Knight Vision

As we are still in the early stages, we cannot confirm that yet. It is our understanding that it will, however.  

Exempt employees will only enter exceptions such as sick or annual leave.

Yes, there are reviews and approvals in the business process. When a requisition is created, the user’s default worktags will pre-populate based on their HCM data. The SET role at the college/division level will review worktags for appropriateness. Additional approvals may be required by the appropriate areas based on worktag selection (i.e., grant, gift, project, etc.) and/or selection of spend category.

No, not at this time. We’re really focused on the major bolt-ons that we know will not transition into Workday.
We have not gone through every single customization that will be part of the student implementation process.

In addition to completing the Expression of Interest Survey, you will be able to work with your transition team to ensure you get placed in the role that is the best fit for you. You will be considered for your first choice. If you are not placed in your first choice role, there will be a serious effort to place you in another role that is a good fit. If you do not express interest, you will not be placed in a role in the SET model.

Timekeeping is a separate activity. The employee use of it is similar to myUCF. 

Yes, those who work with the processes everyday have the opportunity to provide feedback and discuss the pros and cons regarding the decision on how to configure a business process. For this project, we are very interested in hearing from not only senior-level administrators, but also the boots on the ground people who engage with the system procedures regularly. The feedback of those who are using these systems is extremely valuable to the Knight Vision team and their input is of great interest.  

Employees will be able to complete expense reports via Self-Service. There will also be the option for expense reports to be completed on their behalf by someone centrally within the college/unit. Individuals who are not UCF employees will have to provide expense report documentation to be completed by the central preparer for the college/unit.

When we say “specialized,” we do not mean that you will be doing the same thing every day. Specialization does not equate to isolation; rather, it means the opportunity to become an expert in one functional area, like HR or finance. Employees will also be able to receive more specialized training and do things that are currently not being done without that training, which will provide staff with new opportunities to learn and grow.

We will be able to expand our current off-boarding capabilities with Workday. Employees will be able to submit their own resignation and will be required to include documentation with that submission. Additional features can be added during rolling adoption.

The UCF Foundation, along with the university’s other direct support organizations (DSOs), is on the same timeline as the university. Go-live is planned for July 1, 2022. 

Workday is very easy to use and I hope that all employees will take advantage of that! There is the possibility of having “timekeepers” that can assist.

With the launch of Workday, your Workday photo will be the same photo as your current photo on file at the UCF Card office. To update your photo, simply visit any UCF Card Location.

When is the best time to visit the UCF Card Office to update my photo? The best times to update your Workday photos are:

Between Spring and Summer Semesters: After the last final on finals week until the start of Summer B Semester, typically early May until Mid-June.The week before the start of the Spring Semester: typically, the first week of January.

How often can I update my photo?

To keep this service complimentary, photos can be updated no more than once annually.

How much does it cost to update my photo?

There is currently no cost to update your photo.

Will my UCF ID be updated with my new photo?

Not unless you print out an updated card or badge. Note that while updating your Workday photo is complimentary, printing out an updated card or badge may incur a cost. Contact the UCF Card office for questions about printing an updated card or badge at the time of your photo update.

Can I update my photo on my own, without visiting a UCF Card location?

We are looking into options for self-updating photos, however, currently the only way to update your photo is by visiting any UCF Card Location.

Worked time can be edited and updated by your Supervisor/Manager or Timekeeper. Time Off on the other hand can be edited by you, as well as your Supervisor/Manager or Timekeeper.

We recommend you view the Workday Security assertions. Workday has third-party audits and certifications, and we have full faith in the system. Data is housed for the use of UCF, but it cannot be monetized. They host their data across three secure locations.

This relates to when a gift worktag is used. When you’re using Foundation funds, an additional level of approval will take place both at spend authorization and expense report level. Most colleges that have Foundation funds have a gift manager. Today, when you make a purchase using gift funds, you submit it and then you’re reimbursed once the University has paid. You will not have to wait for that reimbursement in this case. Certain people will have access to see funds available in Workday and you will not have to go to a separate Foundation system.

There will be a variety of ways in which the campus community can be involved with the Knight Vision program. A few of those include quarterly open forum meetings with Knight Vision progress updates and additional information, feedback and survey opportunities, volunteer opportunities and more. Visit the Get Involved page for additional opportunities and updates. 

You won’t have a requisition or PO; instead you’ll have a spend authorization in Workday. It gives approval to travel and it will go through a workflow process (an abbreviated process) that will work similar to what the requisition/PO looks like today (i.e. who the traveler is, what the expenses that will be incurred are, where they’re traveling). It can be initiated by the traveler and is a self-service feature, but it also could be initiated by one of the roles of the Service Centers. To view more details regarding Expense Reports, view the recorded Workday Community Information Session from October 7, 2021.

The current process for requesting IT equipment will not change with this project.

Jobs with the same title will be assigned to the same salary range regardless of which business center they exist in. Where individual employees are positioned in these ranges could differ based on factors like years of service, performance, experience or location – among others.

The on-demand, self-service capability will be elevated in Workday with more self-service capabilities.  

An individual can create their own or someone else at the college-level. That workflow is still being ironed out, but it can be a self-service function.

Emails are sent to the UCF email address and within Workday’s inbox. You can view your tasks in one place and not have to deal with your email. We currently do not have information on a text option. 

No, there is not at this time. However, managers and supervisors will have access to a full calendar in Workday that allows them to view all the time off as needed.

No, because if you’re able to create a requisition in Workday, there’s not additional login information needed. It’s all tied together.

The system allows for some retroactive changes, such as forgetting to report a day off or if an employee forgot to punch in or out. Your manager/supervisor or timekeeper has the ability to modify all leave requests.

No, it does not. Invoices for punchouts will be paid through Vendors Payable via the suppliers payment method on record (i.e., ACH, check, epayable).

The goal of Knight Vision is not to reduce the number of employees in any area, but instead to streamline the efficiency and effectiveness of all business processes. Any changes that occur will occur over time as we settle into a new way of working and doing our jobs. Knight Vision is going to have a positive impact on those who work at UCF. Our work will be more efficient and effective as we switch to a different technology system, make changes to business processes and make sure that people have the tools to do their job well without unnecessary duplication. 

Leaders of the college or division you are interested in will make the final selection decisions. Transition teams are in place to assist their college or division by providing tools, resources and answers to questions employees may pose throughout the process. Transition teams are not the final decision-makers on SET positions.

Yes, it is used for everyone getting a paycheck from UCF.

Workday Adaptive Planning will provide leadership and managers business modeling, analytics, management, and board reporting, and allows for collaboration. Workday HCM/Finance provides the ability for users to easily generate HR and Finance reports and gain visibility into budget data. Workday utilizes many delivered reports and we will be reviewing the need for custom reports as well. All data access is managed by security groups. Key benefits include the ability to drill down and filter data, make more informed decisions, create reports and analytics using real-time transaction data, analyze across finance, HR, and payroll, and bring all data in to one system.

View more information about Workday Security here – https://www.workday.com/en-us/why-workday/security-trust.html#trust-security  This provides details regarding Workday security and privacy concerns. We have full faith and confidence in the company’s ability to provide appropriate protections for data put into their custody. We are all vulnerable and these large firms maintain a critical security investment, since if they lose trust, they will lose their revenue base. Additionally, there are contracts protecting against use of employee or UCF data for any other purpose but for UCF administration. It cannot be monetized. 

Hundreds of different institutions, including OPM and the NSA, are on premium high-security hosting. The NSA had leaks. In-house hosting is not inherently more secure or compliant relative to the risks and labor costs to maintain it. We are making an intentional risk acceptance and transfer to Workday hosting relative to other costs and risks. 

The Knight Vision team will work with the owners of these applications to understand their functional needs and make plans to ensure solutions are in place before the respective PeopleSoft applications are turned off. These plans will address the budgetary, technical and project resources needed to implement alternative purchasing and developing solutions. 

There is an integration that is planned for Workday, but for now Campus Solutions, PeopleSoft and Workday will all be working together. Campus Solutions will also eventually work together with the new FDM. The long-term goal is to transition everything to Workday. We will start the analysis and examination of Workday Student/student systems in the spring of 2022.

Currently, there is no integration with Outlook.  

A&P exempt employees will not have to do time cards. They will enter their sick/vacation time directly into Workday.

There is never a good time to start one of these large projects. The Knight Vision funds have been set through an approval process. The cost of moving forward with the effort is necessary for the future of UCF and the Knight Vision program will bring greater efficiencies and better financial management to the institution in the long term. It is difficult to justify continuing to operate in the way we have in the past at UCF. 

