{"id":470,"date":"2025-04-14T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:29:22","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybustudent.bu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBU Student<\/a> is Boston University&#8217;s Student Information System (SIS). It facilitates operations for the entire student lifecycle, from admission to graduation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image-636x268.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"268\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image-636x268.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image-1024x432.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image-1536x648.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2026\/01\/getting-started-image.png 2037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nResources to support student, faculty, and staff activities are available through this website (review the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/using-resource-hub\/\">Using the Resource Hub<\/a> page for guidance on using this website). Staff and faculty across areas of responsibility can use the introductory materials below to learn about MyBU Student processes.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 1em;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/mybu-student-glossary\/\">MyBU Student Glossary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/mybu-basics\/\">MyBU Student Basics<\/a>: foundational organizational concepts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/academic-structure\/\">Academic Structure<\/a>: framework for student academic data<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/introduction-to-using-mybu-student\/\">Introduction to Using MyBU Student<\/a>: introductory system navigation and page elements\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/class-numbers-explained\/\">Class Numbers Explained<\/a>: overview of course &#038; class identifiers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Appropriate access to MyBU Student does need to be granted. Departmental Security Administrators (DSA) can submit these requests &#8211; please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/access_dsa\/\">Access &#038; DSA page<\/a> for an overview of resources.<\/p>\n<p>The BU SIS team is continually working on stabilization and optimization projects. Please periodically check in on ongoing improvement efforts detailed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sisrenewal\/sis-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIS Updates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyBU Student is Boston University&#8217;s Student Information System (SIS). It facilitates operations for the entire student lifecycle, from admission to graduation. Resources to support student, faculty, and staff activities are available through this website (review the Using the Resource Hub page for guidance on using this website). Staff and faculty across areas of responsibility can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1183,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}