possible, please use the Our Berkeley Grades by Course & Term  dashboard, until the new dashboard is available.

UC Berkeley's newest college, the College of Computing, Data Science, & Society (CDSS), now appears in Cal Answers student reports, such as the Census dashboard.  CDSS consists of:

In collaboration with the Fund Stewardship and Compliance team in University Development and Alumni Relations we have just released the new Gift Accumulation Dashboard as part of the Finance subject area in Cal Answers.

The dashboard allows campus finance, development, and leadership to gain insights

The GAEL rate for PI Portfolio projections has been updated from FY21 1.55% to FY22 1.75%. This went live on 9/10 after 5 pm. Projections created before this went live still show the FY21 1.55% rate. They need to be updated in order to trigger the FY22 rate to show. The update can be minor, like adding a period in the comment. Projections created after this update went live show the FY22 1.75% rate automatically.

Cal Answers Community,

Over the past two years, the Cal Answers team has focused on bringing UCPath data into Cal Answers. We have created and updated a wide array of reporting dashboards, and are happy to let you know the project is now complete. UCPath has a very big impact on Cal Answers reporting and we updated almost every subject area. Highlights of the changes include:

We've just completed some updates to the Course View report in the Curriculum Long Term Planning dashboard that will help make planning for Summer course offerings a bit easier.  We've added three new filters to the report:  Student Level, Term Session Number, and Summer Student Ty

Cal Answers HR Community,

We have created the Cal Answers Hours Towards Eligibility dashboard and are pleased to announce it is now live with data from UCPath. This is new reporting and there is no legacy/pre-UCPath version available in Cal Answers.

Cal Answers Payroll and HR Communities,

As part of the UCPath conversion, we have updated the Cal Answers Payroll dashboard and we are pleased to announce it is now live with data from UCPath. The Payroll dashboard you have been using up to this point has been renamed Legacy Payroll dashboard and now includes only pre-UCPath data through March 8, 2019, and post-UCPath expense transfers performed in PPS through September 30, 2019. We have also made significant updates to the Position Management and Workforce Detail dashboards.

Cal Answers is moving to CalNet 2-step verification. Beginning on Sunday, December 15, when you log in to Cal Answers, you'll be asked to sign in with your CalNet ID and then approve access to your account via DUO. Once you've signed in, you'll be taken directly to the Cal Answers system home page.

BFS and Cal Answers Community,

Now that UCPath is live, payroll journals will post in BFS and be displayed in Cal Answers more frequently. As a result, we will no longer send email notifications when payroll data are made available in reports.

Payroll expense transfers processed in PPS for pre-UCPath payroll entries (transactions for pay periods ending 03/09/19 and prior) will continue to be posted once a month in BFS with the PPS data available for reporting in the legacy Payroll Expense report in Cal Answers.

Cal Answers Community,

The implementation of UCPath, the new UC-wide system for payroll, personnel, HR and benefits, will take place in March.

We’re implementing upgrades to the Cal Answers system. The Cal Answers upgrade will go live on Friday, February 8. Follow the link below to review an overview of the changes. 

Overview of changes

Review the overview of the changes happening with the upgrade. 

Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,

Come see a live demonstration of the Cal Answers Financials dashboard reports released to date:

Want to learn how to navigate the Cal Answers student data subject areas to access, format and print your data tables?

Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,

Cal Answers and HR BAIRS Community,

We are pleased to announce the Cal Answers Campus Workforce (HR) dashboards are now live. The Cal Answers team partnered with Human Resources professionals from central and campus units to develop dashboards to replace the HR reporting currently in BAIRS, which is being retired in December.

Please take this opportunity to use Cal Answers for all seasonal HR reporting activities while BAIRS is still available to ensure you understand how to find the information you need within the new Workforce Detail and Workforce Summary dashboards.

You can now find the first 2018-19 snapshot of undergraduate admissions data (applicants only) in the Cal Answers Undergraduate Applicants -> UG Applicant Counts tab.  Counts for both freshman and transfer applicants are up this year, compared to last year (5% and 3%, respectively).

A couple of things to note about this applicant snapshot:

Undergraduate Applicant Admitted and Intent to Register (SIRed) headcount data for the 2017-18 academic year is now available in the Cal Answers Student Applicants -> Undergraduate Applicants dashboard reports. While this installment provides an update to the 2017-18 Admit and SIRed data, the final data for the current academic year will be loaded with the third installment scheduled for October 2017.