Pay equity involves analyzing the components that make up an individual’s salary. Employees sharing the same title could have salaries that are different because of a variety of factors such as years of service, performance, experience, time worked in the role or the employee’s location – among others. These compensation factors will be considered when making decisions related to staffing. UCF guarantees that employees will be paid at least the minimum for their position’s assigned grade. It is expected that salaries for most employees associated with jobs in the SET model will remain unchanged.

Workday Student will start after Phase I (finance and HR) go-live and the current project ends. The timeline for Workday Student is still being determined.

Currently, we are exploring using a sequential numbering format but having the current location decals on historical data. More information will be provided as a final decision is determined.

Yes, a demo on the electronic timesheet dashboard was done during the Knight Vision Open Forum on May 26, 2021.  

Yes. At various stages in the project, units from across the university, including colleges and Direct Support Organizations (DSOs) have been asked to participate.

To prepare you for your new position, you will be provided trainings to take starting as early as May 1, 2022, while you are still in your current role. Details regarding this training will be provided and will include the total amount of required time (this may range from 20 to 30 hours across May and June). Much of the training you will take before Go-Live will be self-driven training you can take at your own pace. We are sensitive to the additional time commitment and your current supervisor will be notified of this training expectation and encouraged to allow flexibility in your current responsibilities during those commitments. Training will be accessible in phases.     

The divisions and departments have been asked for input and information as the project has progressed. Past state processes have been assessed, and the new, current state processes have been designed based on Workday functionality and industry best practices. The Campus Community Advisory Group (CCAG) and subject matter experts have worked with the project team to assess impacts of process changes and made adjustments to ensure processes are effective, efficient and decisions are made in the best interests of the entire university. 

There are reports available that can be run for your area to pull any time off during a specific period. We can also schedule these reports to go to your inbox when a request has been approved.

The Keys system will continue to live on in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions until a new application is identified by the CARP project and transitioned to a new application platform.

There are no additional monies allocated for SET positions. Each college will make the decision on how funding would be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Transparency of the Knight Vision program implementation has been maintained in the past through engagement with the campus community through open forums, the Knight Vision newsletter, official website, social media and the Campus Community Advisory Group (CCAG). We are currently leveraging new resources, such as kNEXT, the Word on Workday newsletter and live training sessions (via the Workday Learning application) to maintain transparency and provide assistance as necessary. As we move forward, we will continue to make decisions and update our program timeline. Transparency and execution are what we strive for!

Throughout the project, people will have opportunities to get involved. Some examples include:

• Many full-time positions with the project have been filled by internal candidates and any subsequent openings will be posted to the UCF jobs site.
• The Campus Community Advisory Group (CCAG) will ensure that people who will use new Knight Vision processes and applications on a day-to-day basis have a means of sharing their  perspectives.
• Subject matter experts in functional and unit areas will be asked to participate in customer review sessions, provide feedback and also provide specific input to the project team during the architecture phase.
• People from across the university will have opportunities to be change agents, ensuring people understand the changes and are prepared to adopt them.
• Training will be provided in a “train the trainer” model that will allow people in each functional area to train their colleagues.
• Staff will have opportunities to test functionality by running through scenarios they typically have in their respective units or functional areas.
• There will also be multiple opportunities to participate in open labs and open forums to get information, ask questions, and provide input.

Learn more at our Get Involved page.

Yes, some rework will be necessary, but the data gathered was essential to start the evolution. We encourage you to visit the Budget Model Redesign webpage for more information at Yes, some rework will be necessary, but the data gathered was essential to start the evolution. We encourage you to visit the Budget Model Redesign webpage for more information at  https://fa.ucf.edu/budgetredesign/process-and-timeline/.  

The ability to see reports will be based on security roles in Workday. There are Workday Standard Reports, which come “out-of-the-box” with Workday. The “Find Purchase Order” Report allows a user to find purchase orders by company, supplier, date, status, requestor, worktags and other fields. The report also shows the business documents associated with the purchase order; so if a receipt is approved, that will show on the report. When the business document field is blank, that means there are no other associated business documents with that purchase order (i.e., receipt, invoice, etc.), indicating that a receipt is still pending.

There is also the “Purchase Order Lines Not Received” Report; however, this report has less searchable fields. Once the report is run, you could filter by specific purchase order numbers to determine if your purchase orders are still pending receipt. Users can also run the “My Requisition” report to view requisitions, the subsequent purchase order that was created and the status of related business documents. Suppliers may be also be able to acknowledge orders or send advanced ship to notices, which can assist with the status of orders.

All managers will have a Workday dashboard that allows them to see who missed punches. The manager can then check in the employee and add a comment about why the employee missed clocking in.

Access to the Adaptive Planning portal link is on the MyUCF login page located in the UCF Resources section.

UCF IT provides information on how to install OfficeConnect from the Software Center. Review the following knowledge base articles (NID login required to access):

• How to install the Workday Adaptive Insights OfficeConnect Plug-in
• How to install the Workday Adaptive Insights OfficeConnect Plug-in (Manual Method)

This information is also provided in the ADP100 webcourse, which is a required course for all Adaptive Planning users.

Note: At this time, MacOS does not support OfficeConnect. Mac users could only utilize the application if Windows is downloaded to their computer.

Please consult with your departmental budget director regarding access to Adaptive Planning based on your individual job roles and responsibilities.

The Knight Vision SET project directly aligns with two of the President Cartwright’s goals:

1. Build a strong leadership team with a focus on improving administrative infrastructure and systems that drive operational excellence, efficiency and effectiveness.

Through organizational alignment, process improvements and a focus on efficiency and effectiveness, we can ensure we are maximizing our investment in our institutional missions of education, research, student development and public service, and moving toward becoming a leading public metropolitan research university.

2. Build a culture of trust, engagement and accountability that also makes UCF one of the best places to work for our faculty and staff.

The SET Project will enable: “clear and consistent administrative structure; streamlined use of administrative systems; operational effectiveness, efficiency, and excellence; opportunities for engagement in operational transformation; transparency that can help establish trust; structures and metrics for accountability; enhanced employee experience for functional and support staff and improved services for administrators and faculty.”

SET is focused toward aligning how we provide services across the HR and finance functions of the university. This is not related to the ongoing compensation project, nor is it designed to be a market exploration or a platform to redesign the compensation framework of the university. That said, one of SET’s guiding principles is to maintain a title/role structure that is market influenced, which will enable UCF to align these roles with market data in the future should UCF engage in any market pricing initiatives.

We want staff to have a voice in what their future career path looks like going forward, which is why all staff who currently work in HR or finance (and who want an HR or finance role in the future) must express interest in a SET role. SET is intended to be positive for all campus – including staff – by providing staff the opportunity to specialize in a defined area, clear and consistent pathways for advancement and superior service delivery for the whole institution. The strategy for transitioning faculty/staff is being guided by the following principles, as laid out in the Workforce Transition Plan:

1. Retain our staff throughout the implementation of SET.
2. Fill roles with as many qualified internal staff as possible.
3. Make every effort to place people in the roles and college/division of their choice.
4. Make the process of expressing interest simple and easy.
5. Align current roles that naturally fit with a future state SET role.
6. Provide new opportunities for staff that are interested and meet the qualifications.
7. Ensure everyone who may be affected has a local contact with them and help outline an individual transition plan.
8. Provide comprehensive support and training for new responsibilities.
9. Build career paths and opportunities for professional development.
10. Ensure colleges and divisions are involved in the process, and coordinate changes across the institution.

Workday will replace PageUp.  

Both the SET project and the Workday ERP Implementation project are part of the broader Knight Vision program.

The SET project defines the roles, responsibilities and organizational structure that will inform the final configuration of the new Workday ERP system for HR and finance. Similarly, features available in the new Workday system require changes in the way we currently conduct certain university processes, which require a streamlined organizational structure. By coordinating each project with one another, our university will be able to cohesively address HR and finance service opportunities across people, processes and technology.

The exact amount has not been determined at this moment, but we will need cross-functional engagement from every area that touches students because we have already started to look at the depth and breadth of the student implementation. We are currently working with a group of individuals from SGA and we’re putting together a Student Advisory Council that will hopefully grow and allow us to leverage their input.

There will be only one Knight Experience Team. For more information, refer to our SET Operating Model page.

