PPC Multimedia
Tutorials, Presentations, Software Demonstrations and Guides
The Pay & Personnel Center's Procedures and Development (P&D) branch creates tutorials, presentations, and demos to help you learn about and use Coast Guard HR systems. These systems include:
Direct Access:
Interactive Tutorials/Simulations
Navigation Demos and Guides
The Direct Access user interface was updated in September 2010 with the implementation of the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal. The following video-demos and quick reference guides demonstrate just how easy it is to get around in the new portal:
- First-time logon (Changing your password, entering your e-mail address, and setting up the forgotten password self-service reset feature)
- Basic Navigation for All Users. This demo provides an overview of the new Self-Service menu and introduces some of the new features in the Portal.
- Basic/Self Service Navigation Video-Demo (Video/Flash)
- Basic/Self Service Navigation Guide (PDF)
- Self Service Users:
- Absence Request/eLeave:
- Allotments
- Direct Deposit Change
- e-Resume
- Employee Review
- Emergency Contacts
- Federal Tax Withholding Change
- Forgotten Password Reset
- Home-Mailing Address
- Reserve - AD Orders
- Reserve - Annual Screening Questionnaire
- Reserve - Schedule Drill
- State Tax Change
- Thrift Savings Plan
- View My Information
- Command User. This demo provides an overview of the navigation for Command Users
- Command User Video-Demo (Video/Flash)/ Command User Guide (PDF)
- Airport Terminal
- Annual Screening Questionnaire
- BAH/Dependency Form
- Individual's Government Travel Charge Card Data
- Employee Review
- Reserve Inactive Duty Training Approval
- Print the Employee Counseling Report (EER)
- Test Results
- Unit Government Travel Charge Card Data
- Personnel Allowance List (Unit PAL)
- SPO and Other Users. This demo introduces the "Enterprise Menu" navigation.
- Enterprise Menu Video-Demo(Video/Flash) /Enterprise Menu Guide(PDF)
- Absence Request/eLeave:
- Accession
- Addresses
- Advancement Options
- Allotments
- Amend Active Duty Termination Date
- Annual Screening Questionnaire (ASQ)
- Begin Extension/ReExtension
- Begin Service Report
- Cancellation of Extension/ReExtension Contract
- CG Member Information
- CG Member Information Additional
- Correction to Release from Active Duty
- Course Completion
- DD214 Worksheet
- Death of a Member
- Separation (Discharge, RELAD, Retirement)
- Disciplinary Action (Basic Navigation)
- Email Change
- Emergency Contact Information
- Pay Entitlements
- Multiple Pay Entitlements
- Approving Multiple Pay Entitlements
- Person Profile
- Extension/Reextension
- Federal & State Taxes
- General Absences
- Hire Applicant
- Honors and Awards
- JAG Archive
- JAG Audit
- Leave
- PCS Travel Orders
- Phone Number Change
- Physical Characteristics
- Query Overview
- Reenlistment
- Reserve Status Change
- Retention
- SGLI Election
- SPO Exception Report
- Statement of Intent
- Training Individual
Travel,TPAX and Web-TPAX
Travel General
- Travel Authorizing Official Training Course
(Flash) - Travel Audit Package Submissions
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Travel Claim Presentation
PPC Travel branch prepared this slide show to aid in completing your PCS travel claim. We have it availalble in two file formats:
- Key to the Travel Voucher Summary
- OVERSEAS PCS Claim Slide Show
Legacy T-PAX (Note: Legacy TPAX has been deactivated but some of these tutorials can be used as reference material for Web-TPAX):
- Introduction to T-PAX
- Travel Audit Package Submissions
- T-PAX -- How to input a claim that spans Fiscal Years
- Split Disbursement Payment Procedures
- T-PAX Evacuation Travel Claims
- Proportional Per Diem
Web T-PAX
- Web T-PAX Logon Procedure for Current T-PAX Users
(1st Web T-PAX Logon Procedure)
(PDF) - Tutorial -- Covers the following topics:
- First-Time Users (Basic Log In and Profile)
- Inbox Functionality
- Authorizations, Advances & Settlements
- Proxies and Unit Representatives
- Split Disbursement
- Web T-PAX Travel Request/Authorization Demo(Flash)
- Travel Audit Package Submissions
- Long Term TDY Processing in T-PAX (Updated for Web TPAX):
- Video (Flash) Format (Note: Plays best on a high resolution monitor, images may be blurry on smaller screens)
- PDF (Printer Friendly Format)
- PowerPoint Format
- Long-Term Contingency ADOS 55% Locality Per Diem Tutorial for Web TPAX
- Web T-PAX Online Help/Manual
JUMPS
Interactive Tutorials/Simulations
Presentations
- Understanding Your Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) - This presentation covers the basics to reading your LES. It Offers an example to better explain Appendix F of the Personnel & Pay Procedures Manual (3PM). And it explains why it is your responsibility to ensure accuracy.
The presentation is available in two file formats: - How to use the LES to Compute a System Generated Overpayment
Note: 
Check the volume on your speakers the following presentations are narrated.
- Military Pay Communications - Direct Access' role in the payroll process and how it works with JUMPS
(Length 17:00) - JUMPS Segments - The Basics of Reading Segments
(Length 8:30)
Documentation/Procedures
Download Plug-Ins
Download Plug-Ins: Some of the links on this page require a plug-in to view them. Links to the plug-ins are available below.
Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF)
PowerPoint
Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF)
PowerPoint
Last Modified 11/1/2012