At one university, every department owned a piece of the incoming student process. Everyone did their part well. And yet, the process kept breaking down. What changed wasn’t the system. It was visibility. Here’s how mapping one end-to-end process reduced troubleshooting, increased trust in the data, and created real momentum toward ROI.

After go live, many institutions use Workday Community only to submit tickets or download guides. That is a missed opportunity. When used intentionally, Community becomes a powerful daily resource for operational clarity and smarter support decisions.

Many teams think release readiness starts and ends with major Workday releases. In reality, meaningful changes arrive weekly, and some will affect your system whether you plan for them or not.

Workday often gets blamed for feeling overwhelming or impersonal. In reality, the interface is a blank slate. With intentional design choices, campuses can shape Workday into a tool that actually supports how people work every day.

Starting early and focusing on who owns change management can make a huge difference.

Most reporting problems in Workday Student can be traced back to early assumptions. Learn why running small validation queries and understanding the data model can save weeks of rework.

Technology doesn’t inspire people. The future it enables does. Learn why the most effective Workday Student project stories focus less on the system and more on institutional identity, purpose, and people.

Campus teams didn’t just want answers in 2025. They wanted understanding. These were the topics schools were most eager to explore as they navigated complex systems, compliance, and big decisions.

Here are four zero-cost, fast improvements that make Workday far more intuitive and easier to use.

Struggling to find the right tasks in Workday? Learn why searching the smallest word — not the full phrase — gives you faster, more accurate results and reduces guesswork across your team.

Tired of putting out Workday fires? Learn three ways to get ahead — from proactive data monitoring to custom dashboards and visual process mapping — and transform Workday into a tool that supports your operations instead of slowing them down.

Go-Live may indicate that the system is operational, but true operational readiness means that all components, including people, processes, and technology, are aligned and functioning together effectively.

When it comes to Workday Student, the volume of new releases is bigger than many expect—and the workload that comes with them can be surprising. In this short video, Legato CEO, Kristina Kelpe, walks through how to find the actual number of student-related releases in Workday Community, what that means for institutions, and why higher education feels the impact differently than HR and Finance.

The term "go-live" in a Workday implementation can be misleading, often signaling the end for implementation partners, but just the beginning for the institution. 

Use this checklist to make sure your Workday Report is ready to go (and prevent a cluttered data closet and a serious headache).

I can't tell you how many times I see calculated fields that are unnecessary. I think this is because reporting training often focuses on HOW to build a report and not UNDERSTANDING the data model.

Making well-informed decisions hinges on accurate reporting. Yet, within Workday Student, mistakes can easily arise during report creation.

Why organize EIBs? Save time, avoid chaos, and reduce errors by keeping things clean and easy to find—like labeling a closet. Learn how!

Make sure your documentation/job aids include those other activities that need to be done after a configuration is complete. Read this post to review the critical tasks that follow creating a Program of Study.

Now, security is very complicated in Workday. It can seem like a quick shortcut to leave a report shared with all authorized users. You might think that the security behind the report should be correct and therefore you can just select that option instead of specific authorized groups.