$50 million has been allocated for the ERP Program so far. Workday HR & Finance implementation will cost $27.6 million, including the software implementation and associated consulting support. Additional costs related to the ERP project are still being evaluated. These include improvements to HR & Finance service delivery, reporting & analytics, and replacement of select custom PeopleSoft applications. Implementation costs and funding requirements for the student application will be evaluated over the next 18 months. 

Staff interested in remaining in their current college or division do not need to participate in the Expression of Interest Survey and may discuss their preference with their transition team.

The SET project worked with each college and division to outline the estimated size of each business center, starting with a standard set of metrics. These numbers and final organization charts may continue to evolve. Each college is responsible for the staffing and size of their Finance and HR Business Centers.

The backfill budget for Knight Vision is limited, and employees moving onto the project will have a salary based on their current salary plus a small stipend.

There is a SET Learning Path for each SET position that includes both Workday training and SET position-specific training. Subject matter experts in the central offices of finance, faculty excellence, HR and research thoughtfully chose courses based on the responsibilities in each SET job description. 

Efforts were taken to make sure representation came from units across UCF. Members were selected based on their ability to represent their areas, their familiarity with the overall university and processes, and approval from their managers.  

We are currently designing to work with the CipherLabs scanners. We have explored other opportunities, but at this moment, we are working with CipherLabs. There are no new design updates at this moment, but we will explore more options at a later time.

The attractive assets will be tracked in Workday via the worktag. There will be a specific unique worktag for attractive assets. A lot of transactions in Workday will be selected from a list of spend categories. It will be more intuitive and the spend categories will sync up behind the scenes to account posting roles. To learn about the worktag structure, visit our Foundation Data Model webpage.

Managers will have a dashboard that will assist them with making sure employees enter time, submit time and identify who are ready for approval. Managers will also have access to mass approve their employees time as long as they have all submitted. The Central HR office will be able to mass submit and approve if needed as a last resort.

The divisions and departments will be asked for input and information as the project progresses. Current state processes will be assessed, and future state processes will be designed based on Workday functionality and industry best practices. The Campus Community Advisory Group (CCAG) and subject matter experts will work with the project team to assess impacts of process changes and make adjustments to ensure processes are effective, efficient and decisions are made in the best interests of the entire university. 

Workday will integrate with Canvas as PeopleSoft does today; however, most of the PeopleSoft trainings will no longer be applicable. We are working with leadership to identify recommended training per role in Workday. We will also be working to eventually move all that training directly into Workday Learning, the LMS platform for Workday.

Every person taking a new SET job will receive a SET Learning Path based on their SET position. SET Learning Paths will be accessed through Webcourses.

Customer Care Coordinators:
Provide customer service to campus-wide employees seeking assistance with Workday ESS for areas not supported by an employee’s business center.

HR & Travel/Procurement Specialists:
Provide transactional support for HR manager self-service and travel/procurement for the Office of the President, Facilities & Safety and Administration and finance divisions. These roles will include the same Workday transactional responsibilities as HR and travel/procurement coordinators in the business center. In addition to the standard Workday responsibilities, the specialists will also provide back up support to business centers as well as responsibilities detailed provided below regarding the all kNEXT support roles.

kNEXT Support Roles:
Provide knowledge management, training and communications to support kNEXT and business center HR and travel/procurement coordinators. Additional duties also include monitoring performance levels of SET, soliciting feedback from colleges and divisions, engaging the campus to identify and design solutions that enhance the employee experience and project management.

The Human Capital Management (HCM) and Finance PeopleSoft (UCF Financials) systems will be replaced with the Workday product. The Campus Solutions PeopleSoft system will remain until after HCM and finance systems are live. The transition from PeopleSoft Campus Solutions to Workday will require a project separate from Knight Vision.

The new roles will not begin until July 7, 2022, which means that for half of their performance year, they will be reviewed on their original job. There is going to need to be communication between new and current supervisors to discuss performance reviews between the two roles.

Training needs are currently being identified and more information will be shared in the future.

The Expression of Interest Survey is not a formal application. There will be opportunities for conversations between supervisors and potential hires that will allow staff to ask questions and grow more comfortable as they consider taking the new SET role. Once positions are filled, offer letters will be provided for staff to accept and sign. At this time, staff will be committed to the new SET role.

Supervisors will get an email and they will also get a task within Workday.

You will have a couple of options. If you are requesting time off in the future, you can request that time off via the Absence Calendar. But let’s say you are unexpectedly sick during the pay period, you can add that sick time right into your timesheet and it will route for approval once you submit your timesheet.

Most employees will find their salaries unchanged by SET. Only in instances of promotion or voluntary demotion could salary adjustments potentially occur.

The SET project will enhance the quality and consistency of HR and finance service delivery, eliminating inefficiencies and clarifying and streamlining complex processes. These changes will improve the customer experience and reduce the amount of time that students, faculty and staff must dedicate to administrative activities, thus enabling them to focus their time on supporting or engaging in mission-centered activities such as learning, teaching, research and service.

Workday has very robust and modern integration capabilities. The Workday project team is evaluating all systems that need to integrate with the new Workday platform.

The success of the Workday Implementation project is ultimately measured by the value it provides to the UCF community. End-user training will be determined based on general Workday system requirements and business processes performed in job roles and responsibilities. We will be exploring a variety of real-time (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) delivery methods to make learning more accessible.

In addition, a training calendar will be developed and will include a variety of training opportunities made available and accessible to the entire campus community. These opportunities will be promoted through various Knight Vision  communication channels such as our main website, upcoming open forums, targeted emails, UCF Events calendars, Campus Community Advisory Group (CCAG) and the Knight Vision newsletter. 

Training will be offered in multiple formats, including instructor-led classes, job aids, learning labs, on-demand videos, self-driven online content, user guides, webinars and on-the-job training after Go-Live.

The current processes will be redesigned, based on Workday’s best practice recommendations, to better support our campus community. This will result in more efficiency and accuracy, while affirming the UCF commitment to sustainability. Processes are currently being evaluated and configured in Workday. Additional details will be provided prior to go-live. 

PS/nVision reports will not be carried forward with Workday. However, Workday reporting provides robust drill-down capabilities right on the page so you will not lose that functionality that you had with the PS/nVision reports.

As with all DAL requests, DDCs should have their RFOs access for themselves, and RFOs should have their DDCs request access for themselves.

Financials Support Services has created the Adaptive Budget Level (ABL) hierarchy in UCF Financials in preparation for Workday Adaptive Planning (Adaptive) go-live. This update will allow users to be granted the appropriate level of access in Adaptive. Access will only be provided after responsible fiscal officers (RFOs) and deans, directors, and chairs (DDCs) have requested security access roles on the Departmental Authorization List (DAL) for users for whom they are responsible and after those users have completed the required online training.
 
Note: Adaptive Planning allows only one type of access. Choose only one authorization code that is most appropriate on the DAL. Adding the appropriate code to only one department or project is sufficient for requesting access. Do not request both authorizations for one individual.

The following resources are now available to assist RFOs and DDCs request access:

• Helpful Resources: Adaptive Planning Level and Account Hierarchies
• Addy Note: How to Request DAL Authorization to Access Workday Adaptive Planning

This is currently still in the design phase. Workday offers robust reporting and user-friendly dashboards. It will likely display that type of information in a report or dashboard.  

The on-demand, self-service capability will be elevated in Workday with more self-service capabilities than before. Tasks and notifications will be accessible through the Workday inbox, processes will be mobile-friendly and dashboards will be customizable.  

Hispanic/Latino is defined as an ethnicity, not a race, and an applicant can be both a specific race and Hispanic. The answer to this question is not available to the department to review and is used for Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting purposes only.

A subcommittee from the Knight Vision Business Owners Council (BOC) reviewed applications and sought to select representatives from various units across UCF. Knowledge of UCF was a factor, as well as deep understanding of processes within their units. The goal was to select a variety of employees who could assess the impacts to their respective areas and provide feedback.  

We are thrilled that you would like to be involved in Knight Vision. Phase II of the implementation (in 2022) will involve students, but at this time we are still very early on in process for Phase I. If you would like to be involved in receiving more granular updates about the implementation process and become involved in sharing updates to your colleagues and community, we encourage you to participate in the Campus Community Advisory Group Communication Network.  

Business centers, kNEXT and the Talent Acquisition Unit may not be fully staffed by the beginning of May. Trainings will be recurring to make sure everyone hired after April 30 receives all the training they need.

