CORA — Online Reporting for Small Institutions

CORA is a free online service that enables schools with fewer than 500 students to participate in the Clearinghouse’s student loan verification service. With CORA, you don’t need to program your computer system, or even have one. You simply update your student enrollment data online on the CORA Web site.

CORA Demo Instructions

Our CORA demo provides a quick tour of its features. Just print out and follow the instructions below. The demo requires MS Explorer 4.01 or higher, which you can download here.

• Login Screen
  • For User Name, enter "test".
  • For Password, enter "school". (For demonstration purposes, we created a fictitious school, Hometown College.)
  • Click Submit
   
  
• School Contacts Screen

  Contains important information about your school’s administrators, which will be used by the Clearinghouse to resolve questions about your enrollment reporting.

  • Click Continue
   
  
• School Transmission Profile Screen

  Displays three sections: Previous Transmission (information that we received from you in your last report), Scheduled Transmission (information on your next scheduled report), and Current Transmission, that is to be completed by you.

  Complete Current Transmission as follows:

  • For Name of the Academic Term, enter "SPRING 2002".
  • For Transmission Type, enter "First of Term".
  • Check that all student term dates begin 1/03/2002 and end 5/20/2002.
  • Click Create. A pop-up message will be displayed.
  • Click OK to go to School Transmission Detail.
   
  
• School Transmission Detail Screen

  Lists students whose enrollment was reported at the end of the last term.

  • Select a student record to update by clicking on the Social Security Number. The student’s record appears on the Student Record Detail screen.
  • Make any modifications that you want to the student’s record.
  • Click OK to return to the School Transmission Detail screen, where you will see a checkmark next to the student record that you updated.
  • Click on the next student. Change the enrollment status by scrolling through the choices and selecting one. Change the student’s last name or address by typing over the existing information.
  • Click OK & Next, which will take you to the next student to be updated. You can also add a new student or select a former student who is once again enrolled at the school and update his or her information.
  • Click Continue to transmit your completed report to the Clearinghouse.
   
  
• Transmission Confirmation Screen

  Tells you how many students you are reporting. If it is correct, click Complete Transmission. (Please be sure to click on "Complete Transmission" to clear the demo for the next user.)

  Click Logoff to end the demo or to try it again.

Become a CORA User
There’s no reason to miss out on the great timesaving benefits that the Clearinghouse has to offer. With our free CORA online service, you can free your staff of having to manually verify student enrollment for lending organizations.

To become a CORA user, or to learn more, contact the CORA coordinator at 703-742-4200 or service@studentclearinghouse.org.