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What's New in Student - August 2025
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What’s New in Anthology Student – August 2025

We’re thrilled to announce the 25.2.0 release for Anthology® Student, packed with powerful enhancements designed to streamline your operations, elevate the student experience, and bring more transparency and flexibility to your day-to-day workflows.

From cutting-edge AI to smarter academic tracking and financial aid enhancements, 25.2.0 is about helping your institution and students succeed.

Smarter Support with the New AI Product Guide

Meet your new sidekick: the AI Product Guide (Help AI), a generative AI assistant integrated right into the Anthology Student experience for Cloud customers.

Built on Azure OpenAI GPT-4o and Azure AI Services, this assistant is designed to provide on-demand, contextual help based on curated internal docs—no access to student or institutional data required.

Just ask Help AI your questions in natural language and get answers pulled from the help system and best practices documentation. It can even offer comparisons and recommendations in response to complex queries like, “Why should I use FAA instead of base financial aid?” or “What are the benefits of having Faculty Workload Management?”.

Key features:

  • Opt-in from system settings to activate
  • Sidecar-style chat launches from the main toolbar
  • Seven-day chat history (easily clearable)
  • Supports multilingual translation, content generation, and more
  • Only one session per user to keep things clean and secure

This is just the beginning—we’re laying the groundwork for even deeper AI-powered support in the future.

Elective Pools and Requirement Rules

We're giving you more control and visibility when it comes to elective pools and requirement rules. The enhancements in this release help institutions enforce complex academic requirements with ease.

What's new:

  • View pool conditions and fulfillment statuses with new “and/or” logic
  • Automatic alerts when courses don’t meet pool criteria
  • Enhanced grid actions for retakes, repeats, waivers, GPA thresholds, equivalencies, and more
  • Build complex rules using flexible operators and custom condition

These updates bring greater clarity and customization to managing degree progress.

Reports That Speak Your Language: Now with Student Numbers

You asked—we listened. Based on Idea Exchange feedback (80+ votes!), we’ve added student numbers across key reports to ensure students are clearly identified—even when SSNs are hidden.

Reports updated:

  • Career Services: Placement Salary
  • Contact Manager: SEVIS Export
  • Financial Aid: Pell Analysis, COD Grant Origination, and more
  • Student Accounts: Aging, Revenue Summary, General Ledger Posting Detail, and more
  • Student Services: Athletics Equity Report

…and more!

It’s a small change with a big impact on clarity and usability.

Financial Aid: More Transparency, More Control - Enhancement to the Aggregate FA Term Information Page

Student 25.2.0 (with Regulatory US 25.7.0) brings an upgrade to the Aggregate FA Term Information page—giving staff deeper, course-level insights into how academic progress ties to financial aid.

Key highlights:

  • Cumulative FA Credits now show at the top of the grid
  • Expandable program records reveal detailed course data for child terms
  • Easily identify retakes, remedials, and course sources (like Program Lists or Electives)
  • Editable “Include in FA Calculation” field with full audit history

Want a closer look? Check out the mockups and join the discussion.

Empower Students with the Enhanced Self-Service Portal – Financial Aid Account Summary Page

The new Account Summary page in the Self-Service Portal gives students a clear, real-time view of their financial standing without needing to call the office, allowing students to easily find the answers they're looking for.

What students can see:

  • Posted balance
  • Pending charges and expected funding
  • Estimated balance with a Make Payment option

Expandable sections provide insights into:

  • Programs of study
  • Funding sources
  • Transaction history

It’s all about transparency, simplicity, and student empowerment.

Want to go deeper?

Explore the full Student 25.2.0 release notes and access these additional resources:

Topics: SIS