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Report Cards 101
You don't have to be a graphic designer to create a spiffy report card that will impress your students and their parents. Your design dreams can come true within The Education Edge! Before logging in, think about your report card's appearance...
Tracking Changes in Student Schedules
It's the beginning of the school year, so you're probably dropping, withdrawing, and transferring lots of students from classes. You can easily track these schedule adjustments so you know what's going on around you. You'll need to set...
Ensure Your Attendance Cycle Days are Correct After Labor Day
If school is out on Labor Day, ensure your attendance days will be correct when you return by skipping Labor Day on the Configuration scheduling calendar. When you add a date on the Scheduling Calendar tab of the Academic Year, you are prompted to add...
Stop, Drop, Withdraw, or Transfer
Do you have students who want to switch sections of the same class or move from one course to another course? Which option will keep grades and attendance with the students' records? Let's take a look at the differences in dropping, withdrawing...
Integration Insight: Oh Records Where Art Thou?
You open the linking grid and particular records are missing. Perhaps no Students appear in the linking grid or only records you linked previously appear in the linking grid. Why does this happen? There are a few factors that determine which records appear...
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...
School's Out for Summer - What Do You Do?
Want to get a ahead on the 2009-2010 year? Take a moment to review this list. We’ll cover many of these in more detail down the road. Take a good look at your Academic Year in Configuration. Ensure the correct marking column set is associated with your...
Printing GPAs on Report Cards
GPAs is a requirement on most schools' report cards. You can customize your report cards by printing GPAs in a variety of places. Please note although I'm referencing report cards in this post, everything is the same for transcripts. The Details...
The Masters of the Scheduling Universe: Part 2 - Scheduling Students
Back at the Royal Palace Academy Registrar's Office, the master schedule is complete. Prince Adam is working on scheduling students based on the course requests entered online . The next step, according to the Scheduling Checklist , is to generate...
Tips from a Troubleshooter: Student Billing 7 vs. Student Billing 6
Chapter 2: Integrated? What's that? Possibly the largest difference between version 6 and version 7 is that the software uses one database for all of your education and accounting solutions. So what does this mean to you? Think of The Education Edge...
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...
The Masters of the Scheduling Universe
In the Royal Palace Academy Registrar's Office, Prince Adam is working on the schedule. He's already copied course restictions for next academic year, and students have entered their course requests online . The next step, according to the Scheduling...
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...
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