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Scheduling Teachers, Meeting Times, and Rooms
There's lots of scheduling going on out there, so it's a good thing you can do lots of scheduling in The Education Edge. After you create classes for next year, you can automatically or manually assign meeting times, teachers, and rooms. Let's...
Changing the Start and End Times of Periods?
Scheduled times tend to change at the last minute. Some of the public high schools around here are starting later next year than this year. So I started thinking about how easy it is to update the start and end times of periods after scheduling classes...
Happy to Help - Tell Me My Options
Don't we just love the idea of knowing our options? I do. I like to know what I can and can't do when I customize a program, a website, or even my grocery list. I like to know what's available to me and then make my choices. So when you find...
Scooby Doo! Where Are My Grades and Comments?
After printing Johnny’s report card, you realize his grades and comments from Geometry are missing. Before you call the Mystery Machine crew to investigate, grab a Scooby Snack and search your database for these clues: Make sure your grades and comments...
Happy to Help - Top 5 Places to Use F1
5. Dashboard . Because, I just love them to little pieces. We all want to create pretty little charts to see our data don't we? 4. Configuration > Registrar Setup > Patterns > New Pattern screen. Wow, I don't know how educators do it...
Why are the Homeroom Teacher, Homeroom, and Advisor Fields Grayed Out?
Have you opened a student's record to change their homeroom and homeroom teacher and these fields were grayed out? A business rule selection may cause this. Let's take a look at each setting and how it affects the student's Bio 1 tab. In Configuration...
Happy to Help - Using the Class Report after Scheduling
Scenario. You already entered your student course requests, you generated student schedules to automatically enroll students in classes according to their requests, you made any extra adjustments manually, and now you have no idea who ended up in which...
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...
The Magic of the Status Wizards
Everyone wants a little summer vacation, so you might find yourself in the final rush to get grades in, report cards out, and students scheduled for the next academic year. The Status Wizards can assist you in the end of year. Remember the status wizards...
Happy to Help - Introducing the Past/Future School Report
Have you ever wanted to report on where the majority of applicants went to school before they attended yours? Do you want to determine where the majority of your students go to school after graduating from yours? If you track past and future schools for...
Happy to Help - The Update Guides Get an Update
In the previous release, we redesigned the update guides across all products. We wanted to be consistent in the way we presented the information so you knew from release to release where to go for information. The EE Update Guide now has two chapters...
Taking the Fear Out of GPA Calculations
Springtime…while students are excited about graduating, summer jobs, prom, and sleeping-in, you might find some faculty members ducking under their desks in fear of GPA Calculations. Save your frustration for the gas pumps. The Show Calculations checkbox...
Happy to Help - Who Changed that Grade?
Have you ever been in a situation where a grade was changed and you aren’t sure who changed it, when, or why? Worry no longer! A new feature for version 7.75 is the ability to see grade changes from any grade entry screen. To view a history of grade changes...
Happy to Help - Most Popular User Guides
Each month we get feedback about which user guides are downloaded most often on our website. I thought I’d share with you a snippet of that report and show which users guides were downloaded most for March 2008. Top 5 Education Edge User Guides : 1. Records...
Happy to Help - Time Saving Tip for Courses
How much time do you spend creating new academic years, sessions, and courses every year? Hopefully not as much if you’re using all the great copy features in EE . We recently received valuable feedback from a user who was copying academic years but didn...
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