Academic Systems Jump Page

While you may use many or all of these academic systems in your day-to-day work, not all systems are administered by the University Registrar’s Office. Systems owned by departments outside of the University Registrar’s Office are noted below with an asterisk*.

The systems managed by the University Registrar’s Office and associated offices refresh with updated information at different times. See the chart listing the refresh rates.

Document and file management for the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Access commonly used reports and data for Yale College and the Graduate School

Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

  • CAT: bulletin production and updates for Yale College Programs of Study, GSAS Programs & Policies and several professional schools
  • Approval page: for courses and bullet pages awaiting approval
  • CIM: Course Inventory Management: new course proposals, course edits 
  • WEN: course offering and and scheduling and classrooms if applicable
  • CourseLeaf resources
  • CourseLeaf assistance: courseleaf@yale.edu
  • Yale Course Search (YCS): search course offerings

Yale College Course Proposal Workflow Chart

A Course from Beginning to End

Student progress toward degree requirements for Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Admissions for Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Yale College advisers

Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Academic Systems Refresh Rates

The systems managed by the University Registrar’s Office and associated offices refresh with updated information at different times. Below is a chart listing the refresh rates.

System Refresh Rate
Argos Data A limited number of reports have real-time Banner data. Otherwise, reports use data in the Operational Data Store (ODS) which gets updated every two hours (except from 3am-7am). Banner data is updated in ODS on even hours and DegreeWorks data is updated on odd hours. 
Canvas Courses, Sections, Enrollments  - every 30 minutes, 6AM - midnight; every 2 hours, midnight to 6AM
Accounts, subaccounts, users - 1x per day
Course Demand Stats During reg window, every 30 minutes. Date & time of last refresh is noted at bottom of the report
Discussion Section Demand Stats During reg window, every 30 minutes. Date & time of last refresh is noted at bottom of the report
Faculty Grade Submission (FGS) Enrollment data is near real-time, grade export & rolling to history is every 30 minutes; department proxies added in Banner or FSA are refreshed in FGS every six hours at 8 am/pm and 2 am/pm.
Student Profile Student data is realtime/ adviser sync runs at 18:00 
Degree Audit Banner data is updated in Degree Audit every day at 6am and then every 2 hours from 10am to 10pm. Data from Degree Audit updates ODS/Argos every two hours (on odd hours)
Yale Course Search Varies depending on time of year; during registration, full rebuild 3x/day (course enrollment updates every minute); otherwise, every hour
Date/time of last rebuild is noted at the bottom of each course details panel
DPRS/NOR Student data is realtime
Teaching Fellows (TFS) Students data pulled once a day 5am from Banner
Grad Student Funding (GSF) 06:45 M-F Costing sent to Workday
12:00, 14:30, 23:00 S-F Compensation and Costing sent to Workday
Faculty/Student Advising (FSA) Student data is realtime/ adviser sync runs once a day on the current FSA term only
  Last updated 08/21/26