Just like today, students who are not employees will not be able to initiate travel requests on their own; someone will have to initiate that on their behalf. For ROTTs and Expense Reports, there is an approval process workflow. It requires approval from a supervisor, and a review from the Cost Center Expense Coordinator to review the spend authorization and make sure that it’s in accordance with spend policies. Depending on what source of funds are used (i.e. grant or gift), additional approvals might be required. This process will take out some of the back-and-forth with dropping off receipts.

If an employee submits an expense report in Workday, they will be reimbursed via direct deposit regardless of the funding source.

From a security standpoint, if an employee is part of a business process and their approval is required, they will receive a notification in their inbox. Multiple people at the university can hold the same security role. When the business process is ready for that security role, as long as that employee holds a position within the division/cost center (meaning they are part of the business process approval), they will receive a notification. Thus, multiple people can be notified to approve the same process. Once approved, the notification does not disappear. However, Workday has lots of Inbox Filters which will help our users manage their tasks.

There will always be supervisor approval for travel. A supervisor is not required on a requisition. Details are still being determined.

Movements into higher-level positions are defined in the SET initiative as “promotions”. Upon promotion, employees will be placed no lower than the minimum of the assigned grade for their new position. These new salaries will then be evaluated against existing internal peers to ensure that no compensation inequality between similar positions and similarly-situated peers exist upon salary placement. In instances where an imbalance is introduced, the individual moving into the new role will have a salary review for potential adjustment. Factors taken into consideration when evaluating a salary for adjustment can include: years of service, performance, experience, peer salaries, location and credentials.

Information related to training for the new Adaptive Planning system can be found on the Knight Vision website at https://knightvision.it.ucf.edu/adaptive-planning/.  

This is why we are asking for staff to express their interest in a given opportunity between HR and finance. The SET model was created for individuals to specialize in either an HR or finance function, and develop exceptional expertise in the responsibilities and tasks for that position in the college/division. Employees will also be able to receive more specialized training and perform new and expanded responsibilities. HR and finance specialists will still be working closely together.

Yes, we do have a workflow process for transfers that includes oversight by Office of Research and Finance.

This will be done during the asset registration, whereas the respective cost center will be determined during the registration of the asset.

“The Absence Calendar way of requesting time-off (e.g. sick, annual, etc.) is for hours only, not in/out. If you’d like to request two hours of sick for a day, you can do that via the Absence Calendar.

If you’d like it to be specific to a date/time, then the Non-Exempt employee would add it to their timesheet. Only Non-Exempt will be able to add ins/outs. Those hours would then be submitted with the rest of the timesheet once the employee submits their timesheet for approval.

The criminal background questions cannot be deleted from the questionnaires by the initiator of the job requisition.

The data model in Workday is much more flexible than what we have had to date. You can go from Student Accounts directly into GL or from the GL to see the Student Account record and without signing into another module.  

There are out-of-the-box integrations for Outlook regarding the Learning Module. Other modules are on the Workday roadmap for integration.  

Yes, we will review spend and punchout capabilities with McMaster Carr.

Yes. Workday is protected by a secure socket connection, the same protection used for online financial transactions. Your information is safe whether accessed within UCF environment or on another web connection. We will be using Two Factor Authentication. Learn more about Security and Trust with Workday.  

The new SET operating model is not intended to reduce staff or resources:

• Some staff will be hired into a new HR position in a college or division (within a HR Business Center).
• Some staff will be hired into a new finance position in a college or division (within a business center).
• Some staff who currently have HR or finance responsibilities will stay with their department and will have new capacity to perform other roles and responsibilities through realignment of local responsibilities.

Yes. The experience at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) with HCM and Finance conversions was to deploy the basic service and then move to continuous process improvement mode based upon the Workday business process models. This question would take another whole hour to discuss as we would have to examine 25 modules in Workday and the associated business processes. Focus, sequencing and prioritization will be critical to make those dates.  

If a purchase is made using foundation funds (gift worktag), the transaction will be routed to a gift manager for approval.

Security is tied to users who can produce sponsor invoices.

We are asking the community to participate in the Activity Assessment and interviews. Until we inventory the data, it would be very challenging to answer these types of questions. Once we know how Workday works, different people and roles will evolve into more strategic and higher-purposed roles in their units. We will be using the data to drive the decisions with intention.  

Our tax exempt certificate is already included in the punchout. Therefore, tax exemption will already be in place. No need to provide when using a punchout.

The integrations and the Foundation Data Model (FDM), which is the account structure, have led us to better understand what retrofits are needed to make the Workday implementation successful. It took a significant amount of work to get to that point and that is why the timeline is so aggressive. There are a couple factors that come into play when avoiding a risk to the overall program – the expedited timeline and the complexity of identifying the analysis of our Campus Solutions environments. Although the kick-off of the project was announced recently, it has been well underway for quit some time.

You may send questions or comments to the Knight Vision email at knightvision@ucf.edu. There is also a feedback form for questions and comments available on the “Get Involved” tab of the Knight Vision website, or directly at https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2rAiYZVWCIsGtU. 

Yes.

Many custom applications built on the PeopleSoft platform have not been transferred directly to Workday and need to be replaced over the course of the Knight Vision implementation. Some of these applications have been addressed prior to the Workday HR and finance modules going live. Others will remain in place and be addressed during the Workday Student implementation project. The Knight Vision team is working with the owners of these applications to understand their functional needs and ensuring solutions are in place before the respective PeopleSoft applications are turned off. These plans address the budgetary, technical and project resources needed to implement appropriate solutions.

Training for Workday Adaptive Planning is based on a user’s authorized security access required for their job role and responsibility. Users interested in obtaining access to this tool are encouraged to consult with their departmental budget director first. General information regarding types of security access roles, how to request access and how to get started is on the Adaptive webpage. To stay up to date on upcoming training opportunities, visit the Learning application in Workday.

Workday has been implemented and adopted by a variety of colleges and universities of all sizes. Two of the most notable benefits of Workday include process standardization and a modern-user interface on both PC and mobile devices. This will reduce process variation and how the processes are experienced via the systems.

Yes, UCF will be modifying the subaward process to align with Workday functionality. The subaward process in Workday allows for more transparency to the individual subaward.

Yes, UCF data is encrypted and stored on secure servers in state-of-the-art data centers.

Learn more about Security and Trust with Workday.

Yes.

The answer to this will emerge when they come to a shared understanding and a decision. There is a ton of business logic, and we must make sure it carries forward in our deployment. 

UCF does not want to lose valuable employees who have deep institutional knowledge and loyalty to the university. Instead, we want to build on their knowledge and passion for a mission-focused organization. SET is committed to supporting training and development for staff and empowering them with new levels of authority to be better service providers for our faculty and staff. The SET model is focused on delivering exceptional service. And the SET project will allow for clear and consistent roles and responsibilities across the organization with greater transparency and opportunity for staff specialization and professional development.

We will have plenty of demos and training as we get closer to the final product.  

It is our goal to actively engage the community in the implementation process. We have already started by conducting numerous interviews and collecting feedback via surveys at the beginning of this program. We have also developed a Campus Community Advisory Group (CCAG) that serves as a bridge of communication between the Knight Vision program and the campus community. There will be a variety of training opportunities on the new applications and processes in the spring of 2022.  

The $50 million is one-time funding and cannot be used for recurring salary adjustments.  

We have spoken with many institutions using Workday. We will be building on their templates to customizing Workday to meet our needs at UCF. We will work closely with the campus community to ensure that the configuration of Workday will be useful. The team will actively collaborate with those who work closest to the processes. We have learned a lot through the implementation of PageUp. Thoughtfully leveraging the lessons learned of our past will make this effort a smoother integration process. 

The Knight Vision Finance team is currently working on how our travel processes and the utilization of Concur will be incorporated into the Workday Expense functionality. More to come.

Yes, the additional workload is being considered. As a result of the new tools and processes, staff is freed up from the tasks associated with manual and inefficient processes to more collaborative process management. It is our goal that budget management becomes more effective once Workday is fully implemented. 

It may be that the paper is faster for your personal preference, but when you look at the business process from beginning to end, the end user with the stack of forms can address it more quickly through technology. There are three data centers for Workday, so the likelihood of the software going down, is near impossible. It will be optimization of an entire business process. Ease of use question is understood, but if we design the processes to be seamless across the university and it, will allow us to do our work more effectively and efficiently. The current processes are very manual and labor intensive. 

Because we are still in the early stages, we cannot provide an answer to that question. However, we will be testing those capabilities. 

