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Happy to Help - 7.77 Feature Preview #2
Sneak Preview #2 – Transcript Enhancement For transcripts, we added the option to print outside school information in one of three different ways: #1. You can print the outside school information with the current school information. #2. You can print...
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 – Top 5 Places to Use F1 in Student Billing
I had such a fun time writing my first top 5 for my (borderline freakish) love of the F1 key, I decided to create a special edition focused only on Student Billing . We all know billing students can become complicated and stressful with deadlines, complicated...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Happy to Help - How May I Help You?
I really am one of those weird people who takes great satisfaction and pride in life just by helping others. I abhor being in the spotlight, the limelight, or any kind of light. I leave that to other people who enjoy the attention and are good at handling...
Happy to Help - Residence Life
With the most recent release of The Education Edge , I was excited about a new feature I worked extensively on – Residence Life . Residence Life is an optional module in Registrar’s Office and Admissions Office that enables you to enter housing and meal...
Happy to Help - Searching User Guides
Help files?! User Guides?! Who are those mysterious people who work behind the scenes in product development trying to make geek speak easy? Well I do, for one. I’m The Education Edge product lead for the Documentation team. The Documentation team is...