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The Education Edge You have an admissions office that needs to simplify the application process; a registrar’s office that needs to effectively manage grades, scheduling, and attendance; a business office that needs to make billing reconciliation easier; and a development office that needs to effectively manage relationships with students, families, and the community.
It's a complicated mix of needs that has to be delicately orchestrated to be effective. There are a lot of moving parts, and there's a lot at stake if you don't get it right. With The Education Edge, getting everyone working together and solving these key issues is a whole lot easier.
The Education Edge helps your:
- Admissions Office
Applicants stress over applying to your school, but you shouldn’t.
- Registrar’s Office
Now that you’ve got your students’ information, do exactly what you want with it. Plus, these additional solutions and components help you do even more:
- The Raiser’s Edge
Give your development office everything they need get a complete view of every constituent and build stronger relationships.
- The Financial Edge and Student Billing
Help your business office make billing reconciliation easier.
- Online Campus Community
Take your campus online.
- NetClassroom
Taking tests, completing assignments, and writing papers are meant to be hard. But managing grades and transcripts shouldn’t be.
- Faculty Access for the Web
Wish your faculty could stay connected to your students even when they’re not on campus? It’s possible with Faculty Access for the Web.
- NetInquiry
If you don’t allow prospective students to inquire about your school online, you’re not making a good first impression.
- Online Admissions
Streamline your admissions process with online applications and communication with prospective students and families.
- School Store Manager
Take control of your bookstore, snack bar, cafeteria, and athletic store.
Admissions Office
With Admissions Office, you can make managing the application process easier.
- Easily identify your best applicants, how many open applicants you have, and the “next steps” to move applicants through the process
- Track detailed applicant information, such as demographics and relationships, without having to re-key data for sibling applicants
- Present a professional image by ensuring that team members involved in communicating with prospects and their parents are kept informed of activities
- Compile financial aid information, including contribution and qualification amounts, in one central location
- Provide prospective students the ability to inquire about your school online and add the information into Admissions Office with NetInquiry
Registrar’s Office
With Registrar’s Office, you can improve overall effectiveness.
- Significantly reduce time spent creating complex class schedules with sophisticated scheduling algorithms with considerations for: teacher availability and qualifications, class size limits, room types and size, course rules, and gender balancing
- Easily create report cards and transcripts that reflect your school’s style
- Track medical information, multi-family relationships, and multiple addresses/contact methods
- Streamline attendance-tracking (eliminating “class runners”)
Deliver high-quality service
- Create GPAs and class ranks according to your school’s (or district’s/state’s) policies
- Simplify producing school directories and specialized lists with easy-to-use query and reporting tools
- Present student achievements to colleges in a professional manner
- Manage disciplinary action and letters to parents
Support large schools and geographically-divided campuses
- House information for multi-campus schools within one database
- Manage scheduling rules for multiple schools on your campus and create schedules for block periods, multi-day cycles, rotating classes, and more
The Raiser’s Edge
With The Raiser’s Edge, your development office can:
- Get a complete view of constituent relationships by recording every interaction you have with prospects and donors
- Build better relationships, especially with alumni: store extensive information including interests, activities, and more
- Access and create detailed or summary reports for donors, staff, and board members
- Give donors the option of electronic, hassle-free giving both online and offline
- Implement a recurring giving program that requires little-to-no ongoing staff involvement
- Enforce consistency — business rules set guidelines for how data is entered and used
- View-up-to-the-minute results for fundraising campaigns, including graphical representations of performance measures
- Access your most important tasks, reports, and analysis tools through customized dashboard and home page
- Easily drill through to financial systems to identify how donor dollars were allocated
The Financial Edge and Student Billing
With Student Billing, you can easily manage charges, payments, and deposits
- Choose from unlimited payment plan options
- Accommodate payment plans and financial aid for each family
- Support tuition refund plans
- Import data from four leading tuition billing services
- Use open-item or balance-forward accounting
- Track advance deposits and enrollment fees
- Base finance charges on the aging of individual charges, overall past due balance, or outstanding balance of loan
- Exempt students from late charges when hardship or other special circumstances occur
- Send receivables directly into your General Ledger, the core component of The Financial Edge
You can also manage statements and correspondence
- Choose from a variety of statement formats that can include your logo
- Include miscellaneous charges (bookstore, dining hall, etc.)