We will have to be very proactive and look at those new releases and the impacts they may have on downstream system integrations. There is a methodology that Workday has in place to help customers go through this process as well.

Exempt employees will not need to take action in the system if they have no time off to report.

Workday has amazing reporting functionality! Rather than running queries, you can run delivered Workday reports to get the information for your job role, or custom reports and dashboards can be created to meet information needs. There’s a central Workday Reporting team devoted to writing custom Workday reports to replace and enhance old PeopleSoft reports.

Some paper eliminations are natural. Workday has a great workflow process development platform. At this stage, we are not conflating digitization and forms elimination with the tool. We have also purchased a university-wide license for DocuSign that allows users to send documents for as many electronic signatures as needed. It is being rolled out in phases by UCF IT. 

We are in the process of determining that. There has not been a final decision yet. It will be part of our architecture phase.  

We understand that the relationships and skills built over the years for many employees matter. This is a significant organizational change and it’s different than what we have done in the past. We understand that some people like doing a variety of different things, but there are exceptional organizational benefits when staff are focused on one specialization. We encourage you to embrace this as a new opportunity for professional development and growth.

Similar to our current environment in Peoplesoft, many actions/features for E&G funds could also contain a Grants element if a grant is involved. Grants will be highlighted in training and business processes for those areas as applicable.

• Moodle/Canvas
• PeopleSoft for student information, schedule of classes and grading   
• Banner for enrollment registration, etc.  
• Degree Works and other advising tools 

Benefits to our People:

• Creating defined, uniform roles, responsibilities and competencies for staff and supervisors.
• Providing staff with more effective training opportunities.
• Providing service coverage so staff have specialist backup in their absence.
• Reducing duplicative work by simplifying and standardizing processes.

Benefits to our University:

• Increasing service speed, quality and consistency.
• Reducing risk from non-compliant processes and practices.
• Using modern, state-of-the-art technology to improve upon outdated processes, providing a uniform, high-quality customer experience.
• Aligning with Workday to simplify processes, reducing approvals and oversight.

Why Shift to SET?

We have come a long way from our origins and many of you have witnessed our impressive growth! In fact, we grew so fast, that our organization’s structure did not keep pace. Currently, there is inconsistency in processes based on college/division level, leading to a lack of specialization, and often duplication in efforts across many different units. With the implementation of Workday, all processes will be changed and simplified, which will lead to consistency in processes through the university, as well as consistency in roles and responsibilities across campus.

Allowing employees to add their own work history and details will allow for better succession planning and internal recruiting. Employees will not be able to update their own business address or phone number.

The required webcourses will provide additional information on the OfficeConnect plug-in tool. We also have the following helpful resources:

• How to Refresh and Save Data in OfficeConnect (video tutorial)
• About OfficeConnect (Adaptive Planning Knowledge Center)

Note: OfficeConnect may prompt you as software updates become available. Users are encouraged to select Yes when prompted.

We will have access to historical records beyond what records are converted and will reside in Workday. These decisions are part of the overall Knight Vision program. We anticipate having more details to share on the game plan for this reporting and analytics infrastructure by September 21, 2021.  

Transition Teams will collaborate with colleges and divisions to identify the impacts of the new operating model and brainstorm potential solutions for reorganizing staff responsibilities. The focus will be on:

• Accounting for departmental responsibilities that may be left behind by staff who are taking new SET positions; and
• Accounting for the newly created capacity of staff remaining in departments, whose current HR and finance responsibilities will be fulfilled by the new SET HR and finance teams.

We are still exploring new functionality delivered in Workday to determine features that would benefit Grants Management. Some options we are exploring are moving tasks into Workday that are currently handled manually outside of the system and creating validations to prevent invalid actions or incorrect data.

Workday can be accessed from a PC, Mac, tablet or mobile device (Apple or Android).  

Workday has disaster recovery built into the solutions it uses. Workday has a combination of their own data centers distributed across the world, but we’ve been assured that our data will be inside the United States. They have at least three locations with automated failover.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an industry term for business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business and automate many back-office functions related to technology, and in this case, human resources (HR). UCF will implement Workday as our ERP beginning with Human Capital Management (HCM) to manage HR, payroll, leave, benefits and finance.  

We are still too early in the process to determine this information. 

We plan to send a list of interested employees to the appropriate leader of the area and role(s) in which they expressed interest about a week after the survey closes. Those leaders will then connect with interested staff to further discuss the role and opportunity; think of this as a conversation. Official selection decisions will likely begin in March and continue through April. During this period, employees will be provided an official offer to accept their new roles.

In addition, a transition team member should meet with you to discuss any impacts to your existing position based on your current HR or finance responsibilities. They will track what responsibilities may stay at the college or division level if you choose to take SET role.

While a move into a non-SET position prior to completing an initial USPS probationary period would restart your initial probationary period in accordance with university requirements, this is not the case with moves into SET roles. Understanding that SET is a realignment of duties, the probationary USPS employee will get credit for the time served in their current probationary position and will serve the balance of their probationary period in their new SET role.

The transition process will be ongoing and does not end with go-live in July 2022. Our first objective is to place employees into roles that align to their interest and provide robust and ongoing training to support success. If you have concerns about any outcomes or responsibilities, we encourage you to raise them with leadership. This transition should be an ongoing conversation for all of us to be successful. In addition, employees can always apply for openings across the institution.

Your manager has the tools to help you add missed punches and make any corrections to your timesheet on your behalf. There will also be Timekeepers in the HR Business Center to assist as well.

PageUp and JobX will both be replaced by Workday.

There is a significant risk of not expressing interest before the Survey closes on February 20. If you wait, many roles – or the best role for you – may no longer be available. We urge you to express interest before the Survey closes on February 20.

You would restart your initial probationary period in accordance with the university requirement to serve an initial probationary period.

During COVID, we learned how to better adapt to more digital methods to reduce the stress of paper-based processes, especially with processes requiring signatures.  

Think of it as a set of GPS coordinates registered by a mobile device similar to the GPS boundaries of the UCF campus. Within these boundaries, would be consider a Geo- (geographic) fence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence 

A punchout is a supplier’s link within Workday that allows you to shop on suppliers websites, while completing checkout, approval, receiving and payment processes in Workday. To learn more finance-related terms, review our glossary.

A Timekeeper assists the supervisor/manager with auditing the worker’s timesheet for accuracy and makes sure time is submitted and approved by deadlines.

The timekeeper role allows for a supervisor/manager to mass approve the time. The supervisor/manager can leverage the Timekeeper to make sure time is ready for their approval without the supervisor/manager getting involved with making corrections etc.

They can edit a worker’s timesheet if necessary to:

• add missed punches,
• make corrections,
• submit time
• and request time off on behalf of a worker

Timekeepers can also run reports to view (just to name a few):

• team schedules,
• time clock history,
• time block audit
• and time off summary

They will also have access to the Time and Absence Dashboard which will allow them to see who:

• has checked in today,
• has unmatched events,
• has not submitted time,
• has a timesheet that is not approved
• and/or has not entered any time

Knight Vision Campus Community Advisory Group.

To obtain security access to the Adaptive Planning tool, all users must complete the required online training and complete the required Ethics form. View our Addy Tip: DAL Security Access Codes and Descriptions to view required coursework for Adaptive Planning Reporting (ADR) and Adaptive Planning Standard (ADS) security access roles. More information about how to register for online webcourses can be found on the FSS About Training webpage. Consult with your RFO/DDC regarding requesting DAL access once all training requirements are met. Note: A user can only be assigned one Adaptive security access role (not both).

SailPoint is an identity management tool that we have been using at UCF. We have also purchased a SailPoint product called Identity Now that is dedicated to managing the life cycle of identities. This product is designed to take identities from different sources like PeopleSoft and Workday and meld them together to make sure they have the right attributes, the right provisioning workflows, the right access controls at the right time and the right deprovisioning workflows to manage that entire life cycle of an account.

There is also a password management tool with SailPoint that is going to be a highly available cloud password-management tool for Self Service. It will also replace the account management tools that some of us are accustomed to using for helping end-users and looking up general information about accounts. There are some new features for certification campaigns so those who own a certain type of access can receive an email to check that the access still looks appropriate for the number of users that are in that particular access group. This is so they can re-certify them when necessary.

The Service Enhancement Transformation (SET) project is a method which will redefine, streamline and optimize the ways in which human resources, payroll, finance, unit-based post-award and procurement operations are provided at an institutional level. Efficiency and effectiveness are achieved by realigning roles and responsibilities and improving processes.

