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Student Information Management System. Post-Secondary Student Financial Aid System
SIMS 
Student Information Management System. This project will replace existing provincial student financial aid information systems and provide a modern application for students, post-secondary institution and ministry employees to manage post-secondary student loans. The project includes implementation of a business rules engine that can accommodate regular changes in alignment with policy.
Vision
To empower students to be engaged in their financial aid journey.
Objectives
- Provide an intuitive modernized application with more interactive components to Ministry, Institution and Student users
- Improve business process and operations
- Automation of assessments and other workflows to reduce manual processing
- Self-serve for students with built-in guidance and more detailed assessment information
Problem Statement
StudentAidBC technology, processes and policy need to be aligned so that students have streamlined, equitable and transparent access to student financial aid.
Project Status
In Development with some functionality available to Ministry and Institution users in production environments.
Development Activity
High, new features released every sprint (3 week cadence).
Architecture

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- Technologies Overview
- BCeID-Web Service Integration
- How To
- DevOps
- Database Migration
- Keycloak Configuration
License
Code released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.