- Include all the children in one family on one bill, or print a separate bill for each child
- Process statements for all parents at one time or for a specific group of parents
- Provide parents with recap statements for any range of dates, and reprint copies of original statements
- Merge data seamlessly with word processing documents for correspondence
- Automatically identify accounts meeting past due criteria and print dunning letters
Online Campus Community
Manage your website with Online Campus Community:
- Allow all community members permission-based access to all areas of your website
- Create multiple “communities” as part of your website — parent, student, alumni, prospective students, teachers, board members, etc.
- Easily update content in real time with simple development tools through a web-based interface, eliminating the burden on IT staff and allowing for immediate updates
- Automate online donation processing, profile updates, and event registrations (seamless integration with The Raiser’s Edge® and The Education Edge™ automatically updates information and reduces errors)
- Deliver targeted content based on each visitor’s unique interests
- Display event calendars and host event registrations online
- Allow constituents to securely update biographical information online
- Delegate responsibility for a certain group of constituents to one person (for example, allow a class agent to manage profiles for constituents in a particular graduating class and solicit support on behalf of your school)
- Create donation forms with fund designations and dynamic giving levels based on a constituent’s profile and giving history
- Assign alumni a lifetime email address that can automatically forward messages to another email account they specify — a great way to capture email addresses and help ensure you can always reach alumni
- Create searchable directories for different groups — school directory, teacher directory, alumni directory, etc.
NetClassroom
NetClassroom allows your school to easily share student information between teachers and parents. It enables parents to check their child’s grades, attendance, conduct, and schedule, as well as print report cards and transcripts — all conveniently from home or the office.
NetClassroom also allows students to view daily assignments and grades from a secure website. Parents can send email to their student’s teachers directly from NetClassroom and update their address online. A customizable message appearing on NetClassroom’s opening screen alerts parents to important news or events at your school.
Security: Information is kept secure because parents enter NetClassroom using a unique password that restricts access to only their student’s record. Further, powerful administrative tools built into NetClassroom allow you to control exactly which data and features parents can access. For example, you may restrict viewing to include only final grade information, or you might disable conduct information if it isn’t always kept up to date.
Faculty Access for the Web
With Faculty Access for the Web, your faculty can:
- Enter daily grades and skills assessments
- Enter attendance, final term grades, and comments
- View student record information
- View detailed progress and missing assignment reports
- View important announcements
- Work from home or school
NetInquiry
With NetInquiry, you can:
- Track inquiries entered from your school’s website with a customizable inquiry form
- Review inquiries prior to accepting them into Admissions Office for The Education Edge
- Allow applicants to enter their information the way they want it to appear, without the possibility of errors being keyed
- Send a customizable, personal email to prospective students and parents acknowledging receipt of the inquiry
Online Admissions
With Online Admissions, you can take your admissions process online making it easier for prospective students to apply and more efficient for the admissions staff to manage
- Allow applicants to create accounts and return to their application
- Collect multiple relationships such as family members and former schools
- Customize the application form and questions specifically for your school
- Build, update or change your forms as necessary all on your own
- Match and link to existing Education Edge records
- Download into Admissions Office after approval process
- Communicate applicant status and next steps online
School Store Manager
School Store Manager is an integrated, easy-to-use point-of-sale solution for the bookstore, snack bar, cafeteria, athletic store, and anywhere else on campus where purchases are made. The solution manages sales, inventory control, discounts, mailings, pricing, purchasing, receivables, reporting, and suppliers — helping you increase customer flow, reduce customer wait time, control inventory, and automate purchasing and routine tasks.
Produce student ID cards with bar codes for fast data entry and check out — students can use the ID cards as a "debit card" or a "credit card."
- As a debit card: Parents can pay up front and maintain a balance in the student's account. The system will not allow purchases unless funds are available.
- As a credit card: Students charge purchases to their accounts, and you can mail a detailed statement of those charges to parents for payment. Whichever method is used, parents can control how much money their child can spend.
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