The SET project has established a Project Champions team and Advisory Committee responsible for evaluating options and making decisions. The SET project has three executive sponsors, Interim Provost and VP for Academic Affairs Michael Johnson, VP for Information Technology and CIO, and Senior VP for Administration and Finance Gerald Hector, who are accountable for making decisions and confirming alignment with the  Knight Vision Governance Structure. 

The following explains the basic form of a retrofit: We’ve built applications and PeopleSoft delivers applications in the PeopleSoft module so that the data structure can rely on HR and Finance data. Now, we’re going to have two disparate systems for HR, Finance and students, so the underlying data structures are going to need to change to accommodate the new data structure for Workday.

The following explains a bridge integration: The bridge integration will feed PeopleSoft the retrofits needed to the underlying application code to take the new data structure into account.

There will not be any new applications built within Workday; however, we will have a lot of control and flexibility with data validation and modifications to existing apps.

To best meet the needs of the UCF community, SET is establishing the next generation of a service center that places the employee experience at the center of how the team operates. kNEXT will focus on the following:

• Customer Service – Support campus-wide employees with HR, finance and Workday self-service questions and issues.
• Innovation and Process Excellence – Execute transactions with data integrity and timeliness, as well as identify areas of opportunity for improvement.
• Employee Experience – Put our people at the center of operations and innovation to provide the most value to our employees.
• Digital First Options – Make information easier to find, request intake and transaction self-service to support employees in real time with real humans when you need them.
• Relationship with Campus – Develop meaningful relationships across campus to provide the best support.

Business centers will be embedded in the colleges. Logistically, it will be up to each individual college or HR/budget directors to determine where to physically position staff.

The CCAG will serve as an advisory council to the Knight Vision Business Owners Council (BOC) and Executive Steering Committee (ESC), providing information and recommendations based on its diverse knowledge and campus perspective. Committee members will provide input regarding business processes, review Knight Vision options, assess impacts to end users and make recommendations to Knight Vision project teams and governance groups. 

Who will Procurement Cards be issued to and how will they be used in Workday?

• The Procurement Card will be issued to individuals in the College/Division Business Centers and the Knights Experience Team (kNEXT) and can be used for non-travel purchases over $1,000. 
• In Workday, Procurement Cards are tied to procurement functionality and purchase orders should be in place for these purchases prior to verifying the Procurement Card transaction in Workday.

What will happen to PCards?

• Current PCards will be called “Expense Cards” in Workday.

What will Expense Cards be used for?

• Expense Cards can be used for travel related purchases as well as routine, non-travel related purchases under $1,000.
  • This threshold only applies to non-travel purchases. 
• Travel-related purchases over $1,000 may be paid for via an Expense Card.
• Expense Card purchases are reconciled through Expense Reports in Workday and are not tied to a purchase order.

We anticipate the use of Expense Cards and Procurement Cards to decrease with the punchout functionality and the addition of suppliers to punchouts over time.

Why the $1,000 threshold?

• The university has a state requirement to track attractive assets. Due to this requirement, purchases over $1,000 should be purchased through a purchase order to ensure compliance.
• Purchasing equipment through expenses limits the university’s ability to approve and register the equipment at the time of purchase. 

There are many changes to existing business practices that will be introduced with Workday. Training will be provided to acclimate the community to these changes.

It’s difficult to understand the end-to-end impacts that these changes and many others will have on workloads across the university. We will continuously revisit process changes post Go-Live and review supporting data to determine if adjustments need to be made. 

The UCF project team has joined with Accenture, a Workday implementation partner, to build our Workday system from the ground-up, using Workday best practices as a guide. Through data gathering, design sessions and integration workshops, UCF processes are being analyzed and mapped into our Workday tenant building efficiencies wherever possible. Go-Live is scheduled July 1, 2022.  

Workday is the secure, cloud-hosted enterprise software platform that will be replacing PeopleSoft (UCF Financials). Workday is equipped to evolve to meet the needs of higher education and has been implemented at dozens of institutions. The platform provides 24/7 access to data and information in an intuitive, web-based interface that is easy to navigate from mobile or desktop devices.

We learned that trust is a pivotal element to the success of this program. It is important that we ensure that we continuously share information and keep inventory of feedback. It is not going to be easy, but we are confident that transparency and a strategic timeline will help propel the program forward. 

We have been posting jobs both internally and externally, leading to a greater diversity of applicants. Since this is a highly specialized project, certain skills and experiences are paramount to joining the Knight Vision team. We are interested in attracting diverse individuals to work on this project as well as following our guidelines for staffing, diversity and inclusion. As always, we look for the most qualified person for the role and maintain a transparent and open hiring process. 

There are over 100 colleges and universities currently using Workday with many more moving toward Workday just like UCF. A partial list of colleges and universities using Workday includes Indian River State College, Arizona State University, Broward County, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Palm Beach State College, Furman, High Point University, Nevada System of Higher Education, Ohio State, Penn, University of Virginia, Texas A&M University System, Louisiana Tech University, Vassar and many more. View all higher education and industry Workday users: https://www.workday.com/en-us/customers.html#?q= 

Workday gives employees the ability to run a variety of reports based on their role. Many of these reports can be viewed as results on the screen, based on the criteria entered by the user. Results can be filtered by column and exported to Microsoft Excel for additional sorting, formatting, and analysis. “Drill-down” capability exists throughout the application, so the details of summary information can be easily extracted.  

Adaptive Planning provides two types of reports – HTML (Matrix) and OfficeConnect (complex and formatted) reports. The OfficeConnect reports will have a Microsoft Excel suffix (.xlsx) at the end of the report name. UCF reports will be available under the following categories (with possible additions in the future):

• Comparison Reports – These reports will compare different dimensions within the report. Example: FY20 and FY21 Actuals with FY22 Budget
• Salary Reports – These reports will show only compensation data with selected criteria from the Human Capital Management (HCM) system. Example: Salary and fringe data by position for each department or at a rollup level.
• Operation Reports (P&L Reports) – These reports will show you Actuals, Encumbrances, Pre-Encumbrances, Budget Adjustments, and Current Year Budget by version and level.
• Trend Reports – These reports will show multi-year trends based on Actuals, Budgets, and Attributes.

They will have to build an integration. Many custom solutions today consume HR/HCM data. Our program leadership will review concerns pertaining to this system in order to ensure continuity with the new data model. For more information, please visit our CARP project webpage.

Employees that are required to work on campus will need to be within a predefined geofence perimeter to be able to click on the “check-in” button on their mobile device. If they are NOT within the appropriate perimeter, their check-in button will be disabled.

Security roles are still being finalized. Workday delivers standard roles that are either user- or role-based, which affects how they are assigned. UCF has the option to modify them, which is being considered during business process discussions.

One benefit of the SET operating model is that training developed by our central offices will continue after Go-Live. Staff will continue to have opportunities to develop their skills, as well as learn about updates to Workday and business processes.  

Personal Information  

• All paid faculty, staff and student employees can easily view their profile information, compensation, benefits, and other personal employee information.  
• Mobile access to all personal and other UCF data.  
• View your paycheck and tax forms Human Resources tasks.  
• UCF job applicant recruitment and hiring.  
• Make benefits selections during annual open enrollment.  
• Conduct performance evaluations with staff.  
• Quickly access your division organization chart.  
• Request time-off or submit a sick or other leave request Finance & Payroll tasks. Look up your budget account and see your expenditures, encumbrances, and available balances. 
• Seamlessly purchase from Amazon and OfficeMax websites with a Collin-customized checkout. 
• Submit expenses and reimbursement requests. 
• Create simple reports or request advanced reports.  
• Clock-in and out for your hourly position (student and hourly workers). 
• Allow supervisors to validate hours for payroll.

An email inviting staff to complete the survey was sent out to all individuals whose job responsibilities are expected to be affected by SET, but the Expression of Interest Survey is open to everyone. If you did not receive an email inviting you to complete the Expression of Interest Survey, or if you can’t locate the email that you received, you can access the Expression of Interest Survey on the SET Job Descriptions webpage. The Expression of Interest Survey must be completed before it closes on February 13.

There will be two phases of training: pre Go-Live and post Go-Live. Pre go-live training will occur in May and June. Post Go-Live training will begin in July and be ongoing. Training will include a combination of on-demand, self-driven training (e.g., job aids, videos) and live training (e.g., learning labs, webinars and instructor-led workshops). Live training may be virtual or in-person. Information regarding live training sessions will be announced.   

