University of Delaware
Student Information System
Cognos
It is anticipated that the primary ad-hoc reporting tool for most users of the UD-Financial and UDSIS Student Records systems will be "Cognos". This is a web-based reporting tool, so does not require any particular software be installed on your local computer. It does require that you use Internet Explorer (5.5 or higher).
Cognos includes two fundamental utilities for ad-hoc reporting. The simpler of these two is "Query Studio", the more powerful is "Report Studio". Two training documents are available that introduce users to these two components. They use a demonstration database unrelated to either the Financial system or Student Records. You will probably want to first work through the Cognos Query Studio Tutorial, and then follow with the Cognos Report Studio Tutorial.
From "Help" links in each Studio there also are Users Guides in pdf format that you can search or print out for more detailed reference.
To help you achieve some familiarity with the structure of real UD data, there are Data Dictionaries in this area of the website.
Cognos listserv
Cognos is to be the primary reporting tool for UDSIS. A listserv has been established to share ideas and report problems with that system. NSS will also use this list to send out notifications regarding server downtime, maintenance and related messages for cognos.udel.edu. To subscribe to this list, go to: https://udel.edu/mailman/listinfo/ud-cognos . To send postings to the list, email: ud-cognos@udel.edu