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Tracking Student Activities
School may be out, but that doesn't mean you aren't keeping up with your students' summer activities. If your students participate in community service programs such as camps and community cleanup, you may want to track this information and...
Integration Insight: New Features Part 3
You are working in the linking grid and see a record that does not belong, such as a withdrawn student. You right-click on the student’s row and open his Education Edge record, change his status to Withdrawn, and save and close the record. This ineligible...
Admissions and Registrar's Office Distance Learning Classes
Our courseware developers have been hard at work creating and revamping instructor led distance learning classes for The Education Edge. Head over to the No Travel Required blog to see the list of available classes.
Tips from a Troubleshooter: Favorite Tools
Three parts of the software are invaluable to me: Query, Export, and Reports. Query - I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you master queries, you will master the system. There's a great Query Guide you can use to help learn about...
Integration Insight: New Features Part 2
Linking records through Integration can be a time-consuming task. It can be difficult to determine if matches are correct in the linking grid because sometimes students and parents happen to have the same names (i.e., Jr. and Sr.). Without opening their...
Integration Insight: New Features Part 1
Integration maps fields and relationships between two databases. The synchronization process looks at the database with the most recent update on these linked records. If the records in both programs were updated since the last synchronization, the most...
New in 7.78: Opening Records from a Person Query
Hey ladies and gentlemen, I've got another new 7.78 feature to share! You can open records in a Person query by double-clicking on a row in the results. Now Person queries function the same as other query types. Brilliant! All the new features are...
New In 7.78: The Duplicate Phone Type Exception Report
Scenario: You're in version 7.77, cleaning up phone type table entries in preparation for integrating with The Raiser's Edge. After meeting with the Development Office folks, you decide to keep Cell as the phone type to describe mobile numbers...
Ask Me About Using the Ask Operator
There's been quite a buzz about the Wild, Wild, Cards post that our friend Doug wrote in The User's Edge Blog. I encourage you to read it and try wild cards in your queries, especially when grouping students by last names. Another time-saver is...
New Distance Learning Classes
Exciting News! We've added more instructor-led distance learning Education Edge classes in addition to the Scheduling and Grades, Report Cards, and Transcripts classes: Export in Registrar's Office and Export in Admissions Office — In each four...
Recruiter Calculations
Matching the right recruiter with the right applicant is invaluable to any school. In Admissions Office 7.77, you can set up recruiter calculations to automatically match recruiters and applicants. In Configuration, click Recruiter Calculations. Click...
Happy to Help – A new Bio 2 tab checkbox for Applicant and Student Records
After a brief absence I’m back and more than happy to help. It’s been a busy fall especially with 7.77 releasing a couple weeks ago. Not to start back on such a downer but an important feature was added to 7.77 for student and applicant records. If a...
7.77 Sneak Peek
There are a few posts on The Ledger blog highlighting some cool new features with the release of version 7.77 due out in Quarter 4. Check them out: Organize Queries City Lookup Field Strong Passwords Looking for other Student Billing stuff? Click the...
Happy to Help - 7.77 Feature Preview #1
Wow, where has the summer gone? I know on the EE team, we’ve been feverishly working to produce our next great release – The Education Edge 7.77 . Triple 7's, Lucky 7's, or whatever awesome name you want to call it has some fantastic features...
Happy to Help - So you’ve got a help file, now what?
Scenario. You’re working in The Education Edge and you want advice for completing a procedure, you need help with a problem, or you see a field and you’re not sure what you should enter. What do you do? Well hopefully you're help savvy and hit F1...
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