Just-in-Time (JIT) training will be provided starting on May 2022, which will include access to a Workday training tenant for the end-user community. JIT training promotes active learning in the workplace and provides the best opportunity for employees to return from training and immediately apply the new knowledge and skills to a Workday training environment. It is a common workplace training method that allows training to only be applied as needed and not too much ahead of time that knowledge is not retained. Be sure to review our published training calendar and catalog in April 2022 to determine your learning path and learn how to register for available training sessions.

The Workday project (Knight Vision) has no impact on the compensation and classification project. We are still in the design phase where we are determining what the workflow will entail when making changes to employment. 

The Training Tenant often referred to as the sandbox tenant, is one of the “on-demand learning” methods that will be utilized for Workday training and will be available to the end-user community in early May.

The Workday Student project will start after finance and human resources (HR) go-live and the current project ends. The duration of the Workday Student project will be at least 20-24 months. The preliminary estimate for completion of the Student System is June 2025. As we learn more, we will refine this estimate.

Some historical data will be available, but most will be housed outside of the new system. Requirements are still being evaluated. 

The project was funded with prior year carry forward budget in June of 2020.  

The following central office functions are moving into kNEXT:

• Background Checks
• Records Management
• International Employment and Tax
• Property
• Merchant Services
• Travel and Expense
• Procurement

Please note that there are central HR functions moving to kNEXT. Some of the listed functions may also exist within Faculty Excellence or other areas outside of central HR and finance.

It is necessary to invest in training our people to successfully navigate the new way of doing their jobs – at all levels. We want to keep our staff relevant in the workplace. We look to keep our staff at competitive salaries, but we must look at building sources for reoccurring money.  

Information regarding training opportunities and sessions will be provided in early Spring 2022 to the UCF community regarding session details and our official training calendar. Some training will be targeted for specific audience groups and other sessions will have open registration.

Your supervisor is the only one that sees the request. A calendar can display at a supervisory organization level, but does not show details – only who is out of the office on specified days.

For all inquiries related to Adaptive Planning and training opportunities, please contact the Financials Service Desk at fntrain@ucf.edu or call at (407) 823-5117, option 6.

To access our video tutorials, visit our Adaptive Planning Tutorials Playlist.

The end-users for the new Workday Foundation Data Model are all UCF employees who will be using the new Workday ERP system.

Everyone moving into a new SET position will receive training. There is a SET Learning Path for each SET position that includes both Workday training, as well as SET training. Subject matter experts in the central offices of finance, faculty excellence, HR and research thoughtfully chose courses based on the responsibilities in each SET job description.

If your review is due at the time you are in a SET role, your current supervisor will complete the USPS Final Probationary Evaluation.

If possible, your current supervisor will collaborate with your prior supervisor to complete the review together.

Faculty positions are bargained for so we do not have the control of those. Faculty positions have specific timelines for promotions, and that makes it different than other jobs. Always know the faculty promotions are coming and we can build into the budget. If promotions are received by USPS and A&P, they will get an increased salary with the new responsibilities, and they are reclassified. 

This approach allows us to spend our valuable time customizing Workday to meet our needs at UCF. Our time is better spent configuring and customizing to yield the most value for UCF stakeholders. 

The CCAG has a good sample of people from across campus from both the colleges and the administrative units. Our goal was to have a nice cross-section and representation of the campus community so that we have a good sample of input from everybody. 

Carry forward funds may only be used for non-recurring expenses by Board of Governors Regulation. Faculty and staff promotions are paid for from recurring dollars and therefore would be ineligible for use of carry forward funds. The Knight Vision project is eligible for non-recurring funding because it is a time-limited project. 

Article 14 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the United Faculty of Florida (UFF), requires the university to have a promotion process for all in-unit faculty. Tenure-earning faculty are generally promoted from assistant to associate professor when they receive tenure. They have one other opportunity for promotion, from associate to full professor, but the standards are rigorous, and many faculty members remain associate professors their entire careers. Additionally, non-tenure earning faculty at UCF only have two promotion opportunities with their own specific requirements.  

A&P and USPS employees are not constrained or limited in the number of promotions or reclassifications they can receive in their career at UCF. Promotions or reclassifications are based on the employee meeting the requirements of the position based on their experience, skills, prior performance, knowledge, education and competencies, and may require certifications or licenses.  

Carry forward funds may only be used for non-recurring expenses by Board of Governors Regulation. Faculty and staff promotions are paid for from recurring dollars and therefore would be ineligible for use of carry forward funds. The Knight Vision project is eligible for non-recurring funding because it is a time-limited project. 

 Article 14 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the United Faculty of Florida (UFF), requires the university to have a promotion process for all in-unit faculty. Tenure-earning faculty are generally promoted from assistant to associate professor when they receive tenure. They have one other opportunity for promotion, from associate to full professor, but the standards are rigorous, and many faculty members remain associate professors their entire careers. Additionally, non-tenure earning faculty at UCF only have two promotion opportunities with their own specific requirements.  

A&P and USPS employees are not constrained or limited in the number of promotions or reclassifications they can receive in their career at UCF. Promotions or reclassifications are based on the employee meeting the requirements of the position based on their experience, skills, prior performance, knowledge, education and competencies, and may require certifications or licenses.  

We do have various levels on the CCAG. Members were selected based on their ability to represent their areas, their familiarity with the overall university and processes and approval from their managers.  

FLSA non-exempt employees (typically OPS, USPS, students) will have to use check-in and check-out. A&P are typically FLSA exempt, and would only use the app to report time off requests (ex: annual leave).

The FDM will make a translation from our current PeopleSoft department projects. Cost Centers and other segments defined in Workday will have their own security. As long as you hold a role in the Cost Center for a particular worktag, you will be able to see reports for those values. If you’re at a division level you can initiate and approve transactions within that division. There will be hierarchies.

All PowerPoint presentations will be made available on the Knight Vision website.  

Yes. At various stages in the project, units from across the university, including colleges and Direct Support Organizations (DSOs) will be asked to participate.

No, a candidate will be able to view their application, but not edit it after submission. However, they could withdraw their application and reapply.

We will definitely be using banking information to record payments and deposits in Workday. Workday will be used to streamline bank reconciliation, which is currently a very manual process.

We will be deprecating Campus Solutions eventually. Workday Student is a strong candidate. That analysis starts in the Spring 2022.

The CCAG plays an integral role in providing a campus perspective on Knight Vision initiatives and offers valuable input to the program team on key processes, impacts and decisions. Members of the CCAG are not the decision- makers for the entire program, but they do provide impactful input that helps shape our future processes.  

No, employees are never expected to work without being compensated.

When employees with more than one job clock in and out, they will select which job they are clocking in for.

No, they will not be required to clock in/out with Workday.

It’s a self-service functionality in Workday, but some decisions are still being made on that.

Correct. This is a self service functionality as far as initiating a transaction, however, it will always route for approval through a center. An employee can make a purchase via a punchout, but it will not be processed without approval from the Cost Center Manager within the college/division business center.

HR, finance and research support are all professional areas of focus with opportunities across campus both within and beyond the SET centers. These roles will provide an area of focus upon which to build a successful career at UCF and internal mobility and growth will be encouraged.

Hourly employees should clock in when starting work and clock out when stopping. A supervisor can enter time if a punch is missed.

Any HR-related items that arise are brought to our attention and have been/will be shared with the HR/HCM team for consideration.

IKM Data/Pegasus Mine Portal will continue through Phase I. Minor changes may occur in reports that include HR or Finance data. 

Workday is only a technology platform, but the project to move to the next phase for the compensation project needs resources and budget to support those issues. The compensation processes in Workday will make managing compensation easier in the future. Workday will also afford the capability of streamlining department requests once business processes are configured. 

There will be Time Keepers to assist with running reports and making sure everyone has submitted and/or approved time.

Currently, it is the responsibility of the employee to submit time and the supervisor/manager to approve time. If the supervisor/manager delegates their role to someone else, then the delegatee can approve the time and can also make changes to an employee’s timesheet. More information about specific roles and the associated UCF titles will be published once defined.

Yes. Workday Mobile applications are compliant with UCF security policies “out-of-the-box”. It has been a primary focus for the Knight Vision program team to ensure compliance.

Protecting the security and privacy of personal data is a priority for Workday. Their global data protection program is founded on strict policies and procedures regarding access, use, disclosure and transfer of customer data.  

Yes.

