Project WakeDay

Wake Forest embarked on a strategic effort to transform the student experience through a modern Student Information System (SIS). Students use the SIS to search for and register courses, track degree progress, and monitor grades. Academic administration and faculty use the SIS to plan course needs, guide student advising, and enter student grades. We are pleased to charge forward in our multi-year effort in migrating our SIS from Banner to the Student Information System provided by Workday (“Workday Student”). ‍Known as Project WakeDay, through this work we hope to more effectively meet the modern needs of our academic community, provide a smoother, modern, mobile-optimized experience on the web and in the app, and empower our programs with new, more elegant ways of connecting our systems and data. 

After partnering with Huron and Workday Student, IS began its discovery phase of Project WakeDay in 2022. Through discovery phases, we began building the process with Workset A. From there we partnered with campus offices through listening sessions. In response to discovered community needs, we built the first prototype tested in November 2022. The second version followed and was built over winter break. Currently, almost all Wake Forest Undergraduate and Graduate students are included in the system as we move into work with other student services on campus along with our final workset, Workset D.

Rolling “launches” of functionality begin in fall of 2023. Faculty and students transition to the new system in spring 2024.