We have been using Banner (an Ellucian product) for over 27 years as the university’s centralized administrative and academic records system. Until now, Ellucian applications, including databases, have been hosted on-site at ODU, but we've been working closely with Ellucian for the past year on a plan to move Banner and other Ellucian applications to the cloud. We are finally ready to make that move during Fall break.
Banner applications will be offline and unavailable from:
Saturday, October 12, 12:01 a.m.
to Wednesday, October 16, 11:59 p.m.
During the outage, you will not be able to access Banner, Leo Online, Touchnet or other Banner applications, similar to when we do Banner upgrades or year-end processing. However, a "read-only" version of Banner database will remain available to certain supporting systems like MIDAS and Shibboleth to ensure continuous operations of other ODU systems.
You can read more about the migration process – including a timeline and a full list of affected applications – at odu.edu/information-technology-services/article/banner-migration-to-cloud.