Yes, pay grade information is included in the job descriptions on the webpage: https://knightvision.it.ucf.edu/set-job-descriptions/

Most employees will find their salaries unchanged by SET. In instances of voluntary demotions, a review of the of the role, responsibilities of the job and other factors, such as the individual’s prior experience, will be examined to determine the appropriateness of a salary adjustment upon placement into the new role. Voluntary demotions will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

Sole source purchases will be similar to how they are today. Procurement will review and approve the sole source.

It’s a self-service functionality in Workday so it’s beyond just the individuals working in the business centers. The supervisor, budget director and others depending on the requisition/expense dollar threshold or what’s being purchased will provide approvals for the purchases based on the approval workflow built into Workday.

Yes, Workday provides many modern solutions for generating HR and Finance reports and gaining visibility into data. All data access is managed by security groups. Key benefits include:

• The ability to drill down and filter data to make more informed decisions;
• Create reports and analytics using real-time data; and,
• The ability to analyze finance, HR, and payroll information together since the data is in one system. 

The Employment Classification Change Matrix explains expected changes to insurance, retirement plans and annual/sick leave accruals when employees change classifications.

Generally speaking, regardless of the job that an employee is in, they will continue to earn service credit within the State of Florida retirement plans. If you have additional or more specific questions, we encourage you to contact Benefits.

Some titles may remain the same while others will change. This will vary based on each college/division and the employee’s role.

There are no requirements to do work from your electronic devices. This would be a discussion to be had with your supervisor on expectations.  

This will depend on the situation. Our first priority is taking a look at the functionalities that we can move into Workday. Then, we look out for anything outstanding beyond that that could require a third-party. However, we want to keep using internal UCF employees to either build new applications or continue to run those services after go-live.

The processes to inventory the attractive assets are still being vetted. More information will be provided as it becomes available.

Sponsored awards will continue to be created in Huron Grants (HRS) and will be pushed to Workday via an integration. No sponsored awards will be created directly in Workday and thus, the copy award feature will not be used. If a new award needs to be created, it needs to be created in HRS.

There will be no ePAF channel and we will not be pausing business processes during payroll processing. The payroll process is much more dynamic in Workday.

Yes, budget categories today are called Object Classes in Workday. You will be able to see budget and spend per object class since each transaction will include a spend category and its related object class.

The goal is standardization. There are no requirements to put medical information on LAPERs and HR would advise against doing so. 

kNEXT will be comprised of HR and finance specialists as well as continuous improvement and customer service experts. This is not a center for administrative assistants; however, kNEXT and business centers will provide support to administrative assistants seeking assistance with Workday.

We are leaning towards enabling Geofencing (location), which will only allow employees to check-in when they are within the perimeter of the building. If the employee is outside that perimeter, Workday will disable the check-in/-out button on their mobile device.

There are no plans to change this access now. 

This process has not yet been detailed. We expect there to be efficiencies, but specific changes are not yet outlined. Some processes may have more steps or clicks; some will have less or will change completely.  

UCF will be processing sponsor invoices within Workday.

The system is not automated to post a job to a job posting website. The Talent or Academic Affairs teams are responsible for posting the job after the job requisition has been approved. The job posting website indicated on the job requisition by the initiator is reviewed by Talent or Academic Affairs and they will select the job posting website as part of their approval process.

Workday has not been configured to look for that situation. It is still a manager’s responsibility to create a work schedule that does not interfere with the student’s primary reason for being at the university – to be a student that becomes a graduate. The manager and supervisor need to coordinate times.

Yes.

The traveler can do this through self-service, but there will be the option that it can be prepared by somebody at the college-level as well.

Workday follows the guidelines set forth by Apple and W3C to prevent data being stored on any device, both through the native applications and the browser. Only simple values that facilitate reconnecting to the correct destination persist across sessions such as Tenant, Connection URL and Username.

There will likely be iterative changes, even after go-live. We will learn more as we do more end-to-end testing and there will be opportunities for us to provide updates, bug fixes and enhancements to new applications along the way to provide room for improvements.

Workday will handle the backup of the UCF data (as well as their other customers) to an alternative data center. This also includes the disaster recovery process.

There will not be a need to save original receipts. You actually do not need to submit originals today as long as the copy is legible.

Many custom applications built on the PeopleSoft platform will not transfer directly to Workday and will need to be replaced over the course of the Knight Vision implementation. Some of these applications will need to be replaced or addressed prior to the Workday HR and finance modules going live. Others will remain in place and be addressed during the Workday Student implementation project. The Knight Vision team will work with the owners of these applications to understand their functional needs and make plans to ensure solutions are in place before the respective PeopleSoft applications are turned off. These plans will address the budgetary, technical and project resources needed to implement appropriate solutions.

Yes, training will offer a combination of real-time and on-demand learning methods in an effort to better accommodate various workstyles and learning preferences. Real-time learning options may include learning labs, virtual webinars and instructor-led workshops. On-demand learning options may include open access to job aids, video demos, user guides and training tenant (environment) practice.

Depending on current members and representation from various areas, it is possible that additional opportunities could come up. If there are, opportunities will be posted on the Knight Vision website.  

In the coming months, we will be establishing a Change Ambassador Program (CAP) comprised of people across campus. This group will learn about the project and share information with colleagues ensuring understanding of the change and how to prepare for that change. There will be many opportunities to participate in outreach activities to learn more and ask questions.

Different types of employees will have different built-in processes and procedures. However, we anticipate a more streamlined process across the university.

Yes, Addy Notes are the same as job aids and we will be developing job aids for all Workday business processes in scope. Additional training materials will also include video demos, cheat sheets/infographics (similar to “Addy Tips”) and user guides.

That integration does not exist at this time.

At this time, we do not have a concrete answer. However, conversations regarding the change in how individuals work will continue.

Workday Student is now being evaluated for a Phase 2 implementation after our launch of Workday with HR, Finance and Payroll.

Yes, UCF data will be encrypted and stored on secure servers in state-of-the-art data centers.

Learn more about Security and Trust with Workday.

Workday delivers much more expansive operational and transactional reporting and analytics than has previously been available, so you should find that the need to run data queries for reports and stats is significantly reduced or eliminated altogether. Because reporting in Workday is significantly different and has a very steep learning curve, there is a central team of full-time Workday report writers who will be supporting the university by creating custom reports and dashboards to supplement what’s provided by Workday, and to meet specific information needs. There will also be individuals in various units, based upon their job role and function, who will have access to generate ad-hoc reports. 

Yes. Similar to the security we have for UCF Financials (PeopleSoft) today, all of those working in Workday HCM or Finance will have the appropriate security assigned based on their organization and roles.

The DAL will not be in Workday, but something similar with security and workflows will be set up. There will be a lot of different roles in Workday that depend on your training and current position. We are currently in the early conversations regarding the security of assigning roles.

UCF employees will be paid on June 30, 2022, instead of July 1, 2022, making it the third paycheck during the month of June and viewable in PeopleSoft. Additionally, this paycheck is being moved up by one day so it is the last check posted for the 2021-2022 Fiscal Year, allowing all time worked to remain in the same fiscal year. More information will be shared as it becomes available. Please sign up for the Knight Vision newsletter to ensure you are receiving the latest updates.

Workday will use both Expense Cards and Procurement Cards (PCards). People who have a Pcard today will likely have an Expense Card in Workday. Expense Cards will be used on purchases less than $1,000. They will be used in a way that most people use PCards today and they can be tied to Expense Reports in Workday. However, PCards cannot be tied to Expense Reports in Workday. These will be tied to a Purchase Order (PO) instead. PCards will also be distributed to a smaller population of users at the college/division service center level. Finance and Administration Service Centers will have some as well. In general, fewer people will have access to PCards in Workday.

We have over 264 custom integrations emerging out of PeopleSoft, 56 applications and 25 Workday modules. Workday will replace many processes, particularly on data integration and data related transfer based upon Workday’s Foundation Data Model. 

Not at this point. If there are other solutions for policy management that are available within Workday in the future, they will be considered.

All this information is recorded in Workday. Employees are able to see the history of their leave requests, including manager approval. You also have access to your balances within the system. When you make the request, it will automatically flow in the time tracking so that it is recorded in the pay period.  

Yes, they will receive that notification two ways: (1) the system generates an email to the supervisor and (2) a task appears within Workday. Requests can be approved conveniently via mobile phone.  

This has not been designed yet.  

At this point, we have not fully designed the system and we do not completely know what will or will not be accommodated.