Higher Education Provider Services

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Important updates for the service.

Courses Management Service online training events

We're delivering Courses Management Service (CMS) online training events on 20 November. This will help you to update your courses for academic year 2025/26. The training will share best practice and advice on topics including course submissions, our validation process and provider responsibilities.

Registration and attendance confirmations

Please submit registration and attendance confirmations as soon as possible. Registration confirmation should be completed as soon as your student has completed enrolment. You must also confirm attendance when your student has started attending their course.

Awarding body registration

You must make sure that students are correctly registered with the relevant awarding body before you confirm attendance on SIS. Whether you validate your own university courses, or they're validated by another awarding body, you must check that all student details are correct on both systems before you confirm attendance.

Latest news

Service updates, bulletins and other news about the delivery of student finance.

3/12/2024

HEP bulletin - December 2024

Our HEP bulletin for December has information about registration and attendance confirmations, tuition fee changes, lower level fee limits and changes to customer contact channel operating hours.

22/11/2024

HEP bulletin - October 2024

Our HEP bulletin for October has information about registration confirmations for academic year 2024/25, CMS online training events and HODS.

25/09/2024

HEP bulletin - September 2024

Our HEP bulletin for September has information about confirming attendance, smishing and Student Finance Wales loan changes.

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Creating courses

Creating a DSA course

Explains how to create a DSA course to allow your students to access DSA support.

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Creating courses

Term dates

An overview of term dates and their importance when adding full-time undergraduate courses to CMS.

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Confirming ongoing attendance

Negative attendance confirmation

Negative attendance confirmation and attendance codes explained.

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Confirming ongoing ATTENDANCE

Attendance Home

An introduction to the attendance home page.

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