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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

We're upgrading Cal Answers to ensure continued vendor support from Oracle. Cal Answers will be unavailable November 9 as we upgrade the system. Please review the Cal Answers Upgrade Job Aid regarding what you need to do and changes to expect.

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,

Updates to Cal Answers Payroll dashboard and legacy Payroll Leave Accrual report is retired

Cal Answers Payroll and HR Communities,

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.

Student census data for Fall 2019 is now available in Cal Answers dashboards and subject areas.

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.